{"id":8791,"date":"2010-07-27T11:05:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8791"},"modified":"2010-07-27T20:50:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T01:50:57","slug":"spoiler-warning-2x24-let-the-good-times-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8791","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning 2×24: Let the Good Times Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an episode<\/a> of MST3K<\/a> that features about ten thousand hours of rock climbing and nine seconds of stop-motion dinosaurs. You could tell it was almost an endurance test for the crew, and as the episode went on they would just say “rock climbing” to describe how they were feeling. Among my gaming group we adopted this for times when something – a story, movie, game, vegetable platter, etc – would go on for far too long and become a test of will. (We also say, “From the people who brought you that last stuff, it’s… more of the same!”. But only on special occasions because it’s so verbose.)<\/p>\n

I wanted to say “rock climbing” all during this episode. (I didn’t, because it would have been a meaningless non-sequitur.) But still, this is starting to feel like rock climbing. The nonsense plot. Our endless bitching. The relentless brownness. The glitches. Railroading. If it’s of any<\/strong> comfort, we’ll have nicer things to say about the next game. <\/p>\n

And now, part one of the Broken Steel DLC:<\/p>\n

Hello, person from the future. This space used to have an embed from the video hosting site Viddler. The video is gone now. If you want to find out why and laugh at Viddler in the process, you can read the entire silly story for yourself<\/a>.At any rate, the video is gone. Sorry. On the upside, we're gradually re-posting these old videos to YouTube. Check the Spoiler Warning page<\/a> to see the full index.<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

Rock climbing. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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