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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

I think we can all agree that ICE is terrible. But how do you feel about actual real ice... frozen chunks of water, the sort you would put in your drink? I drink a lot of soda (takes a ton of caffeine to make the magic happen) and ice lets me cut the soda so […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

A countertop ice maker. It's a small black cube with a transparent door on the top that lets you see the ice and a fan on the side that it uses for refrigeration. This one's black and is very similar to the model I own, but they're all good

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

Unrelated to anything else I have posted about today, does anybody have a spare $4500 lying around that I could borrow for important... wizard... reasons?

Photo of an advertisement for an Anamatronic Vintage Circus Clown in Canon for $4500

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

One of the things about being a "Wizard" is that my special wizard eyes see shit other people do not. And most of the time I keep that shit to myself, but today I'm going to share. There's an idea that I want you, dear reader, to get into your head. Wet Cement […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

Photograph of a buff-colored domestic medium hair cat walking on wet cement. The cement is full of tiny cat paw prints and the cat is unrepentant.

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

Flea market was wildly successful today, 10x nearly full carousels from the 70s and back.

A 35mm slide carousel nearly full of slides

A 35mm slide of someone playing baseball in the 70s

A slide of someone on what i suspect is Christmas

A slide of two people embracing under a christmas tree in 1981

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

Face reveal, I guess? On a movie shoot, I have a different role normally but today i am a random background extra and was allowed to wear something more... Wizardly... I miss my beard though. Had to shave it off for the primary role.

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

If you are new to Mastodon, hello. If you are not new to Mastodon, also hello. If you are just waking up from a 10 year long coma, I have some bad news for you. It's not to late to go back into that coma - give it another 10 years and see how things have shaken out. I hope this email never […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

Anybody have any good #Android games they'd like to recommend? I don't particularly care what type, I just want something to blast myself with serotonin while killing time between things. No shame, no judgement, what brings YOU joy?

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

I know I am about 10 years too late, but I am suddenly getting weirdly into Minecraft "let's play" videos. I generally tend to enjoy watching people who code things that should not exist into Minecraft (I have witnessed the rise of Knarfy and it's been great) I stumbled upon this yesterday and […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

I've had a wild couple of months of running into memes in the wild in their original context. I first really noticed it when i was re-watching Taiyou no Yuusha Fighbird (Brave of Sun Fighbird) and had completely forgotten that it's the origin of the whole "Is […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

Screenshot from Brave of Sun Fighbird, which has one character in a labcoat holding a book talking to another character in a green suit writing notes in a different book. This is immediately before the famous "Is this a pigeon" meme image, and the butterfly (not a pigeon) is clearly visible to the right of them both, about to be canonized in meme legend.

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Inspired by a post from @sol_fury, I have always kind of fascinated how Galactic Man / Shackwave never became his own unique entity in Transformers lore, despite how other figures' pre-Transformers colorations (and occasional miscolorations) HAVE been. Like […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

Photograph of the original "Galactic Man" toy box from Radio Shack, showing the grayscale version of Shockwave that would be known going forward as ShackWave (or just Galactic Man)

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

I wonder if Eiji Tsuburaya and Gerry Anderson ever met. I bet it would've been a really interesting conversation (assuming there was a fast enough translator to keep up) For context, Tsuburaya was the special effects wizard that helped create both Godzilla […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

Eiji Tsuburaya on a model set with Ultraman and a giant monster photo-bombing him from behind

Gerry Anderson on set with one of his supermarionation creations

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

Being agender is a lot like being trans except when your egg cracks there's nothing inside it except disappointment and a little sound clip of the sad trombones from The Price Is Right.

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

Can you think of any instances in media where you've got a "lotus eater" sort of situation, someone in an ideal fantasy world that's meant to keep them trapped... but the trap makers have screwed up one detail, and screwed it up SO BADLY that upon discovering that single thing wrong it causes […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

I had to open up Google Chrome for the first time in a while and whoooooo boy they have been busy cramming AI into just about every corner, haven't they? On the flip side, aside from weird subreddits and Twitter, have you ever met a person that was actually... excited about AI and would want […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

After avoiding them the entire release cycle, I may have possibly caved yesterday and bought a Studio Series Mixmaster when I encountered him in the wild. I had been avoiding them because I have the Combiner Wars Devastator already, and I do not *need* another […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

A photograph of the Studio Series "Transformers The Movie" toy of Mixmaster. He is a green and purple robot that transforms into a cement mixer. In this photo, his toy is standing in an action pose, gun drawn, showing off the articulation of this new figure design

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

Prepared for some obscure 1990s. CGI horror and probable psychic damage? The entire 13 episode run of Van-Pyres is on YouTube. youtu.be/nXd9x12zn5c

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

HEY YOU Do you like Metroidvanias? How about unofficial sequels where the new team worked directly with a bunch of the previous people? How about games on sale, do you like those too? www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/… This game is a […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

This is the hold music my brain plays. It's what you hear in the elevators of my soul, pumped through distant speakers in the abandoned mall of my dreams. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFLJX-T7LPk

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

Catching up on #DanDaDan and i just had a terrible realization. Momo called someone a "blockhead" and... she and Okarun are Lucy and Charlie Brown

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

I am ready for the elves to come collect me and take me to for Valinor

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

Not a person that I normally follow, but they got me on board with this line early in the video. "I'm going to give a longer rundown of this first movie just so we all kinda understand 'the lore' because... unfortunately, Evil Bong has *lore* (awkward laugh)" […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

I could use some input from fellow bloggers and slow-roll content creators. What's the right rate to update my weird indie 35mm scanning photo blog? I am having trouble coming up with a good rhythm. Here's sort of the problem: I get the slides at random, as I find them. I currently have a […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

Microsoft should have their ability to version products taken away from them. Seriously. Windows has always been a confusing mess. And I used to think "oh it's just because of all the NT versions too" but it's not. Looking at their own internal versioning, we have... 1 - Windows 1 2 - Windows […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

Saw this on reddit, and my immediate thought was also the top comment - "it goes in the square hole"

A comic showing three scenes.

