{"id":9255,"date":"2010-08-31T11:31:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2010-08-31T11:32:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T16:32:19","slug":"spoiler-warning-3x4-time-to-get-tanked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9255","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning 3&#215;4: Time to get Tanked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><div style=\"width:500px;margin-left:50px;padding:5px;border: 1px solid black;background:white;color:black;\">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 <a href=\"?p=17165\">read the entire silly story for yourself<\/a>.<br\/><br\/>At any rate, the video is gone. Sorry. On the upside, we're gradually re-posting these old videos to YouTube. Check the <a href=\"?page_id=16386\">Spoiler Warning page<\/a> to see the full index.<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>In this episode I brought up the subject of the BioShock DRM.  While exotic and new at the time, it&#8217;s pretty much the order of the day now for a lot of PC games.  Josh mentioned it&#8217;s getting better, which is also true.  It depends on where you draw the line and what games you care about. Ubisoft has taken the idea to new an absurd heights.  Other companies are following the example set by Steam and are trying to sugarcoat their phone-home systems by actually offering some features in return.  Blizzard is a great example of this. The new Battle.net requires periodically renewing activation (this is based on hearsay) but offers a ton of new features. Evaluating what you&#8217;re really getting for your $60 is becoming increasingly complex.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;ll always remember BioShock as a forerunner is this regard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.At any rate, the video is gone. Sorry. On the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255","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=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}