{"id":44573,"date":"2018-10-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=44573"},"modified":"2018-10-28T15:16:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T19:16:30","slug":"diecast-230-halloween-vs-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=44573","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #230: Halloween vs. Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we spend half the show talking about Halloween, everyone&#8217;s favorite blend of stranger danger, cosplay, and diabetes! I know a lot of American culture leaks out into the rest of the world, but I don&#8217;t know if that includes Halloween. How widespread is the practice of dressing up in costume and begging around the neighborhood for candy?<\/p>\n<p><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast230.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast230.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast230.mp3' download='diecast230.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast230.ogg' download='diecast230.ogg'>Direct download<\/a> (ogg Vorbis)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='?cat=287&feed=rss2'>Podcast RSS feed.<\/a><\/small><\/div><br \/>\nHosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peripheralarbor.com\/\">Paul<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/\">Shamus<\/a>. Episode edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561198087035658\/\">Issac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>01:43 Halloween vs. Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The observation we make here is that Halloween is growing in cultural significance while Christmas is shrinking. Like I said on the show, we&#8217;re deliberately avoiding the possible religious dimension to this. Having said that, maybe I&#8217;m off base here. Maybe it only seems like Christmas is diminishing. I only have my personal experience to go on. I&#8217;m curious if others have noticed a similar trend. <\/p>\n<p>Like I said on the show, I can&#8217;t really eat candy because I can&#8217;t eat corn and ALL candy in the US is made with corn syrup. Except, a couple of weeks ago we found candy corn made with cane sugar instead of corn syrup. Yes, the one candy that contains no corn is candy corn. <\/p>\n<p>Also, here are a couple of examples on my favorite gag costume:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6wvQmfUD598\">Wayne&#8217;s World One-man Halloween Cosplay &#8211; Best Costume Ever!<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ev-rTqa-ENo#t=8m36s\">Man In a Box DIY Illusion Costume &#8211; How to Make it (Halloween)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>30:06 Distance Level Editor is Groovy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious, <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/id\/shamusyoung\/myworkshopfiles\/?appid=233610\">here are the levels I&#8217;ve uploaded<\/a>. Just be warned that I&#8217;m not really in sync with the rest of the community and I&#8217;m not making what the bulk of players are into. I favor long tracks that more more about the lights and music and less about crazy car stunts. <\/p>\n<p><strong>32:42 Oxygen Not Included.<\/strong><\/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\/7-8usFhMN_c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7-8usFhMN_c'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>39:27 Shadow of the Tomb Raider<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To be clear, I&#8217;m only a couple of hours in. Maybe it gets to be less boring at some point. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>48:28 Patreon integrated Discord server<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul set up a Discord server for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/dudecon\/overview\">his Patreon<\/a>. I know I covered this on the show, but let me go over it again for you non-podcast folks:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m considering creating a Discord channel for Patreon backers.<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, I want all my content available to everyone for free. Content that&#8217;s behind a paywall is content that, essentially, doesn&#8217;t exist. If Google can&#8217;t find it and if you can&#8217;t share it with your friends, then it&#8217;s like the content isn&#8217;t really on the internet. <\/p>\n<p>On the OTHER hand, I&#8217;d like to give some sort of special content to thank people for supporting me. I&#8217;m grateful for my supporters and I&#8217;m always keen to show my appreciation beyond typing the word &#8220;Thanks!&#8221; once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>These are two contradictory goals and I&#8217;ve never been able to figure out how to reconcile them. I want to reward supporters, but I don&#8217;t want that reward to feel like paywalled content. If someone isn&#8217;t supporting me financially, I don&#8217;t want them to feel like I&#8217;m trying to punish them. <\/p>\n<p>From seeing what other creators are doing, it seems like previews are the way to go. Maybe streams, chat channels, and little updates for &#8220;here is how far I am into writing project X&#8221; or &#8220;here is the next game I plan to cover&#8221;. Discord seems like a good fit for this.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand&#8230; I dunno. Feel free to share your thoughts on any of this. If you support other creators or hang out in Discord groups, I&#8217;d love to hear your views on what works and what annoys you.<\/p>\n<p>For the curious, during this segment I mention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cWQSPDWeLLw\">Screen Rant Pitch meeting<\/a>, which is pretty fun and worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we spend half the show talking about Halloween, everyone&#8217;s favorite blend of stranger danger, cosplay, and diabetes! I know a lot of American culture leaks out into the rest of the world, but I don&#8217;t know if that includes Halloween. 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