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Diecast #282: Christmas Lights, Streaming Services


As I said at the end of the show: SoldierHawke is coming to town. It’s been a year since her last visit. The plans aren’t finalized, but it looks like Monday January 13 2020 is going to be her show. If you have any questions for her, the show email is in the header image. Be sure to say that the question is for the SoldierHawke episode so it doesn’t wind up in the standard queue for Paul and I.


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Hosts: Paul, Shamus. Episode edited by Issac.

Diecast282

00:00 End of an Era

I don’t know why I felt compelled to bring this up. It’s silly and sentimental, but I guess I needed to talk about it. I think the car had just gathered enough mileage to make it to the moon – in the neighborhood of 240,000 miles.

05:18 Lights and Sound

Anyone else think that “Christmas lights” are a superior form of outdoor illumination and that we should use them year round? I guess it depends if you live near street lights, but for me they’re so much better than traditional lights for helping people find the stairs in the dark.

16:18 Streaming Services – Disney+ vs. Netflix vs. Hulu vs. Amazon

I know Netflix is a major player in online streaming, but given their financials and their catalog, I don’t see how the company can continue to exist. The old saying is, “Anything that can’t go on forever, won’t.” I have no idea when the company will die / sell itself to a competitor, but my guess is that in ten years we’ll be talking about the company in the past tense.

I like to cheer for the underdog, so it pains me to admit just how good Disney+ is. They’re the John Cena of entertainment. I know it’s boring to see them win all the time, but that’s the world we live in. Their movies are really strong.

Okay, Disney products aren’t deep, challenging, or thought-provoking entertainment. It’s broad and safe and carefully engineered to be inoffensive to the general population. But if you want a couple of hours where it stops hurting inside, then Disney is a pretty safe bet, box-office wise.

37:53 Islanders and Bad North

42:12 Prey 2017

Deer Dyecast,

I finally got around to playing Prey (2017). After I finished the game, I went to your blog, swearing that I remembered you having a retrospective on it that I skipped reading because I wanted to play the game first. Searching the archives, though, I found surprisingly few articles/Diecast references to it, considering how much you loved the game. Am I going crazy here? Is there stuff missing from archive or at least not showing up in the search for some reason, or did you actually never talk about Prey that much? If not, why not?

“Terrance”

47:21 Mailbag: More interesting Lara Croft

Dear Diecast,
How would you go about crafting a more convincing Lara Croft/Jason Brody (Far Cry 3) style character arc in a video game? You know, where the player character goes from a crying mess to a one person army through the course of the game as you level up and gain abilities. The problem always seems to me that the pacing required to pull it off would be to slow for a mainstream action game; can’t spend to much time in the first part of the arc because the player will want to be shooting more things at this point. But maybe this idea could work better as more of a straight up stealth game? Well those are my thoughts and I’m curious to hear yours.

Thanks you,
Kaden


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