{"id":25910,"date":"2015-02-11T17:39:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T22:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25910"},"modified":"2015-02-12T01:49:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T06:49:22","slug":"half-life-2-episode-1-ep4-alyx-is-cranky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25910","title":{"rendered":"Half Life 2 Episode 1 EP4: Alyx is Cranky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mCKFdpZC-uY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mCKFdpZC-uY'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Things I noticed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At 4:20, when Josh put the crosshair right on the tripmine, and the auto-aim &#8220;helped&#8221; by bending the bullets into the soldier. I have to say this kind of thing drives me <strong>crazy<\/strong>. Boo.\n<li>Am I the only one who did the see-saw puzzle the &#8220;right&#8221; way? I distinctly remember not having enough weight in the room to hold down that pipe, but apparently I&#8217;m the only member of the cast to solve it by supporting it. So&#8230; I have no idea.\n<li>At 16:30, the title for this episode was nearly, &#8220;Alyx is so Metal&#8221;. So you were going to get a pun either way.\n<li>At 19:30: I really agree. The antlion queens aren&#8217;t a very fun enemy. They&#8217;re pretty the bog-standard FPS damage sponge with a huge melee attack. I&#8217;ve never enjoyed fighting one. Maybe if their stun animation lasted longer, or if you could reliably sidestep them matador-style. But as it stands, these fights feel incredibly random and chaotic. (In a bad way.)\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really do love covering these games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Things I noticed: At 4:20, when Josh put the crosshair right on the tripmine, and the auto-aim &#8220;helped&#8221; by bending the bullets into the soldier. I have to say this kind of thing drives me crazy. Boo. Am I the only one who did the see-saw puzzle the &#8220;right&#8221; way? I distinctly remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-25910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-half-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}