Author Archives: Stephan Sokolow

Disabling Controller Paks in Mupen64Plus Without a GUI

Posted on 2017-10-01 by Stephan Sokolow

If you have a Retrode and a copy of Chameleon Twist and you tried to play your dumped game in Mupen64Plus, you may have gotten stuck at this screen on startup. Depending on how your copy of Mupen64Plus is configured, … Continue reading →

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A simple “Update your Retrode on Linux” helper script

Posted on 2017-09-29 by Stephan Sokolow

A good rule of programming is, if you find something bothersome twice, and you can’t rule out having to do it again, automate it… I had to look up the steps to update my Retrode twice. In short, I wrote … Continue reading →

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Recommended “More-Than-Human Shinji” Evangelion fics

Posted on 2017-09-27 by Stephan Sokolow

Since I had to cut back last week, here’s another list to make up for it. One though that almost has to have occurred to anyone who’s seen the movie End of Evangelion is how the only way Shinji seems … Continue reading →

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Fanfiction Author Feature – dogbertcarrol

Posted on 2017-09-20 by Stephan Sokolow

I had a very busy week and didn’t quite get my planned review post done in time so, rather than leave you with something incomplete or nothing at all, I decided to try something that wouldn’t require me to re-read … Continue reading →

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Fanfiction – Hell is a Martial Artist

Posted on 2017-09-13 by Stephan Sokolow

Today’s feature is “Hell is a Martial Artist” by Ozzallos, a Ranma ½ – Oh My Goddess! crossover, which is also a “Ranma-chan fic”. Now, before you start to tune out at that last point, I want to point out … Continue reading →

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Fanfiction – A Black Comedy

Posted on 2017-09-06 by Stephan Sokolow

Trigger Warning: This Harry Potter fic contains a infrequent appearances of a house elf who talks like the old stereotypes of slavery-era black women and the setup for a joke in chapter 30 makes it clear that the resemblance is … Continue reading →

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Fanfiction – 0800-Rent-A-Hero

Posted on 2017-08-30 by Stephan Sokolow

While I’ve been too busy making progress on my programming projects this week to give you a themed list, I don’t want to leave you with no fanfic review at all, so, this week, let’s talk about 0800-Rent-A-Hero by brainthief. … Continue reading →

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