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I installed Bazzite Linux on a Dell Optiplex 3000 and made it a Steam machine

Here’s what my new Bazzite desktop looks like, with the girls from Bubblegum Crisis. My friend Lou is visiting Japan and gave me a Dell Optiplex mini computer (Intel Core i5) he rescued from the trash at his work after his company was bought out by a smaller competitor of all things. It had Windows 11 installed on it, and I installed Bazzite Linux which wiped away all that yuckie grodie Windows 11 crap off of it.

The unit is pretty small! I was surprised at how small it is. The Optiplex is pretty small, about four times the size of a Raspberri Pi. Unlike a RasPi though, this is a fully functional computer. It also has better specs than my desktop computer, which has a pretty old GPU from about 10 years ago.

This is once it finished booting from the USB drive. After that, I installed the OS onto the hard drive.

Bazzite is essentially identical to Steam OS, although it’s Fedora-based rather than Arch-based. Bazzite desktop environment choices are either KDE Plasma like what I chose, or the gaytarded GNOME environment, which is basically the Fisher Price version of Linux. KDE resembles what GNOME used to look like before it looked like a lame tech demo.

First of all, I have to say that I’ve had problems with Steam ever since I upgraded to Mint 22. I think it was my fault, because I followed bad advice from somebody on the Steam forum about copying over Steam data files rather than just installing them fresh after a clean upgrade. Ever since I did that, some games won’t recognize the controller and Steam Input stopped working. Not only that, but downloading stuff can take a long time for some reason. I really should wipe that HD clean and do a clean install soon. Anyway, I installed a whole lot of games in short time and tested several of them out.

Revolgear Zero is a brand new shmup by Bikkuri Software, the same makers as Graze Counter. Their shmups have a PC Engine kind of feel to them. This is the most recent game I’ve bought on Steam.

This is Space Invaders Extreme. This is one of the games that stopped working with my gamepad on my desktop.

This is Salamander 3 on Gradius Origins. I bought this game in December, but the controller wouldn’t work. Here it works just fine!

Natsuki Chronicles is a shmup that reminds me of the Thunder Force series. It runs a bit slow on my desktop, but it is smooth on this Optiplex!

Beautiful Mystic Survivors is one of those twin stick action/Roguelike/arena shooters featuring what I call “moon boobs.” (I mean like jiggle physics if the girls are on the moon. It’s not too overdone here like it is on some smartphone games.) This game is kind of like Gauntlet meets Smash TV where your attacks are automatic and timed. You choose one of several large-breasted anime beauties on a quest and you get swarmed with ever-increasing hoards of enemies. It eventually starts to choke, but this runs smoother on this new computer than my desktop.

Shantae Advanced: Risky Revolution was an abandoned Shantae game for the GBA that was recently completed at last. It’s essentially a GBA game, but with some enhanced character graphics during cutscenes such as this picture above. The problem is that it’s completely unplayable on my desktop computer! This Steam version is just a GBA game with some overlay enhancements, so what the heck was WayForward doing when they screwed this up? How is a GBA game more taxing on a system’s resources than the previous game, Shantae and the Seven Sirens? Shantae: Half-Genie Hero was the most taxing game in the series, but I could still play it on my desktop. I found the GBA ROM for Shantae Advanced and downloaded it to play on RetroPie. I paid for the game, so I felt justified in doing so. Fortunately, the game runs smoothly on this new computer!

I tried out one of Ulan’s games, Pools. She says it runs rather slowly on the desktop, but here it runs pretty smoothly without having to sacrifice the visuals. Eventually I will install Alien: Isolation and see how it runs on this Optiplex.

I use a Logitech F310 controller. These controllers are alright, but I’m on my third one now. I threw my previous one out last year because the Y button was getting stuck or something. The one before that had something similar go wrong with it. Last night I accidentally pressed the Logitech button in the center of the controller and it brought me into a sort of Steam console mode. It’s called “Big Picture Mode”, which is basically like a fullscreen console OS. I guess Bazzite gives an option for the computer to boot up in this way or to boot to the desktop. Interesting. 

