This Saturday @actionretro.bsky.social released a video announcing he'd be at VCF Montreal that weekend. Those of us at VCF Montreal, that he did not attend, reacted. :P

In case anyone was wondering for 'Scientific Reasons', yes the old dub from the You're Under Arrest DVDs syncs with the new Blu-ray without any drifting.

My first time holding a room party at VCF and... This happened.

Different weather reactions at VCF Montreal this weekend.

I went to the first VCF Montreal event last weekend. Here’s my take. youtu.be/PvouqaaY434 #retro #retrocomputing #vcf #vcfmontreal #apple #commodore #amiga #tandy

A minor 1hr detour after leaving VCF Montreal.

Had a VCF Montreal room party. All I will say is '...And then the Newfies showed up.'

Saturday night VCF Montreal partying!

VCF Montreal haul.

This post clearly scared him out of coming to Canada. He's not showing at VCF Montreal now. :(

Smoked meat pizza and calamari. First VCF Montreal meal.

Attention everyone in the North East! Did you know a Vintage Computer Festival is happening this coming weekend outside of Montreal? Go experience some vintage tech love at one of these events. It's a real blast! vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/

Canadians: "Oh yeah, gonna need some gloves and boots, eh?" Americans: "THE COLD WILL MAKE ORPHANS OF OUR CHILDREN!!!"

It’s this weekend! VCF MONTREAL 2026!! vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/

I've fired a C8, but they only let me fire simunition. :(

I played the 'eBay Broken Pin Motherboard' Game an won. CAD$22 after tax and shipping *(USD$16) for this B85 board and it works flawlessly. It was just a VSS pin that's bent. All the RAM sticks work even. It'll be part of another LAN party guest PC once I get other parts.

@actionretro.bsky.social will be getting the proper Canadian experience at VCF Montreal this weekend. For you Americans, that's a daily high of -9'F, -27'F with the wind. And a low of -13'F, -31'F with the wind.

With the AV-98s in Patlabor EZY entering their 40th year of service, I'd like to welcome the SHI AV-98Plus Ingram Patrol Labour into the 'We're gonna use you forever' club.

VCF Montréal Consignment is active! Click here for more information. Le service de dépôt-vente VCF Montréal est opérationnel ! Cliquez ici pour plus d'informations. vcfed.org/vcf-montreal...

This has to be the most weirdly sterile looking game room I've ever seen at a con. Also who showed up at FITCON in 2003 and said 'Hell yeah, I'm here to play Final Fantasy 1 on NES.'???

Honestly, a little depopulation decline, meaning more housing freed up, less resource strain, through simple attrition, rather than some evil homicidal Thanos sorta scheme sounds GREAT to me.

Wow, the English dub of Hana Kimi even has translation notes to help the GenZ weebs understand the millennialisms.

Wow, the English dub of Hana Kimi even has translation notes to help the GenZ weebs understand the millennialisms.

Nature is healing. EB Games Canada signs return to Canada after it split off from Game Stop US last year.

SteamOS badges at Geekenspiel now! :D

Domestic long distance calls used to cost money. Like a *lot* of money. Then The Long Distance Wars happened.

Last night in a dream I was watching Haibane Renmei and there was a short chunky character in the Old Home that looked and sounded exactly like Bobby Hill. I woke up as I was checking on Dreamland-Wikipedia if PamelaAdlon was in the dub cast for Haibane Renmei...

Two weeks till I do a talk about starting a LAN party group in modern times. It's gonna be very little about LAN technicalities and nearly all 'Why PC gaming in person is awesome, we let broadband and voice chat kill it, and what it takes to convince people to bring their PCs to your basement'.

There are reasons my LAN parties operate one exactly three rules: 1) Consume legal substances responsibly. 2) Don't be a jerk. 3) Absolutely don't make Ashley further define rule #2.

I would like to again point out that the Quake 3 server running in a docker from my basement still works 27 years later and you can play on it right now. I'm just saying.

Transport Tycoon and by extension, OpenTTD. That said I can only play OpenTTD by importing the original TTD graphical assets and not the 'OpenGFX' they use now.

Thanks to BlueSky I'm checking out My Life Me, an animated series from Svetlana Chmakova of Drama Con fame. This is like... '2000's Webcomic: The Animation' in the best possible way.

We really need to move harder to bring back the 'Insane Gay People Live In An All Boys Dorm Together' genre.

Now for the anime about that manga that I was last reading 20 years ago.

William Shatner doing his own stunt on an F40PH.

"We have Daytona at home." Daytona at home:

"Root claims that the platform’s gender ratio “makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia”" Ouch.

New Years Hangover Breakfast was banana bread French toast with Nutella and real Canadian maple syrup. Starting 2026 with a bang.

Oh, I've been here.

People saying 'Screw 2025, this sucked, bring on 2026, it has to be better' clearly do not remember what happened after New Years Eve 2019.

I just saw three teen girls huddled in the snack aisle of the grocery store, consulting with ChatGPT over voice on how many bags of chips they need to buy for an event. ...I'm gonna need to add more rum to my egg nog.

The wikipedia for almost every timeless Christmas movie contains 'was a moderate box office hit on release in the United States.'.

What if I bought The THEA1200 just to emulate The Prevue Channel?

The real shame of Christmas not being in Japan what it is in the West is that you don't get a lot of options for Anime Christmas Ornaments.

@geekenspiel.bsky.social Doing some Steam domed badges I see! Will we see some nice flat SteamOS ones soon. :D