{"id":50531,"date":"2020-08-10T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=50531"},"modified":"2020-08-09T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T22:27:36","slug":"diecast-312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=50531","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #312: Chip Fab, Good Robot Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re here because you like to hear me whine about games that disappointed me, then you&#8217;re in luck! You get a double helping this week. If you get annoyed by &#8220;You never gave the game a chance!&#8221; and &#8220;You quit just before it got good!&#8221;, then this is not going to be your favorite episode.<\/p>\n<p><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast312.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast312.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast312.mp3' download='diecast312.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast312.ogg' download='diecast312.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\/diecast312.mp3\">Diecast312<\/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\/prgDXI_IH64\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=prgDXI_IH64'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>00:00 Visiting a chip Fab<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/intel_ireland_semiconductor_chip_fab.jpg&imgrefurl=https:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/components\/cpu\/anton-shilov\/intel-we-will-not-need-euv-for-10nm-process-technology\/&tbnid=80q535Q2GhnFuM&vet=1&docid=XE7_hZwLfHVCtM&w=756&h=504&q=chip+fab&source=sh\/x\/im'><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/stock_fab.jpg' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><\/a><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Can anyone explain what those mirror balls are for? It&#8217;s really bugging me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>07:38 Good Robot is now open source.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like I said on the show, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/arvindrajayadav\/Good-Robot\">the source is open<\/a> but you&#8217;ll still need to art assets to run the game<span class='snote' title='1'>Or I suppose you can make your own, if dozens of hours of your life are worth less than $9.<\/span>. I&#8217;ve got a few Steam keys left over. If you&#8217;re a programmer and you want to play around with the code and you&#8217;d rather not buy the game, then email the Diecast (address is in the header image) and I&#8217;ll send you a key. I don&#8217;t know when I&#8217;ll run out, so it&#8217;s first-come-first serve. <\/p>\n<p><strong>18:32 Werner Herzog, Shodan, and characters that demand a medium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_3ZCuXJ7-8s\">the Errant Signal episode<\/a> I mentioned.<\/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\/_3ZCuXJ7-8s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_3ZCuXJ7-8s'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>32:25 Advert Impressions: Littlewood<\/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\/_JxrF3QGBT8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_JxrF3QGBT8'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>34:14 Advert Impressions: Grounded<\/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\/-DK_PavJuS4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-DK_PavJuS4'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>35:31 Phantasy Star Online 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who decided to put a click-through visual novel inside of this MMO, but it didn&#8217;t work for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>52:37 Empyrion Galactic Survival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If this game was still in Early Access, I might have been more forgiving of the jank. But that was a really rough start for something that&#8217;s supposedly been &#8220;released&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><strong>1:02:56 Mailbag: Twitter<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deeeear diecast,<\/p>\n<p>Shamus, I know you&#8217;ve voiced your disdain for Twitter a few times, and have since deleted your account. But have you considered using it exclusively for announcing new posts on your blog? Who knows, it might generate some additional traffic. <\/p>\n<p>Kind regards<br \/>\nErik<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ramblepak64.com\/index.php\/article\/eh_steve_has_been_replaced_by_shamus_young\">Here is the podcast<\/a> I mentioned on the show.<\/p>\n<p>Short answer: Maybe it would yield extra traffic, but the platform is nasty and distracting and I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;ll make an ass of myself as so many professionals do when using the platform.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also eager to ditch Facebook, but I keep that for family connections and I&#8217;m not sure what will happen when I leave. So for the last year I&#8217;ve just settled for logging in once every 4 months to make sure nobody died and then logging out again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re here because you like to hear me whine about games that disappointed me, then you&#8217;re in luck! You get a double helping this week. 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