{"id":52308,"date":"2021-05-31T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=52308"},"modified":"2021-05-31T01:00:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T05:00:41","slug":"diecast-345-everything-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=52308","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #345: Everything is Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LsGZ_2RuJ2A\">Dynamo Dream<\/a> is out! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mess-Effect-Nitpickers-Guide-Universe-ebook\/dp\/B095PX8HTW\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=mess+effect&amp;qid=1622406011&amp;sr=8-1\">Mess Effect<\/a> is out! Issac&#8217;s old computer is out. <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/597820\/BIOMUTANT\/\">BioMutant<\/a> is out! It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day\">Memorial Day<\/a> in the US, which means school is out. <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5947032\/elliot-page\/\">Elliot Page<\/a> is out. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/30\/business\/gas-prices-memorial-day\/index.html\">Gas prices<\/a> are out[rageous]. <a href=\"?p=52308&amp;\">This episode<\/a> of the Diecast is out! My patience with hand-holdy games is out.<\/p>\n<p><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast345.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast345.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast345.mp3' download='diecast345.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast345.ogg' download='diecast345.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\/diecast345.mp3\">Diecast345<\/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\/R5-O4JzQ3A0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R5-O4JzQ3A0'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>00:00 Issac has a new PC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is his new processor:<br \/>\n<div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/ryzen_1600.jpg' width=100% alt='' title=''\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'><\/div><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CPU speed is &#8220;1600 GHz&#8221;. Is that a typo? Shouldn&#8217;t that be 1.6GHz?<\/li>\n<li>Processor count is 2? So this is two processors in one? How does that work? Below it says &#8220;6 cores&#8221;. Does that mean each processor gets 3 cores, or what?<\/li>\n<li>It says Frequency: 3.66Hz precision boost. WTF is a precision boost, and why is it measured in hertz?<\/li>\n<li>The processor speed &#8211; 3.2GHz &#8211; is the last item listed. In the old days that was the first and only thing anyone cared about. Now it&#8217;s sort of a footnote to the thermal solution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not suggesting that this listing is wrong or bad. I&#8217;m just saying that I&#8217;m so far out of the loop that it&#8217;s all nonsense to me. This is why I&#8217;ve always hated shopping for hardware. It takes a long time to educate yourself on what the numbers mean and which ones are important. And even once you&#8217;ve done the homework, there&#8217;s always the anxiety that you&#8217;re making some newbie-level mistake and getting ripped off. This stuff ain&#8217;t cheap!<\/p>\n<p>And then three years later when I need to upgrade again, I&#8217;ll find out all the numbers and specs have changed and I have to start over. The numbers don&#8217;t just go up over time. They get redefined, moved to a new scale, combined with other numbers, or are deprecated in favor of other numbers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>08:01 Dynamo Dream is out!<\/strong><br \/>\n<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\/LsGZ_2RuJ2A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LsGZ_2RuJ2A'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>14:26 Mess Effect is out!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mess-Effect-Nitpickers-Guide-Universe-ebook\/dp\/B095PX8HTW\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&#038;keywords=mess+effect&#038;qid=1622406011&#038;sr=8-1\">BUY MY BOOK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25:20 BioMutant is Weird<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yss5WCmxBcY\">the Day[9] stream of BioMutant<\/a> I discussed on the show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>42:48 Mailbag: No Singleplayer WoW<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear 13Window and Paul,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Game at the bottom&#8221; design where most of the real gameplay happens in your cooldown-based ability bar has been extremely popular since at least World of Warcraft, but it seems to be almost exclusive to the realm of MMOs. No one making a singleplayer RPG says to themselves &#8220;People really like World of Warcraft, so let&#8217;s use that as the basis for our combat engine.&#8221; Is there a whole cottage industry of singleplayer WoW clones that I haven&#8217;t found, or is that genre really nonexistent and if so, what does it tell us about game design that only MMOs use that style?<\/p>\n<p>Ninety-Three<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>46:33 Mailbag: KOTOR Remake<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>So apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-remake-reportedly-coming\/1100-6490432\/\">Aspyr is now remaking KotOR<\/a>?  Could be cool.  I wish there were some screenshots or something to show the proposed style of the remake.  <\/p>\n<p>I realize this is about a month old at this point, but I didn\u2019t see it until now.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Snow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>50:43 Mailbag: Favorite Adventure Game Moments<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>Could you share some of your favorite adventure game moments?<br \/>\nMine is the showdown with Death in King&#8217;s Quest VI. <dnr>Please take the time to watch it online if you are unfamiliar. It is only a minute or two long<\/dnr> It combines good writing, good voice-work, and beautiful art.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you all the best,<br \/>\nBobbert<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PiXHmEevrSo\">an example of Gary Owens and his golden voice<\/a>, which made <em>Space Quest IV<\/em> and <em>Space Quest VI<\/em> such a treat.<\/p>\n<p>But the real magic was <em>Secret of Monkey Island<\/em>. Like I said on the show, that game was packed with brilliant ideas. If I had to list my Top 5 Adventure Game Moments, 4 of them would probably be from that one game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check it out! Dynamo Dream is out! Mess Effect is out! Issac&#8217;s old computer is out. BioMutant is out! It&#8217;s Memorial Day in the US, which means school is out. Elliot Page is out. Gas prices are out[rageous]. This episode of the Diecast is out! My patience with hand-holdy games is out. Hosts: Paul, Shamus. 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