{"id":46819,"date":"2019-07-12T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46819"},"modified":"2019-07-12T10:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:53:35","slug":"39-on-barbarian-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46819","title":{"rendered":"#39 On Barbarian Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><image src=\"images\/cb39.jpg\" max-width=\"100%\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;display:block\"\/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bubblehead\" src=\"images\/cb_chuck.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"bubble speech\">In fact, birthday parties originated in barbarian culture. The lighting of candles and the spankings all harken back to the original barbarian traditions of setting stuff on fire and hitting things. A \u201cbirthday present\u201d was originally whatever you took from the village you were invading.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I made all that up. You can\u2019t expect a barbarian to be bothered to learn history.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shamus Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned at the start of the series, nobody had a copy of the entire comic. I used the Wayback Machine to recover the original text and comic titles. We\u2019ve been re-creating the comic based on Shawn\u2019s saved copies of the images and the archives cached version of the text. But the Wayback doesn\u2019t have anything stored beyond #39. From here on we won\u2019t have the \u201cOriginal Text\u201d section, and I\u2019ll be making up new titles.<\/p>\n<p>The most tragic loss (for me) is the ending. I wrote up my planned ending for the Deuse Baaj campaign and posted it to the site so that readers could have a sense of closure. It was fresh in my mind in 2007, but it\u2019s pretty sketchy now. I\u2019ve asked around, and as far as I can tell it\u2019s gone forever: That data no longer exists in this world.<\/p>\n<p>At the end I\u2019ll re-create as much of it as I can remember, but I doubt it will be as full or as detailed as the original story I\u2019d written.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well. Lesson learned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shawn Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edit to add: We\u2019ve found it, thanks to some intrepid readers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46819","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=46819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47546,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46819\/revisions\/47546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}