#qubic

[fkukso]

Al norte de Argentina, a casi 5000 metros de altura, nuevas ‘ventanas’ se abren para descifrar los misterios del universo. La última es un observatorio cosmológico internacional, que ya rastrea las huellas de la furiosa expansión cósmica ocurrida una fracción de segundo después del Big Bang.

Mi reportaje para AGENCIA SINC. Se lee acá.

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"THREE POW COINS TO WATCH IN 2024"

​Bitcoin still reigns as the top Proof-of-Work (POW) blockchain, creating numerous millionaires over the years. However, some investors worry about its limited upside potential due to significant price movements. In this regard, altcoins present opportunities for small and retail investors. Recently, a new altcoin using the POW mechanism, similar to Bitcoin, has caught attention, as reported by newsBTC on the 1st.

Qubic (QUBIC), POW Coin Similar to Bitcoin

Qubic (QUBIC) coin is gaining popularity on social media platforms like Twitter, and for good reason. This coin's blockchain utilizes the same POW mechanism as Bitcoin and is led by Dominic Schiener, co-founder of IOTA, adding credibility and attracting reasonable followers. Trading at less than $0.1, it could be a promising long-term investment. With a circulating supply of 71.425 billion and a market cap of around $200 million, 16% of the total supply has already been burned.

Nexa (NEXA), Leading POW Altcoin

Nexa (NEXA) is another POW blockchain, but unlike Bitcoin, it employs the UTXO layer, supporting native tokens and smart contracts. Addressing scalability issues faced by Bitcoin and Ethereum, Nexa uses signatures and UTXO queries. Currently, Nexa token trades at less than a penny with a market cap of about $32.4 million.

Firo (FIRO)

Firo (FIRO) is a promising POW coin rebranded from Zcoin, emphasizing privacy. Priced at $1.84, it has a fully diluted market cap of less than $40 million, the lowest in this category. The price has been relatively stable over the past week, suggesting accumulation before a potential upward movement.

[iloveabunchofgames]

1/29 - Week In Review

#JakeReviewsItch Week In Review Archives

This week's reviews: 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 2000:1: A Space Felony 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 a completely normal dating simulation that is definitely sweet, innocent and normal 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 A Dance of Fire and Ice 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 A Mortician's Tale 🧡🧡🤍🤍🤍 A Day In the Woods 🧡🤍🤍🤍🤍 A e r o c r a f t 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 A Forgetful Loop

Game of the Week

Video games. Space. How many times have we seen this chocolate-and-peanut-butter combo? We've piloted and landed spacecraft, and lord knows we've zapped an alien or two, but you know what you don't see very often beyond the digital atmosphere? Due process of law.

Oh, you know what? Frog Fractions. I almost forgot about the courtroom scene on Bug Mars. Fine, so 2000:1: A Space Felony or How I Came to Value My Life and MURDER Mercilessly. isn't the first or the best game to remind us that law and order are the bedrock of society, even beyond the confines of national and planetary borders, but it is a game about gathering evidence and presenting a solid argument in the case of Fake HAL 9000 v. An Entire Spaceship's Dead Crew. Give it a try. It's short, it's free, and it's easily the best Itch game I played this week.

QubicGames

The early days of Nintendo Switch were the best. See, the best way to get visibility on the eShop was for a game to sell a lot of units, and the best way to sell—short of making a good, well-marketed game that people wanted play—was to put a game on sale for a couple cents. The sale would end, and the game would still be on the best-seller list alongside the big-budget blockbuster. Additionally, depending on one's system settings, owning a game from a publisher might enable that publisher to push advertisements to the owner's Switch News section. Shady tactics, but for those of us who kept up with sales, those were great times. Sure, most of the games I downloaded were trash, but the prices were so low, and there were enough pleasant surprises, that it was usually worth rolling the dice. Nintendo got wise, though, and quietly implemented some policy changes. Now, you'll rarely see prices dip below $1.99. And that's why the latest QubicGames sale is a big deal. Now through the middle of February, most of their lineup is available for just 50¢ a pop. (You won't see the sales prices in the eShop unless you own at least one Qubic release. Fortunately, Coloring Book is currently free. Claim it, and then watch the prices melt.) Qubic is actually really cool about breaking the $1.99 barrier. I snagged several games for 99¢ just a few weeks ago, which felt like a smokin' hot deal. If only I'd known. They also have a history of briefly making a handful of games free in December.

