As many of my other friends here have done, I'm moving this journal over to Dreamwidth. Realistically I assume this only affects a few people because almost nobody I know still reads this, especially since 95% of my posts are friends-only ( Read more... )

In my last post symbioid posted a link to a NY Times article on the increasing temperatures in the US ( Read more... )

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Perhaps it's time for a "real" post for a change. I've been working a lot lately on my retro gaming shit. Figured I should document it. I have a long list of consoles to do various updates to, and other things to do. But first the coolest one...

I dumped my Trog NES prototype.


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Many times people ask me why I like Phantasy Star so much. I think if you played it when it came out you'd perhaps understand how groundbreaking it was. Best graphics of the time. Multiple planets. Woman as the main lead character (and not a bimbo one at that). 3D dungeons. Many frames of battle animations. Destructible terrain. All of these ( Read more... )

Something weird is happening in the retro gaming scene. Prices for games on certain systems have skyrocketed while others have gone down significantly and it makes little sense. Recently I've been pricing out the value of various games I own, as well as games I'd like to purchase and found some things that are quite odd ( Read more... )

This winter I'm going to be doing a massive update to my arcade cabinet, which next month turns 10 years old (crazy when I think about it). I worked a bit this weekend on parting out some of the hardware, and tonight I worked on CPU's for the new rig I'm going to build ( Read more... )

We had to put Cooper down today. We woke up and he was sitting by his food bowl but couldn't move. His entire lower half of his body was limp and wouldn't move. He was also having issues breathing ( Read more... )

In WarGames there's the quote "the only winning move is not to play". I now feel that way about social media. Apparently the cardinal sin of social media is "unfollow" or "unfriend". I find this interesting for a couple of reasons ( Read more... )

Now that I'm back to viewing social media, I checked my FB account. The right hand side has a lot of "people you may know". Decided I should block that with my ad blocker so I don't see it. When selecting the div to block, turns out they named the div "ego_section".

Well, at least they're honest.