{"id":49457,"date":"2020-03-09T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=49457"},"modified":"2020-03-09T05:03:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T09:03:39","slug":"diecast-292-geforce-now-wolfenstein-revisited-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=49457","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #292: Geforce NOW, Wolfenstein Revisited, Mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you remembered to set your clocks ahead on Saturday night. Unless you&#8217;re in the southern hemisphere, in which case you need to move them back. Or maybe you&#8217;re in one of the countries that won&#8217;t move for a few more weeks. Or maybe you&#8217;re in a country that did it a few weeks ago. Or maybe you&#8217;re from a sane country that doesn&#8217;t feel the need to fiddle with the clocks twice a year.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well. Have fun coordinating your remote meetings \/ raid \/ Skype call \/ project updates with people around the world! Remember, this chaos and loss of sleep is all for the public good in ways that can&#8217;t be proven or measured.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast292.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast292.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast292.mp3' download='diecast292.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast292.ogg' download='diecast292.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>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast292.mp3\">Diecast292<\/a><\/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\/0U7m9SMfojc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0U7m9SMfojc'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>00:00 Daylight Savings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve whined in the past: This is a dumb, disruptive hardship that causes lots of confusion and features some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=84aWtseb2-4\">dubious and difficult-to-measure benefits<\/a>. I hate it and I wish we could collectively stop doing this to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Also, as someone with sleep pattern troubles, this sort of nonsense is the <strong>last thing<\/strong> I need. (Although it&#8217;s less miserable these days since I set my own hours.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>00:06 No Merch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"?p=49415\">Based on your feedback<\/a>, I&#8217;m going to give the Patreon reward merch a miss. I&#8217;m not in a hurry to mess with merchandise. It doesn&#8217;t sound like there&#8217;s a lot of demand and there&#8217;s probably better ways to spend my time. Having said that, if I get a brilliant idea or if the mood takes me, then I might set up some small merch on one of the print-on-demand services at some point in the future.<\/p>\n<p>This means we have once again returned to status quo. That&#8217;s my favorite kind of quo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>06:34 GeForce NOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2020\/3\/2\/21161372\/nvidia-geforce-now-the-long-dark-removed\">an overview of the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13:52 WordPress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>20:37 The Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Sucks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, I said the game <a href=\"?p=41551\">wasn&#8217;t a lot of fun<\/a>. At the time, I assumed the game felt terrible to play because I was playing on a potato computer. But revisiting the game here in 2020, I can see I was being far too generous. I have a really strong PC now and I can play the game in its full 60FPS, <em>everything-set-to-ultra<\/em> glory. And now I can say definitively that this game is a mess. The shooting feels floaty. The level flow is atrocious. The kinaesthetics are worse. The animations are boring. The stealth makes no sense and feels like it was designed by someone who has never played a stealth game before. The environments are generic and repetitive.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just bad. Shockingly bad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25:36 The Death of E3?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most of the key individuals and companies have pulled out. Nobody wants to go due to COVID-19 outbreak fears. If the big companies all skip E3 and discover they saved millions of dollars with no downside, then they&#8217;re probably going to wonder why they should come back next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30:45 PAX East<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I keep telling myself: I&#8217;m going to go back one of these years. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35:23 Mailbag: Ending Endless Games<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With linear games, you beat the campaign, maybe get all the collectibles, and you know you&#8217;ve finished. There&#8217;s no clear stopping point in games designed for endless replayability. I keep finding a game I love, playing it until I get bored, and walking away vaguely dissatisfied because even though I had a hundred hours of enjoyment, the most memorable part is that I quit on hour 101 when I wasn&#8217;t having any more fun.<\/p>\n<p>How do you decide when to stop playing a game you could play forever, and how do you evaluate it when the game doesn&#8217;t change over time but your experience of it does?<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-Three<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>41:02 Mailbag: Gaming as a new Parent<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast;<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I brought home our first baby last month, and I&#8217;m curious to hear your experience with balancing a growing family and also relaxing to a videogame.<\/p>\n<p>How did you balance gaming with watching a newborn, work out when one parent would watch the kids so the other could rest, and are there any good &#8220;up late with the baby&#8221; gaming activities you used? (For reference, several friends became Netflix fiends because they could watch Netflix while rocking -anything similar for gamers?)<\/p>\n<p>Sabrdance<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>47:41 Mailbag: What Have You Been Playing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Twenty Sided<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the &#8220;What have you been playing?&#8221; thread that went up a few weeks ago. If you don&#8217;t get around to setting up forums\/Discord\/whatever, can we have more of those threads as a semi-regular feature of the blog?<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-Three<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>50:43 Mailbag: Rust Language and OOP<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>I was watching a talk by Catherine West (aka Kyren from Chucklefish) where she was talking about how various programming paradigms work (and break) when developing video games. I&#8217;ll put the link in the postscript. When Shamus was writing his series on Jai he also discussed the topic, so I thought it would be of interest to you.<\/p>\n<p>In question form: do you think Object Oriented Programming is a bad fit for video game development?<\/p>\n<p>Vale,<\/p>\n<p>-Tim<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the talk in question:<\/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\/aKLntZcp27M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Here here is Jon Blow&#8217;s counter-argument:<\/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\/4t1K66dMhWk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Like I said on the show, I don&#8217;t really know enough about Rust to get involved in this discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you remembered to set your clocks ahead on Saturday night. Unless you&#8217;re in the southern hemisphere, in which case you need to move them back. Or maybe you&#8217;re in one of the countries that won&#8217;t move for a few more weeks. 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