davetansley

cstross, 3 months ago to random

The horrible truth is that the image we have of any given decade's design aesthetic is actually false—the truth is actually the aesthetic of the previous decade, with grime and tobacco stains on top.

craiggrannell, 1 month ago to retrogaming

By me: The Game Boy at 35 – and six of the best Game Boy games // The Game Boy’s green screen might not have made rivals green with envy, but, boy, did its games shine • https://www.stuff.tv/features/the-game-boy-at-35-and-six-of-the-best-game-boy-games/

#retrogaming #nintendo #GameBoy

janbeta, 1 month ago to random

New trend in my inbox: Getting spammed with offers for doing sponsored videos about robotic vacuum cleaners. Probably because I use a (regular old school) vacuum cleaner in some of my videos to dust off old computer parts. Sheesh.

davetansley, 5 months ago to random

This year was an odd one...

On one hand, lots of good stuff happened. @teahands and I got wed and had a lovely, low-key day that was perfectly "us". We went to see Eurovision. We had our first cruise. The Miami Dolphins have been doing suspiciously well...

On the flip side, health issues were a stress, and work was... well, let's not mention work. Combined with the wider world being a nonstop fuck-a-palooza...

So I wanted to send it off by picking out some of the cool stuff I've enjoyed...

craiggrannell, 2 months ago to random

A bit of fun for this week’s column: I turned my massive iPad Pro into a handheld games console – and it’s every bit as weird as it sounds • https://www.stuff.tv/features/i-used-a-gamesir-x2s-controller-to-turn-my-12-9in-ipad-pro-into-a-handheld-console-and-its-every-bit-as-weird-as-that-sounds/

davetansley, 2 months ago to comics

This is a my comic book collection from the 90s and 00s (mostly 90s). I've lugged it around from city to city, mostly looking wistfully at it and imagining that one day I'll have the time to dive into it and see what a much younger version of me was picking up every Wednesday...

Well, today is the day. I've got a collection scanning app at the ready... let's see how much all those holofoil limited edition #1s are worth!

(Narrator: nothing)

#comics #comicbooks #marvel #dc

davetansley, 5 months ago to PowKiddy

I was lucky enough to be gifted a #Powkiddy #RGB30 handheld for my birthday, and I've had a few weeks to play with it now... So what's it like?

Well, it's great... it's big selling point is the lovely 1:1 screen, which is big, bright and clear. It makes it absolutely perfect for #Gameboy, #NGPC and #GameGear games, as well as #NES and #SNES at 8:7. Gameboy Color is especially nice on it.

I got the yellow version, which is close to "spice orange" in person, for fans of that GameCube variant.

davetansley, 2 months ago to random

Still no closer to figuring out if Slade were a serious band or not.. You'd think their Wikipedia page would lead with that.

#totp

davetansley, 18 days ago to GenshinImpact

After about a solid two weeks of chipping away at it, I finally finished the #Aranyaka quest line in #GenshinImpact. Can't decide whether it was genius or folly...

It was definitely unusual to have a quest line that was so lengthy and immersive, and some parts of it were wonderful.

But the confusing names, the endless dialogue and the occasional feeling of being completely lost sometimes annoyed...

davetansley, 4 months ago to random

Remember that Saturday night Noel Edmonds show where they would randomly turn on a camera in literally any living room in the country?

My grown up rational mind insists it probably didn't really work like that, but I still get some lingering residual fear around this time of the week.

It's why I never eat my Saturday tea naked.

davetansley, 4 months ago to jelos

Possibly one of my most niche toots ever... some clever person has ported the best aspect of #JelOS - the theme - to #ArkOS for the #RGB30

https://github.com/nkahoang/es-theme-art-book-next-arkos

It looks amazing and makes RGB30+ArkOS an almost perfect combination.

#RetroGaming #Gaming #HandheldGaming

davetansley, 4 months ago to mastodon

I love the Mastdon advanced interface, but I always thought the left panel is mostly wasted space. It would be far nicer if you could collapse that and fit in one more column for extra bunnies.

Now you can! I've knocked together some ham-fisted Javascript to collapse /expand the left panel with a click in the grey area below the post box:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/485702-hide-mastodon-left-panel

Install with Tampermonkey or equivalent. You might need to add your own instance into the Match declarations at the top.

#Mastodon

davetansley, 3 months ago to random

As a modern #developer it's my job to spend hours sifting through long lists of icons to find one that is vaguely related to what I want.

davetansley, 2 months ago to random

Oh man, I thought it was just a jolly song about balloons... 😐

This is Major Tom all over again...

#totp

davetansley, 2 months ago to random

Oh, so that's what an entire country saying "Fuck off" simultaneously sounds like.

#totp

davetansley, 2 months ago to yuzu

Can't help but think that the #Yuzu devs wrote this statement with an NES Zapper pointing at them.

#Nintendo #Emulation

davetansley, 2 months ago to random

Is this like a non-unionised Phil Collins or something?

#totp

davetansley, 2 months ago to turrican

Inspired by @janbeta and his use of #Turrican as a dependable game to test out his Amigas...

What is your go-to test game?

You've set up a new emulator or piece of retro hardware and you need to test out the frame rates or the input lag or just that it works... what is the first game you load?

For me, it's always Alien Crush on the #PCEngine. No idea why... I guess I just know how it should look and feel. Plus, it's an awesome game!

#RetroGaming #Emulation #Gaming

davetansley, 4 days ago to random

Son of Godzilla (1967): A group of isolated male scientists discover an inexplicable creature they can barely comprehend, and then she helps them escape Godzilla and some giant insects.

#Monsterdon

davetansley, 2 months ago to retroid

It's clear to me now that owning just a single #retrohandheld is not realistic. It's more sensible to own ALL of them.

But how do you seamlessly move between them, keeping your saves and states?

Enter "Syncthing": https://syncthing.net/

Syncthing is available just about everywhere and keeps folders in sync between devices. I've just spent a few days getting this configured on my devices and it works (mostly) great!

Read on for some tips...

#retroid #miyoomini #rgb30

davetansley, 2 months ago to random

On the bright side, at least the earth will eventually be swallowed by a bloated sun and this can never happen again.

#totp

davetansley, 3 months ago to random

Worlds collide.

#totp

davetansley, 2 months ago to random

That Rush video predicted what Freeview would be like in the rain.

#totp

davetansley, 16 hours ago to USpolitics

It is obviously wonderful that #Trump was finally found guilty... But the US has a far bigger problem than him. He's just a symptom of a wider issue.

The problem is that fully one half of their voting population lives in a fabricated alternate reality where any attempt to move back to normality is fed back in to reinforce its persecution narrative.

How do you resolve a situation like that, where every normalising step intensifies the problem? How do you recover?

#uspolitics #politics