{"id":2067,"date":"2013-01-01T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2016-03-16T14:52:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:52:33","slug":"the-year-in-blogs-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2013\/01\/01\/the-year-in-blogs-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year in Blogs: 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a yearly round-up of all the blog posts I made through 2012! The year where I tried to turn my blog into being exclusively about James Bond!<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Why I Can\u2019t Be a Bastard in Fallout: New Vegas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/04\/26\/why-i-cant-be-a-bastard-in-fallout-new-vegas\/\">Why I Can\u2019t Be a Bastard in <em>Fallout: New Vegas<\/em><\/a> &#8211; 26\/04<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Max Valerion&#8221; was a character I created in Fallout 3, and I took great pride in being an absolute bastard to everyone and everything in the game. When Fallout: New Vegas came about, I went to efforts to bring Max into the game. Unfortunately, the game just didn&#8217;t want to allow Max to be a bastard.<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"There\u2019s No \u2018I\u2019 in \u2018Team\u2019, Except for Apple\u2019s Marketing iTeam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/05\/07\/theres-no-i-in-team-except-for-apples-marketing-iteam\/\">There\u2019s No \u2018I\u2019 in \u2018Team\u2019, Except for Apple\u2019s Marketing iTeam<\/a> &#8211; 07\/05<\/h2>\n<p>Apple products are made for preening smug pricks who like boasting about being part of the &#8220;Cult of Apple&#8221;. I go to painstaking lengths to prove my point, even dissecting ancient Apple vision videos from the 1980&#8217;s and the various Mac vs. PC adverts.<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Video Game Scavenger Hunts, a.k.a the Art Director Really Wants You to Appreciate Their Hard Work\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/05\/16\/video-game-scavenger-hunts-aka-the-art-director-really-wants-you-to-appreciate-their-hard-work\/\">Video Game Scavenger Hunts, a.k.a the Art Director Really Wants You to Appreciate Their Hard Work<\/a> &#8211; 16\/05<\/h2>\n<p>Something a lot of modern games do is pad out their content by having hidden items scattered throughout the levels. I pick several examples and bitch about how annoying they are to <a title=\"Trophy Whoring on the Blogsplosion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/category\/video-games\/trophy-whoring\/\">obsessive PSN trophy collectors<\/a> like myself.<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"PC Elitism \u2013 Because PC Owners Can Be Smug Pricks Too\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/06\/04\/pc-elitism-because-pc-owners-can-be-smug-pricks-too\/\">PC Elitism \u2013 Because PC Owners Can Be Smug Pricks Too<\/a> &#8211; 04\/06<\/h2>\n<p>Having lambasted Apple users the previous month, I then turn on the PC Mother race to defend games consoles, even though PCs are clearly superior in every single aspect. This all starts with a Facebook post that annoyed me, because I&#8217;m a reactionary berk like that.<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: Goldfinger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/08\/11\/three-blokes-and-a-chick-watch-goldfinger\/\">Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: <em>Goldfinger<\/em><\/a> &#8211; 11\/08<\/h2>\n<p>In the first of <a title=\"Three Blokes and a Chick Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/category\/films\/three-blokes-and-a-chick-watch\/\">many posts where I sit down and laugh at films with my mates<\/a>, we watch a classic Bond film. It&#8217;s the one where Bond rapes a woman in a barn. Wait, what?<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: For Your Eyes Only\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/08\/17\/three-blokes-and-a-chick-watch-for-your-eyes-only\/\">Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: <em>For Your Eyes Only<\/em><\/a> &#8211; 17\/08<\/h2>\n<p>The one where there&#8217;s lots of skiing, scuba diving and rock climbing. And a pubic mound.<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: Die Another Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/08\/27\/three-blokes-and-a-chick-watch-die-another-day\/\">Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: <em>Die Another Day<\/em><\/a> &#8211; 27\/08<\/h2>\n<p>The one where Bond takes on the Smuggest Man in the World and the power of the sun (when I posted the link to this on Facebook I wrote &#8220;This one took a little bit longer, because there&#8217;s two hours of urinating on a popular franchise using CGI. Also, Halle Berry.&#8221;).<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Two Blokes and a Chick Watch: Moonraker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/08\/31\/two-blokes-and-a-chick-watch-moonraker\/\">Two Blokes and a Chick Watch: <em>Moonraker<\/em><\/a> &#8211; 31\/08<\/h2>\n<p>The one where Bond goes to space and Jaws is awesome.<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: From Russia With Love\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/10\/14\/three-blokes-and-a-chick-watch-from-russia-with-love\/\">Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: <em>From Russia With Love<\/em><\/a> &#8211; 14\/10<\/h2>\n<p>The one that&#8217;s actually a proper Cold War era spy thriller.<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"A Random Collection of Thoughts on Skyfall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/11\/04\/a-random-collection-of-thoughts-on-skyfall\/\">A Random Collection of Thoughts on <em>Skyfall<\/em><\/a> &#8211; 04\/11<\/h2>\n<p>Having seen Skyfall at the cinema with the other two blokes and the Chick, I spend an entire blog post not being entirely sure whether I liked the film or not.<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: A View to a Kill\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/11\/09\/three-blokes-and-a-chick-watch-a-view-to-a-kill\/\">Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: <em>A View to a Kill<\/em><\/a> &#8211; 09\/11<\/h2>\n<p>The one where Bond goes up against Christopher Walken.<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: Casino Royale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2012\/12\/31\/three-blokes-and-a-chick-watch-casino-royale\/\">Three Blokes and a Chick Watch: <em>Casino Royale<\/em><\/a> &#8211; 31\/12<\/h2>\n<p>The one where Bond plays poker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a yearly round-up of all the blog posts I made through 2012! The year where I tried to turn my blog into being exclusively about James Bond! Why I Can\u2019t Be a Bastard in Fallout: New Vegas &#8211; 26\/04 &#8220;Max Valerion&#8221; was a character I created in Fallout 3,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[31,67,54,162],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-year-in-blogs","tag-apple","tag-james-bond","tag-pc-vs-console","tag-yearly-summary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}