My The Drifter thoughts have been drifting onto the codex: https://jefklakscodex.com/games/pc/the-drifter/
@irgndsondepp@gts.da-miez.de and @MichaelKlamerus@dosgame.club were right. The game is amazing.
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Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning.
Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
Here are my past and current workspaces
https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/04/my-workspaces/
Now I wanna see yours
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
@irgndsondepp Just finished chapter 8. Can't stop playing. Must be close but I'll stop for today.
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
@irgndsondepp SKALD is worth it; it's only 15-ish hours so very light for such an RPG. The item/combat system is broken though.
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
@irgndsondepp I played the director's with reworked ending and that was still a big mess, the weakest part of the game. v2 is on my wishlist!
I didn't know that one would end on a horror fashion as well; I'm leaning more towards joyful games lately too much horror already in the real world haha
https://jefklakscodex.com/games/pc/skald-against-the-black-priory/ was another one that started OK but went off the deep end; I still don't understand the ending.
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
@irgndsondepp In case you didn't play Kathy's Rain yet; you should (see https://jefklakscodex.com/games/pc/kathy-rain/)
It also has an old computer you have to fiddle with
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
I love adventure games that take place in the nineties and have you fiddle with a PC
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
@irgndsondepp I had to force myself to click "save and quit" at the end of chapter 3...
Not sure if I'll be able to sleep all right within the hour lol
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
@irgndsondepp@gts.da-miez.de I just finished the first chapter of The Drifter
Holy shit
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
And here are some random thoughts on Kirby's Star Stacker
https://jefklakscodex.com/games/gameboy/kirbys-star-stacker/
I have a GB Player for SNES lying around I'll hook it up later this week but my video capture card is in the WinXP machine that's in a closet right now... So how to record a screenshot... 🤔
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
Here's what I think about Kirby's Block Ball
https://jefklakscodex.com/games/gameboy/kirbys-block-ball/
Better than Pinball Land!
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
@jake4480 Oh, wait a minute, it seems that my former self was way ahead of me, look what I found!
Let's see if there's a fan translation patch.
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
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@jake4480 I wish I did but https://www.pricecharting.com/game/gameboy-color/kirby-tilt-and-tumble says ouch
No idea where my block ball cart is from but apparently that's also gone up a lot
Will add to the wishlist thanks!
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
I'm exploring Kirby spin-offs on the Game Boy and started with Pinball Land which is pretty good! https://jefklakscodex.com/games/gameboy/kirbys-pinball-land/
I just finished Kirby's Block Ball and had a few sessions of Star Stacker. Block Ball is my favourite so far. I wish I knew about these games as a kid!
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
My friend Peter was featured in The Retro Collective about his new HDD Synth project to emulate the classic sound of HDDs spinning up when you're rocking SD flash cards for your 486 machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sASOfpzPjxg
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
@golemwire That exact topic is the ressearch specialty of @CrazyBlue see his blog at https://relativenostalgia.com/
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
@joel Nice and sharp! Mine's change based on the category of the blog post. I did that crappy stuff on a Wacom tablet as a test to see if I could draw something useful (I didn't put put it online anyway)
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
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@f0rrest this somehow kills my fond memories of those old games that, as an educated adult who has played way too many good games, knows how to dissect them, also ruins the memory of my younger self liking it?
I do play a lot new games. But most of them are rooted in nostalgia/"oldness".
But it goes further than playing games and admiring old hardware back when "things were simple". I think I now more often yearn for those days as a young dad struggling and having lots of shitty moments.
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
@f0rrest thank you for sharing that article with us, it's as you expected hitting the nail on the head.
I guess I'm not that extreme yet but due to the way our mind reconstructs memories, retracing steps by replaying an old game the way you played it then (I went to great lengths to get a particular beige nineties AOpen PC case) is always a bit of a disappointment.
With the play sessions on @dosgameclub I sometimes feel frustrated (e.g. evaluating Jazz now: it sucks vs. then: it was cool?)
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
As a retro being, I sometimes feel stuck gazing at my rear mirror instead of looking forward through the windshield and as I try to begin conversations with friends and family about those "good ol' days", I notice something odd: they don't seem to care as much as I do? Have they moved on? How?
Why am I a retro hardware/software hoarder? Why do I hark back to "that time" so often? Nostalgia can be a bitch.
Is there anyone with similar feelings that has researched the topic a bit?
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
A friend of mine is working for a small indie game studio here in Belgium and their game The Spell Brigade finally has a release date!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P7pUmtRNW8
Coming this month!
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
Needless but apparently not: please compensate the work you appreciate
https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/03/please-compensate-the-work-you-appreciate/
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
Any (un)popular opinions on terminal emulators here?
I was an iTerm2 user until they shoved AI crap in it. Now I use Ghostty but I'm a shift selection noob and Ghostty is very basic.
On Linux I tried Konsole but the options are a bit overwhelming. I'm eyeing at Kitty.
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
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Fiddling with https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy to get my cmd muscle memory back on openSUSE. Feels dirty but works nicely.
Except for Emacs where it completely messes up everything. Trying to add it to the exclude list but so far can't figure out how.
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
Hello World from openSUSE Tumbleweed on the work laptop!
I was a bit naughty. The Win11 partition is gone; whoops.
It's been twenty years since I tried Linux for desktop. Plasma looks just like Windows; not sure if that's good.
Installation was flawless; wifi and hibernation "just works" (I was a bit scared; bad memories from early 2000s). Fingerprint scanner took some installs but works as well.
It even recognizes Navidrome tracks in lock screen!
My mind trips over the cmd vs ctrl now.
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
@irgndsondepp You can... if you have admin rights. Guess what... Yup, another trip to the service dept.
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
In my attempts to install Linux on the work laptop, I keep on banging my head against these invisible corporate walls.
Day 1: whoops I don't have an USB stick bigger than 2 GB. Ordered a new one.
Day 2: whoops I'm not allowed to boot from USB. IT admins enabled it for me.
Day 3: whoops I still can't boot because of secure boot & BitLocker. Back to the IT service dept, they temporarily disable it. I see it works, cycle home, try installing and...
I can't resize the 1TB bitlocker partition. FFS! 😡
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
I decided to charge the Analogue Pocket; my wife's Croc GBC cart was still in it. After three levels I can safely say it's been a while since I witnessed a train wreck.
I wonder how much Argonaut did on this and how much Virtucraft Studios. If it's the former I'm very VERY disappointed.
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@jefklak@dosgame.club
Brain Baker 🧠 & Retro Gamer 👾. Loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning. Currently teaching, writing, programming, researching, and of course baking bread 🍞.
dosgame.club
This whole Emacs adventure has me looking back into Linux/BSD
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