{"id":8048,"date":"2010-05-14T08:04:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8048"},"modified":"2010-05-14T08:04:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:04:11","slug":"stolen-pixels-194-after-curfew-episode-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8048","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #194: After Curfew, Episode 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/7551-Stolen-Pixels-194-After-Curfew-Episode-8\">Breen is back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said in the text, I should know better than to be excited about Fallout: New Vegas. There are a tremendous number of things that Obsidian could do wrong here.  Say, for example, everything they&#8217;ve done in the past. <\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;re saying all the right things in interviews and talking about all of the common complaints with the game. As before, Obsidian is proving to be a seductive developer.  It won&#8217;t be until you enter the third act and you crash to the desktop with a pop-up ad selling the DLC that contains the rest of the game that you&#8217;ll realize that once again, you&#8217;ve been had.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe this will be their chance to redeem themselves?   I can&#8217;t help but feel like an abused spouse. <em>He&#8217;ll change this time for sure. He promised!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breen is back. Like I said in the text, I should know better than to be excited about Fallout: New Vegas. There are a tremendous number of things that Obsidian could do wrong here. Say, for example, everything they&#8217;ve done in the past. But they&#8217;re saying all the right things in interviews and talking about [&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-8048","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\/8048","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=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}