{"id":32367,"date":"2016-05-25T18:51:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=32367"},"modified":"2016-05-25T18:51:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T22:51:50","slug":"salt-and-sanctuary-ep1-assaulting-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=32367","title":{"rendered":"Salt and Sanctuary EP1: Assaulting Sanctuary"},"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\/9kmMyMJIvcg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9kmMyMJIvcg'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I spend some time in this episode making fun of &#8220;git gud&#8221; culture. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kE8vCl09QIE\">Chris talks about it more in-depth in his most recent video on the game<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>To be clear, I&#8217;m aware that not everyone who loves Dark Souls is an insufferable, condescending braggart. There are lots of articulate people who love the game and can have an enjoyable conversation about it with non-Dark Souls fans. But Dark Souls fans are the vegans of gaming, earning a bad reputation on account of their most zealous members. The Git Gud brigade make the game a chore to talk about. I find I often avoid mentioning the game as an example because I know it will turn into a massive thread-jack.<\/p>\n<p>Me: This game is hard in the same way the Dark Souls is hard.<\/p>\n<p>GG: ACTUALLY, Dark Souls isn&#8217;t hard&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(100 comments of people talking past each other because they all have different definitions of &#8220;hard&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>I actually admire Dark Souls for having such an intentional approach to its mechanics, and the way the mechanics blend so well with the atmosphere of the game. But the game is not for me, and I know there will inevitably be a conversation attempting to get me to play the game. And that conversation will be difficult, punishing, and dreary. <\/p>\n<p><em>Just like Dark Souls!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I spend some time in this episode making fun of &#8220;git gud&#8221; culture. Chris talks about it more in-depth in his most recent video on the game. To be clear, I&#8217;m aware that not everyone who loves Dark Souls is an insufferable, condescending braggart. There are lots of articulate people who love the [&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":[588],"class_list":["post-32367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-salt-sanctuary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367","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=32367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}