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Episode Synopsis
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 NotesAnimePrisma IllyaFrom 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 ElainaEpisode 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
KonosubaKonosuba 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 GodOh deer.
Kamisama ni Natta Hi (The Day I Became a God) · AniList
Strike Witches: Road to BerlinIFR qualified!
Strike Witches: Dai-501 Tougou Sentou Koukuudan ROAD to BERLIN (Strike Witches: Road to Berlin) · AniList
Visual NovelsVisual novel fall salesLots of hentai games were on sale this weekend for all you perverts.
They never saw it cumming.
Video GamesCivilizationCivilization II: Test of Time | Civilization Wiki | Fandom
Nuclear Gandhi Bug in Civilization Not Actually A Bug Says Sid MeierTurns out it wasn't actually a bug, according to Sid Meier himself.
TribesTribes: Vengeance for Windows (2004) - MobyGamesStory by Ken Levine, who also wrote System Shock 2, BioShock, and Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich.
Skiing | Tribes Wiki | Fandom
Neo Geo Pocket ColorNeo Geo Pocket Color - Wikipedia
Biomotor Unitron - Wikipedia
Maps With Mat, featuring Mathieu HélieMaps with Mat – Longitude, latitude, cartography with attitude!
Mystery MonolithAnd 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 KikakuA 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 connectionMax 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 WindowsWindows One. Happy Birthday. - The OasisMicrosoft 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 digressionEGA 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 MachinesTry running Windows 1.01 for yourself in an in-browser emulator.
Windows 1.0 - Wikipedia
With special guest SirMathieu of the Maps With Mat podcast.
Show opening theme: Making A Map File
Show NotesAnimePrisma IllyaFrom 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 ElainaEpisode 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
KonosubaKonosuba 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 GodOh deer.
Kamisama ni Natta Hi (The Day I Became a God) · AniList
Strike Witches: Road to BerlinIFR qualified!
Strike Witches: Dai-501 Tougou Sentou Koukuudan ROAD to BERLIN (Strike Witches: Road to Berlin) · AniList
Visual NovelsVisual novel fall salesLots of hentai games were on sale this weekend for all you perverts.
They never saw it cumming.
Video GamesCivilizationCivilization II: Test of Time | Civilization Wiki | Fandom
Nuclear Gandhi Bug in Civilization Not Actually A Bug Says Sid MeierTurns out it wasn't actually a bug, according to Sid Meier himself.
TribesTribes: Vengeance for Windows (2004) - MobyGamesStory by Ken Levine, who also wrote System Shock 2, BioShock, and Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich.
Skiing | Tribes Wiki | Fandom
Neo Geo Pocket ColorNeo Geo Pocket Color - Wikipedia
Biomotor Unitron - Wikipedia
Maps With Mat, featuring Mathieu HélieMaps with Mat – Longitude, latitude, cartography with attitude!
Mystery MonolithAnd 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 KikakuA 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 connectionMax 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 WindowsWindows One. Happy Birthday. - The OasisMicrosoft 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 digressionEGA 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 MachinesTry running Windows 1.01 for yourself in an in-browser emulator.
Windows 1.0 - Wikipedia
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