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Software engineer, anti-fascist, retired Navy Senior Chief, VGHF supporter, video game connoisseur and achievement collector. Rarely streams at twitch.tv/bdjeffyp. He/him
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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

Preparing for my slot on the ROMchip fundraiser stream talking about the Wonder Tools Cruiser! TOMORROW at 7pm Eastern time, I'm gonna break down what's happening with this magic peripheral to raise money for video game history research donate.romchip.org

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

Legendary hater Charles Darwin

Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

thought when making toast earlier

Saturday is @romchip.bsky.social's fundraiser stream, and I'm bringing out the big stupid. I'll be playing with the WONDER TOOLS CRUISER, a Fisher-Price controller for Windows 95 that, as far as I can tell, there is zero current video of anyone playing. You will not want to miss this

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

I had to navigate to gemini.google.com/extensions twice because it redirected me the first time to /app. But after that, I was able to follow the directions below. On the MyActivity page, click the dropdown button that says “Turn Off” and select “Turn Off” (or “Turn off and Delete” if available).

If Hades is a game that made you feel seen and represented, it's because of the hard work of the people who contributed their talents. Now we have an opportunity to repay that. Please tell Supergiant that you support striking workers.

I’m taking time this weekend to write up letters and mail them in. In addition to the suggestions Erin mentions, the following comment from the linked Reddit post is also helpful: www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

My very first MTG card has been revealed and i'm allowed to post it! Here's the artwork for Jumbo Cactuar 🌵 AD: Cassie Murphy Working on an official FF thing has been a childhood dream come true for me, and i'm happy to be involved. #MTGxFINALFANTASY #MTG

📢 YES, it's okay to PUNCH NAZIS. #pixelart

Let me state this plainly: if @xbox.com cared about game preservation, it would use its enormous corporate power to push the Entertainment Software Association to pull back on its exercise of the DMCA and allow preservation organizations to do remote game access.

got asked to make a mech with "an absurd, impractical number of guns" and dammit I deliver

The things that people have done beyond what Super Mario World is capable of is nothing short of miracles. Luminescent was an amazing body of work (to watch other people play, I don’t have the kaizo skills) so this should be no exception.

it's that time of year again

you don't have to call it the gulf of america. just don't do it. keep calling it the gulf of mexico. you don't have to do things just because your fascist government tells you to

Samus

if only there was some cheap ubiquitous technology that could dramatically reduce the incidence of airborne viruses especially when installed in schools. maybe some means of filtering the air but everyone's too sad about 2020 to acknowledge airborne viruses exist and require some kind of mitigation

I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

Gotta say, I'm loving this graphic. (Pulled from Lyz Lenz's newsletter, Men Yell at Me: open.substack.com/pub/lyz/p/wh...)

I’m already learning a lot without even drawing: things I knew but hadn’t reflected on about myself. I worked in a program in the Navy that didn’t tolerate failure. Failing was punished so all effort was made to avoid it. This may have directly impacted why I’ve struggled to come up with ideas.

I said that this was going to be a year that I’d try to be more creative. It’s been a slow start to the year for me, given everything, but I’m beginning that journey today with drawabox.com. It’s not going to be easy, it’s going to be tough. It may not pan out, but I’m going to try.

I thought about making a custom feed of just the people that I care about most so that is all I see here, but if I can't make something private and make it easily, it doesn't seem a good investment of time. There is so many other things I'd rather be doing with my life at this point.

I have all but stopped using most social media at this point as I recognized that it is severely affecting my mental health. It does no good to scroll through the current insanity of the day. I’m trying my best to keep up with those I care about most, but will need to find new ways to do so.

Oh hey it’s the year of the snake! Here’s a drawing of a snake I made.

Reasons you should put your pronouns in your bluesky bio 1. The more cis people do it the more it gives cover to trans people 2. Your avatar is a tree or a bird or something? I actually don't know what to call u 3. The Government is trying to make it illegal and that makes it extremely punk rock

"...so why waste time making a bad port of an arcade shmup when they could make a great Famicom game instead?" kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2023/05/05/s...

someone shared a "NES Celeste" homebrew with me, seems incredible github.com/iProgramMC/C...

📣 MAJOR MAJOR PSA 📣 YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR A PROTEST. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO "REGISTER" TO SHOW SOLIDARITY. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, AND PHONE NUMBER TO HAND OUT AND DISTRIBUTE MATERIALS. YOU JUST SHOW UP.

One week early for our Patreon subscribers: @feitclub.bsky.social @voidburger.bsky.social & @chipcheezum.bsky.social report on their recent field trip to Konami & Bloober Team's all-new version of Silent Hill 2 Sign up & listen here: www.patreon.com/posts/121367...

Ronny Chieng explained climate change on the Daily Show a year ago and it remains as relevant as ever!

Jerry Lawson invented the video game cartridge. He's the reason they stopped making pong consoles in the 1970s. If it weren't for him, the Atari 2600 and many others would literally NEVER exist at all.

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

Honestly the more the US government deems us enemies of the state, the more powerful I feel Like damn dude if you're this scared of me just needing to pee somewhere while I go get a sandwich, imagine how scared you're gonna be when I finish my sandwich

Big shout out to all the liberal journalists who both sides'd "do trans people deserve to have rights" for the sake of alleged enlightened centrism, you really helped set up the playing field for the currently unfolding trans genocide, you dumb fucks. 👍

also you should care because it's happening to human beings with lives and feelings, not just because you could be next