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A selfie achieved by taking a picture of a CRT displaying the Game Boy Camera
Me standing behind and pointing at my game setup
My game set up in Norse Hall
game set up on the kitchen table, with manual and newsletter sign up standee to the side
A photo of a glowing green orb on a table. Part of the big button controller from the game Guess Hue can be seen in the background.
Fragments of an ancient manuscript
A photo of a black box sitting in front of a monitor. The box has a row of 5 LEDs and under them a row of toggle switches. A glowing white metal push button is centered underneath. On the front face there's a smaller, red metal push button. A binder next to it is labeled NLB/9 terminal interface manual. The monitor is cyan text on a black screen, showing menu options.
A selfie showing off a King of All Cosmos pin being worn as a necklace
A back box with five toggle switches. Above each switch is an LED, growing green/white/blue/white/green. Below the toggles is a metal button with a glowing ring around it labeled SEND
A large screen displays a monochrome terminal login, with the characters NLB/9 in large ASCII art. In front of the screen, atop colorful end tables, are a binder labelled "terminal interface manual" and a black box with five evenly spaced toggle switches. Below the switches is a red push button labelled send. The binder and box both share branding of the NLB/9 logo and three diagonal stripes, blue/white/green.
A photo of the game's login screen on a tv monitor. In front of it, on two colorful little tables, are the controller, a black box with five toggle switches, and a black binder labeled NLB/9 terminal interface manual
A sketchbook page showing a messy map of numbered nodes. Some paths are highlighted in different colors. Terminal nodes are colored in.
A screenshot of ASCII art spelling out in large letters "NLB/9", followed by the text "Next level business machine rev 9. Login? (y)" and a cursor prompt. The letters are cyan on a black background, slightly blurry/fuzzy due to the pink shadow on one side and the blue shadow on the other side.
A medium sized black box with five toggle switches in a row across the top. Under that is a red button labeled SEND. Under that is a painted on logo that says NLB/9 and diagonal blue/white/green stripes.
Inside of keyboard, showing a mat with the numpad section cut off and replaced by an Adafruit Circuit Playground.
Photo of sacrificial keyboard. It's cheap and already missing a key
Photo of a hand in a white cotton glove, which is worn to play rhythm games at the arcade
Photo of me playing the Groove Coaster machine
I should buy a boat meme, with text "I should buy a maimai dx cabinet"
Photo of my AGDQ attendee badge
Screenshot of the break channel. Styled like a retro RPG, the GDQ character Velocity is on the left with sword and shield, facing off against Softlock, a cloud creature shaped like a lock. A text box in the middle says "Chat donated for 195!"
Coworkers playing my MAGFest game during our annual in-person week
View from the interior of the private flight (not a jet. definitely not a jet), featuring me and 2 former coworkers
showing off the custom arcade cabinet
Photo of my living room. Laptop and game controller rest on end tables in the foreground. A campfire video is playing on the TV. Christmas tree in the background.
Photo of a 64x32 led panel that says "FRI" real big and then "Dec 05" underneath it
Photo of a 64x32 LED panel displaying "Advent of Code", then a yellow asterisk next to the number 22, then a white asterisk followed by the number one
Photo of a small Christmas tree decorated with white lights and red and gold ornaments and ribbons
Screenshot of 8 pixel art objects. The first seven are variations of bathtub, but the last one is titled "animated blood altar"
Close up of a garland made of Coca Cola metal bottle caps, connected by jewelry rings threaded through holes punched just above the logo, lying on a table. In the background are a few more bottle caps with holes punched and a box of jump rings.
Overhead shot of several items laid out - huge if true bumper sticker, grammar goblin enamel pins, tabs and spaces pennant stickers, smiley payphone sticker, Go Fish 2 Zine, and Oscacomp's Item Shop
The Arkansas state song handwritten in bubbly cursive
A magazine page titled NOT BY BREAD ALONE: Stacking up an amazing sandwich. It includes recipes for veggie nut sandwich and muffaletta. There's a huge photo of a stack of sandwiches all along the right third of the page
A typewritten recipe for Chicken Broccoli. Ingredients list includes one boned chicken, one small box Velveeta, one can onion rings, and "raw onion rings?".
A recipe for beer rolls, made of Bisquick, sugar, and beer
Typewritten recipe for banana pie that calls for boiling milk for 2-3 hours in the can (keep covered with water)
Photo of a recipe written with a typewriter for "bacon curls", with the ingredients of thin sliced white bread, bacon, and cream of mushroom soup
Screenshot of Brian Cronin's talk with a big slide captioned "To Do Lists: here is a man being murdered by a to do list". Below this is an illustration of a man in a suit lying underneath a huge todo list looking forlornly up at the camera
Screenshot of a room description from the Roguelike Celebration social space. "You enter the frontlines of a massive conflict being fought by thousands upon thousands of clowns and mimes. The mimes stand on one side holding invisible weaponry spraying invisible bullets into the charging forces of tiny clown tanks. On the other side of the battlefield, colorful troops stand holding flowers that spray their own watery projectiles. Troops on both sides fall to the ground bloodlessly. Both sides of this battle appear to be going through the motions of the conflict without clear direction, and upon further inspection you don't seem to see a command tent present on either side."
Screenshot of a little ghost dog in Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival
A screenshot from Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival. It's a selfie-style picture of a ghost wearing a firefighter hat in a spooky nighttime forest. A group of ghosts cluster in the background.
A brass floor lamp with a big circle for a coffee table. The table part has totally worn away its veneer. Shade is a neutral textured cloth.
A small dining room. It has a newly teal ceiling and a new black and white checkered rug
An offer the shoulder mirror selfie showing off the back of my denim jacket - a glowing at sign made of EL wire
A screenshot of my character in game (minus hat and camera)
A mirror selfie. I'm wearing a white poncho with a scalloped bottom which has a simple face painted on it and a plastic firefighter hat. A black prop camera floats in front of my waist.
A close up of the control panel, showing the logo for Ol' Grandma Hailey's Good Ol' Times Arcade
A photo of a black bartop arcade cabinet booted up to the title screen of Super Lunch Rush