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Games That I Missed

@GamesMissed@mastodon.social
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Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well.

If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun.

No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances.

#nobridge

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Aug 02, 2026
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Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @younata@hachyderm.io
@younata@hachyderm.io I think that Nintendo is the only company to handle the limitations of resistive touchscreens well (in the DS/3DS/Wii U), by designing menus and games that recognize those limitations. Pretty much any time I've used a resistive touchscreen from smother manufacturer, it's been frustrating. I've never been able to spend more than few minutes with a Palm device, though. I gather they also did well?
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Jul 30, 2026
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Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @cazabon@mindly.social
@cazabon@mindly.social I appreciate a purpose-built display for a purpose-built interface. An LCD panel emulating a VFD display (for example) never looks right, either. (The photograph is of my CD player, built in 1990.)
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Jul 24, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @joel@fosstodon.org
@joel@fosstodon.org "I am realizing that pretty much every difficult section of the game so far is actually telegraphed and accounted for if you know how to read and take a hint whenever the game gives it to you!" My younger kid is having a similar experience with Breath of the Wild right now. It's obvious to me that the player should talk to NPCs, and read signs, but my kid barrels right along as fast as possible, and inevitably gets stuck. It's a good lesson for me, that "intuitive" isn't always so.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Jul 21, 2026
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Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Um. Help? #NewEnglandVintageComputing
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Jul 20, 2026
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Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @GamesMissed@mastodon.social
I had an excellent #Swapfest: I sold *eight* 486 Compaq laptops, watched dozens of people enjoy Super Mario Bros., and made one person very happy by selling them a 24" Toshiba CRT television. I met the people who refurbished and were selling all the Sony Mavica floppy disk cameras last year! They're super nice and bought a weird camera from me. #Boston #CambridgeMA
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Jul 19, 2026
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Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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It's a beautiful morning in #Cambridge, Massachusetts! Come play Super Mario Bros. at #Swapfest!
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Jul 19, 2026
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Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @outofprintarchive@retro.pizza
@outofprintarchive@retro.pizza "If you're willing to throw maturity out the window ..." What an awful way to think and live. I'm a middle-aged straight man, and I've been a hell of a lot happier in my life because I'm not concerned over whether Rocket Slime was mature or manly enough for me to play it. The entire "bright and colorful games are immature" cohort has done immense damage to the gaming hobby for decades, and needs to either get therapy or walk into the sea. (Rocket Slime is a great game.)
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Jun 30, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Boosted by Furbland's Very Value = 71 Account™ @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Decades ago, I posted my calculations for the caloric density of Tokyo. There was a friendly argument going on about why Godzilla always heads for Tokyo, and I argued -- with math -- that it's because major cities are where the calories are. Still proud of that one to this day, even if it's lost to time.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Jun 28, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @GamesMissed@mastodon.social
Is there a current guide to using this sort of Intel/Nvidia dual-GPU system on Steam, on a computer running LMDE? I'm comfortable with Linux, and an involved set of instructions, I've just never worked with this sort of hardware configuration before and am having difficulty finding where to start. Thanks if you have any information.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Jun 28, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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I have come into possession of a Dell XPS laptop with integrated Intel graphics as well as a dedicated Geforce 1650 chip. I've installed #LMDE 7, and it's running fine. It appears to be using the integrated Intel graphics for everything, but lspci shows that the Geforce 1650 is present and recognized. I'd like to try gaming on this laptop. The Internet being what it is right now, I'm finding much conflicting information about how to make use of the Geforce card when running games via Steam.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 18, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @foone@digipres.club
@foone@digipres.club I have a CRT monitor from 1995 with VGA, RGB, and serial ports on the back. I would be willing to bet that you could degausse it via software. If it were working right now. And not partially disassembled, looming at me from the corner and insisting that I find out why it suddenly stopped working one day.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @aburka@hachyderm.io
@aburka@hachyderm.io @FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange I have a 1st generation Pinecil, and it's always worked well. But, I've also never updated the firmware, because it's always worked well.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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I'm taking 20 minutes in a hammock in the back garden while the clothes dryer finishes. I can smell flowers on the breeze as I read the new Murderbot novel. This is better.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @TechTangents@dialup.space
@TechTangents@dialup.space That Voodoo3 card made such a huge difference because it was PCI. There were a ton of low-end computers being sold back at the end of the '90s with integrated video (I had friends with the horrifically bad Intel i740 on the motherboard), and no AGP slot. A PCI card that you could pop into a Celeron 333 to play Quake 3 with an acceptable frame rate was nearly miraculous.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 08, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us
@SFFMagazineCovers@zirk.us The person wearing the bubble helmet and the leopard-print body suit is so incongruous that it's making me twitchy.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @tiredbun@akko.wtf
@tiredbun @billgoats I used the information and guides here to jailbreak my Kindle: https://kindlemodding.org/
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @scribblemacher@mstdn.games
@scribblemacher@mstdn.games @Hundstrasse@retro.pizza No, the infrared isn't perceptible at all. I don't think humans can see infrared (I'd love to know if some people can), but it's detected well by the camera sensor.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @GamesMissed@mastodon.social
@Hundstrasse@retro.pizza I can play Mario Kart 7 in first-person mode and using the gyroscopic steering, and 3D works well. Also, that's the most impressive and terrifying Mario Kart experience.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @Hundstrasse@retro.pizza
@Hundstrasse@retro.pizza With the New 3DS, an infrared LED is set into the top bezel next to the camera. It shines on your face if you have 3D switched on, and the camera tracks the infrared reflections from your eyes. The system uses that to determine your eyes' positions, and can make adjustments to the screen to compensate for head movement. It updates very quickly, so you can tilt your head or the 3DS and it won't interrupt the 3D effect at all.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Walking my kid to school this morning, and this mining bee (that's what iNaturalist tells me) was crawling slowly down the middle of the sidewalk. I let it crawl onto my finger and then transferred it up to a flower. Didn't want it to get stepped on.

