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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

[Wanna see some really fucking gross pics?] Fry that sumbitch up

The doc's drawn an oval on me, and given that there was already a cut-out bit in the middle it looks like an EYE

A wedge of me, in a container of fluid. About thumb sized. White on the bottom.

A second delicious Dan Wedge, a little bit bigger

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Remembering all the different sorts of Halloween candies I've made for Improbable Island over the years

A range of sweet wrappers in various designs against a beige background. Each one is a little bit different.

The candies include:

Hello.
Suck
Mange!
Bumpy Frank
Momf
FLICK (with bad kerning so it looks like it says FUCK)
Jimmy Crumbles
Blunge
NipNips
Chocolate Rings
Snudge
Swizzler
Flippler
Sweet Touch
Henson's Traditional Fish Cubes
Llama Bar
LIPS
Slippery Starfish
Twungle!
Dong
Country Hunny
Balls
Dave
Mister Finger
ButterBum
Furtler
Rumpadoo
Spanky
Nutty Log
Squirty Giggles

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

🎵 Fuck yer gas and oil, I've a box outside,

Grey electrical box on a brick wall, REAL BORING LOOKING

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

🦝 The code says DC wiring in or on the house has gotta be in metal, now why the hell are all the this-is-for-solar-on-the-outside-wall-of-your-house boxes plastic, it don't make no sense, you mean I really gotta buy one of these expensive-ass metal boxes, The […] [Original post on retro.social]

The "WOW, I can read" workbook for ages 7-8

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

[NSFW fan art of a dragon washing game I haven't played] Anyway

A poor quality low resolution drawing of a dragon is shown twice. In the upper rendition, the dragon is being hosed down with cyan water, and a caption says "Expectation." Below it is the exact same picture but with a pink blush and a black censor bar and the caption says "Reality."

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Showed the kiddo Terminator 2 for the first time. Had to get a HDDVD version 'cause all the blu-rays are shit. It was good, covered her eyes during the nuclear war dream bit, she loved it, I was smug about getting The Only Good 1080 Version Of T2, and then just […] [Original post on retro.social]

Screenshot of the blu-ray version of T2, it's called blu-ray because they turn everything blue

Same screenshot (John going wtf at the blood on his hand after poking the terminator) but from the HD-DVD, with the lighting as it should be and looking fairly natural

Screenshot of the DVD version; the image is pretty 480-fuzzy but the light looks natural and the colours are as you'd expect, and also you can see the good 40% of the top and bottom of the image that was cropped out of the high-def versions

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

You can't get these bulbs anymore but they're 12v and some car dome lights use a very similar bulb. Fuse holder clips are flexible enough that these dome light bulbs work fine. You can also get LED replacements if you wanna royally fuck up the aesthetic. Here's the glamour shot as promised

a lovely silver amp with lots of lovely silver knobs and buttons and a lovely lit-up tuner sat beneath a record player

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Anyway this was a thread about fixing a stereo, new bulb arrived today. Check out this weird lil bulb. It's the same size as a fuse! It goes in a fuse holder!

obviously-a-fuse-holder inside a reflector like you'd see on a bulb

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Sometimes a fix really is just "Dan takes thing apart, cleans it, puts it back together." This is a Panasonic RA-6600 with a pair of Polk RT5 speakers. Symptom: right channel sounding quiet, muddy and gutless, like it had no mid. Volume control was scratchy […] [Original post on retro.social]

amp reassembled with a turntable on top, playing Sol Invictus. The amp's faceplate is an attractive silvery brass and it has many satisfying shiny knobs and buttons.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Mab the black cat is trying to fall asleep with her head on my keyboard, but it's got mechanical switches and they click right in her ear whenever she starts to drift off

Mab's head is on my keyboard, her nose in my trackball

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Just one more crevice bro, come on, one more crevice and then it'll be perfect

anti-litter-tracking mat full of crevices for litter to get into

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I started around 8pm and had maybe an hours' worth of breaks and it's now 1am and it's probably about as clean as it's gonna get. The base is absolutely awful for getting clumps of pissy clay stuck all up in the crevices (pic alt text: pissy clay in crevices) […] [Original post on retro.social]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

It's either, spend several hours minimum cleaning this thing every so often versus the ten minutes it takes to clean the rolly lad, or, there's gonna be a whole lot of Ignore It and Don't Think About It

crevice bastard next to a powered-toothbrush-like cleaning tool

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

christ it's like nobody put any fucking thought into this at all

crevices with shit inside, so small you'll have to use a toothbrush on it

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Why is there foam glued to the places that get caked in cat litter? How are you supposed to clean it? You're not. You're not supposed to clean this.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

It's rubber. The inside of the litter robot globe, where the cat shits and pisses and scratches with their fingerknives, is a rubber membrane. It's grippy matte black rubber. Why is there rubber in this? This is awful. I'm not having a good time. These are […] [Original post on retro.social]

A black rubber membrane like a deflated exercise ball, it has claw marks and it smells like very old cat shit

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

[Gross] This is a Litter Robot 3. Three fucking versions in, and it's got THIS MANY CREVICES How many crevices did version 1 have?!

underside of litter robot globe showing how each tooth of the big cog that runs around it has a built in Filth Accumulator

Litter Robot base showing all kinda knobblies for litter to get stuck in

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Windows XP: 🐰 y'know, those blue gradients everywhere looked really cool back in '94 but they're looking awful tired now, let's have a yard sale and let those go KDE: 🐹 Oo, don't kmind if I kdo!

