{"id":6176,"date":"2009-11-27T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2009-11-27T10:17:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T14:17:20","slug":"by-shamus-young-27-november-2009-840-am-filed-under-shamus-young-comic-gamepunx-stolen-pixels-stolen-pixels-rss-2-0-comments-10-image-latest-image-latest-why-dont-you-jerks-stop-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6176","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #146: The Reason for the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I just got done saying how I didn&#8217;t have any plans to use Travis again, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/6823-Stolen-Pixels-146-The-Reason-for-the-Season\">he suddenly appears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Travis is talking about the cataclysmic release-day of reckoning we get every year as game companies all try to put everything out right before the holidays. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/6354-Experienced-Points-The-Stupid-Season\">I wrote about this over the summer<\/a>, and now six months later we are at last harvesting the poisonous fruit of that rotten tree.  Last year wasn&#8217;t too bad, because there just wasn&#8217;t that much that interested me.  This year is a lot  tougher. I&#8217;m actually itching to play about half the stuff in Travis&#8217;  list. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just picked up Dragon Age, and yesterday I found myself reviewing it via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shamusyoung\">my Twitter<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t expect that to become the norm, but Dragon Age is so massive that I found myself wanting to say things and I didn&#8217;t want to wait the three weeks it would take for me to finish the game and write the review series.<\/p>\n<p>As for the subject of the comic, I really do think it&#8217;s a very unhealthy trend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just got done saying how I didn&#8217;t have any plans to use Travis again, and then he suddenly appears. Travis is talking about the cataclysmic release-day of reckoning we get every year as game companies all try to put everything out right before the holidays. I wrote about this over the summer, and [&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-6176","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\/6176","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=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}