{"id":22170,"date":"2014-02-04T14:42:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T19:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22170"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:21:57","slug":"diecast-44-eve-online-the-bureau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22170","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #44: EVE Online, The Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This episode was recorded AFTER our <a href=\"?page_id=16386\">Spoiler Warning<\/a> session this week, but it&#8217;s being released first. We were a little tired and a couple of hosts short by the time we got to this point.<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link<audio controls height='50' width='300'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast44.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast44.ogg' type='audio\/ogg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><embed height='50' width='300' src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast44.mp3' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><\/audio><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast44.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast44.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\/e95SBKRC#eHjcqXQj-OPpZNMk3BFNFXj0C6F_HA00jz2DqbjtS3g!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/e95SBKRC#eHjcqXQj-OPpZNMk3BFNFXj0C6F_HA00jz2DqbjtS3g\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/O5xUxBwT#-n5egR4sR0NeXJ1H1_YN0i5OCebZ-BMFwnI0nJ1eLIo\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jelly_bean\">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:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00 Shamus is playing Elder Scrolls Online and EVE Online.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t talk about ESO yet. (Embargoed until Feburay 7th.) But we can talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/community.eveonline.com\/news\/dev-blogs\/the-bloodbath-of-b-r5rb\/\">the battle of B-R5RB<\/a>. Note that we had this conversation before I did the homework for <a href=\"?p=22139\">my recent EVE post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28:00 We move on from EVE and talk about space games more broadly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like I said in the show, there are a lot of space games on the way. Check it out: <a href=\"https:\/\/blockaderunnergame.com\/\">Blockade Runner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elite.frontier.co.uk\/\">Elite: Dangerous<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felixvast.com\/\">Felix Vast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/kerbalspaceprogram.com\/\">Kerbal Space Program<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/badlandstudio.com\/kinetic-void\/\">Kinetic Void<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ltheory.com\/\">Limit Theory<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandategame.com\/\">The Mandate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRpDn5qPp3s\">No Man&#8217;s Sky<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pulsarthegame.com\/\">Pulsar: Lost Colony<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/elliptic-games.com\/\">Rodina<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceengineersgame.com\/\">Space Engineers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/star-made.org\/\">Star Made<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/playstarbound.com\/\">Starbound<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/about-the-game\">Star Citizen<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starpointgemini.com\/\">Starpoint Gemini 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Did I miss any?<\/p>\n<p><strong>34:00 Chris is playing Call of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Call_of_Juarez:_Gunslinger\">Juarez: Gunslinger<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We only cover this briefly. Not because there&#8217;s nothing to talk about, but Rutskarn already went over this a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38:30 Chris is also playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Bureau:_XCOM_Declassified\">The Bureau: XCOM Declassified<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/7435-Stolen-Pixels-186-Well-Lookie-Who-We-Have-Here\">Here&#8217;s the rant<\/a> (and comic) that I wrote about this game way back in 2010, when it was still in development. Here&#8217;s the Polygon Article Chris mentioned: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/features\/2013\/8\/19\/4614410\/xcom-the-bureau-development-2006-2013\">The many faces of the bureau: xcom declassified: from 2006 to 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This conversation got sidetracked into&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>43:00 Another Mass Effect rant? Really? REALLY?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I blame Chris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>53:00 Mailbag!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We talk about Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and about Steam Early Access program and the difficulties of defining when a game is &#8220;done&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Request: When you send us a question (the address is in the splash image at the top of the post) please put &#8220;Diecast&#8221; in the title so Josh can find them when we finally get around to reading them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode was recorded AFTER our Spoiler Warning session this week, but it&#8217;s being released first. We were a little tired and a couple of hosts short by the time we got to this point. Download MP3 File Download Ogg Vorbis File Hosts: Josh, Chris, and Shamus. 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