Firefly is most likely coming back. The original crew are all on board and they're just looking for a place to show it. Professor is very excited.

ChatGPT didn't cure cancer, and LLMs aren't as miraculous as they say. Still, they can finally give us a use for all this extra water and electricity we have, right?

Anime thrives on adaptations of other works. But one creator thinks that's a bad thing and could lead to the death of the industry.

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Resources Mentioned

1. Firefly is coming back…..well sort of (Nathan Fillion Says 'Firefly' Animated Series In Development, Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk Q&A On 'Firefly' Animated Series, Sarah Michelle Gellar Breaks Her Silence on What Killed the 'Buffy' Reboot: 'Nobody Saw This Coming' (Exclusive))
2. AI can cure cancer (Tech entrepreneur uses ChatGPT to create a personalised cancer vaccine for his DOG - and the breakthrough could soon help humans too, ChatGPT did not cure a dog’s cancer | The Verge)
3. Anime adaptation is not a great idea (「異世界転生も、チート能力も、ロボもいらない」 『パリに咲くエトワール』の谷口悟朗監督がオリジナル作品にこだわった理由：東京新聞デジタル, “If only adaptations remain, Japanese anime will be done for,” says Code Geass series director - AUTOMATON WEST)

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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.

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Resources Mentioned

1. 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 )
2. Lost in Space Weather (Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests)
3. Coming soon a live action Samurai Champloo (‘One Piece’ Producers Tomorrow Studios to Adapt ‘Samurai Champloo’ With Creator Shinichirō Watanabe (EXCLUSIVE))

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KVdcDeqUu_K_weO2eyf6zhncVw-DYO7D3m8IHGOI_Lo/edit?usp=sharing

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This week we were joined by historian and indie game developer James Bailie to talk about his game projects and how he adapts historical fact into entertaining gameplay.

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Resources Mentioned

1. Bsky (James Baillie (@jubalbarca.bsky.social) — Bluesky )
2. Fedi/Masto (https://scholar.social/@JubalBarca )
3. The Exillian Forum (it's a little gaming/creative/nerd site I help run) (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/)
4. Itch (Jubal Barca)
5. Steam page for The Exile Princes (The Exile Princes on Steam)
6. Academic profile (https://hcommons.org/members/jubalbarca/)
7. James Baillie on Google Scholar (James Baillie - Google Scholar)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/122rEkWs_lHwUNXO6I3SnH9xg_DaKmz7yKYfgKHVj1DU/edit?usp=sharing

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There's been a massive Stop Killing Games update, and things are looking good. Ross Scott has presented the petition to the European Commission.

Life on Mars might be frozen deep in the ice. Apart from being the plot of horror stories, how might this affect our society?

Paramount have won the bidding war for Warner Bros. The consolidation of the media continues unabated.

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Resources Mentioned

1. BIG Stop killing games update (Stop Killing Games will talk to the EU Commission, Giant stop killing games updates 2026, SKG Press Conference)
2. Frozen in Mars (NASA study finds ancient life could survive 50 million years in Martian ice | ScienceDaily)
3. Paramount came out on top….against Netflix to buy Warner Bros (Breaking: Netflix Is No Longer Pursuing Purchase of Warner Bros. -- Paramount Takes The Lead In Bidding War, Massive Merger Confirmed: Paramount And WBD Reveal Details Of $110 Billion Deal, Netflix drops Warner Bros bid, clearing way for Paramount takeover, It’s a Deal: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery Unveil $111 Billion Megamerger, Paramount Skydance Poised to Acquire Warner Bros. Discovery After Netflix Bows Out of Bidding War, ‘David Ellison Scares the S— Out of Me’: How Paramount Beat Out Netflix, Won Warner Bros. and Will Change Hollywood Forever)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_UwazECZm0RTvssFO-q2zpznAKSjqPCtMm3x7gGTJ84/edit?usp=sharing

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The latest news in the great ramageddon of 2026 doesn't look good. Now we can expect to not buy hard drives for a reasonable price.

Scientists discovered a new bacteria that comes with massive antibiotic resistances. Madagascar, it's time to close the borders.

Film Professors are complaining that students aren't paying attention to films. Is it because films are too long, or is TikTok really ruining everything?

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Resources Mentioned

1. The Great Handheld Price Spiral (Steam Deck Announces Inventory Issues, ROG Xbox Ally X Gets Price Hike Thanks To Computer Hardware Shortages. Steam Deck™ )
2. Microbes: The Untold Frozen Saga (First genome sequence and functional profiling of Psychrobacter SC65A.3 preserved in 5,000-year-old cave ice: insights into ancient resistome, antimicrobial potential, and enzymatic activities)
3. Classroom vs. TikTok (College Professors Are Stunned The “TikTok Generation” Can’t Sit Through Long Movies In Film Courses – But What Did They Expect?)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FRE6Hy7Pno3oSLMjKy6ina61FZBQu68ur8EbZKXP0AE/edit?usp=sharing

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UK courts have determined that stealing in game gold is a real world crime. That wasn't on my bingo card, and it has some interesting implications for other games like EVE Online.

