{"id":6243,"date":"2009-12-02T17:57:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T21:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6243"},"modified":"2009-12-03T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:44:43","slug":"penny-arcade-dragon-age-spoilers-ahoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6243","title":{"rendered":"Penny Arcade: Dragon Age Spoilers Ahoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mere words cannot convey the sense of relief that comes from the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/6831-Stolen-Pixels-147-Naked-Greed\">my comic<\/a> preceded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/\">this Penny Arcade<\/a> by a single day.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday I had an article titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/6825-Experienced-Points-Evony-Irony\">Evony and Irony<\/a>&#8220;.  I thought it was clever in a stupid pun sort of way.  Then someone pointed out that Christopher C. Livingston <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpersonshouter.com\/?p=577\">already used that joke<\/a> a few months ago.  This stung a little, since Livingston is famous for doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlcomic.com\/index.php?date=2005-05-01\">a GMod comic<\/a>, and now I do a semi-GMod comic, and therefore I sometimes get a little crap from people for &#8220;stealing&#8221; his idea. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s always preferable when the <em>less<\/em> famous person manages to fire off the joke before the more famous one. If the two Dragon Age comics had appeared in the opposite order, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d get flak for &#8220;stealing&#8221; the idea. <\/p>\n<p>Whew. <\/p>\n<p>Spying on those guys is really paying off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mere words cannot convey the sense of relief that comes from the fact that my comic preceded this Penny Arcade by a single day. Last Friday I had an article titled &#8220;Evony and Irony&#8220;. I thought it was clever in a stupid pun sort of way. Then someone pointed out that Christopher C. Livingston already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243","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=6243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}