{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6786cf573ceecdbe85eac067/698220d4143ae987af2f1d88?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"FREE TO ALL: Text Adventure: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell","description":"<p><em>This episode was previously exclusive to our Patreon backers, but we're making it available to everybody to show what you're missing behind the paywall. You can get access to more Text Adventure plus a year of other subscriber episodes, at </em><a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/TotalPlaytimePodcast\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>patreon.com/TotalPlaytimePodcast</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><br></p><p>Text Adventure is our videogame book club, in which we and a guest read a videogame novelisation and try very hard to like it. In this episode we are joined by <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/johnnychiodini\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny Chiodini</a> to read Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, which turns out to be story about a neocon Alan Partridge who's totally devoid of emotional intelligence and incredibly bad at stealth. Which is quite close to how we played Splinter Cell but not, we suspect, the outcome they were aiming for for. </p><p><br></p><p>Music by God Ribbon, art by Marsh Davies and our entire existence care of our Patreon backers. Please consider joining them and enabling us to continue our quest to find a games book that isn't absolutely terrible.</p><p><br></p><p><u>Games!</u></p><p>You can still buy the first <a href=\"https://store.steampowered.com/app/13560/Tom_Clancys_Splinter_Cell/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Splinter Cell</a> game, but <a href=\"https://toronto.ubisoft.com/games/splinter-cell-remake/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the remake</a> is out soon(ish)</p><p><br></p><p><u>Links</u></p><p>This is the book <a href=\"https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780425201688\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">most of us read</a> and this is <a href=\"https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/tom-clancy-s-splinter-cell-checkmate-book-david-michaels-9780425212783\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the one Nate read</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><u>Recommendations!</u></p><p>Going to the charity shops in the most fancy area available to you, London Centric's <a href=\"https://www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball-the-snail-farmer-his-mafia\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">snail farmer mafioso</a> article, <a href=\"https://ftrc.blog/thermal-print-instant-camera/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">thermal instant cameras</a>, and the <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/realms-unknown/episodes/ontologypunk-rimworld-robocop\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Realms Unknown podcast</a> which has featured our own Nate!</p>","author_name":"Total Playtime"}