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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 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.

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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 …

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, …

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 6, 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 …