{"id":23949,"date":"2014-08-10T23:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T04:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23949"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:39:53","slug":"diecast-71-bioware-twitch-sims-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23949","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #71: BioWare,  Twitch, Sims 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/embed\/jhAxlC7I#ODfFEzO1gyBuxPG-2i3h1ylalzpUdqb7mLUy0sVaHbc!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/jhAxlC7I#ODfFEzO1gyBuxPG-2i3h1ylalzpUdqb7mLUy0sVaHbc\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/XhpXDbyR#p4uYKp06QSzBFd9p8-Lf_ARhT3RIR-ANk_xESic3A90\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.errantsignal.com\/blog\/\">Chris<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/trollface-coolface-problem\">Josh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\">Shamus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>1:00 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bioware.com\/2014\/08\/07\/casey-hudsons-departure-from-biowareea\/\">Casey Hudson departs BioWare<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, a bit of this comes off as gossipy. Sorry about that. Be sure to read <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bioware.com\/2014\/08\/07\/casey-hudsons-departure-from-biowareea\/\">the announcement<\/a> and remember anything that&#8217;s not said in that announcement is conjecture on our part.<\/p>\n<p>This discussion leads to the first mailbag of the week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>With the recent re-opening of the Mass Effect Wounds at Twenty Sided and three recent tweets by Shamus, it seems appropriate to ask this question:<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that after all this time and an Extended Cut DLC that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcexplained everything&#8217;, the very mention of Mass Effect 3, a game that was released in March 2012, STILL has the ability to drive people nuts? Plenty of other games suffer from bad writing in one form or another \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; why is it that this one rubs people so raw to this day? Is there another game you can think of that even comes close?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nRTBones<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I answered this in part on the show, but I&#8217;m going to answer it more fully in tomorrow&#8217;s column.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25:00 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.twitch.tv\/2014\/08\/3136\/\">Twitch TV has rolled out a dumb broken ContentID system.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like I said the other day:<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/twitch_fail.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='twitch_fail.jpg' title='twitch_fail.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>38:30 Sims 4 is missing a lot of features.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t sound like a big deal to me at first, <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.thesims3.com\/jforum\/posts\/list\/759976.page\">but it all sounds kind of shocking when you actually read the list<\/a>. It&#8217;s even more worrisome when you remember what happened to SimCity. Is EA going to ruin two major Maxis titles with their meddling? I&#8217;m perversely anxious to find out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>51:00 MAILTIME!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>Spoiler Warning has Reginald Cuftbert as a recurring character in every new game. Do any members of the cast have their own special character that makes a return in the various games that you play?<\/p>\n<p>Kana<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the Errant Signal episode we were talking about in this segment:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nT03ezSnVL8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nT03ezSnVL8'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download MP3 File Download Ogg Vorbis File Hosts: Chris, Josh, Shamus. 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