{"id":31579,"date":"2016-04-14T19:20:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T00:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31579"},"modified":"2016-04-14T20:16:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T01:16:44","slug":"soma-ep8-handwavium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31579","title":{"rendered":"SOMA EP8: Handwavium"},"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\/b49oaLAKLKk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b49oaLAKLKk'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>This entire show is supposedly some form of game criticism where we talk about what worked and what didn&#8217;t. But let&#8217;s put that idea aside for the next couple of episodes, because that&#8217;s not really what our conversation is all about. When I say something didn&#8217;t work for me, I&#8217;m using that to segue to another philosophical question. I&#8217;m not actually saying the game is bad, or that it should have been done differently. I&#8217;m a big believer in the idea that when it comes to philosophical wanking like this, there are no wrong answers<span class='snote' title='1'>Obviously the stakes go up when we start talking about how this stuff could be applied to real-world problems, but that&#8217;s why I love sci-fi. It gives us a safe space to play around with these ideas, where nobody dies if we&#8217;re &#8220;wrong&#8221;.<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>To put it more specifically: It&#8217;s pretty clear that Simon (and perhaps the developers?) disagree with me on a pretty fundamental level. And that&#8217;s okay. I bring this up because I disagree with the game often, and I don&#8217;t want people to think I&#8217;m counting these disagreements as faults, from a game-design sense. It&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) This entire show is supposedly some form of game criticism where we talk about what worked and what didn&#8217;t. But let&#8217;s put that idea aside for the next couple of episodes, because that&#8217;s not really what our conversation is all about. When I say something didn&#8217;t work for me, I&#8217;m using that to [&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":[527],"class_list":["post-31579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-soma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31579","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=31579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}