{"id":7212,"date":"2010-02-20T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7212"},"modified":"2010-02-20T09:10:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T14:10:01","slug":"those-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7212","title":{"rendered":"Those Minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YFCZMEwl_K8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YFCZMEwl_K8'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Funny song.  The video is a disappointment, though.  Even just random game footage would be better than looping the same 2 seconds of footage over and over. <\/p>\n<p>Lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Peep it, I&#8217;ll break it down so you can absorb it (okay)<br \/>\nyou need to mine planets&#8217; minerals and do it from orbit (yo)<br \/>\nsome good advice, and you&#8217;re too much of a noob to ignore it (ay)<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll get stranded with no fuel if you foolishly floor it<br \/>\nI used to rock microphones rhyming in a stadium (okay)<br \/>\nthese days I launch probes mining for palladium (no doubt)<br \/>\nslouching at my console crying from the tedium<br \/>\nI contemplate relations with the slimiest of aliens<br \/>\na spectre and alliance N7 special ops (word)<br \/>\nsome things I scan are anomalous but the rest are rocks<br \/>\nthis **** is so boring most men&#8217;s souls would wither (okay)<br \/>\nyo but I ain&#8217;t tryna get my Tali&#8217;Zorah blown to smithers (aha)<br \/>\nno doubt, I get it in with the iridium<br \/>\nrhythmically clicking launch probe, tunnel vision<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m mining for resources with the lowliest of purposes<br \/>\nas I drag the scanner reticle slowly on the surface<\/p>\n<p>Probe away, foes know that probing may<br \/>\nmake me cranky, like Harkin on a sober day (okay!)<br \/>\nTali&#8217;s research? ayo ****, a solar ray (yo)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll take a cain to mother****ers, go straight Enola Gay (aye)<br \/>\nyou can scan procedurally or just stop and meander (okay!)<br \/>\nbut if it&#8217;s taking ages doggie stop with the scanner (no doubt)<br \/>\nyou need to get a ****in&#8217; upgrade, talk to Miranda<br \/>\nshe&#8217;ll probably get up from her desk so you can stop for a gander<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s a skeezy ho, told the Illusive Man, he don&#8217;t believe me though<br \/>\nI oughta find his office, leave the geezer leaking hemoglobes (word)<br \/>\nalthough I know the brother brought me back from the dead<br \/>\nI feel compelled to put one in the back of his head<br \/>\nanyway **** the prime directive, only amateurs enforce this (aha)<br \/>\nI&#8217;m strip-mining planetoids, scanning for resources<br \/>\nracking **** from the moons, planets, and the ports<br \/>\nand now the Normandy is upgraded and damaging your forces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Funny song. The video is a disappointment, though. Even just random game footage would be better than looping the same 2 seconds of footage over and over. Lyrics:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212","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=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}