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Encounter #6: Episode 6

Rare Encounter
Rare Encounter
Episode • Aug 20, 2020 • 1h 19m

Epic versus Apple, uncensored anime, and the metric system.

Episode opening theme

Show Notes

Maps With Mat

Imogen Heap

iSteve

Adobe signed metadata

Anime discussed

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise

Peter Grill

  • Beware of cute orc girls, they're still evil!

Uzaki-chan

SAO: Alicization

Episode 41
  • Eiji and Yuna are anime-original characters from the Ordinal Scale movie, that shit never happened in the light novels

X-Wing for DOS

Anime original content

Sword Art Online

Evangelion remake

Artistic intent in translation

  • @Grummz on anime and game translation:

    Anime translation, as well as games, should reflect the original artistic intent as closely as possible.

    This is what customers want.

    Nobody ever asks for more memes to be inserted in anime.

  • Counterpoint: Ghost Stories (except the style here is what we now know as "abridged" series)

Politicized/memed subs versus direct/purist subs

  • @Grummz again:

    If you are adding US culture and politics to your anime translation, you are a colonizer and are appropriating culture to twist ot to your own western values.

    Stop profiting from hijacking anime for your personal messages.

Epic versus the app stores

Japanese media industry

Attack on libretro

  • Someone routed through AWS to attack the libretro project on Saturday
  • Build server was virtually wrecked, and multiple repos in their GitHub organization were reset
  • Netplay, core installer, and update services are also down
  • Hacker vandalised our buildbot and Github organization
  • Apparently Github can't restore the sabotaged repositories? @libretro:

    Github has told us that they are not able to restore our repositories - "I'm sorry to say that we aren't able to restore a branch or repository to its previous state on our end." So we will have to do it manually.

Metric system

Original measurement artifacts versus physical constants

New foot in 2022

Feet per nanosecond

Rubber