I wasn’t able to install Mozc to use with Fcitx5 for Japanese IME keyboard input. Bazzite is a bit different. Since this Fedora and not Debian/Ubuntu based, the “sudo apt install” command doesn’t work, so I’ll have to figure out the different syntax. Apparently you type “rpm-ostree install” instead. I remember using the “yum” command in Fedora 20 years ago. Also, the software manager is called “Bazaar” and it took me a while to realize that this was the software library. I’ll have to get used to such differences. 

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“If your head were the sun, could you see shadows?”

This is one of those stupid questions I thought up in high school to annoy people. I’m pretty sure I asked my physics teacher this. His name was Mr. Waxman and I think I had convinced him that I was crazy. I decided to annoy Google’s AI by asking it this question, and this is the reply I received:

If your head were the Sun, you generally would not be able to see shadows. 

Because shadows are formed when an object blocks light from a source, they always appear on the opposite side of that object from the light source. If you were the primary source of light, every object you looked at would be illuminated from your exact perspective, meaning any shadow it cast would be hidden directly behind it from your point of view. 

However, there are a few scientific “loopholes” where you might still see them:

  • Brighter Background Sources: If there were a light source even brighter than you (like a nearby supernova) behind you, you could see the shadow you cast on other objects.
  • Shadows from Other Stars: While you couldn’t see the shadows you cast, you could see shadows created by other stars or light sources in the universe.
  • Cosmic Ray Shadows: In a more technical sense, you could “see” a shadow if you were detecting high-energy cosmic rays instead of visible light, as you would block these particles from reaching objects like Earth.
  • Perspective Shift: If your “eyes” were on the far edges of your massive solar head, you might catch a tiny sliver of a shadow cast by a nearby object (like the Moon) due to the slight difference in angle. 

You can test this yourself: hold a phone flashlight directly between your eyes in a dark room. You will notice that almost all shadows on the objects you point it at seem to disappear.

Well, I guess that’s an answer I can be satisfied with. I’m glad I wasted Google’s time with my stupid question.

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So Joe Biden was shot by a firing squad in 2019?

Good golly. So while the corporate fake news media complex’s new talking point is that the latest data dump of PDF files related to everyone’s favorite Jewish supremacist “PDF file” (who didn’t kill himself) Epstein is “boring”, look at this weird email from 2021:

“Biden is not your current President. The mask malfunctions on Bidan are getting worse each day. On purpose. This will end badly for who is posing with a fucking clone on Facebook.

The dude playing Bidan ain’t Bidan. Real Bidan was an evil sick angry man who abused children including his own children. That’s an actor with a fucking mask. We’ve been over this a thousand times. It’s never going to change. Bidan is shot, 2019 firing squad.”

I totally admit that the talk of tribunals and firing squads were just speculation and hopium coming from crackpots making videos on Bitchute and Rumble (like Charlie Ward), but I did know that this was not the real Biden. The ears are different as well as the shape of his skull. On my YouTube/Odysee channel, I showed Biden’s weird mask malfunctions, like his rubbery nose and an obvious mask sagging off his neck. According to this email, it was a doppleganger wearing a mask and the real Biden was executed in 2019, with tribunals to begin in 2021. Look at this document, on page 7.

Whoever this is, he’s speaking with great confidence. We don’t know who wrote this or how much of it is valid. Note there is Biden and a misspelled “Bidan.” Maybe “Bidan” is a name given to the counterfeit one? Weird stuff, to say the least. The last part of the email, though, sounds just like Q: “Justice is coming. Because I’m burning the whole fucking thing down.”

In this video, I don’t think Biden was taking the mask off, but rather it was coming off and he was trying to adjust it. You can see the flap causes a hole by his ear.

Oh yes, and remember the whole creepy Wayfair cabinet scandal? Epstein’s assistant made an $8.4k purchase on Wayfair. So with this data dump, we’re now revisiting the Pizzagate and Wayfair scandals and getting validation on them.

