Diecast – Twenty Sided

Heads up: In two weeks[1] I’m going to have SoldierHawke back on the show. We’re going to talk about Eastshade and other games we’ve been playing lately. If you have questions for Paul and I – or for SoldierHawke and I – the email is in the header image.

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Hosts: Paul, Shamus. Episode edited by Issac.
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00:00 Shamus’ New Desk

Look at that wonderful ultra-wide keyboard drawer. No need to strand my mouse on some dinky mousepad.

04:49 Snowflake Servers at Work.

This segment fills me with anxiety.

This is also a good excuse for the rest of you to tell your horror stories about the various janky computers and servers you’ve been forced to care for at work.

16:20 The new Atari VCS

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41:07 Paul finished playing Eastshade

I still haven’t played it yet. Like I said at the top of the show, I’ve been busy.

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51:13 Mailbag: Rust

Dear Diecast-casters,

What are your thoughts on the programming language Rust, if any? I only recently became aware of it when Stack Overflow released their annual user survey back in April which had it as the “most beloved” language for the fourth year in a row, despite apparently only about 5% of the respondents using it. It bills itself as being “like C or C++ but more memory safe” (it doesn’t allow null pointers, for instance), but as my programming knowledge consists of a decade of Python experience and a tiny smidgen of JavaScript I have no context for evaluating or judging between statically-typed compiled languages. Is this the new language that everything will be written in ten years down the line, or is it merely a passing fad? Is it worth spending a little time learning it out of curiosity like I’m considering (perhaps simply for the mental benefits of knowing multiple languages, even if I never use it professionally)?

Cheers,
Daniel “Philadelphus” Berke

56:17 Duoae asks…

“How much do we have to pay Shamus to do a whole podcast in fake cockney English?”

1:00:12 Joshuah says…

“It sounds like Shamus needs to actually try being a PC in a virtual game, due to his concerns about his time. I’m sure there are plenty of fans here who would be happy to have him try out their games.”

1:01:13 The Wallpaper

Sure, let’s randomly talk about wallpaper at the end of the show for no reason. I’m a great podcast host!