{"id":7943,"date":"2010-05-07T09:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2010-05-07T18:39:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T23:39:34","slug":"fallout-3-kaboom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7943","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 3: Kaboom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t write a column this week. But I do have this Fallout 3 screenshot to amuse you:<\/p>\n<p><table width='600'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/fo3_boom.jpg' class='insetimage' width='600' alt='fo3_boom.jpg' title='fo3_boom.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>This requires some explanation:<\/p>\n<p>No cheats were used.  Yes, my character is dead at this point.  Yes, she&#8217;s missing three limbs. Her shotgun is positioned so that it looks like a prosthetic leg, but it&#8217;s really just floating in the air beside her. She and the shotgun are tumbling through the air together.<\/p>\n<p>Cars in this game explode if shot.  When they go off, they leave an eight meter mushroom cloud and irradiate the area.  I was standing amongst a 200 year old traffic jam and happened to set off one of the cars, which caused a chain reaction, which is what launched me into orbit. <\/p>\n<p>I was still gaining altitude when I took this shot. But the game auto-reloads your last save after a few seconds, so I wasn&#8217;t able to enjoy the entire ride.  This shot was taken about a second before the game reset me. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently playing two characters:  The above stealth \/ sniper, and melee brute guy.  I have to say it takes several levels before the stealth and small weapons investments pay off, but the melee points pay off right away.  The (early) game is easier in melee, which I wasn&#8217;t expecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t write a column this week. But I do have this Fallout 3 screenshot to amuse you: This requires some explanation: No cheats were used. Yes, my character is dead at this point. Yes, she&#8217;s missing three limbs. Her shotgun is positioned so that it looks like a prosthetic leg, but it&#8217;s really just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943","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=7943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}