{"id":5463,"date":"2009-10-13T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T16:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2009-10-13T12:06:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T16:06:20","slug":"stolen-pixels-133-i-need-a-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5463","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #133: I Need a Hero!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/6640-Stolen-Pixels-133-I-Need-a-Hero\">Here is a funny look at how your character design will (not) affect the NPC&#8217;s<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed an interesting pattern, in that readers start to get a little restless on about the fifth comic in a series. Usually when I hit #5 I&#8217;ll get a comment &#8220;yeah, yeah, I don&#8217;t care about this game, please move on&#8221;.  The longer I push it, the more of these I get.  I can say Champions Online will go for at least one more comic. (It&#8217;s already written.) But I&#8217;m not sure beyond that.  I can&#8217;t very well do games I&#8217;m not playing, and Champs is more or less the only thing I&#8217;m doing these days.  <\/p>\n<p>Things are about to get very, very crazy.  Brutal Legend, Left 4 Dead 2, and Borderlands. Plus the games I&#8217;m already missing: The new Batman, and the Firefly-powered ODST.  I could quit my day job and I <strong>still<\/strong> wouldn&#8217;t be able to keep up with this.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a funny look at how your character design will (not) affect the NPC&#8217;s. I&#8217;ve noticed an interesting pattern, in that readers start to get a little restless on about the fifth comic in a series. Usually when I hit #5 I&#8217;ll get a comment &#8220;yeah, yeah, I don&#8217;t care about this game, please [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463","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=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}