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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 14/09/2026

My biggest takeaway from my trip to Berlin is that I should check out the Amstrad CPC. These screenshots look sick.

A screenshot of "La Abadia del Crimen" for the Amstrad CPC

A screenshot of "L'Affaire Santa Fe" for the Amstrad CPC

Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 09/09/2026

Here's Italy playing the rare 2-1-2 zone. It didn't work. (I'm doing whatever the "watching the women's world cup in person" equivalent is of touching grass.)

Italy v Australia on the women's basketball world cup. Italy is playing a weird zone defense.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 31/08/2026

It's here! I'm now another person about to be insufferable about the MiSTer.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 28/08/2026

Getting close to completing the @gamesdonequick.com grand slam: did AGDQ, SGDQ, GDQ@Pax East, and now GDQ@Gamescom. Gotta find a way to get myself to PAX West at some point...

photo from the audience at the GDQ stage at Gamescom.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 17/08/2026

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

image with a shipping update and a tracking number for my SuperStation One

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 05/07/2026

amanhã cedo a CBF tem que amanhecer assim

clássica imagem dum protesto de torcedores com uma faixa escrito 'diretoria = "Jim Carrey"'.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 01/07/2026

ok yeah Grenoble is gorgeous

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 22/06/2026

did my first Four Job Fiesta this month! went for a very regular FFV run, got Monk, Time Mage, Ninja and Chemist (which, I am told, is an extremely strong team). Finished the game, killed both superbosses, had a great time! Will be back next year.

screenshot of beating Neo ExDeath, the final boss of FFV. the party is in a complete state of disarray.

screenshot of beating Shinryu, one of the superbosses of FFV. the party went through it untouched.

screenshot of beating Omega,one of the superbosses of FFV. the party did ok.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 06/06/2026

Rewarding myself after a long bike ride that included a (very minor) tumble in the forest. (mostly it's my ego that's bruised.) Südseite has quickly become my go-to place for coffee in HD.

a flat white and an asparagus focaccia on a café table.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 06/03/2026

had to do this in the most of-the-cuff way possible to avoid being completely paralyzed for hours agonizing over my choices.

"my 9 games" poster: Grim Fandango, FFVII, Gran Turismo, La-Mulana, Football Manager 2013, Age of Empires 2, 80 Days, Firewatch, My Summer Vacation 2

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 10/02/2026

ah, that will do it. very interesting choice.

a screenshot of the subtitle file, where every line is hardcoded to use font size of 71

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 10/02/2026

it seems like this is a The Prisoner-specific behavior. Works with Sailor Moon.

a screenshot of Sailor Moon where the tiny subtitles look tiny indeed

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 10/02/2026

I have now changed the subtitle size to "tiny". much better.

another screenshot of The Prisoner, with comically large subtitles still (but slightly smaller than before)

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 10/02/2026

ok I think SOMETHING might have gone wrong with my subtitle settings here

a screenshot from "The Prisoner" (1967) with comically large subtitles saying "Aren't you happy here?"

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 27/11/2025

What can I say? I am a cultured man.

a screenshot of the "recently added in movies" section of my Jellyfin server including "The Love Bug" and "The Star Wars Holiday Special".

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 11/11/2025

Been busy in Zürich für the last 24h or so. Talks have been great so far, and I have a talk too. Still find it weird to see my name on a poster.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 25/09/2025

First trip as an EMBL employee: Barcelona!

A view from inside EMBL Barcelona: an U-shaped building with a view to the beach.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 06/09/2025

So much good hiking in this place! Today I climbed way too many stairs and checked out the castle.

A view from the Old Town in Heidelberg, towards the castle. There's some fog on the hills.

The trek towards Königstuhl, a single sunshine ray coming through the trees.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 29/08/2025

Partial success. Static pages are ok, but revealjs needs the, well, JS part of it as well.

a broken webpage for a revealjs presentation due to the lack of javascript support.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 25/08/2025

I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually but this still looks weird

screenshot from the NGFF symposium website saying "Erick Ratamero, European Molecular Biology Laboratory"

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 08/08/2025

In other news my living room has fully become the archetypal Male Living Space until the day of the move

An empty living room with a TV, a coffee table and a wicker chair, and nothing else.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 06/08/2025

started reading Infinite Jest again... despite everything...

bugs bunny meme "lord forgive me but its time to go back to tha old me"

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 26/06/2025

In alphabetical order. If you ask me tomorrow, you're probably getting a different list.

my vote for top 10 games at Giant Bomb: BattleTech, The Beginner's Guide, Eliza, Final Fantasy Tactics, GeoGuessr, Kentucky Route Zero, La-Mulana, Tears of the Kingdom, Obra Dinn, Thirty Flights of Loving

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 31/05/2025

One last "love seeing a bunch of dogs hanging out" moment before leaving Brazil

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 12/05/2025

Oh to be a milk, just chilling in the fridge

Sticker in my hotel room that says "your milk is cooking in the fridge"

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 28/04/2025

Time for #OME2025 ! we went for a walk beforehand.

A landscape photo of an inner harbor in New England.

A landscape photo of a beach in New England.

A landscape photo of a few buildings by the water.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 18/04/2025

Incredible back to back posts

a screenshot with two bsky posts, one talking about how Pilates was invented by Joe Pilates and the other about a Call of Duty event where the top prize is a John Black Ops skin

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 03/03/2025

not my home, but I know my way around

a screenshot of video game "Contradiction: Spot the Liar", depicting an English pub and direction indicators for navigating in game

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 15/01/2025

Internet Archive really came through with this one

screenshot of a music player with a collection of 407 tracks named "[Adult Swim] Bump Collection"

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 09/01/2025

I have somehow survived the whole Awful Block at AGDQ, slept for 2 hours, and got up for Kusogrande quarterfinals. First one is some kind of Donkey Kong bootleg for DOS.

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 06/01/2025

This is the game that destroyed me this morning: Bongo. Just Bongo. Never went past screen 9. #AGDQ2025

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 31/12/2024

saying I've finished watching the Hunter x Hunter anime without saying it

a screenshot of the online system of my local library showing holds for volumes 32-34 of the Hunter x Hunter manga

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 24/12/2024

Sorry it took Odysseus HOW LONG to make this trip? It's a 3h drive bud

a google maps screenshot plotting a 3h drive from Troy, NY to Ithaca, NY

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 15/11/2024

Ok I do take offense to this one

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 08/11/2024

Watching the basketball tonight

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 13/10/2024

I can't believe no one said Yajirobe yet. He looks like this and gets married to a weird cat at some point

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Erick Ratamero @erickratamero.com · 08/08/2023

WELCOME ROB (as already mentioned: GCN+ and FloBikes have a lot of stuff, and if you go into the VPN world and don't mind foreign-language commentary a lot of stuff is free-to-air in places like Belgium and the Netherlands)

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