{"id":172,"date":"2024-05-25T21:48:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T03:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2024-05-25T21:48:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T03:48:49","slug":"defending-super-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/2024\/05\/defending-super-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending Super Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After giving it a couple of months to cool off at the request of the devs themselves, I pulled the trigger on Helldivers II yesterday. I have two thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I absolutely get the hype.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goddamn, I wish Graham was around to play this with.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s the exact sort of stupid fun shooter that appeals immensely and would&#8217;ve gone over incredibly well. The visceral feel of explosions and the sell-dead ragdolling are just so good together. The polish of the humor, so straight-faced as it provides this absurd narrative, is just fucking <em>delightful<\/em>. The emotes and other surreal touches to the game are just so well put together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was on a mission with 4 random dudes to launch an ICBM. It&#8217;s quite a sequence to get it in the air, and once the final countdown began, I stood by it and saluted it as the clock hit zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Massive fucking explosion, dead, send in another Helldiver. It was complete perfection. I will do it every single time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m available for playing on PS5, no prizes for guessing the username.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After giving it a couple of months to cool off at the request of the devs themselves, I pulled the trigger on Helldivers II yesterday. I have two thoughts. It&#8217;s the exact sort of stupid fun shooter that appeals immensely and would&#8217;ve gone over incredibly well. The visceral feel of explosions and the sell-dead ragdolling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-rhythm-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9uFuJ-2M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelegendofmax.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}