{"id":2708,"date":"2012-08-08T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2012-08-08T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:03:07","slug":"pour-one-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2708","title":{"rendered":"Pour one out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A delicious, ice-cold Pepsi, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Brickroad&#8217;s YouTube account was <a href=\"http:\/\/scibbe.com\/?p=3381\">terminated without cause or warning<\/a>. This is sad for many, many reasons. The most obvious being that Brick was one of the very few video Let&#8217;s Players that I could stand to watch for a whole video*. The other big one being that despite the fact that I own the game, I will probably never see the end of <strong>Shantae: Risky&#8217;s Revenge <\/strong>now because he hadn&#8217;t finished uploading that particular LP series before his account was banned. Now I&#8217;m actually going to have to go back and play the game. Who even does that anymore?<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that his current <strong>Shiren The Wanderer<\/strong> LP was pretty damn entertaining too. Made me buy a used copy of the game just so I could get in on the action.<\/p>\n<p>But this is a real shame because Brickroad was good at what he did. He was a font of knowledge about most of the games he played, and I am incredibly envious of just how much he knows about some games. I don&#8217;t know nearly as much about any one game as he did about several of the games he had LPs of. I wish that there was just one game I could rattle off trivia about throughout a whole playthrough, or that I knew one game well enough to play through at 150% speed. Of course, even if I had the knowledge or skill for that kind of LP, I still wouldn&#8217;t be <em>funny<\/em> enough to keep people hooked. I think I&#8217;ve got the reactive humour down, but I&#8217;m not nearly as witty as I&#8217;d like to be.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think that Brickroad&#8217;s influence shines through fairly obviously in my Let&#8217;s Plays. Both in style and substance. Just look at my video descriptions: a total ripoff of the Brickroad three-bullet-point system. I dressed it up a bit, but it&#8217;s unmistakable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not really into reading or watching LPs in general, but there&#8217;s no doubt that I&#8217;ll pay attention to any new Brickroad projects. That is, assuming they <em>happen<\/em>. Hopefully this YouTube debacle doesn&#8217;t stop him from playing video games for\u00a0the amusement of others.<\/p>\n<p>The last thing I want is for this post to double as an eulogy.<\/p>\n<p>*As it turns out, most of the Talking Tyrants who do video LPs are pretty decent\u00a0too. Better than me, at any rate. You&#8217;d do well to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telebunny.net\/talkingtime\/showthread.php?t=12431\">check them out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delicious, ice-cold Pepsi, that is. Yesterday, Brickroad&#8217;s YouTube account was terminated without cause or warning. This is sad for many, many reasons. The most obvious being that Brick was one of the very few video Let&#8217;s Players that I could stand to watch for a whole video*. The other big one being that despite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2708\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pour one out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-play","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}