{"id":1798,"date":"2004-08-06T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2004-08-06T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T22:00:36","slug":"up-down-up-down-left-right-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1798","title":{"rendered":"Up, down, up, down, left, right, fire&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrading your house is so much easier in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingdomofloathing.com\">Kingdom of Loathing<\/a>.  None of this messing around with drywall and cement board.  No inconveniently placed plumbing.  Just grab a decorative fountain, a set of windchimes and the Feng-Shui for Big Dumb Idiots book, and tah-DAH!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll make sense for about three people out there&#8230;  Ah well.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFor the rest of you, the bathroom remodeling is proceeding apace, but it&#8217;s looking like it won&#8217;t be ready in time for the Backyard Bru-ha-ha this weekend.  I&#8217;m going to be putting in the bathtub tonight, but I can&#8217;t put the toilet in until the tiling is done for the floor and there&#8217;s just not enough time for the mortar and grout to dry between now and the start of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it is kind of similar to a game in some respects.  You have to do the steps in the right order, or the results are going to be all screwed up.  You can&#8217;t put the tiles down until the tub is in place, and before you can place the tub, you need to finish the walls.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all so time consuming.  It&#8217;d be great if you could just type in a cheat code and jump to the part of the game where everything is set up and working&#8230;  Unfortunately, the only thing close to a cheat code I can think of would involve a very expensive phone call to a contractor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upgrading your house is so much easier in the Kingdom of Loathing. None of this messing around with drywall and cement board. No inconveniently placed plumbing. Just grab a decorative fountain, a set of windchimes and the Feng-Shui for Big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1798\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}