Valve Vs The World, Signals Lost In Space and Live Action Samurai Champloo

About this episode

The episode discusses Valve's legal troubles, the impact of stars on deep space communication, and the upcoming live action adaptation of Samurai Champloo.

Valve are being sued by everyone, for different reasons, some reasonable and some not so reasonable. Let's hope the reasonable cases get applied to the entire industry. Stars might be making it hard to hear ET phoning home because of their effect on deep space radio waves. I guess SETI will have to start looking again. Samurai Champloo is becoming a live action show. Only time will tell if it succeeds or joins the pile of terrible adaptations. *** We enjoyed a nice drink of Rez which you can get a 10% discount when you type NERDS at the checkout from the Rez website at www.drinkrez.com *** Resources Mentioned Valve vs The World ( Games with loot boxes will be rated PEGI 16 from June, as part of sweeping changes to the age-rating system | GamesIndustry.biz , Valve sued by The Performing Right Society for allegedly using its members' musical works "without permission" | GamesIndustry.biz ) Lost in Space Weather ( Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests ) Coming soon a live action Samurai Champloo ( ‘One Piece’ Producers Tomorrow Studios to Adapt ‘Samurai Champloo’ With Creator Shinichirō Watanabe (EXCLUSIVE) ) Full Show Notes…

Topics covered

• Valve
• lawsuits
• deep space
• SETI
• Samurai Champloo
• live action adaptations

Keywords

• technology
• leisure
• animation
• manga
• science

Sponsors

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Mentioned in this episode

Products: Rez, NERDS

Books & works: Signals Lost In Space, Samurai Champloo, Lost in Space Weather, One Piece

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