{"id":27781,"date":"2015-07-13T06:53:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27781"},"modified":"2016-09-05T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T19:40:53","slug":"diecast-112-wii-u-marvel-movieverse-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27781","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #112: Wii U, Marvel Movieverse, Mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nHosts: Shamus<\/a>, Campster<\/a>, Mumbles<\/a>, Josh<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Show notes:
\n2:00 Rutskarn is not dead, but probably wishes he was.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As of this post, Rutskarn is still the only man in southern California who is simultaneously not connected to the internet and not a member of a cult. Clearly the solution here is for him to start one. <\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, he sneaks into his neighbor’s basement once a week and leeches off their wi-fi. During his last excursion, he managed to send this:<\/p>\n

I was able to run a one-man Spoiler Warning of my very own at a recent sci-fi cowboy-themed LARP. Attached picture related.<\/p>\n

REGINALD CUFTBERT
\n“Almost mute. Almost unkillable. Completely mad.”
\nROUGH STUFF 2
\nTRICKERY 1
\nRUFFIANS 1
\nWARES 1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

STOP SHOOTING ME, AND ALSO STOP FAILING TO PROVIDE ME WITH HIGH-SPEED INTERNET.<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

I have no idea what any of that means, but I hope you find the information useful.<\/p>\n

4:00 The Shamus family got a Wii U<\/strong><\/p>\n

15:00 The strange story of Marvel movie properties.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Related article: Wolverine had to die for the sake of Marvel comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

26:00 MAILTIME! Weapon degradation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Dieter Cast,<\/p>\n

When I’m out adventuring in the open world, my swords and armour keep degrading at an alarming rate. Is there a good reason behind this or is it like Dandelion and just to waste my time? Can you see a use for this in other situations and settings? <\/p>\n

Yours gruffly,
\nGeralt of Rivia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then we spend all the time talking about inventory limits.<\/p>\n

35:00 Shamus announces: Mass Effect: The Really Long Essay Series.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that’s why Bastila is naked. Wait, what was the question again?<\/em><\/p>\n

43:00 Letting the player have kids in a game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Diecast<\/p>\n

I was just mulling over a thought experiment and I wanted your take –<\/p>\n

If you were a designer on a game like Fallout or Skyrim, and a requirement was “Player must be able to aquire a house and adopt a child, that will stay in or near home” – how would you handle this?<\/p>\n

What sort of maintenance would the player need to do to maintain the child? <\/p>\n

Would you make it possible for the child to be attacked or abducted off-screen? <\/p>\n

Would you make some mechanism for the player to change the odds of this? What form would it take? <\/p>\n

In the greater narrative, what would you do with the child? <\/p>\n

-Gragsmash<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

50:00 Shamus is angry at NASA.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is the article image<\/a> that I’m whining about.<\/p>\n

If I can argue with myself here for a second:<\/p>\n

The problem with “artist renderings” of celestial bodies is that it’s not black-and-white, but a slippery slope. When we see super-sexy shots of galaxies that are comprised of big puffy colorful clouds, those have<\/em> to be colorized. The original pictures are often comprised of infra-red data, or some other non-visible wavelength. So you have to “re-color” them if you want them to be visible. And so you have some freedom to make aesthetic decisions: “What colors should I use to represent this data?” And from there you can combine two different images – perhaps one is IR data and another is x-rays, and you color each spectrum and then combine them to make these gorgeous composites with lots of color. And you can do some kind of HDR effect to get a huge range of intensity values that will fit in a standard image. Every change makes the data more beautiful and easier to visualize, but also makes it a little less “real” in terms of “what space actually looks like”. <\/p>\n

There’s a gradient of fidelity with “here is the raw telescope output, good luck making sense of it” on one end, and “we think the planet has a lot of ice so we hired an artist to draw Hoth” on the other. <\/p>\n

So basically the podcast rant was just me being mad that I was waiting for my Pluto porn and NASA kept faking me out with concept album covers.<\/p>\n

55:00 Is the FPS dead?<\/strong><\/p>\n

E3 is over and I have to ask, is the first person shooter dead? Did Spec Ops:The Line do the job and there’s just nothing left to say?<\/p>\n

Most of the titles getting press these days seem to be third-person open world games. When should we expect a backlash against those? Why isn’t Arkham Knight “just another dumb T’POW…same old mechanics (plus the obligatory gimmick) just shinier”?<\/p>\n

WWWebb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then we immediately go off on a tangent about Arkham Knight. I don’t know why you people bother sending us questions. We’re terrible at this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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