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Encounter #9: Episode 9

Rare Encounter
Rare Encounter
Episode • Sep 10, 2020 • 1h 9m

Podcasts, Haruhi Suzumiya, and nice boat!

Show Notes

JRE on Spotify

  • Continued from *Encounter 8

Technical difficulties

  • Joe's Mac died after recording the episode with Adam Curry, causing delays
    • Motherboard fried, fortunately drives should be okay
  • Fully loaded Mac is big bucks!

Klingon studio

  • Joe's new Austin studio looks like some kind of sci-fi abortion
  • Red walls with metallic panels on them make it look like some kind of Klingon studio out of Star Trek fanfic
  • For all the supposed bells and whistles, audio isn't the best.
    • Both Adam and Joe kept fading in and out through Episode #1533
    • Loudness was like -21 dB (LUFS) on the episode
      • Mike Tyson episode was more like -14 dB (LUFS) for the loudest parts
      • We target -14 dB LUFS for our own show

Adam Curry appearance

  • Continued from *Encounter 8
  • There was some social media chatter that the episode might be censored or skipped, due to the delays in getting it out
  • Released in the afternoon of on YouTube and Spotify
Joe Rogan Experience #1533 - Adam Curry - YouTube

Podcasting

Podcast Index, Podcasting 2.0

Podcastindex.org
  • New venture of Adam Curry (The Podfather) and Dave Jones (creator of the Freedom Controller)
  • Free and open directory of podcasts, to limit the power that companies like Apple and Spotify already have in the podcasting space
Podcasting 2.0
  • Official podcast for Podcastindex.org, hosted by Adam Curry and Dave Jones
The Podfather launches a new, open podcast directory

Our own show

Podcast directories
  • We are now showing up in a number of podcast directories (Apple Podcasts being the outlier)
    • Can't currently get added to Apple's directory due to technical issues with coldacid's Apple ID
Website
  • Show description is a bit more detailed
  • There's a new slogan for the podcast (unilaterally decided by coldacid): "Geeking out on anime, games, and tech."
    • Sadly only present in the RSS, because the website built-in theme is pretty crap
Contact info
  • Have feedback? We can be reached by email: show (at) rareencounter.net
  • We read any emails sent to us on the air

Anime

Shows discussion

Uzaki-chan
Peter Grill
New dubbed episodes coming on on HIDIVE
Dokyuu Hentai HxEros
Haruhi Suzumiya
Endless Eight
Anime dub
Episode orders
  • Different episode orders for TV broadcast order, chronological order, and DVD order
  • AbleKirby is strongly for the chronological order
  • coldacid accepts chronological order but thinks TV broadcast order also makes sense
  • Religious war? Emacs versus vi!

Battlestar Galactica

Lorne Greene - Wikipedia

JJ Abrams ruins...

How could we have allowed JJ Abrams to ruined our two beloved Sci-Fi franchises? - Gen. Discussion - Comic Vine

Star Trek

Star Trek: How JJ Abrams ruined everything | Pop Verse
15 Blunders That Ruined J.J Abrams' Star Trek And Destroyed The Franchise

Star Wars

Top 10 Reasons Why Star Wars Sucked (or Yep, JJ Abrams and Disney are the Devil...I mean...the Sith) – Austin Dragon - Official Website of Author Austin Dragon

Babylon 5 video quality

‘Babylon 5’ is great, so why does it look so bad? | Engadget

Why Babylon 5 on Blu-ray will Probably Never Happen - Babylon 5 Books

Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes: The Effects

Japan news

Shinzo Abe resignation

  • Who will be the new Japanese prime minister?

Tokyo Olympics

Happening 2021 no matter what!
'By any means necessary': Japanese Olympics official commits to 2021 Summer Games
Tokyo Olympic Games MUST go ahead in 2021, says Japan minister | Daily Mail Online
2020 Olympics - Next Summer Olympic Games | Tokyo 2020

Japanese government killing anime! / Nice Boat

School Days
Nice Boat. | Know Your Meme
School Days - MyAnimeList.net
School Days (visual novel) - Wikipedia

On September 17, 2007, the day before the twelfth and final episode of the televised anime was to air on TV Kanagawa, a sixteen-year-old girl murdered her forty-five-year-old father in their Kyoto home with an axe. TV Kanagawa promptly cancelled the Tuesday airing of the finale for its similarly violent content, replacing it instead with a thirty-minute video compilation of scenery footage from Europe including Norway, played to August Wilhelmj's "Air on the G String". Newspapers such as The Japan Times and Mainichi Shimbun reported on the killing and episode preempt on September 19. According to Mainichi Shimbun, Chiba TV and TV Aichi had also cancelled their airings, with AT-X the only station remaining indecisive.

Higurashi
Higurashi When They Cry - Wikipedia

As the result of a murder case in September 2007 in Japan involving the murder of a police officer by his sixteen-year-old daughter with an axe, as well as the Japanese media relating the case to anime such as Higurashi, the latest episode screenings of both Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai and another anime at the time, School Days, were canceled by a number of stations, due to excessive violence. However, AT-X, TV Saitama and Sun TV announced that they would be airing the episodes as planned. Later, TV Saitama announced that they had ceased broadcasting of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai from episode thirteen onwards. Additionally, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai had its opening altered when it re-aired. Originally, a bloody bill hook cleaver (as used by Rena) was shown halfway through (at timestamp 0:55) the opening; it was replaced with an image of a van from the series' fictional junk yard.

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | vndb
2020 Higurashi series
  • New series begins airing
  • Licensed by Funimation for North America -- censorship inbound!
  • Passione
    • Animation studio for the new series (Japanese website)

Dungeons & Lasers

Dungeons & Lasers Second Edition by Archon Studio — Kickstarter

Jean Claude van Damme's Damn Van

Jean Claude Van Damme’s Damn Van on Vimeo