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Imag e Credit:  image credit   Last night  my family and I watched the timeless classic where a 54 year old who is in unholy good shape , probably by blood transfusion from olympic athletes decided to keep the same job for 30-40 years and refuses all attempts at promotion. Wait, the job part of the story is hitting me a little closer to home than I like. Anyhow he is still the best at what he does , yeah we are tommy. Somehow he has the reflexes of a Korean Starcraft2 players with 5 espresso shots and is brought to run a suicide mission where he has been asked to teach these overhormonal kids on how to beat the odds. Unfortunately for him this is also a therapy session for his estranged pseudo-nepher Rooster who is the son of Maverick’s long lost best friend Goose (yeah cant make this stuff up) where is is trying to make up for accidentally killing the kids father by being fearless and reckless.  So the way he will save the kids' life is by using the same dis...

(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...