Aram Jabbari
@aramjabbari.com
Comms at Sony Interactive Entertainment. This is a personal account; the only views represented are those of its owner.
Found another trove of old photos and negatives in my parents storage in need of scanning (there goes my free time for a couple weeks). Love seeing my first PC desk/setup. I’d recognize the Test Drive III code wheel anywhere.
Second and final iPod classic modded into a new metal shell, this time aluminum. What is dead may never die.
About 36 years ago, my brother and I were standing in a Toys”R”Us and needed to align on the next new NES game our parents would get us. I fought for Kemco’s Superman, being obsessed with the movies, while my brother tried to convince me that Super Mario Bros 3 was better. Forgive me, bro.
I’ve played a loooot of Balatro and this has *never* happened on the very first hand of a run
It feels like I’m back in college, apart from the fact that this iPod classic is solid brass and glass. A fun mod, not really intended to be on the go (250g 😬), but breathes new life into a device someone dumped on ebay because of failing a HDD and battery
After 14 years of excellent, dependable brain-draining, I’m finally retiring my beloved ST60 55” Panny Plasma in favor of a new 4K OLED with modern features. If anyone I know in the bay would make good use of the plasma and let it burn out its final years in dignity, I’d love to find it a good home
There are few things that have remained exactly as cool to me as an adult as they did when I was little but I have to give it up for laminating paper. It’s like tossing a boomerang into the fairy fountain; it feels magical coming out the other side.
The burden of the physical movie collector. I’d reckon I’ve been entering codes for the past hour.
The nostalgia is strong but so too is the finger soreness. Managing dozens of VHS cassettes is hard work!
Tempted to do this every day indefinitely to do my small part to try and help make the end of the trilogy happen
I wasn’t sure how these keycaps would look in person but they’re a delight, delectably vivid and fun.
I rarely stop a movie before it’s through, even when I’m not feeling it, but good lord, I don’t think I can get all the way through Tron: Ares. How did we go from Legacy to this?
It took me WEEKS but I finally defeated Gold Stake on Black Deck. Testament to how utterly brilliant Balatro is that I didn’t give up.
These Majuular Ultima documentaries are amazing. I can’t always get through in one viewing but I can’t wait to click when I see a new one. I don’t understand how he can make these so quickly given how well-researched and loaded with info they are. youtu.be/W4h1GIw32UU?...
Ultima VIII: Pagan Retrospective | A Titanic Mistake
YouTube video by Majuular
youtu.be
I think it’s finally come into focus for me why I find so much satisfaction tinkering with Pi devices. I spent an hour tonight getting Ubuntu set up on a laptop enclosure for the CM5, built and installed a custom battery driver someone made, setup flathub and installed libreoffice via flatpak 1/
I would like to kindly ask Saros to please get into my veins ASAP
I honestly never thought I’d get around to this aluminum hinged GBA SP mod but for whatever reason, tonight, I had the courage to start it. Nice to see it all come together well (and hey, it works!)
Probably because it hit at a formative time and nothing felt remotely as immersive to me back then, even today when I wake up to a gloomy cloudy drizzly sky, I can hear Daggerfall music in my head. The Unity port is amazing on a 90fps Steam Deck OLED display btw.
The retro beige look never really compelled me in the past but in the last year I became preoccupied with having a keeb like the days of old
