I still yearn to chost.

I’ve always wanted to hold a small pinball tournament where the only rule was that you’re not allowed to move Meatloaf.

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

It's Devover.

A photo of a tv with Blood Orange at Coachella showing on it.

Now back home watching Coachella

The Searchers New & Used Records

Skydivers bar and record store

The author is wearing a Regurgitator Unit shirt and looking very tired

Spent probably way too much on records despite bailing out of a couple of places because they were heaving with people

A dirty horchata from the Dingo Ate My Taco food truck in Collingwood

Exterior of licorice pie at Collingwood Yards

Happy Valley book and record store

Sound Merch's warehouse

Record Store Day, starting with breakfast tacos and a dirty horchata.

video games

A photo of the author giving a presentation titled "eurobeat + ephemerality"

A photo of the other in front of a projector screen. On the screen is a slide with the title "video games forever?" with some photos of ticket redemption arcade machines.

My talk at Retro Games Club went well. I want to re-record the talk as I messed up and didn't record any audio.

A frame from the film "Clerks" (1994) of Willam "Snowball" Black saying "that's beautiful, man."

Me when I see a DOS game

The "Dat Boi" meme image of the frog on the unicycle but it's now Hoi from Team Hoi

It's Dat Hoi

A screenshot from the Anime OVA Ozanari Dungeon: Tower of Wind

Hot Dog Priestess please bless me

Cover to the Super Mario World: Mario Open Golf manga featuring Mario and Luigi in Stars and Stripes versions of their outfits on the front cover as well as Peach and Daisy riding a Yoshi cart. The back cover has Peach and Daisy on the putting green hitting golf balls with Mario and Luigi's heads sticking out of them with Billy and Tony in the corner.

The old Mario art before they took the branding sandpaper to it was so fun.

Excerpt from Famitsu 147 showing Luigi as well as Tony and Billy, two of the non-playable characters from Mario Open Golf for Famicom (Released as NES Open Tournament Golf)

Put Tony and Billy in Smash.

A kotatsu base with built-in heater

A kotatsu in a loving room

Sometimes a free kotatsu just falls into your life

Regular reminder that I won't read, share, or engage with your content if it's hosted on Substack.

Infomercial with a Vampire

Frame #8750 from S03 -E09 - Black Pork-628419

The PlayStation store should require trailers that show actual gameplay.

Plates shaped like popular program icons, "these are my DinRAR plates".

Photo of the back of the box for Pokemon Monopoly. The packaging instructs players to "GO ON A WILD ADVENTURE" with rather tight kerning.

You do what in pokemonopoly?!

Train + ing = Traing

Capcom's Netto De Tennis for the Dreamcast has a lot of pleasant bossa nova/samba style music but I did not expect the track used for the Carpet level to pull out the breakbeat.

This bluesky account is for entertainment purposes only.

The album cover to Neon Genesis Evangelion Gainax Midi Collection featuring what looks like a colour pencil sketch of Shinji Ikari on a black background

They put out an official CD-ROM of Neon Genesis MIDI files. I guess I'll have to track this down physically because it doesn't seem to be readily online.

Roses are Red
Desert is Tan

On the original PlayStation, Crash Bandicoot's dancing was so provocative they weren't allowed to render him from the waist down.

Glad that my PVM survived the trip interstate and that the dirt cheap PS2 I had bought only for one of the controllers bundled with it is completely functional as well.

I'm surprised TV remotes still have number buttons for bringing up specific channels. I would have thought some exec would have gone on a co-marketing spree and had all them replaced with buttons for a dozen different flash in the pan streaming services which would all be gone in 18 months time.

If you see this I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation