eight words I hadn't expected seeing in this particular order today: "Back to the Future 40th Anniversary Energy Drink"

Trying to clean up space on my Macbook and found that Giphy Capture is taking 26GB! Also, the ~/Library/Caches folder is a bad offender. Adobe taking 40GB after uninstalling Creative Cloud a year ago.

I've been waiting years for this!

Just saw @authorblu.es streaming a bit of Annalog, a really interesting NES game (currently with a Kickstarter to make a physical version) that the developer describes as a 'Zachtroidvania'. That is, an exploration platformer where you solve open-ended problems by writing basic code. On the NES.

QTP with a ship that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek 🚀

Columbo #S01E02 Ransom for a Dead Man 01:07:30

There's actually a ROM hack for the MD version of Bart vs the Space Mutants that makes it more playable: - Dedicated run button - Button for spray paint/weapons - Higher jump - More saves @stuartgipp.bsky.social mentioned it on @retronauts.bsky.social last week www.romhacking.net/hacks/7385/

Mikan works as a stationmaster at the Ciaotou Sugar Factory Station on the Kaohsiung Metro in Taiwan. He was originally a local cat who lived near the station, but the staff and passengers cared for him and he became the "face of the station".

Missing my favourite Dr. Loomis line from the beginning! "You don't know what death is!"

Pier 2 Art Center has a King of Fighters exhibition as part of the K.O. 格鬥祭 Fighting Festival event The life-sized arcade installation is fun for a photo, and the kids got a chance to play a mini arcade Here's the exhibition web page: pier2.org/exhibition/i... #KoF #Taiwan #SNK

Looking for some new pixel art desktop wallpaper I thought about using the backgrounds from 2D fighting games. Of course someone else has already done the hard work. Gallery here: imgur.com/a/various-fi... Now I'm wondering if it's possible to get the animated backgrounds for video wallpaper

Reading 2001 got me back into sci-fi so I went back and re-watched 12 Monkeys, A Scanner Darkly, and found this gem in my watchlist: Prospect (2018) What's the future gonna be like for normal people? Scavenging to make a living, and trying to reach a connecting space ship to go home boxd.it/iijg

Super Mario Super Star handbag with lights inside

I'd seen this driftwood before, but this was my first time to look closely and realise there are actually bark carvings in it. They are subtle like silhouettes so easy to miss The artwork is by Katherina Eckert, who it seems is an artist living in Taichung The location is Kouhu in Yunlin

Spending some time in rural Taiwan for the new year

Found another robot, this time holding two persimmons, at Taiwan Sugar in Chiayi

TIL: You can deep link into a web page without needing an ID tag using `Copy Link to Highlight`. Basically, add this to the end of the URL, followed by the text in the page to scroll to/highlight: #:~:text=

I bought this Famicom controller universal TV remote in Japan in 2006. Every few years I dig this out and have no idea how to reprogram it. The only guide I can find is a a 17 year old 240p Youtube video, so here it is: 1. Press A 2. Press B and Left for 5 seconds 3. When the TV turns off, press A

Started a new jigsaw puzzle 1000 piece Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe

This looks really interesting! My first thought was a replacement to using SMB to access my Linux server via Mac OS (which has terrible performance), but there's a lot of possibilities for this github.com/9001/copyparty

This looks like a Micro Genius IQ-1000 was run over by a road roller in a Warner Bros. cartoon. Anyone seen this model before?

The robot statues at MLD台鋁生活商場 are really impressive. There are three Transformer style robots on the first floor and a Stormtrooper upstairs, each at least 8ft tall

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A Famicom and famiclone graveyard. Photographed in February 2016 at a friend's house at the time who was a flea market game and toy reseller I'm sure a lot of these still worked, but the Taiwanese climate isn't friendly to plastic

Time to start a book thread for 2026 First book (I'm starting late)... Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz Yes, it's a young readers book, so only a surface-level look at his life, but you can finish it in one sitting. I've always enjoyed Peanuts, and previously had no background on Schulz

Made my ritual Taiwan trip visit to 台北地下街67 時光屋 ‘TV Game 67’ or ‘Time House’ roughly translated. This is the most condensed location in the country to shop retro games. Not the cheapest, but wow there is always a lot of cool stuff in here.

