{"id":19895,"date":"2013-05-29T17:03:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T22:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19895"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:51:51","slug":"diecast-15-xbone-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19895","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #15: XBone, Unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know. We&#8217;re basically the last people on top of the Xbone dogpile. But if we didn&#8217;t say it in this episode, then people would be asking us what we thought. On a related note: This is why I didn&#8217;t have a column this week. It felt strange to have a column that didn&#8217;t address the BIG STORY of the week, but at the same time there was nothing left that hadn&#8217;t been said a hundred times already. So I said nothing.<\/p>\n<p>This gig is odd, sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link<audio controls height='50' width='300'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast15.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast15.ogg' type='audio\/ogg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><embed height='50' width='300' src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast15.mp3' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><\/audio><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast15.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast15.ogg'>Direct download<\/a> (ogg Vorbis)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/mbafford-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/diecast.xml'>Podcast RSS feed.<\/a><\/small><br \/>--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/embed\/SxYyhYTD#pF8tDaho4b2EEEHHFDKvqY1i7bZfAT7JiELph8maC-s!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/SxYyhYTD#pF8tDaho4b2EEEHHFDKvqY1i7bZfAT7JiELph8maC-s\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/DsYSmQjY#F9wca5zsZYx_q9Fuebk-A5B522HNnFyw9HqKS6bBoVw\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: Shamus, Josh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/\">Rutskarn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.errantsignal.com\/blog\/\">Chris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>01:30<\/strong> What&#8217;s everyone playing?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 50px;\">\n<p>Shamus is playing Dead Space and Starcraft 2. Also, Josh proposes the question: <em>What series or franchise would be better if played in reverse order?<\/em>Chris is playing Sleeping Dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Rutskarn is playing &#8220;Graduate from College&#8221;. I&#8217;m led to believe the game is really, really hard.<\/p>\n<p>Josh is playing Hitman: Absolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>17:00<\/strong> Terrible news about <del>SimCity<\/del> XBox One.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 50px;\">\n<p>Yeah, we spend a good stretch of time enumerating faults. The sad thing is, we didn&#8217;t even cover everything. While the machine itself has problems, Microsoft&#8217;s direction is deeply, deeply troubling in many ways.<\/p>\n<p>Chris mentioned this video on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TMYso30L9zI\">groundbreaking next-gen fish AI<\/a>. We also made a few jokes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2013\/05\/bryan-henderson-curiosity-cube\/\">Curiosity<\/a>. (The dumb game, not the awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curiosity_(rover)\">rover<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>51:00<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/698883673\/unrest-an-unconventional-rpg-set-in-ancient-india\">Unrest Kickstarter and Development<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALSO:<\/p>\n<p>We will be doing a hangout this Friday, May 31st at 4:30pm pacific time. (10:30pm GMT.) We&#8217;ll have links to the stream closer to when the event goes live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know. We&#8217;re basically the last people on top of the Xbone dogpile. But if we didn&#8217;t say it in this episode, then people would be asking us what we thought. On a related note: This is why I didn&#8217;t have a column this week. 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