{"id":30339,"date":"2016-01-28T10:02:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30339"},"modified":"2016-01-28T10:02:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:02:43","slug":"spoiler-warning-6th-anniversary-contradiction-spot-the-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30339","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning 6th Anniversary: Contradiction &#8211; Spot The Liar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six stupid, ridiculous, nitpicking, barely-coherent years of game <strong>&#8220;<\/strong>analysis<strong>&#8220;<\/strong> and puns. Six years of baffling software bugs, dialog trees, and jokes about Reginald Cuftbert. Six years of turning games I love into Games I Never Want To Play Again by way of over-exposure. Six years of Josh acing difficult fights through skill or exploits only to die two minutes later to a mook that&#8217;s not even intended to be a serious danger to the player. Six years of Josh&#8217;s Rube Goldberg pile of barely-working technology that made the whole thing possible. <\/p>\n<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\/lGrk24NmaRc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGrk24NmaRc'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Today is the sixth anniversary of the day we posted <a href=\"?p=17201\">the very first episode of Spoiler Warning<\/a>. That was so long ago that we didn&#8217;t even post it to YouTube, because YouTube wasn&#8217;t yet the universal choice for such things<span class='snote' title='1'>We used Viddler. <a href=\"?p=17165\">It didn&#8217;t work out<\/a> for them.<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s customary to play a single episode of something unusual or off-beat for these anniversary specials. This year we&#8217;re playing&#8230; is this an FMV game? It is. It&#8217;s an FMV detective game <em>made in 2015<\/em>. Even worse, everyone around me basically falls in love with it right away, so it&#8217;s my job to play bad cop for this one. <\/p>\n<p>The show has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/spoilerwarning?ty=h\">a Patreon now<\/a>, by the way. That goes to Josh, who edits every episode, and also maintains the technology chain that makes the whole thing go.<\/p>\n<p>I am celebrating today&#8217;s anniversary by observing a completely different anniversary. As of last Sunday, the missus and I have been married for 19 years. So we&#8217;re going away for a couple of days without the kids. The last time we did that was PAX 2013. I&#8217;ve been moving through time for 44 years. You&#8217;d think I&#8217;d be used to it by now. But it&#8217;s always  moving a little faster than what seems reasonable to me. Anyway. I&#8217;ll be gone for a couple of days. Please don&#8217;t burn down the blog while I&#8217;m gone. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching. And if you play Contradiction, let me know how it turns out. I really want to know who killed that hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six stupid, ridiculous, nitpicking, barely-coherent years of game &#8220;analysis&#8220; and puns. Six years of baffling software bugs, dialog trees, and jokes about Reginald Cuftbert. Six years of turning games I love into Games I Never Want To Play Again by way of over-exposure. Six years of Josh acing difficult fights through skill or exploits only [&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":[546,547],"class_list":["post-30339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-contradiction","tag-fmv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30339","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=30339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}