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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Category Archives: video games
Reclaim Arcade: If You Will It It is No Dream
While I was on vacation Tim shared the following images of his progress re-populating the Reclaim HQ with our 45+ old school video game cabinets. You see, back in March we had emptied the space in preparation for major construction … Continue reading
Mega Shark meets the USS Indianapolis
Tommaso and I are going live in 5 with his first video game dev log for his nascent shark video game developed in Unity https://t.co/GzpExUBnn6 #ds106tv pic.twitter.com/q8w5cLMAjG — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) July 10, 2020 Just like Captain Caveman and Jabberjaw, … Continue reading
TommasoTV: Unity or Unreal?
My youngest has fallen down the rabbit hole of video game development. And if you know anything about Tommy, you’ll know he’s locked-in. He has spent quite a bit of time watching Brackey’s tutorials on Youtube which teach game development, … Continue reading
Yars Revenge on ds106tv
Another Atari 2600 test run on ds106.tv, this time highlighting some Yars Revenge gameplay, which I learned was a creative re-working of the 1980 vector arcade game classic Star Castle. I didn’t remember how to play the game, so there … Continue reading
Atari 2600 on ds106tv: Video Pinball, Space Invaders, and Jungle Hunt
I’ve been playing around on ds106.tv for a couple of weeks now, and I wanted to be sure to archive some of those shenanigans on the bava. My earlier attempt to figure out Streamlabs OBS (before switching to OBS) featured … Continue reading
OpenEmu, RetroPie, c128d, and more cables than you can shake a stick at
Update: Thanks to Tim’s comment I was able to find a solution that will actually work and is significantly cheaper for capturing the Retropie output on the Mac for streaming. I am quickly realizing why ds106radio and ds106tv is good … Continue reading
Reclaim Arcade: Game Pick-ups, Living Rooms, Frosty Brew Thru, and Utah Arcades
My time back in Virginia, Utah and New York several weeks ago was jam-packed with work. In fact, my old bones are still recovering. Not only did I get a chance to attend the ever stellar UniversityAPI conference in Provo, … Continue reading
FIAB: Fix it Again, Bava
A couple of months ago I wrote a throw away post about fixing the loud fan issue with our PS4. It worked, the living room was once again inhabitable during game play, and I was feeling inordinately accomplished. Turns out … Continue reading
Is that a PS4 or a plane taking off in your living room?
We’ve had the PS4 for almost 5 years now, and its become somewhat of a catch-all entertainment center. Red Dead Redemption was my gateway drug, and the rest is history. One issue we’ve had, however, is the fan has gotten … Continue reading
A Couple of Unlikely Pinball Wizards
Yesterday evening I spent an hour remoting into Reclaim Arcade via Robot (we can officially call the space Reclaim Arcade now that CoWork is officially history) to watch Tim and John Heyn (of Heavy Metal Parking Lot fame!) deliver and … Continue reading