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thomaswm

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Nerd culture, geek pride, video games, film, music, photography, cyber security. (My header photo is of the admirable and talented Tom Waits playing a dude named Rex Blau as featured in Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza.) 🍁

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thomaswm, to photography
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I’ve been walking by this window for a few weeks now. Taken with my cell phone camera.

thomaswm, to movies
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Caffè Latte Companion — A Saturday morning is never complete without it.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400

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@vga256 Thank you, friend! Huge fan of AE-1 and AE-1 Program cameras. I'm sorry I don't do a better job of documenting which lens I use. It could have been the kit New FD 50mm f/1.8 or New FD 85mm f/1.8 but I definitely used a Vivitar +4 close-up macro filter.

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@vga256 Here’s the set I have, but it’s currently unavailable on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Vivitar-VIV-CL-52-Close-Up-52mm-Black/dp/B004E54LBQ. Looks to be another option: https://www.amazon.ca/Vivitar-Close-Up-Filter-Diopters-Magnification/dp/B001ANXRQA/

thomaswm, to gamedev
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Here's the result of a little Picotron experiment tonight. (Manually re-created the sprites.) Of note, all the sprites use the default palette, with the exception of Locke's hair. I had to set a customized colour to match his SNES sprite since the other colours I tried weren't quite right. In the years to come, I bet we're going to see some very impressive Picotron carts.

#Retro #Pico8 #Picotron #GameDev #PixelArt #Games #VideoGames #Demoscene #Zelda #Link #FinalFantasy #Locke #RetroGaming

A small Picotron scene. Link, from The Legend of the Zelda: A Link to the Past crudely moves around a barren map, with a few stone, bush, and flower sprites scattered about. Locke from Final Fantasy VI makes an appearance, but he is just standing around looking all cool.

thomaswm, to photography
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Ghostly Wheel — Here's a self-developed photo from a little while ago, taken around Oct 22. I was looking through film negatives tonight and this one popped out as somewhat interesting to me. I recall thinking back then it was nothing special, but I felt it was worth another look so I popped it in the scanner.

📷 Canon AE-1
🎞️ Ilford Delta 100

vga256, (edited ) to photography
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📷 Canon 5Dmk2
#silentSunday #photography

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@vga256 Nice set. 📸

thomaswm,
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@vga256 That cattail photo, though. 👌

thomaswm, to movies
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A Study of Light and Leaf

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400

Daojoan, to random
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I’m looking for pen recommendations.

I found the Baronfig pens remarkably disappointing. I want something beautiful but simple that doesn’t require a mortgage to buy.

thomaswm,
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@Daojoan I'm a fan of the Cross Click pen. Refillable with ballpoint or gel rollerball. https://www.cross.com/cr_en_us/at0622-121

thomaswm, to photography
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Loose Leaf Tea — A photograph as a result of experimenting with different angles.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400

thomaswm,
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@Gargron Thank you! I'm afraid I don't know exactly, I purchased it last year so I don't have the original packaging. However, if I were to take a guess, I'd say the USA based on this online listing: https://www.londondrugs.com/fujifilm-400-35mm-color-film---36-exposures/L9289935.html. The last photo of the listing says "Made in USA".

thomaswm,
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@Gargron @tomjacob Hand rolled white jasmine tea, Chinese tradition. Highly recommended!

vga256, to random
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thank you so much @thomaswm who hooked me up with his buddy kevin, who was going to toss these amazing classics from his childhood

they now have a happy new home :D

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@vga256 Woohoo!

Likewise, to photography
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What’s a book you’d like to read next year, either a newly published book in 2024 or a book that you didn’t get to this year?

