{"id":539,"date":"2008-05-19T08:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T07:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pouringbeans.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2008-05-19T08:19:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T07:19:35","slug":"disappointing-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Disappointing Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I recently finished Halo on the X-Box (after ripping through the last level in the jeep, falling 100ft down and not losing any energy, and then doing a runner to the big pointy space ship) and it wasn&#8217;t the hardest game in the world. This was probably due to the fact that I was playing on the normal level of difficulty. What did my eyes greet me when I had finished though? A short film of me blasting off saying in typical fashion, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think this is the last we&#8217;ve seen of them, in fact I think this is just the beginning.&#8221; Oh dear, are you setting me up for Halo 2? It was crap. If I had spent \u00a3300 odd quid on the console (remember it was free ladies and gentlemen) and then \u00a350 on the game I would have been throwing my owl around in frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Another disappointment was the last episode of Dexter. All in all I have no beef with it because it was exceptionally good all the way through and that\u00a0they didn&#8217;t keep the other guy alive and he was forced to kill him was the best way but something so tacky as it being his brother? Predictable. Shod. They may as well have had the police chief in on it too and have some wise cracking good cop killed off a few days before his retirement. My loins hunger for more fufilling closing credits.<\/p>\n<p>I might try &#8216;The Crying Game&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I recently finished Halo on the X-Box (after ripping through the last level in the jeep, falling 100ft down and not losing any energy, and then doing a runner to the big pointy space ship) and it wasn&#8217;t the hardest game in the world. This was probably due to the fact that I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ian","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}