I'm giving NES Gauntlet a try. Strange game where just running straight at an enemy counts as an attack. I looked at the RAM, to see if there's a map of the room, and there is not. Everything in the room exists an an object, with Type, X, Y. Also, rare game with 4 screens of nametables.

Ordered a book from Amazon today. When I looked at it on my phone, it said $48 When I looked at it on my laptop 5 minutes later, it said $39 What kind of price gauging BS is this?

Prediction. In the future, AI will be worshipped like a god. People will treat its words like the Bible, infallible and all-knowing, let it make decisions for them, and devote themselves to the AI like a cult.

I was telling my kids that Whamageddon is people trying to not hear the song "Last Christmas" during December. I made it all the way till noon on day 1. It's everywhere.

I beat the original Metroid yesterday. Haven't played it in 35 years. A lot of people complain about that game, but you don't have to grind for health if you save one energy tank until you are about to fight the end boss.

Here's another chiptune cover I made. The Prodigy - Charly Sega Genesis (Deflemask) youtu.be/quUPPsYpKsw

I tried my hand at making a Sega Genesis chiptune (Deflemask) today. Cover of : The Cure - Close to Me youtu.be/8jEQFo690Jc?...

I barely did any nesdev this year. Hope to get back into it in 2026. #retrogamedev #nesdev

What a strange coincidence, that SNAP benefits were cut the day before election day.

My wife and I agree that Starbucks coffee doesn't taste good. Roasted too long. Tastes burnt and bitter. I'm told they do that on purpose because their most popular drinks have like 500 calories of sugar added, and you can't taste the coffee flavor if it isn't strong

Never noticed this, but the graphics on that snow below his feet are top notch for a NES game (G.I.Joe 1991)

Has anyone played the Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit game? How is it?

Is Maytag German for May Day?

Growing a beard is like... day 2, maybe forgot to shave day 4, are you doing alright buddy? day 7, yikes, maybe we should do an intervention day 14, maybe he's growing a beard month 2, ah, it is a beard month 6, settle down there Grizzly Adams month 12, yeah..we should've scheduled that intervention

Found this is storage. Total Annihilation. I played this game obsessively back in 1997. We had several people on a LAN and played multiplayer battles. This was the very first game I learned to mod.

This ad made me laugh out loud. The actress is trying to act like this CRT is heavy, but real CRTs are like twice as heavy as she's making it look. And the weight is like 90% on the screen side. And you would not lift it shoulder high. Ever. youtu.be/LiVseDxOVSc

Beware. In Pennsylvania people are receiving election fliers in the mail with false information. You can't trust newspapers, You can't trust TV or radio, you can't trust ads on YouTube and you can't trust anything mailed to you. It's not paranoia if they are really out to get you.

I updated my famitone githubs, making it compatible with Dn-Famitracker. I used Visual Studio and it auto formatted every line, so looking at the changes it looks like hundreds of changes, but really I only changed like 5 lines of code, at lines 520, 580, and 1990

#SNESdev Personally, I really, really don't like the current music software / tools for making SNES game music. I feel like BRR samples should be separate and able to be dynamically swapped, such as for game sounds (not BG music) And the music editor should be more user friendly.

"Our security will protect you 365 days a year"

Ads for medicines are crazy. Like "ask your dr about this new cholesterol pill. Side effects include spontaneous combustion, bleeding from the eyes, demonic possession, existential dread, nightmares that you can never wake from, and Zombie bladder syndrome" while showing you happy people on bikes

Sometimes I'll have random thoughts like "maybe I'll start my own podcast" and then I'll remember that I don't have free time and I don't like to talk that much.

Unusually hot this September. I bet this is going to be another year where it goes 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 50 with almost no days near 70

Any time someone complains about the radical left, this is what I picture. Radical!

I sure hope they make the new iPhones 0.5 mm thinner... said nobody

idea for a book. a dystopian future where people get microchips in their brains to enhance their work ability, a chip that is a subscription service that becomes more and more expensive, so much that people are unable to pay, and their chips are deactivated and they are unable to work without it.

When I look at code I wrote over a year ago. #gamedev

They should make Pepperoni Bits, like Bacon Bits. It's already a dry meat product that is shelf stable. Want to spice up your potato? Pepperoni Bits. who's with me? This is a million $ idea. Guaranteed.

I really like the Dr Mario song - Fever. I would put it in my top 20 NES songs.

You ever notice, when they make US maps, that they show Hawaii as like 6 islands. But in reality, Hawaii keeps going on for another 1000 miles with 137 islands.

tariffs go into effect today. prices will rise. tariffs are taxes that Americans pay.

I had an weird idea. A mashup up Garfield and Seinfeld, called Garfeld, where I take old Garfield comix and paste faces of Seinfeld characters over the faces of the cartoon. George should be Garfield. Jerry is Jon. Cramer is Odie. Elaine is Liz. Newman is the mailman. I might do 1 just to test it

Wut? Apparently, C flat is a programming language that uses music notes (MIDI file) as code.

Remember Max Headroom? He has a fascinating history. Originally, British TV wanted to do something like MTV, but with a CGI host. But, CGI wasn't very good, and kind of expensive, so they faked it with an actor in makeup. But then they wanted to tell the backstory, so they...

Lately, my family has been playing a card game called Skyjo. It's an easy to learn card game, and it's pretty fun. It's similar to the card game Golf. You could say it's a variation of that game.

I don't get the point of a Sauna or Steam room at a gym. I hate being sweaty. If I designed a gym, I would add a room that is extra cold, so you can cool off from all the sweat and extra body heat.

S&P P/E ratio is way way way off normal. People are throwing money at AI, and a vast majority of these companies do not make a profit. And might never make a profit. And many of them will be bankrupt in a few years. I don't like it, from an investment standpoint

I would love to see an Ozzy Osbourne biopic.

Why is Sodium Lauryl Sulfate is nearly every toothpaste? I didn't even know that. 😡

I think someone is playing a prank on me, but my phone calendar just gave me this notification. 9 minutes left till the end of the world.

The price of coffee is going to skyrocket in 2 weeks. You might want to stock up. tariffs are taxes

17 million Americans just lost their healthcare. That's 1 in 20. This is a very sad day.

My son thinks we should say Tetragon instead of Quadrilateral and Trigon instead of Triangle. To be consistent with Pentagon, Octagon, etc.

I had planned to write music / chiptunes for the SNES and Sega Genesis. But somehow I never found the time. I did write some guitar songs, and one day soon I will post them... somewhere.

I work in a hospital, and we have seen a big increase in heat related emergencies. This heat wave isn't F'n around, the high humidity makes it feel much hotter. Stay inside. Do that yard work next week. Nobody cares that your grass is too long.

I've seen this one before.

To this day, I still don't know what a Wonderwall is. Or what an Unskinny Bop is. Or why does he keep saying Glycerine? Does his girl use Glycerin soap? What is that supposed to mean, in the context of the song. You couldn't give us one line that explains it? And what's a Karma Chameleon?

They've tricked us into fighting each other, while the ultra-rich cut our benefits. We pay more taxes through tariffs, they pay less. They've got us distracted while they do a smash and grab job on America.