{"id":36749,"date":"2017-01-26T22:16:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=36749"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:16:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:16:02","slug":"new-year-2017-tharsis-and-monster-loves-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=36749","title":{"rendered":"New Year 2017: Tharsis and Monster Loves You"},"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\/JxFwYHqzwPo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JxFwYHqzwPo'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>This is the final segment of the show we did for new year. Tharsis bugs me in the same way that Xcom-2<span class='snote' title='1'>Or X-Com 2, or Xcom 2-, or XCOM2, or whatever the stupid name is that I&#8217;m sick of looking up every time I have to type it.<\/span> does. A game with this much deliberately random noise in the outcomes is completely uninteresting to me. &#8220;Oh. A low number. I lose. Oh! A HIGH number! Lucky me. I get to not lose this turn.&#8221; Random number generators are not interesting adversaries. Losing to them is annoying, and winning feels meaningless. Yuck. <\/p>\n<p>Up tomorrow: The 7th anniversary of the show. I can&#8217;t tell you what game we&#8217;re playing, but I can promise it will focus on us driving into poles over and over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) This is the final segment of the show we did for new year. Tharsis bugs me in the same way that Xcom-2Or X-Com 2, or Xcom 2-, or XCOM2, or whatever the stupid name is that I&#8217;m sick of looking up every time I have to type it. does. A game with this [&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-36749","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\/36749","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=36749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}