I’ll start:

The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes (2024 pub. date) & A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (not new 😉).
@bookstodon

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@Likewise @bookstodon Punk Paradox: A Memoir by (Dr.) Greg Graffin. Published in 2022.

thomaswm, to DOOM
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Happy Birthday Doom! Released 30 years ago on Dec. 10, '93. My favourite Doom story? In high school, the nerdier folk hung out in the PC lab because it was quiet and we could get away with playing 4-player deathmatches on our Novell Netware IPX network. During a heated fragfest, our teacher walked in on us. Most of us quit in time, so as not to get caught. Poor Ian didn't realize that we all left. The teacher peered at his screen, "Ian! You shouldn't be doing that."

thomaswm, to space
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A few weeks ago I posted my version of a colour corrected image of the Blue Marble. Back again, this time with a little animation showing the before/atfter.

Image Credit: NASA

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=AS17&roll=148&frame=22727

#NASA #Space #BlueMarble #Astronomy #Photography #Earth #Planet

An animated GIF of the raw Blue Marble image (not colour corrected) of Earth taken by NASA photographers, and an colour correct version, using wipe effects.

Likewise, to books
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Bad book covers do such a disservice. For a pastime that exists mainly in the mind, an off-putting cover has the power to push away even the most literary of lovers. As much as I love books, when I want to buy a book, if the cover is terrible, I won’t. Books are works of art-starting with cover & ending with the story, & I want the whole, beautiful picture. 📚
#books #read #bookcover #fediverse @bookstodon

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@Likewise @bookstodon I saw this cover recently at a used book store, blew me away and I stared for a good few minutes.

thomaswm, to photography
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The Art Gallery of Alberta is an abstract accolade.

📷 Canon AE-1
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400

thomaswm, to photography
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Here's a curious fellow poking its head in and posing for a Kodak moment. Taken in August 2021 at Fort Edmonton Park.

📷 Canon AE-1
🎞️ Kodak Tri-X 400 B&W

#35mm #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #FilmPhotography #Kodak #Horses #Horse #Stable #BelieveInFilm #AnalogPhotography #Edmonton #Alberta #Canada

thomaswm, to FinalFantasy
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Final Fantasy IX – 23 years after its release here in North America, I can now proudly say with pleasure that finished it earlier this week. I first fired up FFIX this past summer on a warm late August evening. After pulling the game out of a box from the basement and copying the four discs to my PC, I loaded them into the RetroArch emulator equipped with the Beetle PSX core. 1/

#FFIX #RPG #VideoGames #FinalFantasy #FinalFantasyIX #PlayStation #Retro #RetroGaming #SquareEnix #Gaming

thomaswm,
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For me, it was such a trip from Alexandria and Mist Continent through to the end. Zidane, Princess Garnet, Steiner, Vivi – these are all characters that entered the RPG zeitgeist and never really left. Although I never played the game when it came out, I knew who the heroes were but I didn't know who they were – their stories, motivations, backgrounds, and traits were unknown to me. To experience this game for the first time... whew, what a feeling. 3/

thomaswm,
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Allow me to wax nostalgic for a moment. In my youth, our family moved around Canada from province to province, chasing the inevitably-to-be-shut-down coal mines where Dad worked at. In the mid-nineties we lived in Grande Cache, Alberta. This town was formative for me in a big way – there was not a lot to do, so my friends and I visited other worlds via PC and console gaming, dial-up internet, reading books, listening to music, and watching movies. 4/

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These are hobbies I still enjoy today as an aging man in his forties. (With zippier 1Gbps cable replacing the squelching sound of dial-up.) When I first regularly (read: daily) chatted with my online friends using IRC, you'd find me in the channel on DALnet. Friends like Cyan, Grimp, Crono, and Kufat, we loved SquareSoft RPGs, especially the Final Fantasy series. 5/

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We liked other games as well, but was a spot for us to obsess over our favourite SNES and PlayStation characters: Cecil, Rosa, Celes, Locke, Cloud, Aerith. Oh, and I remember (and would gladly forget if I could) the flame wars around the whole Aeris/Aerith English/Japanese name controversy – people got nasty and were very opinionated. 6/

vga256, to random
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sometimes i think 1992 might have been peak 90s

thank you radio shack 🙏

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@vga256 Oh, what a difference the AdLib made.

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