{"id":4772,"date":"2023-01-09T15:13:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T21:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2023-01-09T15:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T21:13:04","slug":"general-stuff-january-2023-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=4772","title":{"rendered":"General Stuff, January 2023, Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amusingly, as I continue to set everything up, I&#8217;m watching <em>Rapunzel&#8217;s Tangled Adventure<\/em> on TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This series seems to be an interesting retelling of the many images I saw and the stories I worked through playing old Windows RPGs.  I&#8217;m on episode 6 right now, and I&#8217;ve seen dozens if not hundreds of images, characters and stories pulled directly from the Windows 3.1<em> Exile<\/em> series, the <em>Avernum<\/em> series, and the old <em>Might and Magic<\/em> series, and at least a few ancient shareware games I played through on the family IBM machines back in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun walk down memory lane, and a good series to boot.  It might be better than the movie, and the movie was pretty damn good.  Even the visual style of the show screams &#8220;90&#8217;s Shareware&#8221; to me, and I&#8217;m sure that that is intentional.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a certain poetry to all of this that is really quite incredible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amusingly, as I continue to set everything up, I&#8217;m watching Rapunzel&#8217;s Tangled Adventure on TV. This series seems to be an interesting retelling of the many images I saw and the stories I worked through playing old Windows RPGs. I&#8217;m on episode 6 right now, and I&#8217;ve seen dozens if not hundreds of images, characters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4773,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions\/4773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}