{"id":427,"date":"2008-01-09T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/portal-xmen-check\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:27:00","slug":"portal-xmen-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/portal-xmen-check\/","title":{"rendered":"portal, xmen, check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Played Portal last night and made my way around a tricky puzzle.   But, wait!  It&#8217;s a trap!   I slip past the trap and I&#8217;m in a new area, outside the bounds of the games standard testing environment.   Working my way through this cool and somewhat grimy looking place &#8211; I get to a new challenge and just as I&#8217;m starting to figure out how to get through &#8211; the game crashes.  Hard.<\/p>\n<p>So, I fire up the game again and get a little further before it crashes again.   Ummm&#8230; Microsoft?  Any chance you&#8217;re going to get your operating system fixed any time soon?  Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated with that, I fire up the playstation Marvel Ultimate Alliance and move my team through Arcade&#8217;s MurderWorld.   We&#8217;re making fairly good progress, though Iceman got killed by a doom-bot.   I reach a carnival area and have Thor pick up a big hammer laying on the ground.  It&#8217;s kinda fun, but Thor already has a big hammer and I drop that weapon and move on.   At the end of the area is a gate controlled by one of those strong-man mallet+pole+bell at the top things.  <\/p>\n<p>Which Thor&#8217;s regular hammer can&#8217;t handle. <\/p>\n<p>So, I head back to where I dropped the hammer and it&#8217;s not there.  Nor has another one re-spawned in the game.  I back out of the area and enter again &#8211; still no hammer.   The only option &#8211; reload and start the level over.   So, I&#8217;m pissed, but I do that.  And I&#8217;m more careful when I pick up the hammer and how I use it.   I make it through the level after rescuing Blade the Vampire hunter from a toy\/crane game and then shooting Thor out of a cannon to trick a giant robot to hit himself in the head.    Next up, I think we&#8217;re headed to hell to fight some demons and rescue Ghost Rider.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I got a message from the Accounts Payable office about a check for my meals when I last traveled.   They were calling to verify my address &#8211; and it was way wrong.   Turns out they track us as &#8220;vendors&#8221; when they issue checks &#8211; instead of tying it into payroll and using my updated address.   Annoying, but at least they called.   I&#8217;m headed over there this afternoon to pick it up and update my address. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about it for now &#8211; time to get back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-2458497576769700869?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Played Portal last night and made my way around a tricky puzzle. But, wait! It&#8217;s a trap! I slip past the trap and I&#8217;m in a new area, outside the bounds of the games standard testing environment. Working my way through this cool and somewhat grimy looking place &#8211; I get to a new challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}