Rare Encounter

Flavour experience creation, clam filters, and armpit piercings.

Show Notes

Artificial intelligence for artificial flavour

Using AI to develop new flavor experiences

Polish clam sensors

Someone Explains How Poland Uses Clams To Control Its Water Supply And It's Pretty Crazy | Bored Panda

Mmmm, clams. (Image credit: Fat Kathy)

Anime

Strike Witches

Strike Witches Operation Victory Arrow

Strike Witches Witches of the Sphinx

Readable, kinda, on Internet Archive.

Descent

The classic 3D, six-degrees-of-freedom first person shooter.

Prepare for 1995's Descent! Children of DOOM Episode 5 - YouTube

Pretty cool series on first person games, this episode is about Descent.

(PC/1995) Descent (Unofficial SC-55 Soundtrack) (HQ Audio) - YouTube

The soundtrack to the game.

Freespace series

Descent: Freespace Battle Pack on GOG.com

Freespace 2 on GOG.com

AI-generated waifus

This Waifu Does Not Exist

Random waifus, generated every 18 seconds.

They aren't all waifus...

Shark fin or animal ears? You decide.

Waifu Labs

Generate a waifu of your choice.

AbleKirby's waifu

coldacid's waifu

This Waifu Does Not Exist · Gwern.net

Gwern's paper on how This Waifu Does Not Exist works.

Violence in video games

Ten-Year Long Study Confirms No Link Between Playing Violent Video Games as Early as Ten Years Old and Aggressive Behavior Later in Life – Gamesage

As if this'll shut up all the Nancy Reagans and Tipper Gores out there.

Growing Up with Grand Theft Auto: A 10-Year Study of Longitudinal Growth of Violent Video Game Play in Adolescents | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

The study itself.

Disgusting Images and the Computer Game - The Oasis

Video games may not make us violent, but John C. Dvorak wonders if they might make us wussy surrender-monkey pacifists instead.

Foundation series