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kory @kbones.fun · 12/09/2026

I definitely prefer the colorful Gravis version, but I always thought the grey and black CD-i variant was a cool oddity

one type of CD-i controller, which was identical to the Gravis game pad save for the grey and black plastic, PHILIPS branding, and DIN type connector (not shown)

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kory @kbones.fun · 03/08/2026

honored to be the first *cool number*th subscriber

Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn YouTube page banner, 69 subscribers

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kory @kbones.fun · 15/03/2026

i’ve only spent about an hour with my citrus macbook neo, but i can already tell this thing’s got the sauce honestly, if it runs pico 8 there isn’t a whole lot left on my personal hierarchy of needs

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kory @kbones.fun · 15/03/2026

search your camera roll for hell

A photo of two near human size stuffed teddy bears dining at a small table on a sidewalk (that I apparently took in the vicinity of Hell’s Kitchen)

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kory @kbones.fun · 14/03/2026

ads for #PiCoSteveMo 4 already showing up in SF never too early to contemplate cramming some horror into everyone’s favorite fantasy console

Electronic bus stop billboard reading “Now IT’s a vibe.” I am intentionally misinterpreting this as a reference to Pennywise the clown.

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kory @kbones.fun · 08/03/2026

quick test with the reflex adapt

Reassembled controller, pressing “up” shows that it registers on a reflex adapt oled (filled in up arrow)

same thing with start and select (little filled in rectangles)

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kory @kbones.fun · 08/03/2026

well, it was not nearly as trivial a repair as I was hoping (dollop theory did *not* work) but I managed to bridge the connections using some narrow gauge wire

close up of aforementioned ps1 controller pcb, tips of 3 partially stripped black wires now bridge the previously discontinuous connections

clipped the wires and covered up my work with some tape

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kory @kbones.fun · 08/03/2026

Furthermore, there were little clumps of excess green solder mask right over where they connect to the IC. I didn’t take a photo of that, but after scraping the excess away (and a little more to expose the trace), they don’t seem to connect to the IC at all 🤔🤔🤔

photo of ps1 controller pcb, zoomed in over the central IC

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kory @kbones.fun · 22/01/2026

package from the electronic bay arrived today

a boxed US copy of Quest 64 partially surrounded by bubble wrap in a small open cardboard box

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kory @kbones.fun · 14/12/2025

if my time with Pokémon Snap has taught me anything i’m gonna get a sick multiplier when I get a shot of these two together

Engineering and technology
• A non emulated game of Stanley Gill's sheep and
gates
• A Hafnium bomb

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kory @kbones.fun · 13/12/2025

took me a while to get around to it, but jw Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure and I’m completely in awe…thx @lowercasejai.bsky.social for introducing me to this one

still from the film Cure with actor Kōji Yakusho sitting in the back of a bus

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kory @kbones.fun · 12/12/2025

got some good gacha

two tiny Power Pro baseball player figurines

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kory @kbones.fun · 04/12/2025

pretty good spotify wrapped this year

screenshot from my spotify account dashboard showing confirmation of my subscription cancellation

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kory @kbones.fun · 17/11/2025

you may not like it, but this is what peak computing looks like

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kory @kbones.fun · 01/11/2025

brb, replacing my entire wardrobe with Intergraph memorabilia from eBay…

White tee shirt with a graphic depicting several architectural icons from around the world and the text “INTERGRAPH Everywhere you look.”

rear graphic on a black tee shirt reading “Screamin’ & Radical…Get RealiZm”

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kory @kbones.fun · 25/10/2025

spectrum analyzers have peaked

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kory @kbones.fun · 11/08/2025

Canon EOS R5 | RF 100-500mm

Close up photograph of a bee collecting pollen while hanging off of a row of tiny yellow flowers

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kory @kbones.fun · 10/08/2025

stuff I picked up at Long Island Retro:

loose Tetrisphere N64 cartridge, sealed PC big box copy of Gabriel Knight 3, and a disk-kun pin

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kory @kbones.fun · 08/08/2025

i mean…look at these doofuses 😂

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kory @kbones.fun · 08/08/2025

i’ve been deep in the state machine mines over the last few days—here are my early cpu players (portrayed by mecha-feller and mecha-jorts) going at it they still get stuck in some silly infinite loops, but it’s a start! #bevy #bevyengine #rust #rustlang

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kory @kbones.fun · 03/08/2025

finally implemented systems for adding new rows and shifting tiles upward, along with little timers for each board inching closer to an actual game loop :) #bevy #bevyecs #rust #rustlang

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kory @kbones.fun · 31/07/2025

made some major progress—we have 3D models and a second board now! had to learn quite a bit about blender, custom traits, and generic systems to get here music is not final…(unfortunately??) #bevy #bevyecs #rust #rustlang

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kory @kbones.fun · 23/07/2025

using this free water bottle as an excuse to stop being so precious about all the stickers I’ve been hoarding thx @jackiev.bsky.social for my favorite one!

Water bottle with various stickers emblazoned on it—the vegeta sicko face one gets top billing

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kory @kbones.fun · 21/07/2025

in case anyone was curious what a 2 year old iPhone screen looks like through a ~100 year old microscope, wonder no more

View of an iPhone 15 Pro screen through a vintage microscope

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kory @kbones.fun · 21/07/2025

couple more cassettes:

vhs cassettes of yojimbo, the seventh seal, Batman returns, the Maltese falcon, and the green hornet

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kory @kbones.fun · 21/07/2025

but yeah, the Leitz microscope is the centerpiece by far…if I cleaned it up I could probably easily get 10x what I paid, but this thing isn’t going anywhere! optics are in good shape—here’s my iPhone screen!

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kory @kbones.fun · 21/07/2025

also picked up a smattering of vhs cassettes, an 8mm movie camera, the blade runner ost on cd, and a whole lot more CEDs (not pictured)

Several vhs tapes laid out, including some classic films/tv and fantasia and fantasia 2000. The blade runner ost cd sits next to them.

Bell & Howell 8mm movie camera sitting on its cardboard box

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kory @kbones.fun · 21/07/2025

went back for one more round before they closed up shop this lcd security monitor is great—vga, s-video, composite, and hdmi inputs perfect for MiSTer ❤️

Black 4:3 (or 5:4?) aspect ratio lcd monitor displaying the attract screen from Chrono Trigger

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kory @kbones.fun · 20/07/2025

found some cool stuff at an estate sale today

Ernst Leitz brass microscope—based on se number seems to be from 1910s-20s?

Various vinyl records, including several Led Zeppelin albums, jazz records, tarkus, Classical Japanese music, Copland, Stravinsky

RCA videodiscs of the wild bunch, Excalibur, and true confessions

Bound DC comics volumes of the justice league, spectre, and shazam

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kory @kbones.fun · 18/07/2025

implemented some more logic today--now have tiles draining and disappearing when circuits are completed and remaining tiles dropping to fill gaps (background track is car by i-fls) #rust #bevy #rustlang #bevyengine

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kory @kbones.fun · 12/07/2025

More progress today--implemented charge propagation logic (tiny torus has sadly been left behind...for now) #bevy #rust

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kory @kbones.fun · 11/07/2025

sometimes when you screw up, you break everything...other times you end up with a tiny torus, which I guess isn't so bad #bevy #rust

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kory @kbones.fun · 21/06/2025

after months of trying to wrap my head around bevy ECS/rust and a few false starts, I finally made some headway yesterday #bevy #bevyengine #rustlang

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kory @kbones.fun · 18/06/2025

added some convergence, way better

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