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Programmer. Nerd. Introvert. Probable dumbass.
This machine blocks Luddites.
This machine blocks Luddites.
#aiart prompt 1097: Split screen image of two people sitting back to back: in warm tones, a young child intently playing on an original Gameboy; in cool tones, a 40 year old playing a game on a modern tablet.
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#aiart prompt 1097: Split screen image of two people sitting back to back: in warm tones, a young child intently playing on an original Gameboy; in cool tones, a 40 year old playing a game on a modern tablet.
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#aiart prompt 715: a male anime villain with long flowing hair. Photorealistic CG, three quarter closeup candid. Black and white; low depth of field; low contrast; bright ambient light.
December 12, 2024 at 6:04 AM
#aiart prompt 715: a male anime villain with long flowing hair. Photorealistic CG, three quarter closeup candid. Black and white; low depth of field; low contrast; bright ambient light.
The PNW is trying, this week, to earn back its cred as being habitually rain soaked. Might even see some lowland snow next week.
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The PNW is trying, this week, to earn back its cred as being habitually rain soaked. Might even see some lowland snow next week.
#aiart prompt 1096: Overlapping crystalline conical grid; the crystals are of variable opacity, refractivity, and reflectivity. Cooly lit from offscreen.
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
#aiart prompt 1096: Overlapping crystalline conical grid; the crystals are of variable opacity, refractivity, and reflectivity. Cooly lit from offscreen.
#aiart prompt 1095: Extreme fog cloaking the hillside; out of focus shrubbery silhouette the foreground; merging with the fog, lost in it, occasionally willowing into focus: the dark silhouette of a prowling dragon.
#DragonTuesday
#DragonTuesday
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
#aiart prompt 1095: Extreme fog cloaking the hillside; out of focus shrubbery silhouette the foreground; merging with the fog, lost in it, occasionally willowing into focus: the dark silhouette of a prowling dragon.
#DragonTuesday
#DragonTuesday
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#aiart prompt 711: a woman in an Edwardian gown—black and blue—with a matching petite costume mask covering her upper face. Elegant, she looks to the side, her face coquettish, lips slightly parted. Her eyes glowed an unearthly orange. She stands in a darkened room at a masquerade.
December 10, 2024 at 4:13 AM
#aiart prompt 711: a woman in an Edwardian gown—black and blue—with a matching petite costume mask covering her upper face. Elegant, she looks to the side, her face coquettish, lips slightly parted. Her eyes glowed an unearthly orange. She stands in a darkened room at a masquerade.
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#aiart prompt 710: he held the object up, inspecting it in the beam of his hard hat mounted light: a large chunk of translucent rock, with a time traveler inside; fixed in amber, a large, parasitic, flying insect with a long proboscis, abdomen distended with precious prehistoric DNA. (cont)
December 9, 2024 at 9:13 PM
#aiart prompt 710: he held the object up, inspecting it in the beam of his hard hat mounted light: a large chunk of translucent rock, with a time traveler inside; fixed in amber, a large, parasitic, flying insect with a long proboscis, abdomen distended with precious prehistoric DNA. (cont)
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#aiart prompt 709: the conditions during the storm deteriorated: wind howled, frost and snow accumulated, a full blown white out; even thunder rumbled, surreally. Out in such, barely to be seen, it stood, watching, waiting; (cont)
December 9, 2024 at 4:02 AM
#aiart prompt 709: the conditions during the storm deteriorated: wind howled, frost and snow accumulated, a full blown white out; even thunder rumbled, surreally. Out in such, barely to be seen, it stood, watching, waiting; (cont)
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#aiart prompt 708: the chamber was vast and dark; a central mechanical nexus—bulbous, hemispherical—descended from above in the center of the space. Numerous cables and houses connected it to life support pods nestled in a ring underneath. (cont)
December 8, 2024 at 9:05 PM
#aiart prompt 708: the chamber was vast and dark; a central mechanical nexus—bulbous, hemispherical—descended from above in the center of the space. Numerous cables and houses connected it to life support pods nestled in a ring underneath. (cont)
So, it turns out RetroArch comes with a Virtual Boy core, which, itself, supports rendering games in either red/black flat monochrome, or separating the channels out in various ways, including anaglyphic colors.
You can literally wear 3d-glasses to play VB games on your iPad. How cool is that?
You can literally wear 3d-glasses to play VB games on your iPad. How cool is that?
Ok. Fine. RetroArch still has absolutely hideous UX, but holy shit this as an iPad app is absolute magic.
My iPad is a now a ridiculous retro games console. Everything I’ve thrown at it works, and most of the *ahem* “acquisitioned” library has achievement support.
My iPad is a now a ridiculous retro games console. Everything I’ve thrown at it works, and most of the *ahem* “acquisitioned” library has achievement support.
