nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 21/08/2026Well, what do we have here? You must be a new arrival. Let me guess. The Duskbloods Network Test, right? Well, you're not the first. But there's no game server here. You'd have done better to rot in bed...But, too late now. 163
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 19/07/2026Not to say we're entirely bereft of that sort of thing anyway. 000
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 24/06/2026Yeah no interminable get equipped cutscenes, and Boobeam Trap is just three boobeams on a wall. It's very straightforward and just about timing jumps over their shots and shooting them as you come back down. If you'll forgive some blurry images. 000
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 24/06/2026Beat Mega Man 2 Watch today lol. It was a pretty fun adaptation. The platforming felt fine, tho the couple swipe-to-turn segments were finicky. Boss fights were still about timing and pattern recognition, but I missed boss weapons and weaknesses. 110
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 05/06/2026Love to have a well-made indie game that offers some meat and some challenge without being the longest and most difficult game I've ever played. Mina really nails offering up some challenge while still always feeling achievable. 021
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 06/05/2026Here this one's for all the 90 Day Fiance / The Simpsons fans. 020
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 16/03/2026I dunno, I think it's neat to play around with what these technologies can deliver to games, but it always feels weird when they get to mess with the art style and personality of the characters undirected. 001
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 07/03/2026Finally got around to moving over to @selfhosted.social. Felt like an important thing to stop putting off after going to the fediforum workshop last week. Feels good. 1190
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 03/02/2026Every time a cat wakes me up grooming I think about this old classic. 010
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 31/01/2026I'm so glad I'm finally undertaking my Fromsoft pilgrimage by trying out King's Field. Game is good so far, and I love seeing where many Fromsoftisms came from. 131
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 12/01/2026I've been playing Mega Man games my whole life, but I've only ever beat a couple of em. That's changing this year, as I'll be beating the entire Mega Man classic series, on original hardware where I can manage it. Mega Man 1-3 down, and started on 4 this evening. 120
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 10/01/2026Interplay 1 also has the honor of containing the (currently) 655th best NES game according to @jeffgerstmann.com : Battle Chess. Course elsewhere on the platform we've also got number 16, Blaster Master. And number 26, RC ProAm. Even number 1, Mega Man 2 if we count discontinued hardware built-ins. 010
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 07/01/2026Safety reminder for social media: you can stop videos and gifs auto-playing and you can hide graphic media or put it behind a warning. Feel free to do it when you know something you might not wanna see is going around. But also just consider it forever. 100
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 23/12/2025Welp, it's Xmas Eve Eve, so my timing is impeccable as always. Wouldn't it be great if you could share gift ideas with your friends and family on atproto instead of locking into Amazon or making an account on some rando site? Maybe by this time next year it'll be a thing. Here's an early demo gif. 020
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 11/12/2025Got my Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Mega Man yesterday. Some real dope art in this. Put my Dr. Wily sticker on my Evercade Alpha MM Edition...even though the book seems to neglect to mention Evercade EXP and Super Pocket as places you can play Mega Man 1. 011
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 30/11/2025Did my @anisota.net #harvest Really gotta get those posting numbers up next year, this is embarrassing. Started off 2025 with good intentions but spent most of my energy on unhinged blog posts so I didn't have any time left for unhinged microblog posts. Lesson learned. anisota.net/harvest 020
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 14/10/2025Finally decided to go and complete my Mega Man NES collection. 260
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 31/08/2025And it was all worth it cause when I got back that run was a success! 120
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 31/08/2025Roguecraft DX would be the perfect pick-up-and-play Evercade game for taking with you on a Super Pocket if you could suspend runs. Even without that it's an excellent game that plays great on the go. Just sometimes I don't have an hour uninterrupted and feel back abandoning or sabotaging good runs. 150
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 23/07/2025This has been playing in my head since last night so now you have to see it, too. 010
