{"id":31881,"date":"2016-04-27T20:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T00:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31881"},"modified":"2016-04-27T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T00:22:04","slug":"soma-ep13-696969696969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31881","title":{"rendered":"SOMA EP13: 696969696969"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/2DN4jX-08Jk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2DN4jX-08Jk'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I love at around the 7:30 mark, Simon says, &#8220;This better be the right way.&#8221; What makes this amusing is that by putting in this line of dialog, the writers are implicitly telling the players that <em>YES, THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY.<\/em> Without that audio cue, the player might worry they were just jumping around on a bunch of crap intended to be background scenery. But by putting in a line of voice acting &#8211; even though the line itself questions the direction you&#8217;re heading &#8211; the writers are making it clear that you&#8217;re supposed to be here and that this was a path they anticipated or even intended.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re curious why I keep hammering on Josh to stop bunny hopping and mouse-whipping even though &#8220;Josh Trolling&#8221; is a running gag, here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis is what the game looks like, more or less, under normal circumstances:<\/p>\n<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/soma1.jpg' width=100% alt='This is the mouseover text.' title='This is the mouseover text.'\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'>This is the mouseover text.<\/div><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Josh sees, anyway. And the show you&#8217;re watching is recorded from this. But while we&#8217;re recording the show, the rest of the cast has to watch via a live stream. Streaming video already suffers under dark conditions. On top of that, it&#8217;s really harmed by fast-moving scenes, <a href=\"?p=15648\">as I&#8217;ve explained in the past<\/a>. So when Josh moves the view around, that frame above will get turned into this:<\/p>\n<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/soma2.jpg' width=100% alt='T--- -s -h- m---eov-r ---t.' title='T--- -s -h- m---eov-r ---t.'\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'>T--- -s -h- m---eov-r ---t.<\/div><\/p>\n<p>Josh doesn&#8217;t see this, because he&#8217;s still seeing the game in all of its 1440p glory on his jumbotron monitor, while we&#8217;re left looking at this soup of grey pixels and basically blind to the game we&#8217;re trying to discuss. On top of that, an abruptly shifting view is mildly uncomfortable when you&#8217;re controlling it, very uncomfortable when someone else is controlling it, and headache-inducing when your eyes are already straining to see stuff in the dark at 140p. <\/p>\n<p>Josh keeps forgetting and reverting back to &#8220;bunny-hop and spin&#8221; movement style. Which suggests that <em>this is actually how he normally plays games<\/em>. I wonder how common that is? We know a lot about different driving styles because we can see other people driving. But PC-based FPS games are usually played alone, and I wonder about all of the strange quirks and habits we never get to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I love at around the 7:30 mark, Simon says, &#8220;This better be the right way.&#8221; What makes this amusing is that by putting in this line of dialog, the writers are implicitly telling the players that YES, THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY. 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