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @b4ux1t3@hachyderm.io
@b4ux1t3 Getting a job because you need food and shelter is never selling out. We all need to live.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @b4ux1t3@hachyderm.io
@b4ux1t3 The main reason I don't turn into a consultant is because I doubt I'd be able to look at myself in the mirror.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @GamesMissed@mastodon.social
@b4ux1t3 He convinced the CEO to cancel the consulting contact, negotiated a $25/hour raise in exchange for taking over all computer training work, and the company was still saving tens of thousands of dollars and got better training. My brother told me this as a lesson to always assume slick consultants are grifters.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @b4ux1t3@hachyderm.io
@b4ux1t3 Decades ago, around the time offices were upgrading from MS-DOS to Windows for Workgroups, my sibling was in IT. His company hired a computer consultant with a nice suit and great hair to give 2-hour introductory classes to all employees, 25 people at a time, for $1000 PER HOUR (in early '90s money, remember). My brother attended the first class, took detailed notes, then went to the CEO and explained in detail that the consultant was an incompetent buffoon.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @codewiz@mstdn.io
@codewiz@mstdn.io And all of them are either alarmed or unhappy. [No, wait, one looks like it's not taking any crap today.]
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @b4ux1t3@hachyderm.io
@b4ux1t3 "When you write code, you’re…probably (_probably_) not going to kill anyone." My work is radiology-adjacent, and the Therac-25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25) will live in my nightmares until I die. I think it's a large part of why I rear back in disgust at vibe coding.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 05, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @Hundstrasse@retro.pizza
@Hundstrasse@retro.pizza I always have the 3D slider all the way up, unless I'm showing my game to someone else. I have a New 3DS XL, and the eye tracking function they added to that makes the 3D much more usable than with my brother-in-law's 3DS.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 04, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net
@vga256 We didn't have Encarta, but my parents sent me and my siblings off to university with Microsoft Bookshelf on CD. That was genuinely useful software, I think I still have my disc somewhere.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · May 03, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @ifixcoinops@retro.social
@msbellows @djsundog @ifixcoinops I'm up around Boston, and those penny squishing machines are *everywhere*. You can't walk five minutes in this part of the country without tripping over a museum, historical park, or a Site of a Significant Event, and every time we do my kids get annoyed that I don't keep pennies in my pocket.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 29, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @tschak@oldbytes.space
@tschak@oldbytes.space This is some sort of affront to technology, and I and my Atari Lynx are here for it. It was a portable console that supported 8-player multiplayer! If a game console from that era is going to emerge from the primordial ooze and play over the Internet, the Lynx is a good choice.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @abban@mastodon.ie
@abban@mastodon.ie That's a fantastic cabinet. What Raspberry Pi are you running in there? I have a handful of Pi 3 and 3Bs, I should find out whether they're enough for a decent arcade experience.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 26, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @karlauerbach@sfba.social
@karlauerbach One of my parents has arthritis in their hands, and putting in a rotating passkey in 30 seconds is genuinely difficult for them some days. It makes them panic, and they just want to go back to using passwords with no time limit.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 25, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

mastodon.social

If anyone else there is using KOReader on a jailbroken Kindle, there's a relatively new plugin for borrowing ebooks from your library via Libby/OverDrive:

https://github.com/kaikozlov/acsm.koplugin

At first it did not want to do anything at all on my device; it didn't even show up as a an option under "Open With ..." in the file browser. But, I realized that my installation of KOReader was a little out of date. Updating KOReader to the current version made the plugin function correctly.

