NFG
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Photographer. Writer. SysOp. Old. I run gamesx.com.
If you're into building your own arcade controls, I've recently reviewed some buttons and a stick from Punk Workshop:
The PWS V2 Buttons are great!
The PWS Joystick (Silicone Edition) is fine, but deeply weird!
The PWS V2 Buttons are great!
The PWS Joystick (Silicone Edition) is fine, but deeply weird!
January 17, 2026 at 1:35 AM
If you're into building your own arcade controls, I've recently reviewed some buttons and a stick from Punk Workshop:
The PWS V2 Buttons are great!
The PWS Joystick (Silicone Edition) is fine, but deeply weird!
The PWS V2 Buttons are great!
The PWS Joystick (Silicone Edition) is fine, but deeply weird!
Absolutely this. The first years of Dilbert were fantastic. Scott Adams dug his own grave and leapt into it, for sure. Good riddance. But for a while Dilbert was really good stuff.
Early Dilbert could be incredibly on point at times, and it's important to acknowledge that rather than pretend it was always terrible.
Scott Adams getting high on his own hype, emerging from his hate chrysalis, then doubling down on it, was very odd. He poisoned his own legacy well before death.
Scott Adams getting high on his own hype, emerging from his hate chrysalis, then doubling down on it, was very odd. He poisoned his own legacy well before death.
January 14, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Absolutely this. The first years of Dilbert were fantastic. Scott Adams dug his own grave and leapt into it, for sure. Good riddance. But for a while Dilbert was really good stuff.
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Charlie the Unicorn.
..... i miss the old internet.
Doodle request from my fine patrons - patreon.com/collectedcur...
..... i miss the old internet.
Doodle request from my fine patrons - patreon.com/collectedcur...
January 10, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Charlie the Unicorn.
..... i miss the old internet.
Doodle request from my fine patrons - patreon.com/collectedcur...
..... i miss the old internet.
Doodle request from my fine patrons - patreon.com/collectedcur...
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Maybe your timeline needs Bean. Here she is, sound asleep.
January 5, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Maybe your timeline needs Bean. Here she is, sound asleep.
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Reopening of my shop 🎺
Fusion MVS to AES converters, ESL Blasters and most NeoGeo reproduction chips are back in stock
furrtek.org/shop/
Everything original and designed on my own with love and tears as always, no resale or dropshipping crap !
Fusion MVS to AES converters, ESL Blasters and most NeoGeo reproduction chips are back in stock
furrtek.org/shop/
Everything original and designed on my own with love and tears as always, no resale or dropshipping crap !
Furrtek Engineering shop
furrtek.org
January 3, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Reopening of my shop 🎺
Fusion MVS to AES converters, ESL Blasters and most NeoGeo reproduction chips are back in stock
furrtek.org/shop/
Everything original and designed on my own with love and tears as always, no resale or dropshipping crap !
Fusion MVS to AES converters, ESL Blasters and most NeoGeo reproduction chips are back in stock
furrtek.org/shop/
Everything original and designed on my own with love and tears as always, no resale or dropshipping crap !
Throwing this out to the wider community, 'cause I'm stumped.
My PC Engine LT has a failure in the power section. I get power right up to the main regulator that supplies 5V to the rest of the system. It's not getting power.
More details here:
nfggames.com/forum2/index...
I'd love some help.
My PC Engine LT has a failure in the power section. I get power right up to the main regulator that supplies 5V to the rest of the system. It's not getting power.
More details here:
nfggames.com/forum2/index...
I'd love some help.
PC Engine LT with Bad Power
PC Engine LT with Bad Power
nfggames.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Throwing this out to the wider community, 'cause I'm stumped.
My PC Engine LT has a failure in the power section. I get power right up to the main regulator that supplies 5V to the rest of the system. It's not getting power.
More details here:
nfggames.com/forum2/index...
I'd love some help.
My PC Engine LT has a failure in the power section. I get power right up to the main regulator that supplies 5V to the rest of the system. It's not getting power.
More details here:
nfggames.com/forum2/index...
I'd love some help.
In the past week I've recapped a PC Engine, Core Grafx, Core II, TurboGrafx 16, Vistar 16, and a MegaDrive. And a while before that, a PCE Shuttle.
They all work after the job, which makes me very happy. Decades more life ahead of them all. ^__^
<looks accusingly at PCE LT>
Motherfucker.
They all work after the job, which makes me very happy. Decades more life ahead of them all. ^__^
<looks accusingly at PCE LT>
Motherfucker.
December 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
In the past week I've recapped a PC Engine, Core Grafx, Core II, TurboGrafx 16, Vistar 16, and a MegaDrive. And a while before that, a PCE Shuttle.
They all work after the job, which makes me very happy. Decades more life ahead of them all. ^__^
<looks accusingly at PCE LT>
Motherfucker.
They all work after the job, which makes me very happy. Decades more life ahead of them all. ^__^
<looks accusingly at PCE LT>
Motherfucker.
If bsky won't let me have DMs because of Australian laws that don't fucking apply to bsky, then why do they let people send me DMs I can't read?
What a stupid fucking timeline.
What a stupid fucking timeline.
December 31, 2025 at 9:25 AM
If bsky won't let me have DMs because of Australian laws that don't fucking apply to bsky, then why do they let people send me DMs I can't read?
What a stupid fucking timeline.
What a stupid fucking timeline.
33 years later, this album is still great.
December 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
33 years later, this album is still great.
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Best Of 2025: "Like A Completely New Game" - The Untold Story Behind Prince Of Persia's Impressive SNES Port.
