How do you play with Legos?

The iPod is dead, retro game prices are suspect, searching the internet, and more in This Geek in Review

The scripted show is going extinct Warner Bros. and the Discovery channel are cutting scripted shows. This affects shows at TNT and TBS. I don’t know what was a factor in this decision, but I can’t help to think that Netflix’s losses didn’t help. Is the scripted show dead? Of course not. Even during the worst times of TV there still have been shows. What is missing from the current crop of shows is re-watchability.

What do I think about the new Atari VCS?

Musk buys Twitter, confusing references on Friends, and more - This week in Review for 2022-04-29

Putting the WE into World Wide WEb, the Apple ][ hits 45, and more in this geek in review for April 22nd, 2022

Powerful computers, Reddit, and more in this geek in review.

Does what Meta do surprise anyone anymore? This past year there have been several news reports about TikTok challenges such as the “devious licks” challenge in schools, where students would vandalize classrooms. Unfortunately for common decency, these challenges were made up by a firm paid for by Meta (formerly Facebook) to tarnish the image of TikTok. The stories would originate on Facebook, and were then picked up by the local news.

This post is mostly for myself so I can quickly lookup the joystick sequence to enable Pac-Man or use the speedup hacks in the 20th Anniversary Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cabinets. It seems like this is the most common cabinet, I see it the most out in the wild. Play Pac-Man Ms. Pac-Man started out as a ROM hack of the original Pac-Man board, and because of that, Ms. Pac-Man ran on the same hardware as the Pac-Man cabinets.

The creators of gifs and the TRS-80 have passed away. Also, have we reached peak original blockbuster movie? And, Apple has come up with another way to make money. All this and more!