{"id":915,"date":"2007-01-31T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=915"},"modified":"2007-01-31T07:00:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T12:00:45","slug":"cat-vs-washing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"Cat vs. Washing Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s discussion on a <a href=\"?p=912\">Wizard fighting a common housecat in D&#038;D<\/a> sort of morphed from a discussion of an amusing absurdity in the rules to a discussion of strategy of just what was the best way to fight a cat in D&#038;D.  This brought to mind the following video.  (Note that you would still need to grapple the cat and get him into the machine, and by the looks of it that would be a two-round action.)  Still, I&#8217;d give a &#8220;creative solution&#8221; XP bonus to anyone that pulled it off.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I5jgHhCs-0E\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I5jgHhCs-0E\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, if you click through and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5jgHhCs-0E\">watch this movie in its natural habitat on YouTube<\/a>, you will see a perfect demonstration of the point made in <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/c202.html\">this xkcd comic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">The internet has always had loud dumb people, but I&#8217;ve never seen anything quite as bad as the people who comment on YouTube videos.<\/div>\n<p>He&#8217;s right.  Read the discussion thread (actually, don&#8217;t) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5jgHhCs-0E\">that video<\/a>.  It&#8217;s like the source code for stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s discussion on a Wizard fighting a common housecat in D&#038;D sort of morphed from a discussion of an amusing absurdity in the rules to a discussion of strategy of just what was the best way to fight a cat in D&#038;D. This brought to mind the following video. (Note that you would still need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}