{"id":24716,"date":"2014-10-20T15:11:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T20:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24716"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:37:44","slug":"diecast-77-shadow-of-mordor-twenty-sided-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24716","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #77: Shadow of Mordor, Twenty Sided Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a special episode with a special guest. Randy<span class='snote' title='1'>If you&#8217;re asking &#8220;who?&#8221;, then listen to the show.<\/span> is on the show, and we talk about how the crew met and got this whole show started.<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link<audio controls height='50' width='300'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast77.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><source src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast77.ogg' type='audio\/ogg' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><embed height='50' width='300' src='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast77.mp3' autoplay='false' autostart='false'><\/audio><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast77.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br \/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast77.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\/y8AxSYjT#8CcunZmfpnt1RwqjWmZ-i513CdYIZM2ClrqT4zWWksc!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/y8AxSYjT#8CcunZmfpnt1RwqjWmZ-i513CdYIZM2ClrqT4zWWksc\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/r1RDGSyL#v1bxTooNvSIA-YF1E14Cfn8mPQ-o--nzn0KmJvU96NU\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesonwhiskey.com\/us\/agegate\">Josh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\">Shamus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Campster\">Chris<\/a>, and <a href=\"?p=17201\">Randy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00 Dragon Age: Inquisition is for players that still appreciate the long game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2014\/10\/9\/6951425\/dragon-age-inquisition-long-game\">Polygon source<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8:00 Shadow of Mordor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My column tomorrow is also on this game. And I&#8217;ve been ranting about it on Twitter as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25:00 Mailbag question, right in the middle of the episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How did you guys all meet each other? And how will that be retconned in the upcoming &#8220;Spoiler Warning: The High School Years&#8221; series where it turns out you all already knew each other?<\/p>\n<p>Wide and Nerdy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so we tell the story of how everyone joined the show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>42:00 And another!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear diecast bunnies,<\/p>\n<p>a nice quick question: since Shamus has been playing Alien Isolation, I wondered if he was brave enough to try playing it on Oculus Rift? I&#8217;ve been told it works well and is very intense and atmospheric, but that is probably a very subjective experience.<\/p>\n<p>Phill<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>54:00 King of Dragon Pass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the record, I LOVE the idea of a fantasy world where you can&#8217;t tell if magic, or gods, or perhaps one of many gods is real or not. Perhaps the &#8220;truth&#8221; of the world could be randomized from game to game, so that in one game you live in a purely mechanical universe and in another game one of many gods is the true one. Advisers can come to you with stories, &#8220;The worshipers of Molag Butts have great harvests and are unbeatable in battle!&#8221; Maybe Molag Butts is real and favoring his people. Or maybe they&#8217;re unbeatable in war because their army is well-fed, and their army is well-fed because they&#8217;ve had lucky weather the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, maybe that would just be really annoying. 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