{"id":22856,"date":"2014-04-22T02:29:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T07:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22856"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:14:13","slug":"diecast-54-witcher-hot-men-wildstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22856","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #54: Witcher, HOT MEN, Wildstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks so much to special guest George Weidman of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCWqr2tH3dPshNhPjV5h1xRw\">SuperBunnyHop<\/a> for joining in. He&#8217;s also going to be part of Spoiler Warning this week. If you&#8217;re going to check out his channel (which you should totally do) I highly recommend his video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rCxR__N0_is\">Quiet Time<\/a> in games, and if you&#8217;re obsessed with VR like I am then you&#8217;ll want to see his fairly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y2myY_pQEMk\">thorough VR report from GDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link<audio controls height='50' width='300'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast54.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast54.ogg' type='audio\/ogg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><embed height='50' width='300' src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast54.mp3' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><\/audio><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast54.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast54.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\/H5o0jYbZ#cxSvTd6QHU6mMXsLkPfX4VbMqi4CGv0cD3DGC1XcZe0!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/H5o0jYbZ#cxSvTd6QHU6mMXsLkPfX4VbMqi4CGv0cD3DGC1XcZe0\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/DoISGIII#y3-4Yr61dhU2HHvDKAHhX5BDhkkRkitW-odOJP4N4e0\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesonwhiskey.com\/us\/agegate\">Josh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/\">Rutskarn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.errantsignal.com\/blog\/\">Chris<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmumbles.com\/\">Mumbles<\/a>, <a title=\"SuperBunnyHop on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bunnyhopshow\">George Weidman (SuperBunnyHop)<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\">Shamus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00 Chris is playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redlynx.com\/games\/trials-fusion\">Trials Fusion<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7:00 Chris is also playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Infamous_Second_Son\">Infamous: Second Son<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>12:00 Talking about morality systems, and George brings up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Witcher_(video_game)\">the Witcher<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>19:30 Let&#8217;s Talk about HOT MEN.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re actually talking about this Gamasutra Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/blogs\/JaneJensen\/20140414\/215473\/WRITING_HOT_MEN_FOR_GAMES_Yes_please.php\">WRITING HOT MEN FOR GAMES? Yes, please<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Jensen\">Jane Jensen<\/a>, designer and creative force behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gabriel_Knight\">Gabriel Knight<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p>What follows is nearly fifteen minutes where four straight men and a straight woman try to figure out which dudes are hot. Spoiler: <em>The Straight Men aren&#8217;t very good at this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>32:00 Who is Dennis Hopper?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We often feign outrage for comedic effect, but I was actually stunned silent when the guys described <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000454\/\">DENNIS HOPPER<\/a> as &#8220;the guy who played King Koopa&#8221;. 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If you&#8217;re going to check out his channel (which you should totally do) I highly recommend his video on Quiet Time in games, and if you&#8217;re obsessed with VR like I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[368,369,366,201,372,370,367,105],"class_list":["post-22856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diecast-2","tag-comics-2","tag-infamous","tag-jane-jensen","tag-marvel","tag-superbunnyhop","tag-trials","tag-wildstar","tag-witcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59331,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22856\/revisions\/59331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}