#KOReader

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @jaykass@mastodon.online
@jaykass@mastodon.online I don't listen to much new music, but my local college radio station and Radio Paradise (https://radioparadise.com/) are both good at keeping me from becoming a complete fossil.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 22, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

mastodon.social
Replying to @simon@tutut.delire.party
@simon @0xabad1dea Absolutely this. This note is a remarkably public, "My client refused to respond to any of the numerous requests for clarification. The only response was a terse, 'You have what you need.' I have done my absolute professional best, but I am not a mind-reader."
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

mastodon.social
Replying to @BigBadBiologist@bitbang.social
@BigBadBiologist The USB cable in my car keeps ending up one with the phone-end on the floor of the passenger footwell (due most often to certain children who will remain unnamed). I was cleaning up the garage and I looked at the eye-screw in my hand, thought of the hot glue gun in the office, and decided, "I can solve this. I can perform cable management in the most amateurish way possible."
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @rodneylives@mefi.social
@rodneylives @ComicContext I thought they you were quoting Dr. Doofenschmirtz, until I scrolled further.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 21, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Is there a separate category for Car Jank?

@BigBadBiologist@bitbang.social

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 20, 2026
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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

mastodon.social
Replying to @BigBadBiologist@bitbang.social
@BigBadBiologist You're selling yourself far too short. Your streams are the right balance of entertaining and educational. I am a lot better at desoldering and cleaning up boards, thanks to your example. Also, I never get tired of the new ridiculous intro theme.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 20, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

mastodon.social
Replying to @jeffluszcz@mastodon.social
@jeffluszcz I have read so many times that an S-video cable will stand in for an ADB cable, and they're easier to come by. I have yet to try it, myself, although it isn't as if I don't have S-video cables here.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 19, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @jeffluszcz@mastodon.social
@jeffluszcz I have still never made it to the opening day of the Swapfest. Thanks for posting pictures. Hope to be browsing and taking pictures in May.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @crystal717@mastodon.social
@crystal717 Your website is amazing. I've lived through all of those design trends, it's cool to see them collected and explored.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @scribblemacher@mstdn.games
@scribblemacher@mstdn.games Creepy Black is exactly that, a physical bootleg of the ROM hack. It was for sale at a flea market last year, I picked it up for the novelty. I haven't actually done much more with NFL Blitz than verify that it works! I couldn't just leave a loose cartridge on the sidewalk, though, I'd have been wondering about it to the end of my days. The same box also had a a Game Gear and a few cartridges for that. The Game Gear needed some repairs, but now I have one of those, too.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @wcbdata@vis.social
@wcbdata@vis.social @SuperSelena64@vmst.io She's got a better collection *and* she's better at repairing the consoles than I am! I'm still early along that journey.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @scribblemacher@mstdn.games
@scribblemacher@mstdn.games Seeing your collection and everyone else's is cool. Here's my Game Boy and Game Boy Color collection right now. I had more when I was a kid, but I don't know where a lot of them ended up. Some of them are newer to me; I think I found NFL Blitz loose in a box of free stuff I found on a sidewalk.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @apzpins@some.apz.fi
@apzpins That's my guess, too. I got a laugh out of it, at least.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 16, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

mastodon.social

I am not sure why deleting a page break in AppleWorks for the #IIgs can reliably reproduce this error message.

But, I can say that I do love that I am presented with a second option.

("OTHER button" sadly does nothing. It would be even more entertaining if it did something.)

#AprilApples #Retrocomputing #VintageApple

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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 15, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @marcuwekling@cultur.social
@marcuwekling »Ey! Gewalt ist die Sprache der Dummen!«, rufe ich. »Nee«, sagt das Kängaru und denkt einen Moment nach. »Englisch.«
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @hkz@social.chinwag.org
@hkz@social.chinwag.org I find that these higher-end Dell office monitors work very well and are durable. They tend to accept 15 kHz VGA input as well, if that's of interest to you.
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Games That I Missed @GamesMissed@mastodon.social · Apr 11, 2026
Games That I Missed
@GamesMissed@mastodon.social

Challenged to live-toot games that I, apparently, should have played decades ago? I dabble in #retrogaming, #retrocomputing, #pinball, #3DPrinting, and other stuff as well. If you're any kind of decent person, I'm happy to be here with you. Your biology and choices don't bother me. I'm on the side that welcomes foreigners, LGBTQ+ people, neurodiverse folks, and everyone else who wants to read my thoughts about computers and games and fun. No Nazis. Ever. Under any circumstances. #nobridge

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Replying to @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space
@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space I got to see the rainbow Pong in person for the first time a few months ago. Surprisingly beautiful, the photos don't do it justice.
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