Rare Encounter

Radioactive ponds, train explosions, and tales from the subs.

With special guest Icehawk!

Show Notes

"Hype hubris" video games

What happens when a game gets overhyped and underdelivers?

The biggest mistake in game advertising.

Cyberpunk 2077 - Wikipedia

Daikatana - Wikipedia

Duke Nukem Forever - Wikipedia

Anime

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

Hiroyuki Imaishi - Wikipedia

Co-founder of Studio Trigger, and series director for many crazy and energetic series such as:

• Gurren Lagann (at Gainax)
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (ditto)
• Kill la Kill
• Space Patrol Luluco

Rec

Fansubs

cool_boy_mew on ShitPoster.club

Shitposter Club

jesus these subs

how

Kaze no Koe Fansubs

The fansub group that Icehawk used to belong to. The actual website doesn't exist anymore, this is their AniDB page.

Nuclear power

Fukushima Daiichi 10th anniversary

Wade Allison, Radiation and Reason

Radiation and Reason: The Impact of Science on a Culture of Fear

Radiation and Reason | University of Oxford Podcasts - Audio and Video Lectures

The Nuclear Disaster of Fukushima DOCUMENTARY 2017 - YouTube

PBS NOVA documentary on what happened at Fukushima.

How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll - YouTube

Lessons Learned from Fukushima Increase Nuclear Safety – Homeland Security Today

Lesson number one: defense in depth.

Fukushima chief: No need to extend decommissioning target - ABC News

Decommissioning should be complete by March 2041 at the latest, in time for the 30th anniversary of the disaster.

Fukushima radiation unlikely to raise cancer rates, U.N. experts say | Reuters

Corium (nuclear reactor) - Wikipedia

CANDU reactors

Welcome to Darlington Nuclear Generating Station - YouTube

Rocky Flats, Colorado

Rocky Flats Plant - Wikipedia

End of the MIPS processor architecture

MIPS (the company) is throwing in the towel on their eponymous CPU architecture in favour of RISC-V. More than that, they're switching from licensing the processor IP to actually making chips.

Wait, What? MIPS Becomes RISC-V – EEJournal

MIPS architecture - Wikipedia

MIPS processors powered the Nintendo 64 and first two generations of PlayStation consoles, workstation computers for a number of vendors (including Silicon Graphics), and are still common today in embedded scenarios such as consumer networking devices.

RISC-V - Wikipedia