{"id":21815,"date":"2013-12-11T17:35:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T22:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21815"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:30:24","slug":"diecast-38-frozen-no-mans-sky-and-rambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21815","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #38: Frozen, No Man&#8217;s Sky, and Rambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We usually do a little warm-up before the show. We talk for a bit and get our brains thinking about games. But about ten minutes into the warm-up we realized we were basically doing the show, so we started recording. No plan. No designated host. No timer. The result is two hours of rambling and confusion.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link<audio controls height='50' width='300'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast38.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast38.ogg' type='audio\/ogg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><embed height='50' width='300' src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast38.mp3' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><\/audio><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast38.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast38.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\/WkoUwL4T#ybxDSqGP103EGYwCZJUzkbz3L38v5HDaRi4Q5wjxWoc!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/WkoUwL4T#ybxDSqGP103EGYwCZJUzkbz3L38v5HDaRi4Q5wjxWoc\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/mkZTEKoZ#e2v15_DlxS4yPd_80xM4brEQZiWsoV1nAjzD1F-0jTg\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/\">Rutskarn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grigori_Rasputin\">Josh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.errantsignal.com\/blog\/\">Chris<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\">Shamus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>18:30 Frozen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re talking about the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TbQm5doF_Uc\">Disney movie<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/view\/escape-to-the-movies\/8507-Frozen\">MovieBob review<\/a> I mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25:00 Rustkarn is playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadowrun_Returns\">Shadowrun Returns<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>30:00 Rutskarn also finished Skyrim.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This completes his multi-game play-through of the Elder Scrolls series.<\/p>\n<p>40:30 Shamus is playing <a href=\"?p=21722\">Batman: Arkham Origins<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/playstarbound.com\/\">Starbound<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>48:00 We stop the podcast for a minute to watch the trailer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RNVgVl6v6YU\">No Man&#8217;s Sky<\/a>, and then come back to share our reactions.<\/p>\n<p>During this segment I said that there&#8217;s no way this is an indie project by four people. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2013\/12\/10\/interview-no-mans-sky-and-procedural-generation\/\">In this RPS interview<\/a> it sounds like the team is actually four people.<\/p>\n<p>57:30 Josh picked up a bunch of Steam sale games, so we talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tornbanner.com\/chivalry\/\">Chivalry<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godus\">Godus<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europauniversalis4.com\/\">Europa Universalis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>1:40:00 Chris is playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needforspeed.com\/rivals\">Need for Speed: Rivals<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanakogames.com\/llq.shtml\">Long Live the Queen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We usually do a little warm-up before the show. 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