I’m currently checking out emulators on iOS. I’ve been using Delta, but its relatively narrow niche (Nintendo only) and lack of RetroAchievements support has me looking elsewhere.
RetroArch is the Linux of emus: feature rich, but horrible, unintuitive UX.
RetroArch is the Linux of emus: feature rich, but horrible, unintuitive UX.
December 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
So, it turns out RetroArch comes with a Virtual Boy core, which, itself, supports rendering games in either red/black flat monochrome, or separating the channels out in various ways, including anaglyphic colors.
You can literally wear 3d-glasses to play VB games on your iPad. How cool is that?
You can literally wear 3d-glasses to play VB games on your iPad. How cool is that?
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#aiart prompt 706: hanging from the laden boughs, trinkets that glitter and gleam; beware the coming feline jowls, and the awed slitted eye beam; ornaments and lights which dazzled, soon the tree downed and frazzled.
December 8, 2024 at 12:18 AM
#aiart prompt 706: hanging from the laden boughs, trinkets that glitter and gleam; beware the coming feline jowls, and the awed slitted eye beam; ornaments and lights which dazzled, soon the tree downed and frazzled.
Ok. Fine. RetroArch still has absolutely hideous UX, but holy shit this as an iPad app is absolute magic.
My iPad is a now a ridiculous retro games console. Everything I’ve thrown at it works, and most of the *ahem* “acquisitioned” library has achievement support.
My iPad is a now a ridiculous retro games console. Everything I’ve thrown at it works, and most of the *ahem* “acquisitioned” library has achievement support.
I’m currently checking out emulators on iOS. I’ve been using Delta, but its relatively narrow niche (Nintendo only) and lack of RetroAchievements support has me looking elsewhere.
RetroArch is the Linux of emus: feature rich, but horrible, unintuitive UX.
RetroArch is the Linux of emus: feature rich, but horrible, unintuitive UX.
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Ok. Fine. RetroArch still has absolutely hideous UX, but holy shit this as an iPad app is absolute magic.
My iPad is a now a ridiculous retro games console. Everything I’ve thrown at it works, and most of the *ahem* “acquisitioned” library has achievement support.
My iPad is a now a ridiculous retro games console. Everything I’ve thrown at it works, and most of the *ahem* “acquisitioned” library has achievement support.
#aiart prompt 1092: A detailed miniature Christmas village, near a multi-shop plaza, full of ceramic figurines and wire brush trees. At street level, looking toward one of the shops. Low lighting, the buildings lit with bulb lights. Low depth of field.
December 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
#aiart prompt 1092: A detailed miniature Christmas village, near a multi-shop plaza, full of ceramic figurines and wire brush trees. At street level, looking toward one of the shops. Low lighting, the buildings lit with bulb lights. Low depth of field.
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#aiart prompt 705: the crystal ornament hung on the tree, unassuming. At its core, a scintillating bright light, wavering and strobing, as though a universe in miniature glowed within. Close up on the ornament; low depth of field; colorful.
December 7, 2024 at 2:13 AM
#aiart prompt 705: the crystal ornament hung on the tree, unassuming. At its core, a scintillating bright light, wavering and strobing, as though a universe in miniature glowed within. Close up on the ornament; low depth of field; colorful.
I’m currently checking out emulators on iOS. I’ve been using Delta, but its relatively narrow niche (Nintendo only) and lack of RetroAchievements support has me looking elsewhere.
RetroArch is the Linux of emus: feature rich, but horrible, unintuitive UX.
RetroArch is the Linux of emus: feature rich, but horrible, unintuitive UX.
December 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I’m currently checking out emulators on iOS. I’ve been using Delta, but its relatively narrow niche (Nintendo only) and lack of RetroAchievements support has me looking elsewhere.
RetroArch is the Linux of emus: feature rich, but horrible, unintuitive UX.
RetroArch is the Linux of emus: feature rich, but horrible, unintuitive UX.
Currently thinking about getting an 8bitdo Sn30 Pro for retro and cloud gaming on my iPad.
It looks like a very smexy controller: Hall effect thumbsticks, motion controls and rumble, reasonable suite of buttons, snes-style aesthetic.
It looks like a very smexy controller: Hall effect thumbsticks, motion controls and rumble, reasonable suite of buttons, snes-style aesthetic.
December 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Currently thinking about getting an 8bitdo Sn30 Pro for retro and cloud gaming on my iPad.
It looks like a very smexy controller: Hall effect thumbsticks, motion controls and rumble, reasonable suite of buttons, snes-style aesthetic.
It looks like a very smexy controller: Hall effect thumbsticks, motion controls and rumble, reasonable suite of buttons, snes-style aesthetic.
