Demoscene, Prosthetic Hands & Copyrighted Anime Spoilers

Author: Nerds Amalgamated
Published: Mon 05 Apr 2021
Episode Link: https://nerdsamalgamatedpod.captivate.fm

Professor has survived his man flu, and celebrates by derailing the conversation onto the bloodier aspects of everyone's favourite chocolate themed weekend.

The Demoscene is now listed as national heritage in both Finland and Germany, bringing it one step closer to becoming UNESCO listed. Demoscene projects are about squeezing the most impressive graphics out of very limited software and hardware. We'll put some of our favourites in the notes.

Now prosthetic limbs can feel. You'd better not swear, or they might stop working right. By linking a user's brain to the limb, it can be controlled and relay touch sensations back to the human mind. I, for one welcome our cyborg overlords.

Japan has decided that posting the dialogue text of a manga on spoiler sites counts as piracy. Let's hope the law doesn't overreach into arresting people for posting any spoiler, or DJ is going away for a long time.

This week, DJ wrapped up the torment of watching Ex-Arm and Professor died in the vast blackness of space because he touched a live wire in Tin Can.

Demoscene now UNESCO approved

- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-04-16-finland-recognises-the-demoscene-as-part-of-its-cultural-heritage

- http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2021/03/20/demoscene-accepted-as-unesco-cultural-heritage-in-germany/

Prosthetic Hand Now Comes With Feelings In Every Box

- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190724144150.htm

- https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/4/32/eaax2352

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xl6rFvuR08

Time to Copyright Spoilers

- https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-03-31/tokyo-court-posting-manga-dialogue-without-authorization-is-copyright-infringement/.171343