{"id":30303,"date":"2016-01-22T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30303"},"modified":"2016-01-22T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:44:00","slug":"knights-of-the-old-republic-ep45-thac0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30303","title":{"rendered":"Knights of the Old Republic EP45: THAC0!"},"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\/52xitFlJ7Qc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=52xitFlJ7Qc'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Here it is. The big reveal of the big secret the game has been hiding right under our noses. The truth is out, and it will forever change how we see our character, our friends, and our relationship with the villain. Old conversations will take on new meaning and the earlier visions suddenly tell us more than we realized. <\/p>\n<p>So naturally I expect everyone will jump down to the comments and argue about THAC0. Nerds.<\/p>\n<p>Like I&#8217;ve said before: This twist wasn&#8217;t so much &#8220;concealed&#8221; as &#8220;obfuscated by genre tropes&#8221;. BioWare did <a href=\"?p=1055\">the exact same thing in Jade Empire<\/a>. All the stuff that sounded like the usual &#8220;YOU ARE THE PROTAGONIST OF A VIDEOGAME&#8221; ego-stroking was actually the foreshadowing. And most people didn&#8217;t question it because we&#8217;ve been soaking in &#8220;chosen one&#8221; narratives since we were tiny little baby nerdlings and this sounded like more of the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Here it is. The big reveal of the big secret the game has been hiding right under our noses. The truth is out, and it will forever change how we see our character, our friends, and our relationship with the villain. Old conversations will take on new meaning and the earlier visions suddenly [&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":[],"class_list":["post-30303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30303","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=30303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}