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Nov 14, 2024: Checking out Stray this AM 🎮
Nov 13, 2024: Insane how powerful phones are now…well, iPhones at least. Playing Death Stranding. No fan. Just blows my mind. Not like it’s the ideal place to play …
Nov 13, 2024: www.theverge.com/2024/11/1… Windows only…go fuck yourself blizzard 🎮
Nov 10, 2024: Current Sega Genesis collection 🎮
Nov 10, 2024: Games I’ve Played 003 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Better when locked on to Sonic and Knuckles, but still a great time. One of the most ignored …
Nov 9, 2024: Games I’ve Played 002 - Tetris (NES) - Not quite as well known as it’s Game Boy sibling, but just as enjoyable. If only it had the classic …
Nov 9, 2024: Only the most advanced games for me, thanks 🎮
Nov 9, 2024: Halo season has begun 🎮
Nov 8, 2024: All my current NES 😎 🎮
Nov 8, 2024: Cmon weekend….come onnnnnn get here faster
Nov 8, 2024: I might be the worlds worst blogger, or at least in the runner up
Nov 7, 2024: Welp.
Oct 29, 2024: gawd the new Mac mini is so hot
Oct 24, 2024: My zillionth listen of this album 🎵
Oct 23, 2024: Soooo sick of seeing tech learning resources and tutorials focused around “this will get you a job” “Don’t do this because …
Oct 11, 2024: noice 🎵
Oct 10, 2024: Holy shit what a great album 🎵 especially 3-6
Oct 6, 2024: This thing is so useful…Logitech G Cloud, streamed from the living room Xbox. I use remote streaming quite a bit, I realized! Lots of ways to do it, …
Oct 3, 2024: This is the cleanest my little network/server shelf has ever been…still gotta tame some wires
Oct 3, 2024: When your coworker name drops Suda51 games and has good taste 🥰🎮
Oct 3, 2024: Not having a car is more annoying that I anticipated now that mine is kind of retired…way too much $$$ to get it passed inspection. Still have …
Oct 3, 2024: Hmmmmm
Oct 2, 2024: I’ve somehow used all my HDMI cables up…which is good because it means I’ve finally lived somewhere long enough to actually have …
Oct 2, 2024: [https://passkeys.directory](Passkeys Directory) Great resource for seeing who supports Passkeys, which I love. I think I have them set up everywhere …
Sep 30, 2024: I guess it’s her hoodie now… 🐶
Sep 30, 2024: Really wonder if I should work towards leaving the field of IT. It’s not really worked out great for me in my decade or so of trying…and it’s not me. …
Sep 29, 2024: Games I’ve Played 001 - Final Fantasy I I’ve played through the first Final Fantasy many times, but the Crystal Remasters are by far the …
Sep 29, 2024: Movies I’ve Seen 001 - Beetlejuice (1988) For better or worse, this is the first movie I have memory of watching as a kid. Obvious classic that …
Sep 29, 2024: Yay! 100%‘ed the first Final Fantasy 🎮
Sep 28, 2024: So happy the Final Fantasy 1-6 Remasters had a surprise release on Xbox this week! Close to finishing FF1… 🎮
Sep 28, 2024: I’ve eaten 3 slices of pizza and it’s not even 8am yet. I have no regrets.
Sep 26, 2024: 🐶
Sep 25, 2024: The Verge, Emma Roth: Finally, HP is adding AI to its printers I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner 🤣
Sep 24, 2024: This is my professional interview look…hopefully it tricked my interviewers into thinking I’m a good boy they should give money to
Sep 23, 2024: Okay so yeah, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (phew) kicks ass 🎮
Sep 23, 2024: Alright, let’s see if this is fun…was told it’s up my alley 🎮
Sep 23, 2024: I’ve kind of discovered I can do just about the majority of what I’d do on my laptop on my iPad these days, just gotta adapt to new ways of doing …
Sep 23, 2024: In 2014 I tried to learn a little bit about photography, Photoshop, Lightroom, and I had the camera focused Nokia Lumia 1020. It was interesting. Some …
Sep 23, 2024: Going through old clips and found one of the awful TMNT XBLA game…good stuff 🎮
Sep 23, 2024: Playing around on my iPad while my wife drives us home, like an iPad kid
Sep 22, 2024: Went to sister in laws wedding with the wife. Good time! One day I’ll learn how to smile for photos
Sep 20, 2024: Using my phone to remote into my laptop that’s sitting behind me in bed so I can look at the screen to check progress on something is the ultimate …
Sep 19, 2024: I actually don’t hate this…I’m gross
Sep 18, 2024: There’s a spider in my office. I guess I’ll leave my keys on the counter for him and see myself out
Sep 13, 2024: Ahhhh, perfect for 2:36AM!
