{"id":48482,"date":"2019-11-11T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=48482"},"modified":"2019-11-10T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T20:02:56","slug":"diecast-278-new-steam-spreadsheet-games-pretentious-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=48482","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #278: New Steam, Spreadsheet Games, Pretentious Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

I notice some people would rather ask us questions in the comments rather than use the email in the header image. That’s fine and I don’t blame you for taking the path of least resistance. However, your laziness is compounded by my<\/strong> laziness. I usually gather up questions just before we record the show, and I rarely remember the questions that were asked in the comments a week earlier. You’re free to ask questions however you like, but I’m old and forgetful. If the question is really important to you, then you should probably email it.<\/p>\n


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\nHosts: Paul<\/a>, Shamus<\/a>. Episode edited by Issac<\/a>.
\nDiecast278<\/a><\/p>\n

Show notes:<\/p>\n

00:00 Church Cultures and Funeral Traditions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hopefully I got through this without offending anyone.<\/p>\n

There was one small point that I wanted to make before I got sidetracked talking about impressive buildings, and that’s how movies tend to create the perception of a monoculture. They want to shoot their scenes in the most impressive churches and foreboding graveyards, which means you never get to see the other stuff. I never cared about this because most of the movies I watch are set in my country and I don’t care that they leave out the small churches and modest graveyards. I already know that stuff exists. But now I’m wondering what I’m missing in all those other<\/strong> countries. When a movie shows me yet another example of building X in country Y, what sort of details am I missing? How does Hollywood skew our perception of your<\/strong> country \/ region?<\/p>\n

Sorry. The funerals I’ve attended lately have made me curious about this sort of thing.<\/p>\n

Another fun detail I wanted to put on the show:<\/p>\n

Coming home from the funeral parlor, my wife and I were talking about the practice of embalming corpses, placing them in ornate boxes, and burying them in a spot of prime real estate. I told my wife I didn’t care what happened to my body, but I was worried about my website. I told her, “Just have the cheapest funeral you can and take what you would normally spend on the burial and instead renew my domain and web hosting for as long as you can.”<\/p>\n

This website is my favorite thing that I’ve ever made, and it would break my heartExcept not really, because I’d be dead.<\/span> if it were to lapse to domain squatters a year after I passed.<\/p>\n

Anyway. This morbid fit should pass soon and I’ll hopefully get back to normal.<\/p>\n

14:51 New Steam Interface<\/strong><\/p>\n

If we rate Steam on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being where it’s been for the last few years and 10 being what I want it to be, then I give the new interface a solid 2. It’s an improvement, but still short of what I’m looking for.<\/p>\n

21:30 Spreadsheet Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is the Extra Credits video I mentioned on the show where they talk about “incomparables”.<\/p>\n