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GABZ/MLGreetings from the Grid! I’m Gaby or Gabz, although there are a few unofficial variations, mostly via email or from coffee shop baristas like Gabby, Gabi, Gabbz, and Gayb. I am an overtired dad of two girls, a photography and video game enthusiast, and sometimes, I even write about them. ThaGABZ/ML GABZ/ML Blog Photography Guestbook Greetings from the Grid! I’m Gaby or Gabz, although there are a few unofficial variations, mostly via email or from coffee shop baristas like Gabby, Gabi, Gabbz, and Gayb. I am an overtired dad of two girls, a photography and video game enthusiast, and sometimes, I even write about them. Thank you for stopping by and make sure to say hi, and or sign my Guestbook! Gabz plays Pokémon Hello! It’s me, Gabz! Since last November, I have found a brand-new obsession, Retro Gaming. At the time, all I wanted was a way to play a few games that I did not have the original hardware for. So, all I needed was a system to play all of my legal game backups. For which I am very glad I did back them up since all my originals were destroyed in a fire… After some research and trial and error, I ended up with the best system to emulate my games, the Trimui Brick, which in my opinion, which is correct and proven by science, is the best retro handheld out there, so far. Continue reading… Something I liked Video Games April 4, 2025 Which one is it? This is something that comes to mind almost every morning when I start, for whatever reason, beating myself up about not being good at life. Not that life sucks bad, but feeling like I don’t do particularly well. As an adult, I’ve been diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and some degree of ADHD. That said, as someone born in the 80s, growing up where being vulnerable and expressing our feelings, anxiety, and depression were seen as signs of weakness, or so I was led to believe for the longest time, I have an internal battle about it. Continue reading… Reflections April 3, 2025 Five Bullets Imagine this! For over 15 years, you have worked for your government, contributing and doing your part. You are proud of your work and of what you do, and you are proud to say, “I am privileged to work for the Federal Government.” Fast forward to 2025. Now you are scared. You feel attacked.  How are you supposed to do your best at your job when you don’t know what they are gonna do to it next week? What if you don’t turn in your 5 bullets at the end of the week? What if you have just been at the job for less than a year? Imagine that. Journal Reflections February 26, 2025 Snow day stamps Journal February 7, 2025 New Typeface and then some. Because my mind works mysteriously, plus my tinkering nature, today, I went on a quest to find the “perfect” typeface. By that I mean something different from what I had because it was boring. I posed the question on Mastodon and got quite a few nice recommendations, thank you all for that, I appreciate every one of you. Thank you! Fellow Pika user mb, as he calls himself around these spaces, recommended “Victor Mono” which I really, really liked. He even had a post in which he shared his setup and, as a great writer once said, steal like an artist. And I did, ish. I went to the google fonts and snagged the font from there. However, for reasons that puzzled me for at least an hour and ended up being a stupid thing, I could not get it to work on my site. Continue reading… Reflections Something I liked January 23, 2025 I got a Brick! Well, hello, welcome. Please grab a snack and a drink and let me tell you a “story”. I did a thing, or rather, I got a new thing. With my newfound love obsession that it is retro gaming and everything that it entails, it is no surprise that my eyes and ears are always opened to anything shiny and new, as we all are whether is camera gear, watches, or whatever tickles your fancy. I still blame Andy! Continue reading… Something I liked Video Games January 15, 2025 Blog Question Challenge 2025 And so, I was tagged by Kyle… Why did you start blogging in the first place? Short answer, because I have lots in my mind! 🙃 I started blogging earnestly around 2016-2017, but I had already been writing stuff before then, but only in my journaling app, Day One.  I love blogging, I love sharing the things I enjoy, my passions, and all my feelings, and rants. Continue reading… Blog Challenge January 14, 2025 The Best Soundtracks Today I tooted (hehe, tooted) on the Mastodons there, that of all of The Fast and Furious movies, The Very First and Tokyo Drift have the best soundtracks. Best is a big word, I probably should have said memorable. Or is it memorable what makes them the best?  