I collect Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translations of early gaming and games industry books. Mainly for learning Chinese so I have something interesting to read when studying. Here's a few of the books I have to hand: (The book name in brackets is a direct English translation of the Chinese)

Still messing about with controllers, I bought these controller cases for my son's birthday. No idea how long a controler will be able to stay in the case, but he was adamant he wanted them They are quite nice looking and less than $150NT ($5US) each

I've watched Craigslist Hunter on YouTube for years, but it's fast becoming my favourite channel It's fly-on-the wall videos from in a 2nd-hand shop called The Trading Post in Crystal Lake, IL, US They don't half get some characters coming in trying to sell things www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6yn...

I ended up buying a second hand official dock for cheaper than the crap below. Less than 900NT (30US) for the dock, power supply, and HDMI cable

I checked out my other 8BitDo controllers, all 4 to 6 years old, and the stick caps are definitely disintegrating. Maybe the hard plastic ones aren't such a bad idea. Or metal caps and put a rubber cap/topper on them?

The 8BitDo sticks arrived. They are really easy to fit, but you will need a spudger and a T6 star bit. Be careful as the clips on the two back covers can bend. Here's a guide to opening it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsR4...

My dad's on holiday in the South of Spain and the apartment has a VHS player, and some rentals from Ritz! Anyone in the UK remember Ritz? I remember picking up the first Batman movie from one It was a video rental chain that became Blockbuster in the UK after the parent company was bought out

After having good luck with the bootleg Switch Pro controller, I spun the roulette again on a dock The ad claimed it was official. Literally 原廠盒裝 "original boxed" so I was expecting a decent fake Here's what I got. A REALLY low quality dock and suspiciously light power supply

So this is what the game looks like in a Segasonic Cosmo Fighter. I saw one of these at the rooftop theme park at Dream Mall in Taiwan with a sticker over the screen: #segasonic #arcade #sega

The Surrogates was great. I loved the artwork, it really gives the comic a noir feel, with varying grunge colours giving each scene a distinct identity. I saw the film years ago and loved the concept at the time. It's nice to finally see the source work. Now to watch the film again....

Reminder to anyone listening to music on Youtube, your comment should now be: "Who's here in 2026!?"

After starting Prime Remastered in prep for Prime 4, I just watched @nerrel.bsky.social and @beatemupswood.bsky.social videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1nK... www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3gq... Thist tells me two things 1. I won't be playing Prime 4 2. I'm lucky I still have the Prime Trilogy to play

A few random grungy photos from the trip to Ten Drum Cultural Village, Tainan

We're at Ten Drum Cultural Village in Tainan and they have a coffee shop area that could be the study out of Aria of Sorrow

I picked up one of these third party Switch controllers. They're basically bootlegs of the special edition controllers, but they don't carry any Nintendo markings. I paid about $17US for the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Edition, and it's surprisingly good

I ordred a few replacement joysticks caps for the 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth. My 5 year old destroyed them, but honestly they seem to have started to disintegrate anyway Incidently, 8BitDo now ships to Taiwan! I think this is new in the second half of 2025

I picked up a SFC Copier recently that names itself "Turbo X 32M." Turns out it's in the Pro Fighter X Turbo line of copiers. It takes SFC and also GameBoy cartridges through the side for GB game dumping, or rewriting to battery-backed(?) "smart cards".

I didn't know you could get these smaller format Simpsons comics books. It's from Otter Press in Australia. I'm used to the larger format ones

The Super Mario Bros Super Show Taiwan Mandarin dub: youtu.be/lbSAbJFDKNo?...

Taken from on top of the Kaohsiung Port Cruise Terminal looking back towards the "85" building #Kaohsiung #Taiwan #photography #skyline #skyscraper

I have random old sitcoms playing in the background while I work... This clip from King of Queens really predicted the impact of social media on how we see ourselves compare to others when they collect the wrong photos

Just smashed my best score by 70k #tetris