Japester

@thejapester.bsky.social

he/him I own a Dreamcast. Ocean's 11, 12, 13, 8, and Logan Lucky enjoyer. Nostalgia keeps me connected to the past and now.

Get more frags in your next deathmatch! The Thrustmaster Frag Master: one of the attempts in 1998 and 1999 for a mouse and keyboard replacement via a hybrid joystick aimed at FPS games. In this case, something more akin to a particularly cursed looking flight or racing controller.

A scanned magazine ad for the Frag Master. It's a yoke-like controller with a molten white-ish plastic looking design that you grip with both hands with a wide rounded base at the bottom you put on your desk. And then you push it forward/pull it back to look up and down, pull push left and right etc.

Finished upgrading this 2012 Mac Pro recovered from a pile of ewaste. It now has a pair of 3GHz Xeon processors, 64GB of RAM, an RX 580 GPU, NVMe hard drive and SSD, USB 3.1, and upgraded WiFi and Bluetooth. I’ve installed Debian 13 with KDE, and I think this will become my daily driver.

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I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

i just got an originally xbox and i have to say that while the original “duke” controller is definitely weird, some of the choices they made are really cool. i love the way the face buttons catch the light and the weird oval shape they have, which is surprisingly ergonomic

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I see tech magazines in my libby app, but every magazine is somewhat apologetic to AI. There may be some good things, especially when checked, but all I see is terrible fake art, thumbnails and hallucinations. Not to mention rise in price of tech, wasting water and increasing climate change.