I'd love to tell you a little bit about all the games I recommend, but there's a problem: We're not talking about the kind of cheap eShop garbage described above. I have player 39 Qubic games, and most of them are pretty good. Some of them are all-time classics at any price.

The most efficient purchasing advice I could offer is a ranked list.

A Ranked List of the 39 QubicGames Games I Own

BIT.TRIP BEAT

BIT.TRIP VOID

Tharsis

BIT.TRIP FATE

BIT.TRIP RUNNER

BIT.TRIP CORE

BIT.TRIP FLUX

LOUD

Pocket Pool

Pocket Mini Golf 2

One Strike

REKT! High Octane Stunts

Puzzle Book

Good Night, Knight!

Pudding Monsters

Dungeon Top

Akane

Zombie Blast Crew

Space Pioneer

Door Kickers

Chex Quest HD

Rimelands: Hammer of Thor

Akuto: Showdown

UTOPIA 9 - A Volatile Vacation

Coffee Crisis

Warlocks 2: God Slayers

Gravity Rider Zero

Timothy and the Mysterious Forest

#RaceDieRun

Wondershot

Coloring Book

Koloro

Escape Doodland

Mini Trains

Pocket Mini Golf

Mana Spark

Robonauts

Wreckin’ Ball Adventure

Eyes: The Horror Game

I'd be happy to talk about any of these in more detail, but they're so cheap! I keep futzing with the order of this list, but all you need to know is that the top 11 are fantastic. You can safely skip 29-39, although the only one that's outright bad is Eyes: The Horror Game. The rest deliver at least $0.49 of entertainment. Peep the store pages and see what matches your interests. There are still a few gaps in my Qubic knowledge, so take a look at the sale page if you're into, I dunno, boxing and sausage. (Ugh. Do I need to buy the sausage games?) Yuck, I sound like such a shill. To be clear, I'm not getting paid for this, nor do I have any other incentive to promote these products. I just really love those BIT.TRIP games.

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[ecrivainalene]

Leviathan Panel at Otakon 2024

I was OVERJOYED to be at the Leviathan panel during Otakon 2024! I'll do my best to recap it below, but if you want a more coherent play by play, this Twitter user did an excellent job.

I've got a handful of photos, recap of Sharp Gender Discussion, plus misc. things I remember.

Not everyone was up for the entire time, but I snapped this photo near the end when everyone was on stage! From left to right: Waki Kiyotaka (Studio Orange), Yoshihiro Watanabe (Studio Orange), Scott Westerfeld, Christophe Ferreira (Quibic Pictures), Justin Leach (Quibic Pictures), Katrina Minett (Quibic Pictures), and Diana Garnet (ending theme vocalist).

New concept art! Looks like Dr. Barlow, Klopp, Alek, and Sharp, right before the Germans attack the Leviathan.

More under the cut!

Alternative shot of that art bc I couldn't get my lighting right:

Clanker and Darwinist technology designs. Watanave explained that Studio Orange's early days were spent doing contract work on Gundam anime, so I can't wait to see how that translates to the Clanker machines.

Some more concept art:

By the way, the entire series is being adapted at once - so we'll get the complete story at once! That in mind, the second image here makes me think of that maneuver near the beginning of Goliath to pick up the cargo.

Sharp!!! Look at them!!!

I don't have much to say about these but I'm fairly sure I hadn't seen them before. I am wondering if they downsized Alek's crew for the sake of the story, or perhaps we just haven't seem Bauer and Hoffman yet.

We got some new character art! The panel was very cryptic about who the character designer is. Apparently they're pretty well known, but they can't share it yet!

Volger I am so sorry your photo was unfocused. Forgive me.

The panel jokingly described him as "Alek's dad," which feels accurate. And maybe I misunderstood, but it sounds like he plays an even more important role in the anime than he does in the books. I've always considered Volger to be a pretty important character, so I wonder what else he'll do in this new series.

