Rare Encounter

Nuclear Gandhi, lost maps, and invisible cocks.

With special guest SirMathieu of the Maps With Mat podcast.

Show opening theme: Making A Map File

Show Notes

Anime

Prisma Illya

From the view of a TYPE-MOON non-fan, this still looks like a pretty good pisstake on magical girl anime.

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya · AniList

Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA - The TYPE-MOON Wiki

Journey of Elaina

Episode 9 was super-dark again, and even had a warning text at the beginning of the episode (both in Japanese and English) that it's unsuitable for younger viewers.

Majo no Tabitabi (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina) · AniList

Konosuba

Konosuba is the Mystery Men of isekai anime. Both try to answer the question of "what would happen if people uniquely unqualified for their positions had to do the job anyway" -- Konosuba for isekai characters and Mystery Men for superheros.

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! (KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world!) · AniList

Mystery Men (1999) - IMDb

Girls' Last Tour

Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou (Girls' Last Tour) · AniList

The Day I Became a God

Oh deer.

Kamisama ni Natta Hi (The Day I Became a God) · AniList

Strike Witches: Road to Berlin

IFR qualified!

Strike Witches: Dai-501 Tougou Sentou Koukuudan ROAD to BERLIN (Strike Witches: Road to Berlin) · AniList

Visual Novels

Visual novel fall sales

Lots of hentai games were on sale this weekend for all you perverts.

They never saw it cumming.

Video Games

Civilization

Civilization II: Test of Time | Civilization Wiki | Fandom

Nuclear Gandhi Bug in Civilization Not Actually A Bug Says Sid Meier

Turns out it wasn't actually a bug, according to Sid Meier himself.

Tribes

Tribes: Vengeance for Windows (2004) - MobyGames

Story by Ken Levine, who also wrote System Shock 2, BioShock, and Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich.

Skiing | Tribes Wiki | Fandom

Neo Geo Pocket Color

Neo Geo Pocket Color - Wikipedia

Biomotor Unitron - Wikipedia

Maps With Mat, featuring Mathieu Hélie

Maps with Mat – Longitude, latitude, cartography with attitude!

Mystery Monolith

And just like that, it was gone (from Utah). And just like that, another appeared in Romania. Definitely the work of aliens.

Time to become star children.

Mystery monolith identical to one which disappeared in US desert reappears in Europe - World News - Mirror Online

Saudi Nihon Kikaku

A name any No Agenda listener will remember, Mohammed bin Salman, is now the owner of SNK, producers of well known game franchises "Metal Slug", "Samurai Showdown", and "The King of Fighters".

The Crown Prince Of Saudi Arabia Is Now SNK's Largest Shareholder - Nintendo Life

Who is Mohammed bin Salman?

Mohammed bin Salman - Wikipedia

Las Vegas shooting connection

Max Mustermann on Shitposter Club

Prince bin Salman is said to be the real target of the Las Vegas shooting of 2017 and according to the same rumors Stephen Paddock turned into a patsy by the hapless Saudi assassins. who have missed the Prince since he had been happen to hawk his wares in in the next room. Neom became possible, because the guy survived Vegas and according to some other blog posts got to torture his family in some Hotel in the middle of nowhere until they gave him all their assets.

Jamal Khashoggi - Wikipedia

The birth of Windows

Windows One. Happy Birthday. - The Oasis

Microsoft Windows was first released 35 years and a couple of weeks ago. In his personal Substack newsletter, John C. Dvorak talked about the history of the operating system, specifically its original version.

A screenshot of Windows 1.01, adjusted for EGA's display aspect ratio.

Screenshot digression

EGA had non-square pixels. The video mode that Windows 1.01 used on EGA computers was 640x350 pixels with 16 our of 64 colours, but displayed at an aspect ratio of 1:1.37 (close but not exactly the 4:3 ratio we're used to from standard definition video). Compare the screenshot here, resized to 480x350 pixels (as close as we can get to 1:1.37) to the native resolution screenshot at https://rareencounter.net/images/RE21_win101_native_res.png, which is what you'd get from naive emulation that doesn't take into account the physical reality of video modes of the 80s and early 90s era.

Microsoft Windows 1.01 | PCjs Machines

Try running Windows 1.01 for yourself in an in-browser emulator.

Windows 1.0 - Wikipedia