{"id":22938,"date":"2014-05-06T21:48:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T02:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22938"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:01:30","slug":"diecast-57-rustys-real-deal-hearthstone-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22938","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #57: Rusty&#8217;s Real Deal, Hearthstone, Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t on the show this week because I was sick and had&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[two paragraphs of lengthy bitching and moaning redacted]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;until it all turned green and fell off. But I&#8217;m nearly back to normal now. In the meantime, the kids did the show without me. I&#8217;m listening to the show for the first time as I write this, so we&#8217;re going to experience this together.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s do this:<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link<audio controls height='50' width='300'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast57.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast57.ogg' type='audio\/ogg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><embed height='50' width='300' src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast57.mp3' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><\/audio><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast57.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast57.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\/v9hQTCYD#2sO7zq7XLa4YVSs7iIemS7_wpQ7J5tLplJnQrYB1SA4!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/v9hQTCYD#2sO7zq7XLa4YVSs7iIemS7_wpQ7J5tLplJnQrYB1SA4\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/qtxWFZAK#KivhvnUPQ4etcP2up4qstQIXekvx2yJWbEHLgNNHK3g\">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>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalmumbles.com\/\">Mumbles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>2:00 Chris has entered the strange world of mobile gaming. He&#8217;s playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameloft.com\/mobile-games\/jurassic-park\/\">Jurassic Park<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Really? The game is just called &#8220;Jurassic Park&#8221;? Not &#8220;Jurassic Park: Mobile&#8221; or &#8220;Jurassic Park: Reviving Previously Extinct Species to have them Fight to the Death in a sick and Decadent Pit-Fight in the Name of Animal Cruelty Because Obviously&#8221;? Nothing to distinguish it from the movie, or the hundreds of other games that have also failed to do justice to the Jurassic Park mythos? No?<\/p>\n<p>Okay then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9:00 Chris is playing <a href=\"http:\/\/rustysrealdealbaseball.nintendo.com\/\">Rusty&#8217;s Real Deal Baseball<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>18:30 Mumbles has been learning The Console Gaming.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Specifically, she&#8217;s been playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth_Defense_Force_2017\">Earth Defense Force 2017<\/a>. After that she&#8217;s going to play <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asura's_Wrath\">Asura&#8217;s Wrath<\/a>, which I gather is a videogame of some sort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29:00 Apparently we digressed into Hearthstone at some point? That&#8217;s the new card game thing, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>32:00 Josh is playing Dark Souls 2 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strongholdkingdoms.com\/\">Stronghold Kingdoms<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>40:00 Rutskarn is playing Planescape Torment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the record: Yes, I played through Planescape Torment. You lightweights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>48:00 The Star Wars Extended Universe is not recognized as canon by Disney.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not surprised by this. J.J. Abrams rebooted ALL OF STAR TREK, and I suspect it was partly because he didn&#8217;t want to have to do a hundred hours of research every time someone pushed a button in the movie. He&#8217;s not my first choice for either franchise, and he&#8217;s never going to give us a <em>Wrath of Khan<\/em> or an <em>Empire Strikes Back<\/em>. But in my book he&#8217;s like Michael Bay except he knows to to make a movie. It might be cheap, disposable entertainment, but at least it holds together as a cohesive story with proper character beats. And I&#8217;ll take ridiculous LENS FLARE over incomprehensible, puke-inducing shaky-cam any day.<\/p>\n<p>Hang on. After I typed that last paragraph I remembered that Abrams just made Star Trek Into Darkness, and it <em>did<\/em> try to re-create Wrath of Khan, and it <em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em> a cohesive story at all. I haven&#8217;t watched it, but that&#8217;s what I heard, anyway. Did I just bolster my position before destroying it? I don&#8217;t know. I report. You deride.<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY.<\/p>\n<p>This might be for the best. Abrams strikes me as not the best person to manage the intersection of dozens of films and books. He&#8217;s not a detail guy, and he would probably just infuriate fans if he actually tried to build on existing extended universe canon. It&#8217;s far better for him to be up front and honest about what he&#8217;s doing so we can go in with our expectations properly calibrated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00:00 Shouldn&#8217;t the show be about over by now? Are we still talking about Star Wars? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NERDS!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:03:00 Josh isn&#8217;t kidding. <a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.wikia.com\/wiki\/Ice_Cream_Maker_Guy\">Here is the guy with the ice cream maker<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, still talking about Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:08:00 We&#8217;re talking about Guy Fieri now. For some reason.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had no idea who <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Fieri\">this guy<\/a> was until Chris brought him up.<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars and Homestuck and Guy Fieri?!? What is happening?<\/p>\n<p>Also, there is Homestuck spoilers in this segment. Whatever THAT means.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:11:00 CURSE YOU JOSH!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Swagraven\" href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/gmjSnF6?tags\">Here is the image<\/a> Rutskarn shared at the end of the show. You&#8217;re&#8230; welcome?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t on the show this week because I was sick and had&#8230; [two paragraphs of lengthy bitching and moaning redacted] &#8230;until it all turned green and fell off. But I&#8217;m nearly back to normal now. In the meantime, the kids did the show without me. 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