First, a therapist or psychologist is talking with their patient. The patient has a triangular hole in their chest and the therapist is speaking, with a triangle being shown in the text bubble.

Second, the same scene, except now the patient is complete.

Third, the same patient is now standing next to a table with three people with shaped holes in their chest (like he had in the first panel) sitting at it. He is throwing triangles at them, however their shapes are star, square, and circle, so the triangles are just bouncing off them.

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

When I started calling myself a wizard a few years ago, like... officially declaring to the world that I have attained the title of Wizard... I really expected some pushback. I had all these arguments ready. Nobody complained... argued... or, possibly, nobody cared? On one hand, it's really […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

"This" The Doctor says, with a grand sweeping gesture, "is Far Reach Delta, one of Humanity's greatest achievements, a massive space station and thriving settlement where races from many planets meet for trade, transit, and the occasional brunch. And if I have […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

A promotional photo of The Doctor (from Doctor Who) as played by Peter Davison.

Promotional photo of Angela Lansbury in her role as Jessica Fletcher in "Murder She Wrote"

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

Neither my wife nor I were ever very athletic, I played teeball in elementary school but that was about it for me. Daughter is now a junior in High School (forgive me while I turn into dust and blow away) and she has been in two sports so far... a year in Swimming (did not enjoy) and now about […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

Hey Nintendo - I owned a Virtual Boy. The games were fun, the experience... was not. And now, it looks like once again you are going to attempt to accurately replicate the EXPERIENCE (the worst part) without bothering to let people just... enjoy the games? You could make the games playable in […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

I struggle a lot with introductions and trying to make friends in the physical world, so I have what may be the most autistic idea ever... printing out some business cards. Thoughts?

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

Optimism or hubris? Or did The Doctor really, really just hate this companion?

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

Just noticed that Sir Toys and the "successor", Toy Run are both back up now after being down for a long while, BUT neither site is actually usable, it looks like the entire page is covered by an invisible Amazon sponsored link thing and trying to interact with anything immediately jumps you […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

Was looking at very old photos (10 years ago) and just noticed something... Why didn't they make THIS mold into Blast Off? The front of a Helicopter, especially this mold, is much MUCH more like a spaceship than any of the plane molds. Remove the rotor blades […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

Sometimes I get a dumb idea and I just sort of *HAVE* to try and visualize it, and this morning Powerpoint was my tool of choice because I'm on my work computer. Anyway, here are four brand new suites of playing cards, represented by a random card from each 3 […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

A Number 3 playing card designed to look like a standard card, but featuring Blue-colored Moons instead of your usual Heart/Club/Spade/Diamond

A Number 4 playing card designed to look like a standard card, but featuring Gold-colored Stars instead of your usual Heart/Club/Spade/Diamond

A Number 7 playing card designed to look like a standard card, but featuring Gold-colored Pyramids (triangles) instead of your usual Heart/Club/Spade/Diamond

A Number 6 playing card designed to look like a standard card, but featuring Blue-colored Shells instead of your usual Heart/Club/Spade/Diamond

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

If you are both an #iOS user and a #Firefox enjoyer, it looks like they've added yet another unwanted AI "why bother having reading comprehension when an AI can misunderstand the article for you" feature, as pointed out this morning by @directhex It apparently happens every time you shake or […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

And now we all worship our king Our king, our king His name is Malcolm (our king) He is the king of love (our king) We must feed him We must feed him gravel Or he becomes angry (Mm, gravel)

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

I need a fun name for the game I play where I find a 35mm slide and then try and figure out where the photo was taken. It's basically ChronoGeoGuessr, but since GeoGuessr is like a whole thing itself I probably need a better name for it.

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

The Rapture (failed) and discussion of the reasons why, intersects with US Politics and Epstein

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Disappointed Christians say ‘God is delaying the Rapture’ until Epstein Files are released

Article body continues...

"After the rapture failed to happen on
Tuesday, many Christians are blaming
it on the fact Donald Trump hasn't
released a trove of documents relating
to Jeffrey Epstein"

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

If you're following my 35mm madness, I posted another scan set yesterday - this one a set of pics labeled Summer of 81 fleamarketarcheology.wordpress.com/… The Ektachrome degradation for the film stock was so bad that I […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

Could be a fakeout but it sounds like #AEW is about to witness the return of the Canadian Tuxedo King If you are truly back, Orange Cassidy, its not a moment too soon

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

Sad news - one of the big three Flea Markets near me is closing up shop. Not surprised, honestly expected it to happen sooner, but still sad anyway. You can really tell a flea market's health by the people outside the regular buildings themselves, the yard sale and UHaul people with card tables […]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

Ok real talk Mastodon. One of the 35mm slide carousels I picked up is a 1993 expedition to Uganda and based on this photo here, I was able to figure out the name of someone likely involved - this guy here - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_T._Boaz Should I try […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

New post up on my insane 35mm slide collecting blog - details of my weekend at the big flea market doing some slide hunting fleamarketarcheology.wordpress.com/… #fleamarket #35mmSlides #photography

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The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 @drakkenzero.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

I would love to see them make an animated series for the modern Heathcliff cartoons. It would be madness, glorious madness, but I think it could be awesome... if done correctly. Instead of trying to make any sense of the comic universe, I am imagining a CGI […] [Original post on retro.pizza]

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