Would you recreate the smell of ancient times to find out what it was like? Some scientists are trying. Professor is really not convinced though.

Markiplier released his Iron Lung film. Is this the new rise of indie films?

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Resources Mentioned

1. You Can Go to Jail for Stealing RuneScape Gold Now (Specialist media lawyer outlines why UK Court of Appeals' judgment on RuneScape's Gold theft is so "significant for the games industry" | GamesIndustry.biz)
2. The Smell of history (Can scientists recreate history with smells? - ABC listen, Recreating the smells of history )
3. Markipiler vs Hollywood (How Markiplier’s ‘Iron Lung’ Proved the Studios Wrong: “There Is Still a Stigma Against YouTube”, Markiplier’s ‘Iron Lung’ Removed From Box Office Charts, Returns Making 7x Its Budget )

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1myDrgf-PyvNQuW44mwKy1MCijKATqfTPUqy1r4nbry0/edit?usp=sharing

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Valve are going to court in the UK for locking gamers in to buying on Steam. Can the saviours of mainstream Linux gaming really be the bad guys?

Terry Pratchett's work might hold the key to diagnosing dementia early through breadth of vocabulary. We're yet to see if this research can be applied to your DMs.

DC admit that Manga is great and superheroes are rubbish. Enough said there.

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Resources Mentioned

1. Valve vs The UK government (Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead)
2. The Dementia Code by Terry Pratchett (Terry Pratchett’s novels may have held clues to his dementia a decade before diagnosis, our new study suggests)
3. Manga is beating Western Comics according to DC Boss Jim Lee (DC Boss Jim Lee Says Genre Diversity Gives Manga Major "Advantage" Over Western Comics: "It's Not Just Superhero Stories")

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d4363II3bFfZMk1wLZ_PGwgckLfv0_xNlt95IoPsV-8/edit?usp=sharing

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Hytale has finally launched just when we thought it might never happen. How did we get here, and is it just Minecraft at Home?

A new sugar substitute provides almost as much sweetness, with 60% of the calories. And it's made by bacteria. Yummy.

Comic crossover events are hugely popular, but are they actually a bad thing?

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Resources Mentioned

1. The story of Hytale (Hytale - Wikipedia, Hytale vs Minecraft: 5 key differences you should know about | PC Gamer, Here's one big benefit to Hytale not being on Steam: its refund policy is way better than Valve's | PC Gamer )
2. Introducing I cannot believe its not Sugar (This new sugar tastes like the real thing without the usual downsides | ScienceDaily)
3. When crossovers in comics do not matter...(https://boundingintocomics.com/comic-books/marvel-x-men-tom-brevoort-comic-book-events-impossible-to-matter)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/19IkekhPv6yq362bbkGVyMKEcg78DvTY1cxXxylIoA_k/edit?usp=sharing

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Game devs suck at cybersecurity and we're all paying for it. Not only does it ruin the gaming experience, it puts us at risk of fraud and theft.

Leonardo Da Vinci's DNA might have been found on an old drawing. Maybe. Or maybe it's just someone else's. Hard to say.

Sword Art Online's director says anime shouldn't try to appeal to the west. That won't stop anime from trying though.

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Resources Mentioned

1. Ubisoft Under Fire: Rainbow Six Siege’s Latest Security Nightmare (Rainbow Six Siege Has Been Hacked Again, And Players Are Reportedly Getting 67-Day Bans)
2. Da Vinci Uncovered: The Genetics of a Genius (https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/leonardo-da-vincis-dna-may-be-embedded-in-his-art-and-scientists-think-theyve-managed-to-extract-some)
3. Sword Art Online’s Warning: Don’t Chase the West ('Sword Art Online' Director Thinks Anime Making Significant Gains On Hollywood, But Warns That Pandering To Global Audiences "Often Leads To failure")

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b-7f_R4w8tcrT7_fNTbCN1bwIg_YMAfcCpzY8Hrgb2Y/edit?usp=sharing

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Computer hardware has increased in price by 300% recently. We talk about why it happened and why it won't improve any time soon.

Wombats poo cubes. There's a good reason for that.

Boston Dynamics have announced their new robot model. Behind the CGI, what can it do?

Indian TV is going to be bigger than China's soon. DJ has some thoughts about that.

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Resources Mentioned

1. NVIDIA’s Secret Empire (NVIDIA: WTF?)
2. From Dirt to Dialogue: How Wombats Talk Through Poop (Why do wombats have square poop? - UGA Today)
3. The Rise of the Factory Humanoids: Atlas Unleashed (Boston Dynamics Atlas Unveils New Factory Ready Humanoid Robot at CES 2026)
4. India’s Streaming Boom: Real Growth or Just Vanity Numbers? (Asia-Pacific Video Revenue to Reach $196 Billion by 2030, With India Overtaking China in SVOD Subscriptions, Report Forecasts, Study: Asia-Pacific Video Revenue to Reach $196 Billion by 2030, Driven by Streaming and Social)

Full Show Notes : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VEDlPzGmQMCtKQEFIG7QMJ6oUGv4J2jQsGyx3Q94jLk/edit?usp=sharing

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