Klopp looks exactly like how I pictured him in my mind!! They said if Volger is Alek's dad, then Klopp is like his mom. Which is very fair but also made me laugh a lot.

Dr. Barlow!! She looks amazing. There was a lot of talk about the dynamic between her and Volger and how they're often playing mental chess games with each other. I'm really glad they're leaning into that dynamic.

And one more concept art:

This looks like the visit to Istanbul, which I'm desperately hoping means we'll see my favorite chaotic bisexual, Lilit.

That's all of the photos I have! They also showed us a preview of the show plus a live performance of the ending song with Diana Garnet. No video recording was allowed and I don't break rules, but believe me when I tell you it was stunning. The world feels so full of life and adventure and I can't wait to see the final show.

Tbh I was too busy holding back tears of joy but one thing I remember distinctly is there's a shot of Sharp getting ready for the day, and we see a sheet of paper with a bunch of names written and crossed out before finally (I think) "Dylan" is circled.

Which actually brings me to the Q&A part. TLDR, between the use of "Sharp" for Deryn's name, Scott referring to Sharp as "she/he/they" during the panel, and the scene I mentioned earlier, I feel really hopeful about how they're approaching Deryn's gender and identity in this adaptation.

I asked a question about this at the Q&A and voice recorded it, so I'll try to transcribe it here as best I can because the audio is not great lol. I stumbled through my question so I trimmed it down here but I'll transcribe the response as clearly as I can!

Me: I just finished re-reading [the series] for the first time since I was probably in high school, and one of the things that interests me about this adaptation is the approach to Sharp's character... I guess I'm just interested, like, was there a lot of thought put behind, or what kind of thought was put behind how to approach their character in the anime, I guess as a chance to re-approach the story however many years after it was originally written.

Scott Westerfeld: Yeah, there's a lot to that. The "girl dressing as a boy" as a trope was something completely different in 2007 when I started writing this than it is now. And so we really approached Deryn's identity as what was at stake rather than just... rather than just her being in disguise, it's about their recreating themselves and becoming a different person and transitioning and, and so... but it's always been interesting to me that the words that I wrote back in 2009, 10, 11, y'know, as an old guy who grew up in Texas in the 70s - who was David Bowie fan! - but otherwise didn't have a lot of access into issues of gender, I'm amazed at how many people have been [able to?] adopt Deryn/Dylan as one of their own. I just got an email a week ago from a trans boy whose chosen name is Dylan. So it is amazing to me how whatever imperfections or whatever problematics there are in the text, people still find their way into what they need from a character. And as a writer, I can say that I always respected that character, I always respected their choices, I always respected who they were. I never tried to stick them into a dress and have everyone go "Ooh now you're pretty 'because 'cause you're in dress!" We didn't do that, and I think that what may be important for people and I think that's why it's still what's gonna work here, but it's been fun to be able to update it and everybody on the team's been really great about understanding that.

TLDR I don't want to get anyone's hopes up too high, but I'm really appreciative of the care that's being taken with Sharp's story and identity in this adaptation. It seems like Scott and the others on the team are taking that into account, and I'm excited to see how it plays out.

Other random things I remember:

THERE WAS AN ALEK COSPLAYER. I took a photo with them but I won't post it without their consent. Just trust that they looked fantastic.

Scott said one of the first things he was told was that Alek can't actually kill Nikola Tesla because he's too well loved by people in Japan, which I think is the funniest possible reason for a change to be made in an adaptation.

Diana Garnet (they/any) mentioned how much they love Sharp (don't we all) and also how they used to work at a Barnes and Noble and remembers selling lots of Westerfeld books!

Scott said his approach in writing Leviathan was taking everything he'd always wanted to write about and basically throwing it together, because he was just coming off of the success of Uglies and figured he could get away with it.

If I remember anything else I'll add on to this post! Overall, it was a wonderful panel and I'm incredibly excited for this project.

[geekcavepodcast]

The Leviathan Teaser

"In 1914, on the eve of war, a fugitive prince and a girl in disguise meet aboard a bioengineered airship, the HMS Leviathan, and change the course of history." (Netflix)

The Leviathan is based on the novels by Scott Westerfeld, illustrated by Keith Thompson. The series is directed by Christophe Ferreira. Studio Orange is overseeing animation production with Qubic Pictures producing. Music is by Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi with original songs by Joe Hisaishi.