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

one of my kde gripes among many is there's just SO much blue in there and just when you think you've got it all, it hits you with this shit straight outta windows 95

KDE lockscreen made entirely out of gradients between blue and darker blue

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

spouse was all 🐱 did you see the post about the transformer blew up down the road? 🦝 No, where 🐱 *name of a Facebook group* 🦝 on what website 🐱 on facebook 🦝 fuck's sake alright, okay, open facebook, happy birthday that guy, right now what was the name of the […] [Original post on retro.social]

Do you seek the truth about issues OR do you blindly trust mainstream media to honestly deliver truth? How did you find out about our uniquely honest news forum?

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

[mozilla, twitter] Look at this shit, it's deader than Threads

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Talking about custard in a group chat on my Dvorak phone keyboard and typo'd up a POTENT new slur, yikes

screenshot of me writing this post, illustrating that the N and the S are riiiiight next to each other on this keyboard

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

This fucking kettle, man. This fucking kettle, doesn't turn off when the water's boiled. If it were just that then well obviously this is a defective kettle and send it back, but no, what this kettle does is it boils the water, and then continues boiling the […] [Original post on retro.social]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

It really did used to be my regular pub, I'm not just being folkloric

Another view of the same pub where you can see it's called RAVEN INN but it still doesn't have a roof

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

🐰 Where shall we build the new kids' playground? 🐺 Right next to the circle of standing stones of course

Standing stone circle with ominous hip-height slab in the middle. Kids' playground not pictured as my kid was in all the shots that had them both

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Today was my birthday, we did a walk along Chester city walls soaking in the history beneath our feet and looking at the beautiful mossy stone and Roman columns and then we met up with some mates and went to the pub and then an Indian restaurant afterwards that […] [Original post on retro.social]

A bin with a pedal that says PUSH ME DOWN

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Nemesis is an excellent rollercoaster, and it's excellent because they're not allowed to build above the tree line, so a lot of budget went into making a very deep hole, so the ride is COMPRESSED, it's squeezed into a small space, making it very intense and with lots of being really near to things

an inverted rollercoaster track does a loop he loop into an underground tunnel

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

English rollercoaster called Wicker Man, its thing is that it's on fire It's not just the first wooden coaster built in a long time, it's not just that it's got awesome themeing and it's on fire, it's genuinely an awesome comptetently-made novel wooden coaster […] [Original post on retro.social]

a rollercoaster track readings inside a massive wooden head, smoke and (fake, Led but quite convincing) flames visible inside

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Did the Rhyl arcades and had dinner at the world's stickiest Wetherspoons but in between there was this fucking great tree, today was some kinda lasagne

Tree looking like something outta a book

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Every women's toilet in the UK looks like this

It's a fucking castle. Toilet castle. Got an arch and everything.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Oh fucking hell it's "I just dismantled my corsi-rosenthal boxes to make some room in the attic and reuse the box fans for ventilation and now I gotta tape them all back together" outside

Furnace filters duct taped into a cube with a box fan on top

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

[Worldcupposting] Having a nice time with my kid, showed her the lightning seeds three lions song, she's constructed us a nest to watch in, and I missed a goal 'cause I was posting this haha

Nest made out of squishmallows, with my kid (face not visible 'cause privacy) and a black hat (face visible 'cause she doesn't care) watching a laptop on the floor

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

I fixed coin-ops the other day and didn't tell ya about it, well check out this Donkey Kong Jr board. It has incredibly minor graphics glitches and it's missing some sounds and about a third of the chips on it are rusty like this or worse. It's amazing how rusty […] [Original post on retro.social]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

It's #anthrocon time so we pulled out my Jaleco Lo Pro and stuck Bucky O'Hare in it to amuse the beastly visitors

a row of Japanese candy cabs and then this squat little wood thing with no marquee

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

If you have Home Assistant and a buncha smart plugs and shit and you can see how much electricity your dehumidifier uses etc and it gives you this bananas graph and you have that in one tab and the country-wide schematics from openinframap open in the next tab […] [Original post on retro.social]

A map of electricity use in my house with GRID on one side and chunks of CIRCUITS in the middle and tiny shit like attic intake fan and nightstand chargers on the other side in tiny tiny text

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

[goose with a factory inside] Oh my god I just got to the bit about GOLDEN EGG FACTORY inside the goose This is softbank, this is actual fucking softbank annual general meeting slides (internal mechanism)

Unhinged slide showing a goose with a conveyor belt full of golden eggs coming out of it, text says

The True Source of Value

Golden Egg factory
inside the goose

What you see are the eggs
What produces them is The Factory Itself

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

[Would you like to see how my slime tube was routed to my stink box?] The water goes down and then up again, so that life can form in its corrugations and bring wonder ♥

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

[Would you like to see what the water looks like after it's glorped through my slime tube?] Beige!

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