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Demoscene, Prosthetic Hands & Copyrighted Anime Spoilers

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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 Nerdful things DJ - Ex-Arm : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Arm Rating: 1/5 Professor - Return of the Obra Dinn - https://store.steampowered.com/sub/184160 - Tin Can - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1315980/Tin_Can/ Rating: Return of the Obra Dinn: 5/5 Tin Can: 4/5 Other topics discussed The Passion of the Christ (a 2004 American biblical drama film produced, co-written and directed by Mel Gibson and starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus of Nazareth, Maia Morgenstern as the Virgin Mary, and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ Passion of the Christ Sequel (Gibson implied that part of the movie would be taking place in Hell and, while talking to Raymond Arroyo, said that it also may show flashbacks depicting the fall of the Angels. The film will explore the three-day period starting on Good Friday, the day of Jesus' death.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ#Sequel Inferno (Dante) (the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes Dante's journey through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen".) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante) Eyes Wide Shut (a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_Wide_Shut UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) (a specialised agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, the sciences, and culture.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO demoscene videos as recommended by Dev-I-Boy Is That A Demo In Your Pocket? - Gameboy Homebrew Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBZ-P3FtqH4 TiTAN - Overdrive 2 (RGB 50fps) - SEGA Me...