Aug 25, 2024: Grandia never came to the US on Saturn, and I missed out on the PS1 version. Picked up the modern rerelease and finally playing a classic JRPG I …
Aug 23, 2024: Sega Saturn phase has struck again 🎮
Aug 21, 2024: So good 🎵
Aug 16, 2024: 🎮
Aug 10, 2024: Go ahead and rerelease Doom 100 times, I’ll play through it every time 🎮
Aug 5, 2024: I am so glad I’m not a generic ass IT guy that’s only ever used Windows
Jul 27, 2024: Oh boy do I love super long drives!
Jul 26, 2024: Gojira at the Olympics opening ceremony FUCK YEAH! France has some of the most amazing metal bands ever too
Jul 25, 2024: Ahhh time for some easy listening 🎵
Jul 25, 2024: One day I’ll continue my Linux stuff but for now and the next few weeks I don’t want to even look at a computer that isn’t a game …
Jul 21, 2024: Just gotta power through this work week and then BAM! Friend trip and week of no work
Jul 20, 2024: Hair update
Jul 19, 2024: “A man of profit is a man of lies”
Jul 18, 2024: Finished all of Final Fantasy XIV Realm Reborn! 🎮
Jul 18, 2024: Man Gets Medical Benefits for Heavy Metal Addiction? | Snopes.com bout to be me
Jul 13, 2024: I’m proud of our little living room. It’s still crazy to me that I have a proper living area of my own. Always have a weird fear I’m going to suddenly …
Jul 13, 2024: music.apple.com/us/album/… breakfast making jamz even though this is more suited for fall than summer
Jul 12, 2024: classic
Jul 12, 2024: As an Employee, You Are Disposable | nelson.cloud ☁️ yupppppp
Jul 11, 2024: Rewatching Trailer Park Boys for the billionth time with my wife so our brains both rot equally
Jul 11, 2024: Setting up Ubuntu I’m taking this at a slow pace, straight from the beginning, so most of this will be pretty boring and obvious. Still, it’s a part of a …
Jul 11, 2024: I used to be really weird about what I put online. I always had a fear a future employer or something would find it…I also had a habit of …
Jul 11, 2024: Adventures in Linux It’s been awhile since I had the tinkering bug, as I find the current tech landscape a little depressing, and because I work in IT day to day. …
Jul 10, 2024: My favorite iPad Pro feature is that it’s always 10% battery when I feel like drawing on it
Jul 10, 2024: My ears always perk up when I hear Metal from someone’s car in a parking lot, until I realize it’s Five Finger Death Punch or some other garbage and …
Jul 7, 2024: On a progressive black/death metal kick lately I guess
Jul 6, 2024: Good ass album
Jul 5, 2024: Time to get scared
Jul 5, 2024: Total baby
Jul 5, 2024: brat (both)
Jul 4, 2024: 🇺🇸
Jul 3, 2024: I seriously got an ice cream maker just to make cookies and cream. Mission complete
Jul 3, 2024: I made (melting) ice cream! And a mess, but mostly ice cream
Jul 2, 2024: I am EXCITE!