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Configuring Japanese text input in Linux

In order to configure your Linux computer to input Japanese text, you will need two programs: Fcitx5 and Mozc. Fcitx5 is the program which enables non-Roman language input and Mozc is what Fcitx5 uses to input Japanese. After installing these programs through either the software installer or package installer, you should see a keyboard icon appear on your panel. If not, a reboot may be required. I’m going to show you how to do this in Zorin OS. From my experience, this is pretty much the same in both Mint and Raspberry OS, so I imagine it’s the same for other Linux distributions. Don’t worry about the Fcitx5 Migration Wizard. That’s only for if you are migrating from version 4 to version 5. After installing these programs, this is what my Software installer shows:

You will need to configure Fcitx5. Click on the keyboard icon (or it could be the letter A?) and select “Input method settings.” This is generally what you should see with the first tab, “Input Method”:

For input method, you will need to have “Keyboard” (here mine is a Japanese keyboard) as well as Mozc. Toggling between these two is what you need to do next. Click on the “Global Options” tab.

Here you can change the toggle input method. You can make it CTRL + ~ or CTRL + (spacebar). What you do is click the input method and then press the sequence you wish to use. Since a Japanese keyboard already has a button for this (hankaku/zenkaku), I made this available. You can always change the input method by clicking on the orange あ icon (Mozc) and then select “Mozc settings” (to select between full katakana, half katakana, and so on).

Look at the Mozc Settings. In Zorin, it’s under System Tools from your main menu.

Make sure that the input method is set to Romaji. This means that you will press the S key and then the A key to give you さ and so on. Otherwise, it’ll think you have a Japanese style keyboard and I don’t think even Japanese people know how to use a Japanese keyboard. Keymap style should be set to “MS-IME.” So you really don’t have to change anything here. However, through the Mozc Settings you can add certain words to dictionaries and save them. This is useful for more obscure kanji readings for proper names and such.

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The psychology of people who rewatch shows and movies

This video was recommended to me by my friend Lou. It explains the psychology behind why I would rather watch Big Trouble in Little China over and over again rather than trying to tackle some new show that will likely turn out stupid. Star Wars is totally dead now, but it’s been on the decline ever since Greedo shot first in 1997. Even though Kathleen Kennedy is finally leaving Lucasfilm, the damage is done. I couldn’t care less. I still love the original, unaltered trilogy regardless. There is a subconscious reason for wanting to watch the same stuff. It connects to the comfort of nostalgia. It’s soothing, and a form of emotional regulation. Something stable in a chaotic world.

Last summer when I visited family, I was lectured about how I’m “still living in 1982.” I never really thought of it before, but yeah, watching Blade Runner on a weekend in the dark with the headphones on in the present day, it lets me connect with that insecure, 15 year old Greg who watched it every Friday night, in the dark, because he didn’t have friends to hang out with because his friends from school were getting high with each other and I wanted no part of that. It was that 15 year old Greg who had a crush on a girl but didn’t know how to win her heart, let alone even talk to her. And it was that 15 year old Greg who was contemplating himself, determining what kind of person he wanted to be, and focusing on bettering himself. There’s a sort of beautiful sadness to that part of my life. Despite the heartache, I wish I could relive the experience.

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Cinema by Castlebeat

Tonight I came across another great song by Castlebeat, Cinema. Another great music video by the Spirit Goth channel.

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Amelia is my new imaginary girlfriend

If UK politicians won’t stand up to the unending hoards of loathsome invaders from incompatible cultures, then Amelia will. I’ve never played that gaytarded Pathways “game,” but it’s glorious how that stupid propaganda indoctrination bullcrap has totally backfired on its Orwellian creators and a meme queen was born. You can read about how this came about here. Like Pepe the Frog, Amelia is the new symbol of dissent standing against open-borders globalism and suicidal empathy in the UK.

First, let’s focus on what is good and must be preserved and celebrated. Let’s call these the Five B’s:

  • Britain
  • Bibles
  • Bacon
  • Beer
  • Boobs

What should never be tolerated in the UK or in any other civilized nation?