This took me down a mental rabbit hole and recounted what other soundtracks, specifically movies, are memorable to me. Continue reading… music Random January 9, 2025 My 2024 GOTY list and then some. It would seem like I might be late to the party when I talk about the top games I played in 2024, but it is early enough in the year that I can still swing it. Plus I know my blogging has been lacking a bit the past few months and there’s a good reason for that. I think. More on that later. Maybe. Like in previous years, I probably did a poor job at tracking what I have played, and like in previous years, I’m just going to go by whichever games I blogged about or stoke out and can remember even if I did not blog about them. That is to say that these are not the only games I played but are the ones documented and can’t and wont remember anything else because I have the memory of an ant. Therefore, I am going to try to do a better job this year. How? Well, not sure about that, yet. I am thinking of using Backloggd, will see if that sticks. Continue reading… GOTY Something I liked Video Games January 7, 2025 DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS Reggaetón super-star Bad Bunny released his latest album, DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, on Three King’s Eve, Sunday, which I have been listening to on repeat since. And with it, a Short Film, a few days before. I didn’t know or find out about it until it came across my feed today.  Continue reading… Something I liked January 6, 2025 Pokemon Seaglass Pokémon Emerald Seaglass is one of the many, many-many fan-made ROM hacks I have come across one way or another that are installed in my beloved Anbernic  RG40XXV. At its core, it is just Pokémon Emerald with a Generation 2 Pokémon games (Gold, Silver, Crystal) look. The sprites are designed in a Game Boy Color (GBC) style, redone environments , and battle backgrounds.   Continue reading… Something I liked Video Games January 4, 2025 A penny-pinching data hoarder. Today, while browsing my YouTube recommendations feed, I stumbled upon this video. While I was playing in the background, one part stuck a cord: a somewhat internal monologue from the YouTuber that made me feel seen or almost called out. Continue reading… Reflections Video Games December 23, 2024 The Return of The King This morning, like every morning, and as most of us do first thing, I was browsing the internet timelines, I think it was Threads. When I stumbled upon a “thread” that said that The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King came out 21 years ago, today or around. How accurate that is, I am not sure, it came out of Threads, lol. That said, my first thought was, damn! My second was, DAMN, my lady and I have been dating for that long! Continue reading… Journal Reflections December 17, 2024 My backlog just got bigger. So, as you or may not know, I have recently dabbled into the world of Retro Gaming, as it were, and, oh boy! My backlog just got even bigger! I think I am not alone when I say that I always had a long list of unfinished games, or just flat out not even started. There’s always something else, something, new, something old that we want to reexperience, or things that are nostalgic that we may have missed. And, if you are like me, someone who has multiple consoles or ways to play vidya games plus ADHD, well, even worse. Continue reading… Journal Video Games December 10, 2024 A game I have been enjoying. So, with my new-found obsession, that is retro gaming, one rabbit hole I have gone down recently is ROM-Hacks, specifically Pokémon’s. And god, there are thousands of them. I have watched every YouTube video possible (that’s a lie, there are too many but have watched a bunch), read as many websites, and am in 4 different Pokémon ROM hacks Discord channels. ROM hacks are extremely intriguing to me as basically they take one of the already existing games as its base and build upon it, a lot of time is from Pokémon FireRed. There are other games I have found in the wild like Pokémon Reborn, which is not a ROM hack per se, I think, I mean this one is made from the ground-up. Continue reading… Journal Video Games November 29, 2024 Something I liked. GUYS!!  