{"id":50388,"date":"2020-07-20T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=50388"},"modified":"2020-07-19T21:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T01:43:37","slug":"diecast-309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=50388","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #309: Hue, Townscaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that next week I&#8217;m having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SoldierHawke\/videos\">SoldierHawke<\/a> on the show. She does blind play-throughs of iconic games on her YouTube channel. Currently she&#8217;s playing <em>Jedi: Fallen Order<\/em>, <em>Deus Ex: Human Revolution<\/em>, and the Half-Life remake <em>Black Mesa<\/em>. If you&#8217;ve got a question for either of us, then the email is in the header image.<\/p>\n<p><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast309.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast309.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast309.mp3' download='diecast309.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast309.ogg' download='diecast309.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\/diecast309.mp3\">Diecast309<\/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\/YGVa68dz8tI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YGVa68dz8tI'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>00:00 No Man&#8217;s Sky is still a disaster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whelp, that didn&#8217;t work out. I guess I&#8217;ll come back in 2021 and see if things are any better.<\/p>\n<p>Someone out there really needs to make a non-broken, non-horrible version of this game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09:22 LOTRO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It sounds like Paul is still having fun? <\/p>\n<p><strong>12:35 Hue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This game came out in 2016, but I&#8217;m just discovering it now. It&#8217;s a lot more interesting than I would have guessed based on the premise.<\/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\/-TbQxVphzO4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-TbQxVphzO4'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>19:26 Townscaper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@chrisluv\/getting-hacky-with-townscaper-5a31cf7f4c6a\">others<\/a> have done, Paul decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dudecon\/TownscaperEdit\">make some tools<\/a> in Python to edit the save files of <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1291340\/Townscaper\/\">Townscaper<\/a>. You can have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/peripheralarbor.com\/TownscaperEdit.py\">his code<\/a> if you like.<\/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\/jVbaeka2qQA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jVbaeka2qQA'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>41:28 Circuit boards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I made fun of Paul&#8217;s employer for having a special setup that nobody understands, but this entire website suffers from a bad case of <em>exactly the same thing<\/em>. If I ever die<span class='snote' title='1'>My doctor assures me this could happen, but he&#8217;s been wrong about it so far.<\/span>, this site would be one good automatic WordPress update from obliteration. There are so many special systems and bits of custom code, I&#8217;m not sure anyone would have the time to figure it all out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>55:24 Mailbag: Games for our Kids<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My daughter, age 11, recently purchased Minecraft.  It&#8217;s the first video game she&#8217;s ever bought and the first (commercial) game she&#8217;s ever played that I haven&#8217;t played first.  What games do your kids play that you&#8217;ve never touched?  How do your kids learn about new games?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;John<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that next week I&#8217;m having SoldierHawke on the show. She does blind play-throughs of iconic games on her YouTube channel. Currently she&#8217;s playing Jedi: Fallen Order, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and the Half-Life remake Black Mesa. If you&#8217;ve got a question for either of us, then the email is in the header image. 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