{"id":52721,"date":"2021-08-16T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=52721"},"modified":"2021-08-16T14:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:25:50","slug":"diecast-352-animation-and-joint-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=52721","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #352: Animation and Joint Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up: I spend the first 7 minutes of the show talking about weird non-gaming, non-nerd personal stuff for some reason. This segment was originally longer, but I had Issac chop a bit of it out for fear of over-sharing. <\/p>\n<p>Also, I had a funny story I&#8217;d intended to share on the show, but forgot to put in the show notes. Look for it at the end of this post. I&#8217;m honestly curious if I&#8217;m stupid, crazy, or if I was bamboozled.<\/p>\n<p><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast352.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast352.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast352.mp3' download='diecast352.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast352.ogg' download='diecast352.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\/diecast352.mp3\">Diecast352<\/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\/2R1V-iZ5zao\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2R1V-iZ5zao'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>00:00 Creepy Doctor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like I said, some of this segment got cut. I sort of ran my mouth, forgetting that discretion is part of Heather&#8217;s job. It&#8217;s a weird story, but not one I should be sharing on my podcast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>07:38 Unity<\/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\/OvJ2bw_5FFU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OvJ2bw_5FFU'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>This time Paul is the one doing quasi-gamedev. Although, this makes me want to open up Unity and make something new. We&#8217;re about due, aren&#8217;t we? <\/p>\n<p><strong>25:48 Mass Effect: Moving Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This video essay is great. It&#8217;s forward-looking and has constructive advice. It&#8217;s worth a watch, if you&#8217;re still willing to talk about Mass Effect.<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\/FlxaR7rnWj0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FlxaR7rnWj0'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>27:39 Mailbag: Videogames Escaping Into Popular Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>Have you guys noticed video games influencing movies more often these days? I&#8217;m not talking about the really obvious stuff like the new movie &#8220;Free Guy&#8221;, but rather more structural things. I&#8217;ve heard multiple people refer to Mandolorian episodes as video game side quests. The one example that really sticks out to me is John Wick 3, where John and a co-op side character have to fight in wave defense combat against bad guys who take more bullets to be put down because they&#8217;re wearing special armour. Any thoughts on this?<\/p>\n<p>Kaden<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>36:27 Mailbag: Another World<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>so it finally happened: truck-kun came and whisked you away to Another World.<\/p>\n<p>Limiting ourselves to video games, any particular world you would prefer being reborn into?<\/p>\n<p>Vale,<\/p>\n<p>-Tim<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>45:33 Mailbag: Marvel TV<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Shamus<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve previously discussed WandaVision on the podcast so I was wondering what your thoughts are on Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki, if you have seen them?<br \/>\nAlso thoughts on &#8220;What If?&#8221; Seems interesting (and canon).<\/p>\n<p>-DragonAge<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now I find myself in a strange position. I watched a DC movie that I loved (the new Suicide Squad was pure fun) and a Marvel thing I hated. (Falcon and the Winter Soldier is the first Marvel-based thing that I honestly, <strong>strongly<\/strong> dislike. <\/p>\n<p>This is fine. I had a good run with Marvel from the first <em>Iron Man<\/em> to <em>Avengers Endgame<\/em>, and if that&#8217;s the last movie I like, I can&#8217;t complain I&#8217;ve been short-changed. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus Topic:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m checking my blood pressure when I see that the batteries on the device are low. So I pop out the 4 AA batteries and put them in the charger, replacing them with newly-charged batteries. <\/p>\n<p>About half an hour later I&#8217;m watching YouTube at my PC when I hear a pop on the desk beside me, followed by a faint sizzling sound. It&#8217;s almost as if someone opened a very very tiny can of soda. I look at the crap on my desk, trying to figure out where the sound is coming from. <em>Did I imagine it? Was it a background noise in a video that I mistook for something real?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I look, and I see a clear liquid is bubbling out of the charging batteries. Now, my first instinct is to grab the batteries and pull them out, but then I realize that clear liquid is probably acid, and it&#8217;s probably nice and warm right now. So I unplug the charger and shove the whole mess off to one side where it won&#8217;t be able to leak or explode on anything important.<\/p>\n<p>Later I come back to figure out what I did wrong. Sure enough, I put regular non-rechargeable batteries in the charger. I&#8217;ve been using rechargeable batteries since the 1980s, and I&#8217;ve never made this mistake before. What did I do wrong, here? Was this a weird habit? Did I confuse these batteries with others? Am I so used to having rechargeables around that I&#8217;ve stopped looking at the label?<\/p>\n<p>I stare at the batteries for a bit and I finally figure it out: <strong>These batteries are green<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I had it in my head that green=rechargeable. I look around my my other batteries, and the pattern holds. Rechargeables are green, disposables are either black or silver.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a real thing? Do companies really make all reusable batteries green, and these batteries were weird trickster deviants that broke the pattern?<\/p>\n<p>Or am I an idiot? Have I been following the pattern of &#8220;green goes in the charger&#8221; for decades and getting away with it due to blind luck? <\/p>\n<p>I realize that battery color patterns may differ outside the USA, but I&#8217;d really like to know who the crazy person is: Me, or the person who put a green label on these batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up: I spend the first 7 minutes of the show talking about weird non-gaming, non-nerd personal stuff for some reason. This segment was originally longer, but I had Issac chop a bit of it out for fear of over-sharing. 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