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Dec 19, 2024: Over an hour into the Steam winter sale and the site is still broken. Calm down people, the games aren’t going anywhere.
Dec 16, 2024: Anbernic’s GBA clone, the RG34XX, is up for order on their official store. I’ll definitely be picking one of these up, but I’ll wait …
Dec 13, 2024: Moondrop’s new Honkai Star Rail collab wireless earbuds look too good to pass up. I’m thinking these will end up being my dedicated gaming-on-the-go …
Dec 2, 2024: First snow
Nov 27, 2024: My Retroid Pocket 5 is here! This thing absolutely lives up to the hype. The OLED screen is just stellar.
Nov 26, 2024: Not terribly excited by this year’s initial LTT Store sales, but I needed a screwdriver and a few water bottles anyway so now is as good of a time as …
Nov 21, 2024: The Nintendo DS in 2024 The Nintendo DS turns 20 today. I never owned the original model when I was younger, but a few friends of mine did. I was always fascinated by the …
Nov 12, 2024: Valve has announced a new limited edition white Steam Deck. That’s it. No other changes. I still think the transparent black model looks better.
Nov 8, 2024: mini mini
Nov 5, 2024: Voted.
Nov 3, 2024: Retro Game Corps’ first impressions video on the Retroid Pocket 5 just went up on YouTube. Looks like it’s living up to the hype, and I’m super …
Nov 3, 2024: Could this São Paulo Grand Prix get any sillier? Actually, at this point, it very well could.
Oct 29, 2024: Turning the AC on. October 29th. 🥵
Oct 29, 2024: The new Mac mini is adorable! It might be time to replace my M1.
Oct 28, 2024: New Apple keyboards still have the awful arrow key layout.
Oct 22, 2024: Test
Oct 22, 2024: 🔗 If the new Xbox wireless headset has Dolby Atmos “now included at no extra cost,” why is it more expensive now?
Oct 15, 2024: 📺 Watching Love Live! Superstar!! s3e2 "TomaKanoTe"
Oct 11, 2024: 🔗 Red Dead Redemption is up for pre-order on Steam for $50. Classic Rockstar. I’ll wait for it to hit 10 bucks.
Oct 1, 2024: Sounds like Ryujinx has now been shut down by Nintendo just like Yuzu. What a shame.
Oct 1, 2024: Sounds like Ryujinx has now been shut down by Nintendo just like Yuzu. What a shame.
Sep 28, 2024: Happy birthday Ayaka! ❄️
Sep 24, 2024: 🤔 Series 10 watch died in under 5 hours today. Hope that’s not a recurring issue.
Sep 24, 2024: 🤔 Series 10 watch died in under 5 hours today. Hope that’s not a recurring issue.
Sep 20, 2024: 📱 Happy iPhone Day! I went all black this year, 16 Pro and Series 10.
Sep 20, 2024: 📱 Happy iPhone Day! I went all black this year, 16 Pro and Series 10.
Sep 18, 2024: I don’t think McDonalds was ready for the Genshin Impact collab to explode like it did. I’ve been on hold for an hour trying to contact support so I …
Sep 18, 2024: I don’t think McDonalds was ready for the Genshin Impact collab to explode like it did. I’ve been on hold for an hour trying to contact support so I …
Sep 16, 2024: 📱 Happy iOS 18 day!
Sep 15, 2024: A year ago today, I rode Japan’s Shinkansen for the first time, from Numazu to Kyoto. I want to go back.
Sep 14, 2024: 🔗 The Grand Tour: One for the Road Hats off to Jeremy, James, and Richard. Thanks for the many years of entertainment (and controversy).
Sep 14, 2024: 🤢 The Oreo-flavored Coca-Cola is not good.
Sep 13, 2024: After much deliberation, I’ve decided on the iPhone 16 Pro in black, downsizing from the 15 Pro Max I’ve had for the last year. I’m …
Sep 10, 2024: I’ve joined the iOS 18 party now that the RC is out. Large icons mode is 🔥
Sep 9, 2024: Jet Black is back!
Sep 8, 2024: Plot twist! As announced on Twitter, the Retroid Pocket 5 will now come with 8GB of RAM and launch with Android 13. No idea if this was just a …
Sep 6, 2024: 🔗 Retroid Pocket 5 full specs and pricing is up on the website. Pre-orders start Monday. Android 10 means Yuzu won’t run on it, which is a bit of a …
Sep 5, 2024: Big Boy rolled through town! So cool to see.