Jul 2, 2024: Oh boy Baltimore
Jul 1, 2024: Caught on the table RED HANDED! 🛑❌
Jul 1, 2024: Definitely one of the coolest records I’ve seen. “Pool of Blood” edition. 🎵
Jul 1, 2024: The Verge, Jay Peters: Apple already considers the first HomePod ‘vintage’ My poor old HomePod
Jul 1, 2024: RIP batteries I bought in 2010
Jun 30, 2024: Copilot
Jun 30, 2024: I had a dream I saw a Phillips CDi and the weird Mario game at a thrift store for 25$ but I didn’t have my wallet on me so it turned into a nightmare
Jun 29, 2024: 10:36 PM Wii Sports, why not 🎮
Jun 29, 2024: TIL if you create a folder and name it Developer, Finder will automatically assign it an icon
Jun 29, 2024: Can’t sleep so it’s fumble around in Xcode time
Jun 28, 2024: Good ass album music.apple.com/us/album/…
Jun 28, 2024: Played through Armikrog finally. I was part of the kickstarter campaign, because its a spiritual sequel to the classic The Neverhood. Stellar …
Jun 28, 2024: Every time I see a major Twitch personality has been banned for doing something stupid, I look them up and every time it’s a person that looks …
Jun 27, 2024: I’m reposting tweets like I’m on Tumblr or something but I don’t care because these are correct
Jun 27, 2024: Rip twitter
Jun 26, 2024: I hope there is new Akercocke soon…such good ebb and flow 🎵
Jun 26, 2024: My camera roll is just weird dogs 🐶
Jun 23, 2024: Oh 🖥️
Jun 23, 2024: Possible tattoo, but I wanna make it more distinctive so it’s not just copy and paste. It would be misleading though, I am definitely not The Doom …
Jun 23, 2024: Been playing Phoenix Wright, right after finishing Judgement, because apparently Japanese lawyer games are my thing 🎮
Jun 22, 2024: Exploring Werewolves discography as I have yet to hear the earlier stuff. The Dead Are Screaming, the debut, highlights how these guys have been one …
Jun 22, 2024: Cleaned up the big shelf and got the Needler mounted on top. About halfway there as far as rebuilding my collection. Now everyone can zoom in and …
Jun 22, 2024: oh boy! 🥵
Jun 21, 2024: Gamers slamming the Xbox Series S are clueless. I know SO many people who would have NEVER started playing more serious games if it wasn’t for …
Jun 15, 2024: Very happy to have multiple days off work to visit the wife’s family. I don’t hate my job or anything, I just love not working
Jun 10, 2024: WWDC time today! 🍎
Jun 8, 2024: Picked up the original Yakuza while I’m on my Yakuza kick 🎮
Jun 7, 2024: Now the wife is playing Judgement! 🎮
Jun 7, 2024: “No rough housing in this house” 🐶
Jun 4, 2024: [https://www.ign.com/articles/like-a-dragon-yakuza-live-action-series-announced-for-amazon-prime-video-this-fall](Like a Dragon: Yakuza Live-Action …
Jun 3, 2024: Weekends are too damn short.
Jun 2, 2024: About halfway through Judgement so far. Loving it like I do all the other Yakuza series…Imagine I’ll be trying to 100% this one… 🎮
May 26, 2024: Early Sunday morning leftover pizza and game time…checking out Judgement, the Yakuza spinoff detective game 🎮
May 21, 2024: She’s in a mood
Apr 10, 2024: Behemoth - And the Forests Dream Eternally I got back into record collecting recently, so expect more of these! Behemoth - And the Forests Dream Eternally Early Behemoth kicks ass, especially …
Feb 14, 2024: Halo Cookbook: Patty Melts Yes, I bought the Halo cookbook, and yes, I made things from it. I figured I would post the outcomes here because...why not? I like cooking, but I …
Dec 14, 2023: Wednesday 13 - Tally Ho Theater, Leesburg, VA - November 26th, 2023 Ventured out of my cave the other night to see Wednesday 13 play a Murderdolls set! I had to go, seeing as Murderdolls first album is the first CD I …
Nov 25, 2023: Moved Deprecated Gaming to a VPS I have another website, deprecated.games that's meant to showcase how much I love old games and the history behind them. A lot of what I wanted to do …
Aug 9, 2023: Stellar Shift Xbox Controller I don't go through controllers very often, but my 20th Anniversary Xbox controller was starting to get pretty war torn after thousands (probably, I …
Jun 8, 2023: Born Again Blog Let's see how long I can keep this one up! I don't use any social media, so I figured it would be nice to have somewhere of my own to document things. …
Apr 10, 2023: Finally re-beat Batman Arkham Knight, now to find the 9374924 riddler trophies 🕹️
Apr 6, 2023: Mario movie tickets acquired…for Saturday, 12PM, because I’m old
Apr 5, 2023: A New Programming Language Has Arrived For Creating NES Games Woah!!!