Best Of 2025: "Like A Completely New Game" - The Untold Story Behind Prince Of Persia's Impressive SNES Port
"We paid special attention to the death scenes..."
www.timeextension.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Best Of 2025: "Like A Completely New Game" - The Untold Story Behind Prince Of Persia's Impressive SNES Port.
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I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
This is such a great game.
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This is such a great game.
I like to dig into pixel fonts in video games, and one of my nemeses was Cave's later releases. The ones with all the awful pre-rendered graphics. They have beautiful fonts.
I finally got into the graphics on these games and I wrote about them.
Mushihimesama, Dodonpachi, Ibara, etc.
I finally got into the graphics on these games and I wrote about them.
Mushihimesama, Dodonpachi, Ibara, etc.
64 Pixel Fonts: Cave’s CV1000 Games
Some of Cave's most memorable - and expensive - games ran on hardware that didn't do much, but did it very well. And it had fonts! Oh, so many fonts.
nfgworld.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I like to dig into pixel fonts in video games, and one of my nemeses was Cave's later releases. The ones with all the awful pre-rendered graphics. They have beautiful fonts.
I finally got into the graphics on these games and I wrote about them.
Mushihimesama, Dodonpachi, Ibara, etc.
I finally got into the graphics on these games and I wrote about them.
Mushihimesama, Dodonpachi, Ibara, etc.
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We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
All these people wringing their hands about Firefox doing dumb shit, and I'm like
Fucking use @vivaldi.com ya dingbats. The old guard, user focused privacy-first customizable browser with their own Mastodon community and a built in RSS client.
Into the sea with Firefox already.
Fucking use @vivaldi.com ya dingbats. The old guard, user focused privacy-first customizable browser with their own Mastodon community and a built in RSS client.
Into the sea with Firefox already.
December 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
All these people wringing their hands about Firefox doing dumb shit, and I'm like
Fucking use @vivaldi.com ya dingbats. The old guard, user focused privacy-first customizable browser with their own Mastodon community and a built in RSS client.
Into the sea with Firefox already.
Fucking use @vivaldi.com ya dingbats. The old guard, user focused privacy-first customizable browser with their own Mastodon community and a built in RSS client.
Into the sea with Firefox already.
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if you’re not an artist with experience in studio environments it might be hard to appreciate just how much genAI feels like a conman claiming to have made a gun that kills artists and every ceo lunging for it and pulling the trigger a few times
learning the gun doesn’t really work isn’t a comfort
learning the gun doesn’t really work isn’t a comfort
December 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
if you’re not an artist with experience in studio environments it might be hard to appreciate just how much genAI feels like a conman claiming to have made a gun that kills artists and every ceo lunging for it and pulling the trigger a few times
learning the gun doesn’t really work isn’t a comfort
learning the gun doesn’t really work isn’t a comfort
Why would anyone want to influence people?
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Why would anyone want to influence people?
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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
Added a few new fonts to my font engine today. Shmups fans take note. =D
nfggames.com/games/fontma...
Interesting that the Batrider and Garegga fonts are identical in shape but use a different gradient.
nfggames.com/games/fontma...
Interesting that the Batrider and Garegga fonts are identical in shape but use a different gradient.
December 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Added a few new fonts to my font engine today. Shmups fans take note. =D
nfggames.com/games/fontma...
Interesting that the Batrider and Garegga fonts are identical in shape but use a different gradient.
nfggames.com/games/fontma...
Interesting that the Batrider and Garegga fonts are identical in shape but use a different gradient.
The Australian social media ban, which started off stupid and got dumber, is even more absurd than I realized.
Facebook and Instagram are banned, but Whatsapp is not. Twitch is banned, but Discord is not. Reddit is banned, Snapchat is banned, but LINE and Facebook Messenger are not.
Facebook and Instagram are banned, but Whatsapp is not. Twitch is banned, but Discord is not. Reddit is banned, Snapchat is banned, but LINE and Facebook Messenger are not.
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The Australian social media ban, which started off stupid and got dumber, is even more absurd than I realized.
Facebook and Instagram are banned, but Whatsapp is not. Twitch is banned, but Discord is not. Reddit is banned, Snapchat is banned, but LINE and Facebook Messenger are not.
Facebook and Instagram are banned, but Whatsapp is not. Twitch is banned, but Discord is not. Reddit is banned, Snapchat is banned, but LINE and Facebook Messenger are not.
I love that we're leaving the cynical asshole phase of societal behaviour, moving to unabashed enjoyment of things, right at the same time we suddenly have to triple-vet everyone and everything we like to make sure there are no nazis, grifters, anti-vaxxers or other assholes involved.
December 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I love that we're leaving the cynical asshole phase of societal behaviour, moving to unabashed enjoyment of things, right at the same time we suddenly have to triple-vet everyone and everything we like to make sure there are no nazis, grifters, anti-vaxxers or other assholes involved.
The art for Phantasy Star Online was so good.
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The art for Phantasy Star Online was so good.
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Gods the Aussie social media ban breaks my heart as a person on the neurodivergence spectrum.
Because as a teenager I can tell you that I got along with damn near no one at school and got bullied a lot.
My friends were all on the internet. In forums. On IRC. That’s where my people were.
Because as a teenager I can tell you that I got along with damn near no one at school and got bullied a lot.
My friends were all on the internet. In forums. On IRC. That’s where my people were.
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Gods the Aussie social media ban breaks my heart as a person on the neurodivergence spectrum.
Because as a teenager I can tell you that I got along with damn near no one at school and got bullied a lot.
My friends were all on the internet. In forums. On IRC. That’s where my people were.
Because as a teenager I can tell you that I got along with damn near no one at school and got bullied a lot.
My friends were all on the internet. In forums. On IRC. That’s where my people were.