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(https://opengameart.org/content/pixel-robot) S o first off, to no one’s surprise, I am not just a massive fan of old retro gaming but an engineer working in computers. I adopted AI a tad bit earlier than some, but for sure not a hipster amount, ChatGPT 3 level. It really took my favor and awe. The ability to skip stack overflow and get my code questions answered, and even some samples, or to find out how tall the Pyramid of Giza was…, fast forward to the present, where I use it for 90% of my job, and I even run my own local LLMs at home, learning AI skills, and contemplating having an OpenClaw butler.      But, in a recent set of news, I started to realize little by little that I was in a bubble much like the Crypto Bros or the Web3/NFT bros, whom I previously so unabashedly made fun of.  I realized I was becoming a schill for the OpenAI and Claude’s of the world, and I had fallen for the Groupthink that AI was the next big thing, but I realized that many non-engine...

  In January 2026,  my brother and I decided to play Kirby’s Dream Land 2 on our retro handhelds as part of a Game of the Month competition over at RetroHandhelds.gg . I ended up finishing the game, but unfortunately forgot to submit my completion screenshot before the deadline, so I missed the reward. Still, we could see all our progress and unlocks on RetroAchievements.org, and honestly that was enough. Just finishing it felt good. It’s kind of crazy how good this game looks and feels on the original Game Boy. It came out in 1995, and the hardware only had four shades of gray or green and a tiny 160×144 screen. But somehow it still feels like a real world. The animations are smooth, the enemies have personality, and the different areas all feel distinct. I played on my broken screen Ambernic RGCUBEXX via HDMI. Kirby was created by Masahiro Sakurai, who was only 19 when he directed the first Kirby game. He later went on to create Super Smash Bros., but you can already see his...

  Hi,  yup here is another post. So, I started reading paper books again… yeah, poor trees 😢, but I have found myself falling back into my gadget and doomscrolling ways again and had to find a way out. The overwhelming thinking and constant noise from our busy worlds just make it all a little harder to focus, to breathe, and to slow down.  So I picked up this wonderful book Shareware Heroes, many years ago, actually by listening to my podcasts (which I incidentally also really like to do for calming reasons), This Week In Tech, been watching and listening to Leo and the gang since I used to listen on my Palm Treo (ask your parents or maybe grandparents 😂. It is a story about the shareware industry the first digital distribution platform that started in the late seventies and flourished until the early 1990s when the internet finally took over. It was truly the first time where independent developers could publish their apps and games without giant investors and publishi...

​ JSA, wow what a movie! I typically don’t really care for overly macho movies, and for sure not constant-tension movies, but I still find that this movie has a lot to offer about the point of borders, enemies, and the brainwashing that happens on opposing border lines. It is a movie that shows that, as vulnerable little humans, we have pride, fear, loneliness, boredom, and the pursuit of a friend’s love.  Sometimes the extremes that one must go to protect that love and to protect the appearance of peace, and that sometimes lies are the most humanitarian thing one can do.  Park-Chan Wook knows the warmth and sheer ice-coldness of any man’s heart and he articulately puts it on display.  To show you that no matter what your illusion of control you have, you are nothing but a puppet of circumstance. 8/10 

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 This summer my wife and my sons watched Netflix Studios new live action adaptation of  “One Piece” , it was just plan great silly fun. So today being day five of inktober , decided to pay homage to Luffy, king of the pirates. Was done quickly on iPad Pro 11” using the great Pixaki program.