iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 15/12/2025

I loved making my own internal BlueRetro mods for my Dreamcast and SNES. What a fun project. I’m sure others will continue to refine and expand it, but I think you are leaving it in a great place. It’s insanely feature complete and polished.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 14/03/2025

One more tip is that the Palma is almost exactly the same dimensions as the older 6.7” iPhones like the 15 Pro Max, so a lot of sleeve or bag style cases for that phone will fit, if you don’t keep a case on it.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 14/03/2025

Here are some of my favorite wallpapers, hopefully Bluesky won’t destroy them too bad lol

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 07/03/2025

Wow Bluesky video compression destroys this.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 07/03/2025

Here’s an example of some very small text. Lightning cable for scale.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 07/03/2025

I just bought a Palma 2 (really only different in that it has fingerprint unlock and costs more lol) and it’s been pretty great for manga.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 21/02/2025

Nice. I can’t quite justify the price for my SE but these are awesome. I wish I could grab one to go with my prison TV, soundsticks, and clear(ish) Super Famicom

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 06/02/2025

Finally finished my rewatch of seasons 1 and 2 of Kimi ni Todoke, and watched the new (!) season 3, and man, it's nice to have something NICE. It was the anime that made me fall in love with shojo when I watched it over 10 years ago, and getting a new season after so long was such a gift.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 03/02/2025

God I love when they put this shit right on the Steam Page. Wishlisted, and I can't wait.

At the top of the About this Game section in the steam page is a box saying "STANDARD RUNTIME: 120-180 minutes"

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 03/02/2025

me and the other boomers getting ready to sail to the undying lands

screenshot from the lord of the rings movie with the elves preparing to get on a boat to wherever the hell boomers go

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 03/02/2025

Posting the podcast on YouTube has opened up whole new audiences for us, like this gentleman who has some kind feedback about my pronunciation of the word "manga" lol

A YouTube comment that reads "This boomer really said mainguh lol"

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 27/01/2025

Apropos of nothing, I've been watching "From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated!" and it's one of the funniest and most adorable anime I've seen in a while. A 52 year old salary-man dies and is reincarnated as the villainess of an otome game, and just completely rolls with it.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 09/01/2025

This old monitor has the most ominous sounding power on degauss noise I’ve ever heard. Sound/headphones on.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 03/01/2025

I’ve always wanted to use this vintage Power Center with my retro computing setup but the 40 year old neon bulbs in the switches had developed an annoying flicker. Someone on Reddit recently posted a replacement part number, so I guess I’m about to become a power strip hobbyist.

A vintage power center power strip designed to sit under a monitor, with six glowing red switches of varying brightnesses on the front. I’m holding up a replacement power switch in front of it.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 21/12/2024

I don’t know how under appreciated it is but I think Tokyo Godfathers is the perfect Christmas movie. On Christmas Eve, three homeless people (an alcoholic, a trans woman, and a teenage runaway) find a baby in the trash and set out to find her parents. A modern day manger story. Funny and moving.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 19/12/2024

Got a magic sword, so naturally:

A screenshot from Metaphor: ReFantazio showing a tutorial screen about riding around on your magic sword like a Back to the Future hoverboard. Text:

Blade-riding
While in safe areas like cities, press Bto hop on your blade and quickly ride through the area.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 16/12/2024

It’s kind of wild that if you want a device to stream 4K HDR PC games from your PC to your TV, the absolute best AND cheapest option is the $150 Apple TV 4K with Moonlight.

A pretty crappy photo of my LG OLED showing the Moonlight app running and streaming the steam interface on my Apple TV.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 15/12/2024

The Persona team is so good at freaky freaks

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 13/12/2024

You vs the guy she told you not to worry about

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 12/12/2024

Crossovers are ok I guess but LOOK AT THIS PIXEL ART WATCHER from @sunsetvisitor.bsky.social

A screenshot from the Balatro cross over DLC showing a Jack of Diamonds with a pixel art version of Watcher from 1000xResist as the card face

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 05/12/2024

@theverge.com It's cool you are offering subscriptions now, but is the plan really to paywall old articles? This is a backpack review from 2016.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 03/12/2024

FYI I’ve added an SSD, 16gb of 3200mhz ram, and installed Bazzite, and the performance is much improved. 2D indies and some low end 3D play great without blasting the fan. Haven’t pushed it much further than that yet. Liking it for emulation and retro style games.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 03/12/2024

Success! It ain’t a powerhouse but it runs the only game that matters just fine and it looks cool doing it

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 03/12/2024

Doing some foolishness

Atari VCS 800 sit open showing its main board and an added SSD.

The install screen for Bazzite Linux is seen on screen

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 01/12/2024

OK, the sunk cost fallacy has me in its grip lol

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 27/11/2024

It’s lovely! However, there doesn’t seem to be a straightforward process for transferring content from one Steam Deck to another.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 25/11/2024

I had told myself that I would NOT buy another handheld emulator console. I do NOT need it. But there was a sale, and look, this thing is exactly like a Gameboy Advance SP, and it can even sleep automatically when you shut the lid.

An Anbernic RG35XXSP showing a frame from Grandia on PSX

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 24/11/2024

After my brief experiment with daily driving a vintage Thinkpad, I picked up this wireless trackpoint keyboard. It’s super weird to use! Feels like half a laptop. But it’s surprisingly convenient to have a full keyboard and “mouse” that is so easy to grab and use via Bluetooth or USB.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 22/11/2024

Post you from a different era. Here’s high school me playing an imperial officer in a Star Wars fan film in about 2001. (😅)

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 21/11/2024

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains

Recovering the Satellites by Counting Crows. This album is S-tier. Fight me.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 21/11/2024

This is so neat. The ports on the Framework laptop are all modular, and there are lots of community designed ones. I just got this, the DongleHider+, which lets you solder in up to two disassembled usb dongles internally while still having an external USB-A port. I’m using it for my mouse receiver.

