{"id":6618,"date":"2010-01-10T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T14:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2010-01-10T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T14:36:14","slug":"clod-of-cthulhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6618","title":{"rendered":"Clod of Cthulhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\">Rutskarn<\/a> has begun a new series, this time about the game <em>Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth<\/em>.  This is in addition to his ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?cat=153\">Morrowind series<\/a>, which if you remember acted as the catalyst for <a href=\"?p=5015\">the saga of Star on Chest<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Dear Rutskarn,<\/p>\n<p>What is your problem, man? Do you mind not screwing up the curve for the rest of us?<\/p>\n<p>I distinctly remember you saying that you began college this year.  I&#8217;ll have you know that I&#8217;ve watched several of the late-night documentaries from Cinemax on college life, and I have no idea what you think you&#8217;re doing. You&#8217;re certainly not behaving like a freshman. Aren&#8217;t you supposed to be binge-partying with frat boys and building bongs out of tanker trucks?  Or getting caught in compromising positions with cheerleaders who have brutish boyfriends?  <em>This<\/em> is the time in your life for experimenting with dangerous lifestyles, living poorly, and making <a href=\"?p=764\">foolish decisions<\/a> that you will regret for decades.  But instead, you&#8217;re churning out one awesome post after another on your blog? You&#8217;re <em>ruining<\/em> your education, man!<\/p>\n<p>You should be far too busy to crank out this endless stream of content every day.  And now you&#8217;re going to start a <em>Cthulhu<\/em> series?<\/p>\n<p>You sir, are a nerd.<\/p>\n<p><table width='300'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/nerds.jpg' class='insetimage' width='300' alt='NERDS!' title='NERDS!'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>To the rest of you:  I don&#8217;t have anything interesting to post today, but if you want to see a man waste his life by honing his writing skills and writing excellent things about videogames, then I suppose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=1555\">Clod of Cthulhu<\/a> is worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>Nerd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rutskarn has begun a new series, this time about the game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. This is in addition to his ongoing Morrowind series, which if you remember acted as the catalyst for the saga of Star on Chest. Dear Rutskarn, What is your problem, man? Do you mind not screwing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618","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=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}