I was actually looking at that since I’m using a pi. The situation is that I’m making it for a festival camp for these regional burns (kinda like small burning man festivals for people who know people and don’t wanna do the big one for whatever reason) the camp has been tested once and they want another activity, the retro game console. I want to use a 15-17’ screen and add some 2 player games. The size was leading me towards bigger 90s style crt as an enclosure, but with a more old school cyberpunk vibe. The akira style computers I saw were too much of a mainframe, the serial experiment pain ones weren’t cyberpunky enough. I saw a few more but they didn’t inspire me.

Sorry for the ramble; I’ve had some drinks tonight. Maybe I will look at cyberdecks and expand the style to something bigger

I just got a little retro gaming handheld to play at night and it’s kicking my ass. I was thinking of integrating those achievements, but I think Imna learn how to play older games a little better first.

You got any chill retro games you can recommend I can wind down with?

What instrument you been playing? Nothing is like playing music with people imo. Pulls something out of me

Tbh, I kinda asked so I could be exposed to more ideas when my current void-fillers wear off.

Ya I agree. It def went to shit even before AI. Sponsored results pushed more and more, and SEO slop abusing googles mechanics took over. Adding forum to the search became the only way to get anything because websites were trying to maximize time on page without even offering an answer. Eventually as the internet shrank and forums started dying out ‘Reddit’ was a good addition to a search, but that has since gone to shit too. It’s like a library of Alexandria has become a library of babel. Information is being gated and incredibly difficult to search for. I downloaded Wikipedia the other day because it’s starting to feel more inportant to have local access to information, but it only goes so far.

If you are presented with something familiar in an unfamiliar way there is the gap in understanding that leaves a feeling of funny unease. I’m sure there is name for the phenomenon. Take something like the backrooms. Even without any sort of monster shit it is a space that is thoroughly known by many people, the slight change in its presentation creates a feeling. This OP post is a similar thing. This person has heard the name Patrick star a million times in their life from one voice actor in one way. It has now been changed. Where a confused, unknown and unidentified feeling forms laughter often appears.

It has little to do with the language and much to do with the presentation in an unexpected way.

I saw it as a joke about how everything is performative and now that the tides are shifting in another direction companies will throw the rainbow flag on their twitter account and companies will be ‘inclusive’ and ask employees to add pronouns again. Just like how when the tides go the other way it will all be removed.

It’s like pink washing. The same meme could be made in February but with a pink gun telling the crying guy to make the cheerio box pink again. They do it and almost no, or literally no, proceeds go to breast cancer research. Just a performative lie.

But anyways in real life most people I’ve met or misgendered of fucked up a pronoun for don’t really give a shit. I try because it feels like the right thing to do in the same way I wouldn’t call someone Nick who goes by Nicholas.

I am interested as to you saying that a personal identity doesnt define us. My gut kinda says that our personal identity is the literal self definition of ourselves. But maybe looking in to “Identity” more deeply is something fun I could do. Feels like one of those words that we have a hazy emotional cloud in our minds that we refer to, but rarely hammer down. Kinda like ‘love’, it’s got a million definitions across a million people.