CRRRaSh! 354 Two Turtle Doves By Roy Mathur 2020-12-26 00:16:00--00:26:08 Theme Hello Hello! Thanks for tuning in. You are listening to Captain Roy's Rocket Radio Show (CRRRaSh!): The UK Podcast for the Culture Geek, Technology Nerd, and Creative Wizard, episode NUMBER, recorded on DATE, at TIME. Preshow Happy Boxing Day! I hope you are still alive after stuffing your faces. Two Turtle Doves On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me, Two turtle doves, And a partridge in a pear tree. Show Culture (science fiction, fantasy, and horror; books, comics, movies, TV, games, toys, art, music; themes, script, creature design, sets, props, FX, diversity, reception, trivia) Star Wars Retold Using Traditional Malaysian Shadow Puppetry I love this. Tintoy Chuo of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the founder of Fusion Wayang Kulit, an artistic collective blending ancient and modern has retold the Star Wars story used using Wayang Kulit shadow puppets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6RC83H1-F8 http://www.actiontintoy.com/ This story is weirdly coincidental on a personal level, as I couple of days before I was talking to Mum about how cool Indian puppetry is, and she was agreeing and saying how underappreciated it is, so it is nice seeing another old art form being kept alive. This whole stream of conversation started days before, when I watched a sad video segment presented by the BBC's Mariko Oi about the last ninja families fading from history in Japan. Prince of Persia I haven't played anything for a long time. Okay, I played Prince of Persia for about five minutes to test an eBay purchase of an old PC (see a previous pod). It's still a great game after all these years, but otherwise? Nothing. That's why there hasn't been much game talk lately, but see next item. Kosmokrats This is one computer game I have on my "If I Ever Get Time" radar. It's both retro cute and I know nothing else apart from what little I've seen on YouTube. Dungeons and Dragons I am, however, planning Dungeon Mastering a small Dungeons and Dragons campaign in the coming months, providing the world goes back to normal and we can all meet in person, so stay tuned for updates. Small? Why yes, because while I want a go at DM'ing, I'm a Chaotic Neutral wizard player at heart. Fireball! Star Trek: Discovery My view hasn't changed; this season is boring me, but I did appreciate the Michelle Yeoh Mirror Universe two-parter. She is so so cool. The Flight Attendant Finished and enjoyed. The show finishes on a hint of a sequel. Please don't, it was perfect as it was. Harper's Island Re-re-finished and enjoyed my every-now-and-again pilgrimage to this gory survival horror/final girl take on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were Now. Technology Windows Froze Again My Windows 7 installation froze again recently. Of course, it happened right in the middle of writing some show notes in a text editor without autosave. What a pile of crap (both Windows and the text editor). Podcasters, if you have the equipment, try to record your show offline. Why Don't Text Editors Have Autosave Also, why the hell not have autosave built into all text editor apps? Admittedly some have session save, but you have to hope the session file isn't screwed, so why not include an autosave function---a feature most users are familiar with from word processors---and make it easily accessible from the menu? Why are Audacity's Default Settings so Aggressive? The default settings for Audacity plug-ins like Noise Reduction and Limiter are so aggressive, they always seem to add distortion distort your audio. Why is that? Surely the default settings should be safe settings, so new users (or even experienced users like me) don't shoot themselves in the foot. ActiveState Do you remember ActiveState? Back when I actually did a little bit of programming, they were my preferred dist of Perl and they are still around too. Their highly convenient dists for Perl and TCL, and eventually Python and Ruby were just the ticket back in the day, and still are, but what happened to Lua? I'm sure they were planning to release a Lua dist, but never did. What a pity. Still, Lua and Love2D are still easy to set up. Creative Aftershow About The show is produced, presented, and edited by me, Roy Mathur, a writer. "Mathur" is spelt M-A-T-H-U-R. You can find more about me or get in touch at RoyMathur.com. Help If you want to help, please review and rate the show on whatever platform you listen, recommend it to a friend or enemy, or click on the contact or support link on the website. Goodbye You were listening to Captain Roy's Rocket Radio Show (CRRRaSh!): The UK Podcast for the Culture Geek, Technology Nerd, and Creative Wizard, episode NUMBER, recorded on DATE, and the time at the end of the show is TIME. Thanks for listening and bye bye for now. Bye! Theme