Rare Encounter

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

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Show Notes

Maps With Mat

• Podcast website
• Book of Knowledge on Quebecois swearing

Imogen Heap

• Imogen Heap Performance with Musical Gloves Demo | WIRED 2012 | WIRED

iSteve

• Book of Knowledge
• Funny or Die video

Adobe signed metadata

• SirBemrose says we were looking at the wrong episode's show notes
• Says it was discussed on Episode 84
• This is How Adobe’s Upcoming Photo ‘Authenticity’ System Will Work

Anime discussed

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise

• Book of Knowledge

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

• MobyGames

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

• Epic Games, Inc. vs. Apple Inc., Complaint for Injunctive Relief
• Epic Games, Inc. vs. Google LLC et al., Complaint for Injunctive Relief
• BGR showing that they are willing slaves to the monopolist beast
  • Epic invented a crisis so Fortnite fans would support its lawsuits against Apple and Google (archived)

    Of course, sideloading apps shouldn’t be advised — that’s not possible on iPhone, and it’s probably something Google should close up as well.

• Epic probably not doing themselves any favours by pulling the IAP stunt that got the game dropped from both stores, but its claims against Apple look like they stand up pretty well
• Claims against Google are undermined by the fact that Android does allow for sideloading apps and even alternate app stores even if they aren't available through Google Play (it's easy enough to find and install F-Droid for example)
• Grumpy Old Bens #87 discusses the monopoly argument
• Microsoft xCloud
• Apple threatens to cut off Epic Games’ access to developer tools that are necessary to maintain Unreal Engine
  • Apple is threatening to completely cut off Epic's access to tools needed to maintain Unreal on iOS due to the latter's lawsuit.
  • Epic Games, Inc.'s Notice of Motion and Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Order to Show Cause Why a Preliminary Injunction Should Not Issue and Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support Thereof

Japanese media industry

• @LunarArchivist's Otakuthon Twitter thread

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

• Putting the Best “Foot” Forward: Ending the Era of the U.S. Survey Foot (1959 to 2022)

Feet per nanosecond

Rubber

• Book of Knowledge
• Rubber Trailer 2