Sep 4, 2024: More details on the Retroid Pocket 5: Snapdragon 865 5.5" 1080p OLED 5000mAH battery 280g weight Gotta say, this runaround from Retroid is …
Sep 3, 2024: My Logitech G Pro X Superlight started flaking out on me, so I caved and bought a Superlight 2. Here’s hoping they’ve improved the build …
Sep 2, 2024: 🔗 Scratchpad is a new app from Sindre Sorhus that acts as a single-view scratchpad for any text that you need to hold onto. It’s like a simpler …
Sep 1, 2024: For once in my life, I got lucky with the weapon banner and pulled signature weapons for both Mualani and Kazuha! Now to start saving for Kinich.
Aug 30, 2024: 🔗 Retroid Pocket 5 color options These look so good! I’m torn between the GameCube and the Super Famicom colors. The SFC with a transparent backplate …
Aug 29, 2024: Got lucky on the weapon banner. 😎
Aug 28, 2024: 🔗 Retroid Pocket 5 teased If this has an OLED screen, I’ll be all over it.
Aug 21, 2024: Sky Cipher
Aug 16, 2024: Hyped for Natlan!
Aug 7, 2024: 🔗 Fate/stay night REMASTERED It only took 20 years.
Aug 3, 2024: Fate/stay night REMASTERED out next week! Hollow Ataraxia has also been announced as a follow-up.
Jul 28, 2024: 🌦️ Surprise rain shower!
Jul 21, 2024: 🤦♂️ McLaren
Jul 20, 2024: 1-2 for McLaren! Great job Lando & Oscar! #F1 🇭🇺
Jul 20, 2024: Go figure, right after I buy the Gamesir G8 they release the G8 Plus. I’ll probably just return my G8 since the Plus model works with Switch too. …
Jul 18, 2024: 🧡 KyoAni
Jul 17, 2024: This is the first year in a long time that I’ve had no desire to install an iOS beta. There just isn’t enough there to be worth dealing with the usual …
Jul 16, 2024: What a deal!
Jul 14, 2024: Whoa, someone wrote a Jellyfin client for Switch. Gave it a try, it works really well! …
Jul 13, 2024: Happy birthday Yohane 😈
Jul 8, 2024: RG35XXSP is here. Definitely made the right choice going with the transparent blue!
Jul 8, 2024: 🥲 Time to watch the Hibike! Euphonium finale and try to hold back the waterworks.
Jun 23, 2024: 🔗 muOS 2405.1 Refried Beans dropped today, with added support for the RG35XXSP!
Jun 22, 2024: 🏎️ Pole for Lando! Let’s go! #F1 🇪🇸
Jun 21, 2024: This car is all I’ve ever wanted in Forza Horizon.
Jun 17, 2024: 🔗 Odin 2 Mini reviews seem to reinforce what I figured would be the case. It looks to be a great little handheld, but not worth buying if you already …
Jun 15, 2024: My first Anbernic handheld has arrived. I’m in love with this little thing already.
Jun 13, 2024: 🔗 Kingdom Hearts is out on Steam today. Regular price $99.99 for the full pack, on sale for $68.99 until June 27.
Jun 12, 2024: 🎮 Turns out I bought both the RG35XXH and RG35XXSP since I found a few coupon deals for a nice discount. We’ll see which one sticks, or if I end up …
Jun 8, 2024: 🏎️ Put together the new Aston Martin Formula 1 LEGO set today while watching the Canadian GP qualifying. It’s pretty much the same as the McLaren set, …
Jun 6, 2024: 🔗 Anbernic RG35XX SP: An Almost Beginner’s Guide I’m writing this about two weeks after the SP officially released, and I’ve already seen …
Jun 5, 2024: My Hatsune Miku Secret Lair showed up today, no shipping notification or anything. I got the Elvish Mystic bonus card, though it sounds like some on …
Jun 4, 2024: Managed to get both Clorinde and Sethos today!
Jun 3, 2024: 🎮 3DS emulation is here on iOS with the latest update to Folium, which also runs GBA and DS games. It sounds like 3DS performance is not great, …
Jun 1, 2024: ☕ Saturday morning, time for coffee, KonoSuba, and Yuru Camp.
May 29, 2024: ❄️ Ayaka still carrying me through Abyss floor 12.
May 29, 2024: 🍱 Naka-Kon was amazing! I can now say I’ve actually met a Love Live seiyuu. Thank you Aikyan for coming all the way out to the midwest for us!
Apr 20, 2024: 🥱 Who’s ready for another riveting episode of The Max Verstappen Show tomorrow?
Apr 13, 2024: iGBA is out now on the iOS App Store! The first of hopefully many emulators. I would love to see RetroArch here soon!
Apr 13, 2024: ☕ Saturday morning coffee & anime. Starting KonoSuba season 3 today!
