{"id":4574,"date":"2023-11-11T21:15:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T21:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=4574"},"modified":"2023-11-11T21:16:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T21:16:05","slug":"one-day-two-games-beaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/4574","title":{"rendered":"One Day: Two Games Beaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring of 2012, I beat <b>Portal<\/b> and <b>Portal 2<\/b> on subsequent days (I had been working on them simultaneously, on PC and Playstation 3.  When I moved to Sweden in late 2016, I earned a pair of platinum trophies in the same day: <b>Zero Time Dilemma<\/b> at midnight and <b>Far Cry: Primal<\/b> in the afternoon.  None of these accomplishments are particularly noteworthy outside of fond memories, but today I&#8217;m adding another to that list: completing both <b>Dark Souls III<\/b> and <b>Super Mario Bros. Wonder<\/b> within about an hour of one another.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2016_-_Dark_Souls_III.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2016_-_Dark_Souls_III-300x36.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"36\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2016_-_Dark_Souls_III-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2016_-_Dark_Souls_III-1024x121.png 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2016_-_Dark_Souls_III-768x91.png 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2016_-_Dark_Souls_III-1536x182.png 1536w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2016_-_Dark_Souls_III.png 1889w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I endeavor to post my thoughts on these achievements separately, but hey, I figured it was noteworthy enough to make a post about.  My hernia surgery is set for Monday and as I am all-but-incapacitated, why not play some games!  Unfortunately, I&#8217;m still two days away from surgery and I&#8217;ve completed two titles already.  I&#8217;ll have to see what&#8217;s on sale during my post-op downtime.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Super_Mario_Bros._Wonder_Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Super_Mario_Bros._Wonder_Logo-300x177.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Super_Mario_Bros._Wonder_Logo-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Super_Mario_Bros._Wonder_Logo-768x452.png 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Super_Mario_Bros._Wonder_Logo.png 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring of 2012, I beat Portal and Portal 2 on subsequent days (I had been working on them simultaneously, on PC and Playstation 3. When I moved to Sweden in late 2016, I earned a pair of platinum trophies in the same day: Zero Time Dilemma at midnight and Far Cry: Primal in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,4,26,48],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-4574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-games","category-high-scores-accomplishments","category-portal","tag-mario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4579,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions\/4579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}