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Penn @pennpal.site · 23m

it never left??

Daytona Championship USA (the rerelease from this year)

Initial D the Arcade (released a couple years back but still actively supported)

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Penn @pennpal.site · 02/10/2026

yes of course I bought it

a cd-i disc for 2unlimited Beyond Limits

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Penn @pennpal.site · 28/09/2026

wtf that's me! I look like that!

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Penn @pennpal.site · 26/09/2026

big shoutouts to leon massey for providing my brain with extra stimulus while I inexplicably place within spitting distance of the top of the leaderboard for mario kart 8 deluxe time trials(?!?)

leaderboard for GCN Yoshi Circuit (150cc) with the not leon massey fighting game tierlist video in the background
I'm 8 positions from vincent at the top but idk if that's just the game not showing a bunch more ppl inbetween)

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Penn @pennpal.site · 22/09/2026

first local rhythm gamers meetup in a while went well, was nice

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Penn @pennpal.site · 09/09/2026

Exciting news for UK Rhythm Gamers!!!

Specifically, DDR World online 2026 eamusement real and maimai DX eu loctest 2026 real

in addition, the trusty Penis' Box 6 cab now features Dong Dong Never Die and Ultra Fight Da!! Kyanta 2 in addition to it's old staple of Street Fighter 2 Rainbow Edition

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Penn @pennpal.site · 05/09/2026

fr tho this was my first time playing ddr on a cab in months and first time playing a hard chart like that in ages so it feels good to still have a bit of stamina left to build on, not as washed up as I thought! 🦾🐱🔥

the score screen, I got 877,430 (900K or above is usually my threshold for a "good" score)

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Penn @pennpal.site · 05/09/2026

20 year old DDR player plays max300 as their only high-level song the old fashioned way or something idk

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Penn @pennpal.site · 27/08/2026

like look at this thing

the weird cable that goes from the headset to the battery pack

the cable next to a regular lightning cable (it looks the same but wider)

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Penn @pennpal.site · 24/08/2026

my dad got a whole ass raspberry pi kit from maplin back then but unfortunately he got in so early that raspbian still required you to type startx for a gui (one neat thing is you can see he went through an annotated a bunch of the early pages here)

A Trip Around the Board
the various sections of the board are labelled according to the details on the other page (many of which are highlighted)

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Penn @pennpal.site · 24/08/2026

books are cool I would recommend reading books offline instead of spending 100% of your time online

the book in question is the Raspberry Pi User Guide (from around 2014)

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Penn @pennpal.site · 24/08/2026

so how's your evening been going

A picture of me reading a book, opened to Chapter 3 (fancy big font 3): Linux System Administration
I'm sat in a nice comfy chair (offscreen) and you can see my garden (blurred through a shallow depth of field, mostly just various green)

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Penn @pennpal.site · 23/08/2026

found this while digging through my loft, should really get around to watching and/or archiving it sometime

a VHS tape for
The little angels
Special performance in pyongyang

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Penn @pennpal.site · 23/08/2026

I read a book about it while staying at @joke.enterprises' place and I can't stop thinking about it

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Penn @pennpal.site · 16/08/2026

specifically travelled up to hang w bea @joke.enterprises for 2 days, very good chill times definitely gonna be doing this again sometime but for like twice as long bc it feels like we barely got to do anything lol (also here is some extra photos)

cool picture of a sakura miku on a shelf

mario kart arcade gp 2 looking old as hell

the puzzle and dragons cab (running FFXIV)

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Penn @pennpal.site · 16/08/2026

closed the URL to IRL gap this weekend

me playing dancerush next to a jubeat cab (taken on an old camera)

chilling in the flat watching riley smudgebap
there is various shit on the table such as camera, and doctor pepper

The entry wristband from the arcade, which has been written on by my friends as a cool little souvenir

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Penn @pennpal.site · 14/08/2026

aye I'll drink to that

"I find comfort food always helps when I feel like killing myself"

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Penn @pennpal.site · 14/08/2026

welp I'll see you in a couple hours lol

it is downloading at about 15mb/s, and is saying it'll take about 170 minutes to download the whole thing.
What's that in hours? I don't know and can't be arsed to calculate it, you figure it out

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Penn @pennpal.site · 13/08/2026

I'd say hop on but immediately after taking this picture I tried installing the oldunreal patch and it broke the game lol

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000001e)

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Penn @pennpal.site · 12/08/2026

neat place to drive past

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Penn @pennpal.site · 12/08/2026

nerds will see this and go hell yeah

the hard drive stack next to a small form factor dell pc, there's a bunch of sata cables running out of the drives but no power bc I haven't got a second PSU for the server yet

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Penn @pennpal.site · 07/08/2026

new pickup, time to channel planetclue

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Penn @pennpal.site · 06/08/2026

chat I think there's something wrong with my default.xex

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Penn @pennpal.site · 05/08/2026

take a wild guess what video this could be referring to

Title here is probably the funniest possible three-word combination in the entire English language

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Penn @pennpal.site · 03/08/2026

remembering the variant of the exa arcadia exclusively designed to play eroge

an exa arcadia board, but sprayed pink and called Hawt Pink Club

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Penn @pennpal.site · 03/08/2026

so far the worst part of going back to XP has been adjusting to waiting ages when copying files around I'd have to assume it was always like this and I'm just spoilt by newer computers but yeesh I wish there was a faster way to do this

copying BOF 2006 (a 2gb zip file which I'll have to extract later), says it will take 27 minutes and that's after already copying a chunk of it

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Penn @pennpal.site · 30/07/2026

oh hey the drive size is reporting correctly here

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Penn @pennpal.site · 29/07/2026

nope! still getting black screens, garbled screens and hangs, the only difference is this monitor gives up when it starts displaying stuff outside its range is this the fabled linux nvidia experience?

the lcd monitor showing a garbled black screens

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Penn @pennpal.site · 29/07/2026

went back to configure x11 and I do not think it is meant to look like that

clearly some kind of issue with the output it has sent the same image squished 4 times

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Penn @pennpal.site · 29/07/2026

who even needs x11 anyway

using lynx I can access websites as plaintext, here is frogfind!

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Penn @pennpal.site · 29/07/2026

and we're online!!!

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Penn @pennpal.site · 29/07/2026

so X11 is currently unconfigured but linux is now installed!

Welcome to SuSE Linux 7.3 - Kernel 2.4.10
login: penpen
Have a lot of fun...

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