My goals for this trip:

- Locate and buy a used 1981 "Epoch Cassette Vision"

- Do not sink time into following developments in, or writing social media threads about, the United States election (I am not saying this is inherently a bad thing but it is simply not what I should be doing right now)

If I do this right expect this account to consist of pretty much photos for the next month

Okay I asked and apparently Mastodon wants to see what the Japanese Laserdisc cover for "Barbarella" looks like. (In my opinion: This is a very good piece of packaging.)

PS what is this second movie [EDIT: It's The Gorgon (1964) with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee]

Went to a Japanese arcade and was expecting to come out complaining about how everything's rhythm games now but instead I'm walking out just super impressed with the high production values on these incredibly polished rhythm games with compelling mechanical concepts

Also: all the games feature music by Toby Fox. Good for him!

Oh by the way also at the arcade there was an AMAZING ddr successor called "Dancerush Stardom". Instead of the nine plates there's just basically a giant touchscreen, it has depth because it's clear with an array of flashy lights underneath, it richly combines elements from multiple rhythm game concepts (not clear from the video but it often has you drop your foot and slide it left or right), some tracks assume two people on the plate dancing around each other(!)

@spookysquid playing:

@mcc this is so cool! I was wondering how sensing works and apparently it’s a grid of IR sensors in the pad’s frame instead of any sort of pressure sensor that would degrade from use, plus probably a Kinect-like sensor for certain movements

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/660581