A shot of the dongle hider module opened to see the mouse receiver PCB soldered onto the module PCB

A side shot showing the external USB-A mod port on the laptop. The module is flush and apart from a slight difference in color you can’t tell that it’s any different from the laptops other ports.

A shot showing the bottom of the laptop. Here you can tell that the module is not one of the stock ones because it’s made out of 3-D printed slightly translucent plastic instead of gray aluminum

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 21/11/2024

@play.date like this is literally true. Here I am grabbing my playdate (last played a month ago) and my 3DS (last played at least 9 months ago). 3DS is at full battery, playdate might as well be DOA.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 19/11/2024

I was holding my 8bitdo Lite and iPhone in one hand recently and realized I really want a little bluetooth controller that can magsafe onto the back of my phone. Would be neat!

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 18/11/2024

...what's in there, Lily?

Lily from Duolingo says "We don't open this door."

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 17/11/2024

Age yourself with your first computer. My family had a compact Macintosh, probably the 128k but I’m not certain. Earliest memory of it is playing Dinosaur Discovery Kit. #retrocomputing

A cool business suit dino points to the title screen which reads Welcome to The Dinosaur Discovery Kit

Menu screen. Choices include coloring book, dinosaur match, story maker, and Stop

Story book mode. Dapper Dino’s wear hard and rail coats. Text reads: If you asked him how many friends he had, he would say two.

Coloring book mode. There is a brontosaurus looking at an erupting volcano with a grimace

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 16/11/2024

Watching this with my 4yo son and I think this is the most excited I’ve ever seen him about anything.

BATMAN
- VS -
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 16/11/2024

The spirit moved within me and I made a meme.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 15/11/2024

Finally. It’s here. Slipper weather.

A close-up of my feet wearing brown closed toed slippers. They have a rubber soul and are very shoe like.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 15/11/2024

Today it’s Double D-pads. This is an 8Bitdo Lite. I picked it up on sale a couple months ago and it’s turned out to be a great controller. Feels a little bit retro in size/shape but with all the buttons of a modern controller, and it fits in the pocket of my laptop bag.

A teal 8Bitdo Lite controller, which has two d-pads instead of joysticks. It’s a basically phone sized rounded rectangle with white buttons.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 13/11/2024

Hey Bluesky, I am a video games podcaster and for the last ten years I’ve been hosting The Short Game Podcast, a weekly show about the best of games under 10 hours.

Podcast artwork for The Short Game podcast. A white stylized game controller is flanked top and bottom by the show title, against a dark gray background

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 31/10/2024

My wife and I did this paint by numbers together and I’m really happy with how it turned out

A framed paint by numbers that looks like a Monet water lilies painting, but with a small cute bedsheet ghost floating above the water

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 29/10/2024

When I worked in Apple Stores 10 years ago this is what we used to clean devices. It’s incredible, and a single bottle will usually last me a couple years and I have a LOT of devices I clean regularly.

A bottle of ACL Staticide Plastic & Glass Cleaner

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 19/10/2024

Glad to find you on here! Thanks for all your work on BlueRetro. I just finished my own DIY internal BlueRetro mods on my SNES and Dreamcast and they’ve been a game changer.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 19/10/2024

And here’s my brother @shanevsevil.bsky.social ans I celebrating our birthday by playing the Battletech pods at the Houston Arcade Expo

A gaming center showcasing two large, pod-like virtual cockpit simulators from MechCorps. These immersive gaming pods are designed for mech battles, complete with detailed controls and a small display for spectator views. A ‘Cockpit Controls’ sign is visible, detailing the interior layout of the controls, while a staff member at a desk monitors gameplay in the background.

Two men smiling in front of a large MechCorps battle pod. One wears a beige baseball cap, while the other sports glasses and a ‘Become Goblin’ graphic t-shirt. The pod behind them, labeled ‘Mobile Armor Division Cockpit 04,’ is a part of a mech combat simulator, adding a futuristic backdrop to the casual selfie.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 19/10/2024

Really glad to see more retro gaming folks showing up here. I’m going to try to start posting here more often about my retro tech projects. Here’s the latest on my clear CRT setup. I paired it up with some Soundsticks III, which sound and look great. They’re shielded and CRT safe!

A close-up of a Harman Kardon transparent speaker system, showcasing its sleek, futuristic design. The clear casing reveals the internal components of the subwoofer and satellite speakers, blending technology with modern aesthetics. The speaker system sits on a white countertop near a window, allowing sunlight to highlight the details.

A retro gaming setup featuring a clear, transparent CRT television displaying the iconic ‘Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past’ title screen. The setup includes transparent Harman Kardon speakers on either side of the TV, and a clear Super Nintendo system with a ‘Mother 2’ cartridge (actually a flash cart) plugged in. A transparent retro-style controller is in front of the console. The background includes a mix of indoor plants and retro tech.

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Raygan Kelly @raygan.me · 02/10/2024

Yesterday I spent some time building an internal BlueRetro receiver for wireless controllers on my Dreamcast. Now I can play with a *sane* controller and save to an internal VMU!

The inside of a Dreamcast with several mods including a gdemu and noctua fan. The ESP32 running BlueRetro is mounted at the right just behind the fan.

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