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Retronika
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Semi-okay pixel artist and lover of old tech.
Currently working on Space Wiz for the Nintendo Entertainment System + multiple DDLC mods.
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If the Fairchild Channel F was sold today, you'd need to purchase an additional power plan to be able to have the system turn on when plugged in, cartridges would be mostly RAM with a tiny ROM that just downloads the game via the phone line, and you'd have to pay ~$5 each time you wanna play a game.
May 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
retronii.bsky.social
With how scary the tariff stuff is getting, and prices are already beginning to climb to extreme highs for technology and other things, I feel beyond confident that we picked the worst time to graduate in and the worst degree to have gotten.

Hope this new world order's got a cushion somewhere.
April 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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nikobowie.bsky.social
BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.
April 14, 2025 VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Josh Gruenbaum Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service General Services Administration Sean R. Keveney Acting General Counsel U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Thomas E. Wheeler Acting General Counsel U.S. Department of Education Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler: We represent Harvard University. We are writing in response to your letter dated April 11, 2025, addressed to Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s President, and Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. Harvard is committed to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry in its community. Antisemitism and discrimination of any kind not only are abhorrent and antithetical to Harvard’s values but also threaten its academic mission. To that end, Harvard has made, and will continue to make, lasting and robust structural, policy, and programmatic changes to ensure that the university is a welcoming and supportive learning environment for all students and continues to abide in all respects with federal law across its academic programs and operations, while fostering open inquiry in a pluralistic community free from intimidation and open to challenging orthodoxies, whatever their source. Over the past 15 months, Harvard has undertaken substantial policy and programmatic measures. It has made changes to its campus use policies; adopted new accountability procedures; imposed meaningful discipline for those who violate university policies; enhanced programs designed to address bias and promote ideological diversity and civil discourse; hired staff to support these programs and support students; changed partnerships; dedicated resources to combat hate and bias; and enhanced safety and security measures. As a result, Harvard is in a very different place today from where it was a year ago. These efforts, and additional measures the university will be taking against antisemitism, not only are the right thing to do but also are critical to strength… recognized by the Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that the government has not proven through mandatory processes established by Congress and required by law. No less objectionable is the condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard accede to these terms or risk the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding critical to vital research and innovation that has saved and improved lives and allowed Harvard to play a central role in making our country’s scientific, medical, and other research communities the standard-bearers for the world. These demands extend not only to Harvard but to separately incorporated and independently operated medical and research hospitals engaging in life-saving work on behalf of their patients. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement in principle. Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration. William A. Burck Robert K. Hur Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 1300 I Street NW Suite 900 Suite 900 Washington, DC 20005 King & Spalding LLP 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006
April 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
retronii.bsky.social
Made a form for college asking students in the Tampa Bay area about their experience regarding the ongoing housing crisis.

forms.gle/vivocA48gCbK...
Student Housing in Tampa
Welcome to the survey! This is primarily intended for college students living in the Tampa area in regards to the housing crisis. Please answer as best you're able.
forms.gle
November 3, 2024 at 1:48 AM
retronii.bsky.social
Today I learned that there's a processor speed unit called "flops", or floating-point calculations they can perform per second.

But why are we measuring them in FLOATS? Old CPUs can't always do them natively and have to go through some hoops to work with them. It just feels silly to me, I dunno. 🤔
October 29, 2024 at 4:28 AM
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staticquit.bsky.social
”Thank you for loving me despite it all” 💜

A cozy digital watercolor drawing with Yuri!

[ #ddlcfanart #ddlcart #ddlcyuri ]
October 19, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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dmitrydeceiver.bsky.social
#pixelart
October 17, 2024 at 1:16 AM
retronii.bsky.social
I hate it when my 800-something-year-old stone building learns how to shoot lasers.

(From Space Wiz, an upcoming shmup for NES.)
October 18, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Bit late for April Fool's, but felt like swapping out Sega's BIOS for Samsung instead.
#aprilfools #sega
April 2, 2024 at 7:42 PM
retronii.bsky.social
Made this little gem recently; a mockup for a Turbo File save manager. Despite how simple it looks (intentional to try to match period aesthetic), it's probably my favorite piece of NES art so far!
March 28, 2024 at 4:58 AM