{"id":7647,"date":"2010-03-23T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T13:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2010-03-23T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T13:30:37","slug":"stolen-pixels-179-breen-interviews-chell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7647","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #179: Breen Interviews Chell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have crafted another one of those web-comic dealies, and I offer it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/7329-Stolen-Pixels-179-Breen-Interviews-Chell\">here<\/a> for your perusal.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not often I get genuinely excited about a sequel. I am excited about Portal.  To my shame, my enthusiasm comes from screenshot preview hype mag <a href=\"http:\/\/gameinformer.com\/b\/news\/archive\/2010\/03\/22\/redesigning-chell-valve-s-artist-speaks.aspx\">Game Informer<\/a>, which I usually regard as little more than a catalog. Please understand that I usually know better than to be swayed by anything the magazine has to say. I mean, they hand it out for <em>free<\/em>. At <em>Gamestop<\/em>. This is not a place you should turn if you want a clear-headed critical opinion on a game.  Or anything else.  <\/p>\n<p>But the Portal 2 article found a gap in my armor of distrust and cynicism. I read it all the way through. On purpose, and without irony. And now I want the game.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a long year.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Right here is a good place for a paragraph asking about Half-Life 2: Episode 3, but I just don&#8217;t have it in me today.)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have crafted another one of those web-comic dealies, and I offer it here for your perusal. It&#8217;s not often I get genuinely excited about a sequel. I am excited about Portal. To my shame, my enthusiasm comes from screenshot preview hype mag Game Informer, which I usually regard as little more than a catalog. [&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-7647","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\/7647","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=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}