I've been playing my Wonderswan a lot lately. This is an older photo, but I have a backlight mod and it's not a system people seem to post about much, but it's a great little system. The Tate mode aspect of it is really unique too.

I know I'm in the minority, but I would love a modern laptop with a built in DVD drive but they don't really make them anymore. External drives are fine, but it was so convenient to rip my old man plastic discs or watch a movie from a built in drive.

Our furnace is struggling to keep temp and it's -10 degrees out. We might need an HVAC tech to take a look at it which sucks because it's only a few years old, but these Chicago winters are brutal and if this is what January is like, February is just going to be worse.

I got a new laptop and they did that Windows in S mode nonsense where Windows is locked down to only Windows app store apps until you switch it to Windows Home instead. They wanted to compete with Chrome books, but does anyone actually use S Mode Windows?

I should post here more. Most of my social media time has been spent on Blue Sky lately. I miss a lot of the people I connected with on Twitter, and I hate how everyone is spread out on different platforms, but that's the situation. Might as well make the most of it.

Happy New Year Mastodon!

Happy Thanksgiving Mastodon!

Today I played RE6 for the first time in a while and I forgot just how bonkers and over the top it is. It's like if Michael Bay made an RE game. It's not a great game, but I still love it for what it is.

After this year I'm kind of burned out on emulator handhelds. There have been a lot of good devices, but honestly I'm at the point where new handhelds that are incrementally better than ones that I already have don't interest me very much. Maybe next year we'll see better devices, but this space is more crowded and less interesting than it was a few years ago imo. I hope Anbernic and Retroid focus on fewer, but more impactful devices next year. #retrogaming #handhelds