The Leviathan will hit Netflix in 2025.

[newsintheshell]

📢 LEVIATHAN: LA SAGA STEAMPUNK DI SCOTT WESTERFELD STA PER DIVENTARE UNA SERIE ANIMATA, IN ARRIVO SU NETFLIX!

L'anime è in produzione presso lo studio Orange (Trigun Stampede, Beastars, Land of the Lustrous) e debutterà globalmente in streaming nel corso del 2025.

Sarajevo, 1914: dopo l’attentato all’arciduca d’Austria scoppia la Prima guerra mondiale. Ma se a combattersi fossero bestie e macchine? Allora sareste nel mondo di Leviathan, Behemoth e Goliath. Sareste nel mondo di Alek e Deryn. È come una guerra tra universi differenti. Da una parte, le potenze Cigolanti e le loro macchine. Dall’altra, gli alleati Darwinisti e le loro creature di sintesi. Carburante contro cibo, metallo contro pelle. Alek contro Deryn. Aleksander è il figlio dell’arciduca assassinato, in fuga da un impero di cui nessuno lo vuole erede. Deryn è una ragazza arruolata in vesti maschili nell’Aviazione britannica, decisa a vivere come vuole. Si incontrano per caso ma si alleano per scelta e affrontano il conflitto insieme: da Istanbul a New York, tra battaglie aeree e rivoluzioni, Alek e Deryn impareranno che cosa sono il caos e l’odio, ma anche l’amicizia e la speranza – forse addirittura l’amore.

Prima prova alla regia per Christophe Ferreira, che si cimenta con l'interessante mondo fantastorico e retrofuturistico immaginato dallo scrittore americano, la cui trilogia di romanzi per ragazzi (composta da Leviathan, Behemoth e Goliath) è edita in Italia da Einaudi.

[crypto195]

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Justin Leach has been added to the Otakon 2024 Guest List

Justin Leach has been added to the Otakon 2024 Guest List #otakon #otakon2024

Justin Leach will be a guest at Otakon 2024. He is the CEO and an executive producer at Qubic Pictures. Leach has over two decades of experience working in the animation industry in the United States and Japan. In 1997, he began his career as an animator at Blue Sky Studios, having worked on several award-winning commercials, shorts, and films. In 2001, he moved to Japan to work as a CG creator…

[kaneda18]

Practicing patience

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[pancake-breakfast]

Ok! Notes from the first Orange panel at AX 2024! They were discouraging photography and video so this will just be text (mobile Tumblr hates my photos, anyway). But first, a bit of a TL;DR.

TL:DR: While they talked about Trigun: Stampede, Beastars, and their new upcoming title Leviathan, they mostly focused on Leviathan since Stampede has its own panel later. (I'm not sure about Beastars since I haven't been following the show as closely.)

Ok, on with the notes!

(Edited to add links.)

Studio Orange Presents: Beastars, Trigun, and...

The panel guests were Kiyotaka Waki (producer at Orange) and Yoshihiro Watanabe (producer at Orange and also played translator for Waki), as well as Justin Leach (producer for Eden and Star Wars: Visions).

They started off the panel by noting that exactly zero of the people on the panel (including the mod) slept the previous night.

Then they showed a sizzle reel in honor of Orange's 20th anniversary, highlighting all the stuff they've done in that time. There were a lot of cheers for Trigun, Beastars, and Land of the Lustrous in particular.

After the reel, they talked briefly about the history of Orange, how they'd gone from animating mecha for other people's shows (like they did for Evangelion and Code: Geass) to doing entire properties themselves. They're particularly proud of how their studio has grown from 4 people to... I forgot how many. Much more than 4. And they can now work on multiple titles simultaneously.

On to Trigun! They didn't get into it much since it's getting its own panel at the con, but they did show some pages from the Trigun Bible on Plants, and Watanabe noted he'd post them up on the bird app later today. (Edit: You can find them here.) Watanabe also said they can't release the whole Bible yet, which may just have me thinking hopefully, but hey, there's a chance! He seems to genuinely love sharing pages from it, at least.