Apr 4, 2023: I gotta find out why Sonic was murdered
Apr 4, 2023: weirdly attached to my Plex server full of weird crap
Apr 2, 2023: I love it how the Music app crashes for me now when you airplay to a HomePod and “unlove” a song…oh wait, no I don’t
Apr 1, 2023: Man I love playing Halo Infinite multiplayer, warts and all 🕹️
Mar 31, 2023: Finished reading: Bone by Jeff Smith 📚hooked on this from Disney Adventures mini mags when i was a kid, nice to finally read the whole story
Mar 31, 2023: Finished reading: Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore 📚so damn good
Mar 31, 2023: I’d rather not bitch about tech stuff because I feel like most “tech” people just talk about how much everything sucks and …
Mar 31, 2023: I feel like every admin panel in Azure/365 might as well have an old style “under construction” gif like Geocities pages had at the top. …
Mar 30, 2023: Controller for scale 🐶
Mar 30, 2023: We got a new food processor that actually works and made red pepper hummus! Favorite recipe site too: Chili Pepper Madness
Mar 30, 2023: Forgot I had this…nice!
Jan 25, 2023: Started messing with Godot game engine and having a great time with it so far! 🎮
Jan 23, 2023: 🎵
Jan 23, 2023: If my Airpods could stop cutting out every couple of seconds every damn time I use them with my Mac, that would be grrrrreat
Jan 23, 2023: Been on a tech/death kick lately so its time to spin one of the hallmarks of the genre this AM 🎵
Jan 22, 2023: Tonight’s album
Jan 22, 2023: Kind of sad watching Twitter fall apart, but not surprising in the least either.
Jan 19, 2023: Everything went great!
Jan 19, 2023: My mom is getting a pacemaker put in as I type this. Hoping for good news here soon on the results ❤️
Jan 17, 2023: Digging the lower price of the M2 Mac mini. My M1 mini is still a champ!
Jan 17, 2023: I finally beat the original Legend of Zelda on NES. 🎮
Jan 17, 2023: idk why she has maracas 🐶
Jan 17, 2023: 🎮
Jan 15, 2023: Turned 35 yesterday, and I’m very thankful my life at age 35 is way better than I ever could have imagined.
Jan 11, 2023: 😵💫
Jan 5, 2023: my posture was just so bad that I almost fell out of my chair forward
Jan 5, 2023: 🎵
Jan 4, 2023: 🎵
Jan 3, 2023: Next up 🎵
Jan 3, 2023: Album is worth it for this track alone 🎵
Jan 2, 2023: I’ll miss Jinx 😢
Jan 2, 2023: Next: The Minds I, which I don’t think I’ve ever heard, actually… 🎵
Jan 2, 2023: Classic… 🎵
Jan 2, 2023: the HomePod mini has got to be the worst Apple thing in recent memory. We have 3 and the amount of times they don’t work right overshadows any …
Jan 2, 2023: Working my way through the Dark Tranquility discography, since I was so obsessed with the Halo Effect release last year
Jan 1, 2023: Welp, here goes 2023
Dec 31, 2022: Same
Dec 29, 2022: 😴
Dec 28, 2022: Very much enjoying the week-long break I’m currently on 😎
Dec 26, 2022: So weird seeing a Microsoft copyright on Battletoads Double Dragon 🎮
Dec 25, 2022: 📷 🎄
Dec 23, 2022: I’ve now crossed the 1Gb internet speed line!
Dec 22, 2022: Annoying that Nvidia is discontinuing GameStream right after I got a setup going with Moonlight. SIGH 🎮
Dec 21, 2022: High on Life is my favorite game of the year by far. Finally! Colors and humor and weird stuff! We need more funny weird games. I miss Earthworm Jim 🎮
Dec 21, 2022: I am so glad I don’t have to screw around with Mastadon but can still interact and follow people on it from micro.blog
Dec 20, 2022: So glad I preordered this a year ago 🎮
Dec 20, 2022: This is my last week at one of the most frustrating jobs I’ve ever had, and I cannot wait for Friday
Dec 19, 2022: Sophie has now lived with me and my wife @velkara for nearly 2 years
Dec 19, 2022: It’s her birthday 🐶
Dec 19, 2022: RIP Twitter…long live Micro.blog!