I gotta share this with you all! Sixteen days ago, at least at the time of this typing, I got a new gaming device, the Anbernic RG40XXV. The Anbernic RG40XXV The device goes for about 65 USD on their website. I got it from Amazon, though. I did not want to wait for it to come from China, however, it cost me about 15 USD more, and last I checked, it had gone up in price on Amazon for about another 15 USD. The reason I wanted to get something like this, was pure nostalgia. Not too long ago I blogged about it. When it comes to “Retro Gaming”, there are so many games I never got to play or some that I would love to revisit. I never owned a Gameboy Color, or Game Boy Advanced, and if you have played your fair share of video games, you know there are a few gems in those systems. Even on the SNES, I only played a handful of games when I owned it, especially RPGs, I did not get into RPG games until the Nintendo DS. Continue reading… Something I liked Video Games November 20, 2024 We are just coping. misu - the pangs of your sadness will pass as your senses will rise Normally, when I link to a blog post, I have a piece of it to quote. On this one, however, I would have to quote the whole thing. I just felt the need to share it. I find it fascinating when I read something, and feelings swirl in my chest because, for whatever reason, words sometimes have a way into your soul, and this is why I think blogging your heart out is so powerful. Also, I feel like, especially in the times we are going through this week, blogging our feelings is a way to cope. So please, don’t get mad if you see many posts with grievances in the days to come in your RSS feed or any feed, we are just coping. Journal Reflections November 8, 2024 What’s in my NOW? Have any of you heard of What's in my NOW? Each week one interesting person shares the tangible and invisible things that are influencing the NOW — 3 physical, 2 digital, and 1 invisible. I am assuming that everyone knows about it and that I have been living under a bolder and I am late to the party. Inspired by it, what’s in my mind now? The Anbernic, Sunglasses, iPhone 16 Continue reading… Blog November 7, 2024 I don’t feel like it. Evan Boehs - We showed up. We fought. We lost. I’m scared. I won’t lie. The worst scenarios keep flashing through my mind. You and me both. It is 2016 all over for me again, with one difference. In 2016 my first thought was, I am glad Marley looks white, but I did not know any better. Yes, she looks white but she’s a woman, and I fear for her rights, and Luna’s too. Yes, she’s only 8-years-old and and Luna soon-to-be 6, and they don’t know what’s going on. Some things may not affect them in the immediate future, but who knows about in a not so distant one, down the road, when they comes to age. I fear for the minority communities. I fear that hateful people may feel entitled to do hateful things without fear of consequences.  I hope I am just reading too much into it, overthinking it, as tend to do with everything, but I cannot shake the the feeling.  Yes, I am scared. I am sad. I am disappointed. I am gutted. We should be strong and move forward, but today, I don’t feel like it. Journal Reflections November 6, 2024 The other side (I am terrified). If there is a thing I have been putting effort into these past few years, is to not just buy into the narrative that only suits my beliefs because, let’s be honest, there isn’t — or shouldn’t — be just one. It bothers me knowing that some people would follow, blindly, one narrative, one point of view, and I have been guilty of that. So instead of writing off everyone else who does not agree with my views and beliefs, instead, I have been trying to “listen” to the other side of things. Trying to understand why some folks think the way they think or believe in what they believe, even if, to me, and my overall social bubble, these people are “wrong”. In many ways, I feel like am more centrist than I am liberal, but I sway on certain topics. Some others are black and white, for me, but many others do have a shade of gray and every view deserves a discussion, a healthy one, and we can always agree to disagree. The reality, though, is that we are divided, in very extreme ways and we no longer know how to have a healthy discussion. Sometimes we are not even willing to listen. Sometimes, we just write off people if they do not align with our views or strong beliefs. I see it, every day, I have fallen victim to it. And if we don’t align then one of us is wrong by default. All that said, as much as I try, and god knows I try, there are a few things that I just can’t understand. Some things are just — or should be — common sense, common decency, and a sense of what a decent human being should be. And in this political climate in which we find ourselves, it is very hard to be somewhat impartial and understanding when common sense and decency have been thrown out the window. Which makes trying to understand, almost impossible. When I see the things I see when I read the things I read, and it triggers me, it triggers me so bad, and for a few seconds I feel rage, I feel sadness, I want to yell at someone, punch someone, make it all go away, then cry.  I have been dreading this week. I am scared of this week. I am terrified. Journal Reflections November 4, 2024 previous1234567next Subscribe via RSS RSSMastodon • Bluesky • Letterboxd • Backloggd • GlassA Weblog by Gabz • 2017-2025 PIKAenenhttps://gabz.blog

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