  • Hatred
  • Rape
  • Honor killings
  • Harassment
  • Female genital mutilation
  • Pedophilia
  • Violent assault
  • Mass murder (aka “jihad”)
  • Animal cruelty
  • Domestic violence
  • Forced dietary restrictions
  • Women forced to dress like the ghosts in Pac-Man

Of course, all of this embodies Islam. Amelia says “NO” to all of this depravity. And just keep in mind: the lunatic who thinks you’re going to hell for owning a dog, eating pork, peeing while standing, drinking alcohol, and believing in Christ’s divinity is the same type of degenerate who prays to a pussy-shaped meteorite in Saudi Arabia five times a day and would throw acid in the face of his 9 year old cousin for refusing to marry him and tries to enslave young girls for his pedo grooming racket because he strictly believes in the deranged words of a 7th century psychopath who stole, lied, cheated, tortured, and killed. (This is also the same slave-owning “prophet” who also claimed the world is flat, sperm comes from the spinal cord, and drinking camel piss is healthy. He willfully allowed 30 men from the Al-Zut tribe to run a train on his backside. He married a 6 year old girl and the stress from being removed from her parents made her so ill that her hair fell out. He committed genocide, called for the assassination of his critics, gave his followers the green light to rape women, and a myriad of other evil, disgusting things. Yet somehow, Muslims claim that this degenerate madman is somehow superior to Jesus, who never did any of these rotten things.)

If these people renounce their terrible death cult and flee from its mindset of evil, then they should be welcome to join civilization. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a woman from Somalia, and she is a magnificent woman and an intellectual who despises the Islamic barbarism rampant in the failed excuse of a country she escaped from. She fights for human dignity and is a hero. But if immigrants come to colonize the UK (or other civilized countries) and wish to inflict their bellicose, barbaric, totalitarian, backwards death cult masquerading as a religion onto others, then Amelia represents all who wants to send them right back to the 3rd world hellhole they came from. Islam is an insult to humanity and does not belong in civilized society.

So this isn’t about “race” as the leftist, simpleton cowards always try to point to. This is all about the compatibility of cultures and the intellectual honesty to admit that some cultures are superior to others. And speaking as an immigrant myself, those who refuse to adapt and assimilate to the host country need to leave. I am sick of foreigners who constantly complain while refusing to follow the rules or learn the native language.

Protect England!
Say no to Halal! The animals are slowly tortured to death for Halal meat.
Viva la based Goth girl!
And the totalitarian socialists scream their hate.

アメリアって誰だか知ってる？ 馬鹿なイギリス政府が「Pathways」っていう「教育」ウェブサイトゲームを作った。これは、子供たち全員をイスラム教徒とインド人に置き換えようとする移民賛成の暴君的な政府に子供たちが従うことを促すプロパガンダゲームだ。

これはロールプレイングゲームだ。ユーザーはチャーリー（チャーリー・カーク？）という学生を操作し、道徳的な決断を下す。チャーリーの学校の友達はアメリアという紫色髪の毛のゴス系の少女だ。アメリアは愛国者であり、暴力的な移民からイギリスを守ろうとする国家主義者だ。

このゲームには、エリート支配階級を守るための明らかな偏見がある。ゲームはユーザーにアメリアを避けるよう促し、ポピュリズムが誤った考え方であることを示すことを目指している。インターネットのゲームコミュニティはこの全体主義的なプロパガンダを嘲笑し、アメリアに夢中になった。今やアメリアのミームブームが巻き起こっている。アメリアは悪役じゃない。彼女はかわいい反イスラム教のヒーローだ。アメリアは強く、愛らしく、そして愛国心に満ちている。

移民は良いことかもしれないが、相容れない文化を持ち込むのはひどいことだ。

馬鹿な左翼のやつらは、制御不能な怪物をうっかり生み出してしまった。アメリアはあいつらのものではなく、愛国者たちのもの。そして僕たちは彼女を愛している。アメリアは現在、美しいAI女性、あるいは日本のアニメキャラクターとして登場している。これはまさに驚異的で、彼女の人気は止まるところを知らない。

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Super neat-o Capcom and Namco B-Side Label merchandise at Yamashiroya in Ueno

B-Side Label stickers can be found in stores like Loft and Village Vanguard. When visiting Yamashiroya in Ueno, I found these great Capcom stickers by B-Side Label.

There were a lot of Namco B-Side Label stickers too!

Yeah, that’s a lot of stickers. They had some pin badges too. Check these out:

They had this other stuff, too. Brand new Famicom cartridges of Rockman, Pac-Man, and others. They looked like they’d been recently re-manufactured.