{"id":26507,"date":"2015-04-22T16:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T21:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26507"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:31:55","slug":"diecast-100-elder-scrolls-online-bloodborne-life-is-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26507","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #100: Elder Scrolls Online, Bloodborne, Life is Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our one hundredth episode, we&#8217;ve recorded an extra-long Diecast. Here we have three solid hours of whining, arguing, cross-talk, confusion, stupidity, and also the occasional mention of videogames.<\/p>\n<p>For the purpose of the comments, I&#8217;m breaking the show notes into three posts. Below are the show notes for the first hour. You&#8217;re free to discuss any part of the show you like, but my hope is that we can discuss hour #1 today, and then cover the next two hours on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p><!--remove original podcast link<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast100.mp3\">Direct link to this episode<\/a>.\n[diecast show=\"diecast100\"]--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/embed\/WgpSAA6Q#zw-4VWvxeED8MaAZ4k8l_bN127qHosoLXXQCKwKRUVU!1v1c\" width=\"711\" height=\"144\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/WgpSAA6Q#zw-4VWvxeED8MaAZ4k8l_bN127qHosoLXXQCKwKRUVU\">Download MP3 File<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/file\/i9h22KKJ#MHprMLCiqF0x-aZz9pPT4OrJlEDY9dGu10Hwgmy2Hyg\">Download Ogg Vorbis File<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/\">Shamus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uesp.net\/wiki\/Oblivion:Mehrunes_Dagon\">Josh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Campster\">Chris<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/\">Rutskarn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicemovemumbles\">Mumbles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>3:00 Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy Online, Kingdom Hearts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rutskarn recently began playing Elder Scrolls Online. From there, we digress into all the various MMOs we&#8217;ve played over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/splash_eso.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='splash_eso.jpg' title='splash_eso.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>22:00 Bloodborne and Dark Souls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This discussion is a bit of a re-run. I blame Josh.<\/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\/voMAx-lKfIw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=voMAx-lKfIw'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a really important difference in how people enjoy games, and Bloodborne seems to make that distinction really clear. I&#8217;d love to study this and figure out what different people are after.<\/p>\n<p><strong>42:00 Life is Strange<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/splash_lifeisstrange.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='splash_lifeisstrange.jpg' title='splash_lifeisstrange.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Warning: Spoilers for end of Episode 2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>58:00 Shamus talks about his computer problems and Skyrim Mods.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/splash_frostfall.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='splash_frostfall.jpg' title='splash_frostfall.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I was playing Skyrim with hardcore permadeath, Frostfall, and Realistic Needs.<\/p>\n<p>Also: Windows 8 is SO much nicer when it&#8217;s not linked to an MSN account. No stupid login. (Infuriating when you&#8217;re rebooting repeatedly to solve a problem.) No stupid Microsoft OneCloud. (What a dumb waste. And it always seemed to eat a little more CPU power than made sense for an application I NEVER USED.) My local user folder is now my proper user name and not Microsoft&#8217;s idiotic web-safe name, which formerly put all my Documents into something like myemail@domai_000.)<\/p>\n<p>It was almost worth re-installing just to clean that mess up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our one hundredth episode, we&#8217;ve recorded an extra-long Diecast. Here we have three solid hours of whining, arguing, cross-talk, confusion, stupidity, and also the occasional mention of videogames. For the purpose of the comments, I&#8217;m breaking the show notes into three posts. Below are the show notes for the first hour. 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