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 16/07/2025Ever wonder how your favorite NES games on Evercade have fared under the cold gaze of Hard Science? wecadin.today will now pull Dr. @jeffgerstmann.com's rankings right from 8bitnintendo.science so you can see the latest right in context. From [#1] Mega Man 2 to [#553] MetalMech: Man & Machine! 022
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 03/07/2025I can think of way better ways to spend $45,000,000,000.00 than building concentration camps. Like buying each resident of the US 100 tacos. And you'll still have 11,000,000,000.00 left over in case anyone wants guac. 000
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 13/06/2025You mean the Solos? In the May Showcase they said preorders June 30 and release in September. 010
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 22/05/2025How it started / How it's going Happy 5th Birthday, #Evercade! 0172
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 28/04/2025C'mon where's all your "Old Man Trump Asleep at the Wheel?" headlines? 000
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 16/04/2025This was prompted by a discord bot asking what I'd do if the Internet stopped existing, and I never felt so free. 020
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 12/04/2025I said earlier I was getting up to NES today. Here's what I ended up with. 320
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 12/04/2025Been a while since I (semi-)Random Game Saturdayed. I'll be enjoying some NES time today. 010
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 12/04/2025We've had flurries up here in N Central MA for a few days now and it really started to pile up last night. 110
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 02/04/2025Now some of you may be feeling a little meh about the Switch 2 announcements, but consider this 000
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 26/03/2025First version of my new personal site up. Neat exercise avoiding SPAs (and JS in general) in favor of server-side rendered webapp. Blogroll generated via feedbin api and activity feed via atproto. Nice to enjoy some relative minimalism for the first time in a while. 120
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 25/03/2025Starting to get my feet wet a bit with the indigo golang library for ATproto. Feeling like things are a bit better documented for Typescript and maybe I should've started there, but I'm getting it all figured out. 👍 030
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 24/03/2025Listen to me, Hatcher. You gotta tell them. Twinings Australian Afternoon tea is people! 000
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 24/03/2025Been spending a few hours today retroifying and deprofessionalizing my personal site, cause there's no reason for it to be _just_ an extension of my resume. Also currently completely JS-free, which is something I haven't done in forever. 010
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 11/03/2025And if you don't care the read the whole thing, here's what the AI summary has to say about it 😅 000
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 11/03/2025By the way when I ask the Summarizer directly "What is Zelensky's approval rating?" It at least _tries_ to be more technically accurate and says it is "reported to be only 4 percent." But even that is not true as the source article does not report that as fact and only quotes it for effect. 110
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 11/03/2025Oof, @inoreader.bsky.social's new AI Summarizer repeats Russian propaganda quoted ironically for effect in an article from @theatlantic.com as "Objective Fact." Not a great look. 120
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 10/03/2025Saw you can ask a custom question about the article, so I asked it of my Sec230 post, "Why is Section 230 bad?" It did an okay job listing the common criticisms I mentioned, then it told me Section 230 is bad due to "Disincentives for Moderation" which is actually the very reason it was created! 110
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 10/03/2025Ran "Objective vs. Opinion" against my Section 230 post and it says I characterized Sec230 as "bad law." Quote it pulled that from was was clearly meant ironically. Guess I presented the characterization, so: technically correct. But someone reading that summary is coming away with the wrong idea. 010
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 10/03/2025Inoreader's new AI summary feature brings all the convenience of doomscrolling and misinformation right into your RSS reader! I wonder what happened to their "AI summaries bad" blog post from 2023? (fwiw the few articles that I've tried have only yielded one small issue, but I Have Thoughts) 210
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 09/02/2025Finally finding some time to play Under Ashen Skies! #ttrpg 130
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 08/02/2025Missed a few weeks, but reached into my Gameboy drawer for this week's random cart. 010
nromdotcom @nromdotcom.cloud · 01/02/2025Anyway, still excited that I'll get to enjoy the Elden Ring Nightreign network test in a couple weeks! 010