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Disco Elysium is the latest victim of Australia’s Classification Board, those evil boomers who want to stop you having fun. Ok, I’m only exaggerating a little. It took us this long to get R18 games, why do they keep getting banned? Why does the ACB treat games differently to movies? There’s a long history of video game censorship in Australia, and we spent way longer than planned talking about it.Some ants live significantly longer than others, being waited on hand and foot by the workers. But they aren’t the queen, they’re just workers infected with tapeworms. This is the most interesting example of parasitism I think I’ve ever seen, and I’m really hoping we work out how to do it to people soon.DJ couldn’t pick just one thing to talk about in pop culture, so we got the merger of Warner Media and Discovery, and Japan’s pick for the next live action Hollywood anime movie. They’ve got some very interesting views on the reason Hollywood should adapt their pick, and it might even be an anime you’ve never heard of.Disco Elysium Unbanned- https://www.kotaku.com.au/2021/05/disco-elysium-has-been-unbanned-in-australia-gets-r18-rating/The Curious Case of the Immortal Ants - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-never-aging-ants-with-a-terrible-secret/ar-BB1gSGNuPop Culture Wrap Around- Future of DC comics - https://bleedingcool.com/comics/what-does-warnermedia-discovery-merger-wmd-mean-for-dc-comics/- Japan says no to live action anime movies by Hollywood - https://soranews24.com/2021/05/15/japanese-fans-make-landslide-pick-for-next-anime-they-want-a-hollywood-live-action-adaptation-of/Nerdful thingsDJ- Jupiter’s Legacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%27s_Legacy_(TV_series)Rating: 2.5/5Professor- Love Death & Robots Volume 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love,_Death_%26_Robots#Volume_II_(2021)Rating: 2.5/5Other topics discussedSnowpiercer (an American post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller television drama series that premiered on TNT on May 17, 2020. It is based on both the 2013 film of the same name, directed by Bong Joon-ho and the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, from which the film was adapted, by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowpiercer_(TV_series)The Long Dark (a first-person survival video game developed and published by Hinterland Studio. The player assumes the role of a crash-landed bush pilot Will Mackenzie who must survive the frigid Canadian wilderness after a geomagnetic regional storm disaster.)- https://store.steampowered.com/app/305620/The_Long_Dark/Med-X (Med-X was originally to be named morphine in Fallout 3, but this resulted in the Australian Classification Board refusing its classification and thereby making it illegal to distribute the game in Australia.)- https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Med-X#Behind_the_scenes- https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/8go23r/til_that_medx_was_originally_to_be_named_morphine/Millennials (also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MillennialsClassification Review Board (The Classification Review Board is made up of a Convenor, a Deputy Convenor and other Review Board members. The Convenor is responsible for managing the Review Board and its decision making processes.)- https://www.classification.gov.au/about-us/classification-review-boardPredator 2 (a 1990 American science fiction action horror film written by brothers Jim and John Thomas, directed by Stephen Hopkins, and starring Danny Glover, Ruben Blades, Gary Busey, María Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Peter Hall.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_2Predator 2 Scene - El Scorpio drugged up- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx0Ca_zbmvsBreaking Bad (an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan.)- https://en.wiki...