On to Beastars! They read a thank you letter from the director to the fans, and also showed a subtitled video that I'd guess was also a thank you from someone else, but I was too far back to read the subtitles. (An ongoing problem with watching anything subbed at this con is the subs being entirely blocked by other people's heads unless you're in like the first few rows... but I digress.) They also showed a new key visual (which I'm sure is gonna be floating around social media somewhere at this point) and noted the third and final season of the show will air on Netflix in December. Waki noted he started reading the manga in 2017, and he's thrilled to get to work on a full adaptation of the story since it's rare to get to do that.

On to Leviathan! I'm gonna break this one up a bit because it's long. This is Studio Orange's new upcoming title in collaboration with Netflix and Qubic Pictures (the studio that did Eden, which was a great story overall and I definitely recommend it). They also worked extensively with the author of the original work, Scott Westerfield, who helped keep them consistent with the characters and themes.

The story is a dieselpunk alternate world WWI story about a runaway Austrian Prince named Alec who meets this Scottish girl, Sharp, on a bioengineered airship, and the relationships these people from disparate backgrounds have with others and each other.

The German/Austrian side of the conflict is a faction known as the "Clankers," who focus on mechs and technology to conquer the world via machines, while the faction Sharp belongs to is called the "Darwinists," who focus on DNA modification of creatures as a way to connect with nature.

They showed a preview of it that honestly looked really cool, but again, no recording. It had flying whale ships. Like... whales they strapped a box to and fly around on.

Orange is excited to get to "go back to their roots" with this and work on a Mecha title again, especially since this title will be theirs this time.

They acquired/absorbed (I'm not sure on the details) a team that specializes in background art for this project, and yeah, the backgrounds are detailed and amazing.

They noted a lot of animators reflect their own lives in their work, and they feel Leviathan is no exception. The international collaboration (they also have people from Europe working on this) lends itself well to a story about people from disparate cultures coming together and realizing they have more in common and more similar passions and desires than they have differences.

They'll be talking more about Leviathan at Otakon in August.

That's all for now! I'll try to update on the other Orange/Trigun panels if I get into them!

[fabuloustripodfish]

Me, after watching Leviathan Anime Teaser (2)

Deryn sharp with long hair

Alek’s new cloth(+scarp)

Stylish Action scene

Wonderful trailer bgm

Cool Stormwalker

I’m thinking ‘bout trailer all day

Although there aren’t character’s voice but I’m happy

ORANGE(+QUBIC PICTURES) PLEASE RELEASE SECOND TRAILER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!!

[decadadedecadencia]

Qubic, London

[soranatus]

hi hello thanks for posting the Leviathan anime visdev sketches. You're doing holy work. May I ask where you found them? Are they posted online?

No problem, I love sharing them with people! They’ve been posted on twitter on a few accounts: the director of the anime - Christophe Ferreira, Studio Orange, & Qubic Pictures

I’ve been posting them here in case people without twitter accounts had wanted to see them and keep up with project!

[animemakeblog]

“Leviathan” The Orange, Qubic Pictures Produce Anime for 2025

The anime version of Scott Westerfeld's novel Leviathan is being produced by Orange Animation Studio and Qubic Pictures, according to an announcement from Netflix Japan. The company also unveiled a major visual (shown above) and the core personnel. In 2025, the anime is expected to be available on Netflix globally.

[mrviperfang]

Today, I'm taking a look at a classic Indie title: BIT.TRIP RUNNER! It's currently on sale along with A LOT of other games from Qubic Games as part of their 19th anniversary sale on the Switch eShop!

[territorioblockchain]

Web3 Hackathon: Beyond the frontier

Los próximos 21 y 22 de septiembre, nuestros amigos de Vottun.com organizan un Web3 Hackathon junto a Qubic en el edificio 42 Telefónica de Barcelona. ¡Os animamos a inscribiros! 💪 El objetivo de este evento es crear nuevos proyectos en #Web3 gracias a las APIs de Vottun. Puedes apuntarte si eres desarrollador, diseñador UX/UI o tienes perfil de negocio, va a ser un fin de semana lleno de retos…