{"id":26687,"date":"2015-05-07T20:06:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T01:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26687"},"modified":"2015-05-07T20:06:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T01:06:03","slug":"the-bad-walking-dead-ep-2-get-me-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26687","title":{"rendered":"The (Bad) Walking Dead EP 2: Get Me a Thing!"},"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\/7_hUIBpczz8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7_hUIBpczz8'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really enjoying this game. I mean, I&#8217;m enjoying watching Chris playing it. It looks insufferable to play. Maybe it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;m still mad about how willfully awful Absolution was, but I find the bugs and dopey adventure game logic to be kind of charming.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t really explain this. Mechanically, Absolution is a better game. Why am I more charitable towards a worse one? That&#8217;s an interesting question. I think a big part of it is that it doesn&#8217;t look like Absolution was starved for cash. They easily had both the time and budget to make a far better game. In the case of Survival Instinct, it <em>looks like<\/em> there just wasn&#8217;t enough time or money to go around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I&#8217;m really enjoying this game. I mean, I&#8217;m enjoying watching Chris playing it. It looks insufferable to play. Maybe it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;m still mad about how willfully awful Absolution was, but I find the bugs and dopey adventure game logic to be kind of charming. I can&#8217;t really explain this. Mechanically, Absolution [&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":[268],"class_list":["post-26687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-walking-dead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26687","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=26687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}