Apr 1, 2024: It’s April, which means we’re about to begin one of the greatest anime seasons ever. 3 of my top 5 favorite anime will be getting a new …
Mar 16, 2024: Dipping my toes into the world of IEMs with a pair of Moondrop May headphones. They’re super comfortable, sound fantastic, and the included …
Mar 13, 2024: National Treasure 3’s Chances Get A Blunt Response From Nicolas Cage No, there is no National Treasure 3. If you want to find treasure, …
Mar 13, 2024: Beets: The command line music management tool I’ve been looking for. I recently moved all my media to a new Unraid server; this ought to do the trick …
Feb 18, 2024: Got to try Vision Pro for a 30 minute demo today. Passthrough was excellent, but I could still see a lot of haziness especially further out. Field of …
Feb 11, 2024: Seeing all this discussion about Vision Pro kinda makes me just want to get a Quest 3, at least until the second iteration of Apple’s headset is out …
Feb 5, 2024: Liyue Harbor looking good for Lantern Rite!
Feb 1, 2024: Project Tapestry: With Project Tapestry, we’ll create a universal, chronological timeline for iOS for any data that’s publicly available on the …
Jan 24, 2024: My first Mac: 2008 Unibody MacBook Favorite Mac I ever owned: 14” M1 MacBook Pro Favorite Mac I never owned: iMac G4
Jan 20, 2024: My childhood.
Jan 19, 2024: Bussin’
Jan 8, 2024: I made the 6 hour drive out to Chicago to go to the Genshin Impact concert. It was an incredible experience getting to hear the music of Teyvat from a …
Dec 3, 2023: I picked up the Horizon Zero Dawn LEGO set on a Black Friday deal, and what a neat build this is. The model makes for a great display piece.
Oct 13, 2023: Shibuya
Aug 18, 2023: It’s pretty great driving the biggest, baddest EV in town.
Jul 14, 2023: Decided to use some of my Microsoft reward points on the Starfield limited edition controller. Love this one, look at those clear triggers!
Jul 7, 2023: Mouth of the cave.
Jul 5, 2023: Crossing the Ohio, Part 2.
Jul 5, 2023: Crossing the Ohio.
Jul 3, 2023: Play well.
Jun 23, 2023: Iced chai is lovely on a hot day like today.
Jun 11, 2023: Starfield looks like a game I’m going to sink a ridiculous amount of time into. September 6th can’t come soon enough!
Jun 10, 2023: Silver Wolf finally showed up after losing the 50/50 to Welt, and 70 more warps.
Jun 10, 2023: A notification popped up on my iPad saying that it was no longer being backed up, so I did a bit of investigation into my iCloud storage. Turns out …
Jun 5, 2023: New Apple things I’m most excited for: Interactive widgets. Should have been there from the start. StandBy. Time to buy a bunch of charging …
Jun 3, 2023: Great day for a roadeo.
Jun 1, 2023: Wild storm clouds today. The rain was very welcome!
May 20, 2023: I finally got around to finishing and hanging The Great Wave set. It’s a work of art! (pun intended) I really love the clever parts usage in the …
May 6, 2023: Wyrmwood x Dispel elemental dice arrived today! 🤩 I opted for the iridescent space dice and a cherry dice vault. They’re every bit as pretty as I …
Apr 29, 2023: A couple friends and I have been playing Across the Obelisk online together lately. Think Slay the Spire, but multiplayer co-op. A bit overwhelming if …
Apr 27, 2023: My weekend art project has been acquired!
Apr 20, 2023: Well, I caved. I thought having Japanese symbols on my keyboard was a novel idea, and it fit with the KAT Explosion theme well. Turns out it’s not …
Apr 20, 2023: Great to see Starship and Super Heavy booster make it off the pad today! That launch had some major Kerbal Space Program vibes complete with a …
Apr 18, 2023: Tailscale has been a lifesaver for me since my ISP stopped offering a dedicated IPv4 address, and they’ve just announced new usage tiers and …
Apr 16, 2023: My little write-only Twitter app that posts a few times a week to a mostly-private account was suspended from API access today. Indeed the end of an …
Apr 14, 2023: Just finished watching the first episode (movie?) of Oshi no Ko. Oh. My. Goodness. I don’t know what I was expecting from this show, but surely …
Apr 14, 2023: Ai’s Eyes
Apr 14, 2023: Looks like my almost-but-not-quite-local game store ordered a few too many March of the Machine prerelease kits. If you’re in Des Moines, go give …
Apr 14, 2023: Our first electric buses have arrived! I’m excited to get to drive these around town pretty soon.
Apr 13, 2023: Federico Viticci’s S-GPT shortcut just got an update to version 1.0.2, bringing some nice new features. I’m looking forward to experimenting with …