{"id":2629,"date":"2009-03-20T09:13:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2009-03-20T09:13:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T13:13:32","slug":"stolen-pixels-74-the-business-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2629","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #74: The Business Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/5866-Stolen-Pixels-74-The-Business-Plan\">Here is my final comic on Saints Row<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This game, being a roaring cauldron of mayhem and nonsense, left me little room for parody.  This is a shame, since the game includes a <em>wonderful<\/em> system that lets you re-watch any cutscene or re-play any mission, any time you like.  This is in contrast to games like Mass Effect, where I&#8217;d make new saves regularly as I progressed through the thing, but still found myself an hour away from the required plot point whenever I thought of a joke.  I wish I could have put the Saints Row replay feature to more use, but making fun of a game that refuses to take itself seriously is uphill work.  I&#8217;ve done what I can with the raw materials at hand.  Hopefully the droplets of humor I was able to wring from this stone were rewarding enough to justify the time spent clicking on the link.  <\/p>\n<p>Because if not, I will be obliged to shoot you in the face and blow up a few city blocks. <\/p>\n<p>See? It&#8217;s hard to know where to go for a joke after a setup like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my final comic on Saints Row. This game, being a roaring cauldron of mayhem and nonsense, left me little room for parody. This is a shame, since the game includes a wonderful system that lets you re-watch any cutscene or re-play any mission, any time you like. This is in contrast to games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[525,164],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-stolen-pixels","tag-saints-row"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","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=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}