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Encounter #12: Episode 12

Rare Encounter
Rare Encounter
Episode • Oct 1, 2020 • 56m

Killer whales, Neo Tokyo, and soul collection.

Show opening theme: Farm-on-a-ka

Show Notes

Anime

Akira

  • Recently re-released in 4K
  • Did they reshoot the cels, or just rescan the film to get 4K resolution?
Akira (1988 film) - Wikipedia
The Gorgeous 4K Remaster Of ‘Akira’ Will Get A Limited IMAX Theater Release Next Week

Beyond the Boundary

Continued from Episode 11

  • AbleKirby finished the remaining episodes of season 1
  • He won't bother watching the movies or OVA.

Visual Novels

Highway Blossoms: Next Exit DLC

  • Including the musical talents of our very own AbleKirby!
Twitter release post thread

Studio Coattails on Twitter

RELEASE: Highway Blossoms: Next Exit is officially out! Return to Las Vegas in this sequel DLC to the hit yuri visual novel. It's not much of a road trip this time around but it's still a trip!

Successive tweets contain credits for the DLC.

Highway Blossoms: Next Exit - Studio Élan
Highway Blossoms: Next Exit on Steam

GoPro GPS data

Extracting GoPro GPS and other Telemetry Data | by Lucas Suryana | Medium

MPEG-4 container format

ISO/IEC base media file format - Wikipedia
MPEG-4 Part 14 - Wikipedia

Killer whales of Eden, NSW

Old Tom was a good old boy.

Killer whales of Eden, New South Wales - Wikipedia

Old Tom (killer whale) - Wikipedia

Medieval ways to die

Medieval Death Bot (@DeathMedieval) / Twitter

Image editors

GIMP

GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIMP - Wikipedia

Krita

Krita | Digital Painting. Creative Freedom.
Krita - Wikipedia

Binding of Isaac: Four Souls

  • Interesting card game with flavour based on Binding of Isaac
  • coldacid played it with his brother and a friend on the weekend
  • One to four players
  • Easy to pick up and play, even with four players it shouldn't take more than 90 minutes or so for a full game
  • Lots of ambiguities with abilities specified on some of the cards
    • We didn't do any rules lawyering but it's definitely open to it
    • There should be errata provided for the game to close some potential loopholes
  • Definitely some OP hands possible

The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls Wiki

The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls by Edmund McMillen — Kickstarter

  • Reached $2,650,875 of a $50k target

HeroQuest / Hasbro follow-up

  • Hasbro reduced the shipping fees from $120 USD / $135 USD down to $30 USD

Hasbro Pulse Duties - Cybertron.CA - Canadian Transformers News and Discussion

  • Apparently, Hasbro includes duties and tax in the pledge
  • Important because they're using FedEx, which is known for screwing both shippers and receievers with insane fees if they handle customs clearing

Orders, Shipping, Tracking – Hasbro Pulse

Amiga Vampire V4

  • coldacid has bought this, after being on a wait list for MONTHS
  • Should arrive in a few weeks

Tech specs

  • FPGA implementation of enhanced Amiga computer
  • CPU is custom Apollo 68080 on FPGA
    • This is the processor core available on the Vampire accelerator cards for existing Amiga systems
  • Enhanced emulation of the later Amiga's AGA chipset, called SAGA (Super AGA)
APOLLO 68080 - High Performance Processor