{"id":36,"date":"2016-02-10T04:07:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T04:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gearheadrpg.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2016-02-10T04:07:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T04:07:49","slug":"young-joe-was-an-arse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gearheadrpg.com\/wp\/2016\/02\/10\/young-joe-was-an-arse\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Joe was an arse."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gearheadrpg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/YoungJoe_vs_OldJoe-300x225.png\" alt=\"One of these guys is a bit more of an arse than the other.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Joe vs Old Joe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Through playing GearHead-1 I&#8217;ve come to realize something many of you probably already know: my twentysomething self was a bit of an arse.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, in many ways he was also quite brilliant, but when my lancemates die of poisoning on the bus to downtown Snake Lake, despite the fact that they had plenty of quick fix pills and first aid packs, I want to pull Young Joe aside and punch him. Same deal when my lance, which includes an expert repairman, discovers Omega-1004 stuck in a cave and is unable to revive him because the character with the repair skills is not the leader of the group.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gearheadrpg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/GH1_XiapExcel-300x234.png\" alt=\"GH1_XiapExcel\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I seem to recall that I had reasons for these design decisions. I can&#8217;t remember what they were. So, I&#8217;ve decided to fix them.<\/p>\n<p>Starting from the latest git commit, status effects will have no effect while the PC is jumping forward in time and cannot react to them. The skills menu will allow use of skills known by all lancemates. I&#8217;m sure there are still lots of arbitrary unfairness and interface shenanigans- so far I&#8217;ve lost two mecha from entering combat overburdened after forgetting about autopillaged loot- but hopefully this is a step towards making sure that all your future deaths are the result of human error rather than machine contrariness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through playing GearHead-1 I&#8217;ve come to realize something many of you probably already know: my twentysomething self was a bit of an arse. I mean, in many ways he was also quite brilliant, but when my lancemates die of poisoning on the bus to downtown Snake Lake, despite the fact that they had plenty of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gearheadrpg.com\/wp\/2016\/02\/10\/young-joe-was-an-arse\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,49,55,108],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-free-pascal","tag-gearhead1","tag-grumpy","tag-xiap","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearheadrpg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearheadrpg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearheadrpg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearheadrpg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearheadrpg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gearheadrpg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearheadrpg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearheadrpg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearheadrpg.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}