{"id":3641,"date":"2009-06-10T07:59:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T11:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2009-11-02T17:55:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T21:55:42","slug":"half-life-2-episode-3-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3641","title":{"rendered":"Half Life 2: Episode 3 BOYCOTT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Half Life 2: Episode 3 boycott is a group of individuals who have pledged to not buy the still-unreleased final episode in the Half-Life series.  We have assembled a manifesto outlining the basic <del datetime=\"2009-06-10T11:51:04+00:00\">concensus<\/del> consensus of many members of our community.  But probably not everyone.  You know how it is with online groups.<\/p>\n<p><table width='300'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='right'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/hl2e3_boycott.jpg' class='insetimage' width='300' alt='NOTE: This face is angry, not crying!' title='NOTE: This face is angry, not crying!'\/><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class='insetcaption'>We are so committed to our cause that we made a logo. Don&#8217;t mess with us.<\/td><\/tr><\/table>1) You promised to make Episode 3.  And then you didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>2) We want to hold Valve to their promise of faster release times through &#8220;episodic gaming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>3) We really want to know who the G-Man is.<\/p>\n<p>4) Could we kill one of those adviser \/ space slug things? That would be sweet.<\/p>\n<p>5) Could we get some screenshots in the meantime? Or video? Concept art? <em>Something?<\/em> Just, you know, show us you&#8217;re working on the game and not playing WoW all day.<\/p>\n<p>In closing, we, the disgruntled fans of Half-Life, vow to continue boycotting the game until such time as Valve makes good on their promise and stops not releasing it. <\/p>\n<p>So say we all.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Five months later, I guess I&#8217;m tired of red-faced fanboys trying to argue with this post because they&#8217;re too thick to get the joke.  This entire thing is <em>satire<\/em>.  It&#8217;s actually kind of making fun of boycotts in general, and the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott in particular. I can&#8217;t help the humor-proof goofs of the internet, but if you dorks could stop raging out in the comments that would be super-great. Thanks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Half Life 2: Episode 3 boycott is a group of individuals who have pledged to not buy the still-unreleased final episode in the Half-Life series. We have assembled a manifesto outlining the basic concensus consensus of many members of our community. But probably not everyone. You know how it is with online groups. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[23,24,179],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-half-life","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","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=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}