Diecast – Twenty Sided

We’re in the dead zone between Christmas and New Year. Typically this is the week where the site traffic reaches its nadir. Most of us come here to fill the dead space in our day: Commute. Coffee break. Time between classes. The waiting room of the ripperdoc. You get the idea. But those quiet moments […]

Strangely enough, I’m one of the lucky ones. Cyberpunk 2077 is running pretty well for me. I’ve run into lots of visual problems, but very few issues that impact gameplay. I’m usually the cursed player, fighting my way through a sea of bugs and crashes while the masses chant, “But it works fine on MY […]

We’ve waited a long time for Cyberpunk 2077 to come out. On one hand, there’s a LOT to talk about for us fans. On the other hand, non-fans are already sick to death of hearing about it. I did what I could. My Cyberpunk first impressions are less than half the show. That’s as much […]

This is an unusual episode. At an hour and 26 minutes, this is the longest Diecast since October 2016, when Diecast #171 ran for an hour and a half. I can’t be sure, but I also suspect that this is the longest time we’ve ever spent on a single topic, with the Star Citizen discussion […]

Happy Gluttony and Awkward Relatives Day! Hope you had a good one. We cheated and got take-out for Thanksgiving. A decade ago, that would have been an unthinkable breach of TRADITION. But now my wife and I are middle-age and we’re more or less in charge of what traditions get observed, passed on, ignored, or […]

This week I talked to Ross Zevenhuizen, a friend, collaborator on Good Robot, and one of the developers of Watch Dogs Legion. We didn’t make it clear at the top of the show, but Ross is under some annoying NDA restrictions that prevents him from speaking freely about the development process. We were able to […]

Okay, this isn’t Halloween. But we recorded the show on Halloween so… whatever? Anyway, I hope your treat/ trick ratio was favorable. Hosts: Paul, Shamus. Episode edited by Issac. Diecast321 Link (YouTube) 00:00 Maybe Ross Next Week We’ll see. 01:08 Homestar and the Death of Flash The characters themselves remarked on the death of Flash […]

Like I said at the end of the show: Pretty soon I’m going to have Ross on the show and we’re going to talk about Watch Dogs: Legion. The game launches on the 29th of this month, and Ross worked on it. I don’t know if I’m going to have him on the show next […]

So once again, my audio is severely over-boosted. It sounds perfect during recording, and then the resulting saved audio sounds like I’m talking through a megaphone. The same thing happened a few episodes ago. Afterward, I went in and balanced all the levels to stop it from happening. And then I was VERY careful to […]

Even if you don’t listen to the podcast, I’m still curious what you thought of Raised by Wolves on HBO. About a month ago, I nearly spent a Tuesday column talking about how interesting and exciting it was. I’m glad I waited. That would not have aged well for me. Hosts: Paul, Shamus. Episode edited […]