🔗 Kingdom Hearts is out on Steam today. Regular price $99.99 for the full pack, on sale for $68.99 until June 27.
🎮 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 finding different use cases for both of them.
🏎️ 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, with a few differences in the aero bits. Nice to see they paid attention to those little details.
🔗 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 multiple reports of users' batteries swelling up and failing.
It’s a bit of a bummer to hear about battery issues with the RG35XXSP. Still, I’m excited to pick one of these up once they get this worked out. I’ve been looking for something smaller and more pocketable than the Odin 2 and the SP sounds like it’s the one.
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 Reddit are reporting that Snapcaster Mage is a possibility too! Wish they would have just put that in the pack itself instead of being random.
🎮 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, however, thanks to JIT not being supported on App Store apps. Maybe this will change with iOS 18? Please, Apple?
🍱 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!
iGBA is out now on the iOS App Store! The first of hopefully many emulators. I would love to see RetroArch here soon!
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 season, among some other heavy hitters returning this spring.
- Hibike! Euphonium season 3
- Yuru Camp season 3
- KonoSuba season 3
- Slime season 3
- Irregular at Magic High season 3
- Mushoku Tensei season 2 part 2
- Demon Slayer Hashira Training Arc
- Spice and Wolf
These next few months are stacked!
Dipping my toes into the world of IEMs with a pair of Moondrop May headphones. They’re super comfortable, sound fantastic, and the included USB-C DSP cable is really handy. It works great with my various Apple devices, Steam Deck, and PC. Unfortunately it does not work with the Nintendo Switch unless you connect a separate 3.5mm cable to the earbuds themselves.
Of course, as these hobbies go, now that I know what they have to offer I’m looking at a nicer set of Moondrop IEMs. Their Dusk 2 earbuds aren’t out yet but should be pretty soon!
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, don’t look at Disney, okay? It’s not there.
Nic Cage is the real national treasure.
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 to get my music library back into shape.
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 view was a lot narrower than I expected.
- Text was super sharp, much better than other headsets I’ve used before.
- Eye tracking was spot on, but I can’t say the same about hand tracking. Had a few false activations and missed some pinches.
- Immersive video is cool, hope it catches on especially for sports content!
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 and the price comes down.