Month: August 2024

X owner Elon Musk’s war of works with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro caused me to reconsider my take that X’s format is conducive to bad content.

On how I used RetroArch to create a controller configuration for an NES-to-USB adapter and then copied the configuration files into Lutris’ Libretro directory.

An account of setting up an NES 2 controller with my Linux computer using a Mayflash NES-to-USB adapter to play Pokémon Red on an emulator.

Taking a look at the biggest age gaps in U.S. presidential election tickets between the presidential and vice presidential nominees.

If a Pokémon appears in 5% of wild Pokémon encounters, I should expect to see it once every 20 encounters or so. What if I told you that it was more like once in every 118 encounters?

The 2024 Olympics made me remember a note by the author of Midsummer Haze about writing the visual novel’s afterword during the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Good news about the availability and accessability of a freeware visual novel that we covered here at The New Leaf Journal.

For the second time in three months, I present a variation on our regular month-in-review post with a review of two months for the (free) price of one.