{"id":8328,"date":"2010-06-15T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2010-06-15T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T17:01:09","slug":"stolen-pixels-203while-you-were-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8328","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #203:<br\/>While You Were Sleeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only person to have noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/7698-Stolen-Pixels-203-While-You-Were-Sleeping\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said in the linked text, this trope isn&#8217;t anywhere on <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HomePage\">TV Tropes<\/a>*.  Elements I consider crucial to this Trope:<\/p>\n<p>1) It takes place at the start of the game.<br \/>\n2) You awaken in an unfamiliar place.<br \/>\n3) You are in your underwear or otherwise deprived of basic stuff you&#8217;ll be collecting during the tutorial.<br \/>\n4) A <em>local<\/em> calamity is going on.  (&#8220;Darth Malak threatens the galaxy&#8221; doesn&#8217;t count.  &#8220;The Endar Spire is under attack&#8221; does.  Ideally, this calamity should be resolved within the tutorial.)<br \/>\n5) Bonus points if you&#8217;re alone and someone has to guide you from a remote location.<br \/>\n6) Bonus points if you&#8217;re in some sort of medical facility. <\/p>\n<p>Someone suggested that this Trope should be called &#8220;Good Morning, Disaster&#8221;.  It fits. Now someone who knows what they&#8217;re doing at <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HomePage\">TV Tropes<\/a>* needs to add this.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, this is the comic I was trying to make when <a href=\"?p=8303\">all of this happened<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><small>* Warning: The link labeled &#8220;TV Tropes&#8221; links to <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HomePage\">TV Tropes<\/a>*.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only person to have noticed this. Like I said in the linked text, this trope isn&#8217;t anywhere on TV Tropes*. Elements I consider crucial to this Trope: 1) It takes place at the start of the game. 2) You awaken in an unfamiliar place. 3) You are in your underwear [&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-8328","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\/8328","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=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}