{"id":252,"date":"2005-04-09T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-09T22:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2005-04-09T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T22:34:42","slug":"a-ridiculous-amount-of-time-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/04\/09\/a-ridiculous-amount-of-time-later\/","title":{"rendered":"a ridiculous amount of time later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was supposed to be packing day for the move to the <a href=\"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/gallery2\/v\/sandyhill\/\">new digs<\/a> on Thursday. It didn&#8217;t happen, and I hate being sick. Ah well, these things happen, so the day was used for the forces of good battling the forces of evil. To assist me with that, I finally finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/assets\/en-us\/Flash\/games\/halo2\/home.html\">Halo 2<\/a> (I had been sitting at the last mission for about 4 months). I know it&#8217;s been written about ad nauseum, but I really wasn&#8217;t prepared for the abrupt ending, and now I understand why so many people felt cheated.<\/p>\n<p>The final &#8220;battle&#8221; was over in about 30 seconds, and it was a bit of a fluke on my part. If you&#8217;re ever wearing a shield generator, remember that it shields both ways. This is important if a plasma grenade becomes attached to your leg, because it&#8217;ll direct the blast back in. I tell you, the practical things I learn playing games.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s my big news. Six months later, I finish Halo 2. I got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/burnout3\/default.htm\">Burnout 3<\/a> three months after Halo 2, and finished it a month sooner. Ah well, at least I&#8217;m finishing games, which is a little different than in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was supposed to be packing day for the move to the new digs on Thursday. It didn&#8217;t happen, and I hate being sick. Ah well, these things happen, so the day was used for the forces of good battling the forces of evil. To assist me with that, I finally finished Halo 2 (I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}