Happy 2026: No I Am Not Dead Yet

    Greetings to the interwebs, its the One-Eyed Nerd here again. I finally got some time to well post something here. Now I had just found out that the service I used for the chatbox, is well having some internal issues. Since I read the post the dev of Chattable had made, stating that DDOS attacks has crippled the platform, that means that the services might not be up of sorts. If you would like to read the post, the statement will be posted at the end of this post.

    This now means I am gonna have to find a new one, and that is going to be fun. On the matter of the Oasis, however everything will be the same. Since it is now 2026 I will try to post here more and I might be able to get a set of hands here as well to help with that. MIGHT is the keyword. Other then that this is a short update and here to 2026. Oh and 3 years already? Damn how times flys.

    Now here is Don’t Bury Me...I’m Still Not Dead Yet by Riverboat Gamblers from their 2006 album To The Confusion Of Our Enemies. This is the One-Eyed Nerd signing off and saying good night.  

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Holy Formatting Batman!!! Yeah I have no idea what happened up there. ¯\(ツ)/¯

The Oasis Double Shot Weekend: Keeping The 2000s Alive, College , And A Semester With The SEGA Dreamcast

    Greetings to the interwebs, its the One-Eyed Nerd here again and I been wanting to talk about this and well here it is. So to start this, think about your stereotype of a college student living arrangement. Now go back to about say 2009ish, and you got the best idea on how I am living. An old Vizio TV, broken Xbox 360, Mid 90s Bose radio, an Ispiron 3668 Dell PC, VA1 Dreamcast, one of them VHS/DVD combo player things, and a tower of blank CDs. Throw in some Twinkies and ramen noddles and you have a party.

    Yes it a hell of a way to live but it works for college, but you cant ask for anything better in my humble opinion. It is funny to think that it is the same story if you look at it from different years, it the rite of passage for every college student to go through. Sit back on a Friday night, turn on the whatever system and get onto the internet superhighway, log onto Quake and get some frags under your belt. That is what I feel is the beauty of the Dreamcast in a way, it is the perfect system for college in my opinion depending on who you are.

    Now your millage is going to vary as well, If you are used to arcades and those style of games then it is perfect. I look at the Dreamcast as a what if case, an if everything went good for SEGA what could of happened? Not to forget the built in dial up modem that can still hook up to now private ran severs. Speaking of online gaming there is something really for everyone from the sports, MMOs with Pantasy Star Online, and the best of PC shooters with Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament. Then you look over to the east and the selection gets better with most of Capcom’s fighters that had online built in for multiplayer matches. Throw in all the arcade ports from all the big names at that time, and the Dreamcast looked unstoppable.

    Sure it did not last long on the market once the PS2 came out and drove the stake into the Dreamcast, but I do feel it looks pretty decent on a 720p screen and hey it had VGA output so there is that. I feel I should do a more informal post about why I love SEGA’s little white mechanical JFK some time in the future. Alright that that will be it for right now about the Dreamcast, I do want to touch on about the whole living like it’s the 2000s.

    It is the idea of simpler living and not having as much distractions, almost like making this space where your mental thinking is more clear. This idea of digital minimalism of cutting back on technology. I feel a benefit is less dependence on the mobile phone, and more utilization of the desktop and improving troubleshooting skills as well. I will at some point talk on this at length it’s own post.

    Well time to cut the chase short then. This is all I got for this weekend folks, now here is out ending tradition. Here is Live Like There’s No Tomorrow By Slaughter from their 1995 album Fear No Evil. I will see you folks around like every post, this is the One-Eyed Nerd signing off and saying good night.

Happy Few Days Late One Year Anniversary to the Oasis!!!! And Im Still Stuck In The Past

    Greetings to the interwebs, its the One-Eyed Nerd here again, and damn it is now 2025. Looking back at the year it has been a wild one but a good one. I in truth would never thought of sitting here celebrating a one year now in the bag of some random blog I shot up last year. Now yes it turned more into a digital diary then a blog of me just talking about random ass shit that really don’t matter, but hey nice to have an outlet. So I been having some ideas and it been a pain in ass to get working such as the guestbook, that you can see on the side (Or not if I deleted it because it did not work). Now most people would just say ”Just get on X and you can have all the people you want listening and sniffing your own farts”.

    Now to that I say, I don’t because I am stubborn and there is to many people not to mention it sounds more a damn hen house with someone who left the TV on that’s blasting the View on a 24 hour loop. Yes I could make an account to market this place, then say something that pisses someone off and get doxed. Now sure that was an extreme example, but you never know and I don’t have as much cool shit to tinker with on social media. On Twitter you cant have GIFs everywhere or have an embedded jukebox that can play music videos from YouTube. I wonder if I could have Flash here oh wait that was killed off. (Why don’t we have the cool stuff anymore?)

    That’s what I feel keeps coming up, there is no freedom on the big sites. It all sanitized to hell and back with no user control. But that’s life I guess, it starts as a small town with a side of anarchy and lax rules then everyone and their corporate bootlickers move in and you know the rest. (Insert the Irony of a blog on Google’s servers) If I heard right MySpace had more freedom then the sites nowadays. Let not forget sites are not made for the desktop anymore. What happened to that anyway? In the 2000s there was a computer in almost every home in the USA, and how to use it was taught in schools. Now it all overpriced phones that get this, cost more then a high end PC. How the hell did that happened?

    Anyway how about some good news, I found a good idea for a sort of chat box thing, and I could start up a BBS forum of sorts or a IRC. Not sure if it would be used but hey a nerd can dream. Other then that, it should be it so let’s end it here with our tradition. Here is Congratulation Song By Corrosion Of Conformity off their 2000s album America's Volume Dealer. Well that's all folks until next time, this is the One-Eyed Nerd signing off. 

 

 

 

Everyone is on Digital Speed and The Idea of The Digital Fun House Mirror

    Greetings to the interwebs, it’s the One-Eyed Nerd here again. It is that time of year again with the weather getting cold with December on it’s way and to a New Year as well. Speaking of New Years, it is crazy that it is about to be 2025, isn’t that something? All them old movies and shows from years ago that depicted 2025 as the future with flying cars and people replacing their brains with a cyborg implants and fake memories, until some hacker hacks into them and they find out it is all fake. Wait a second this seems familiar but from where hmm? 

    Well it will come to me at some point, but that got me thinking from watching old Sci-Fi flicks and you would think that we could never get there, you then look after a few years have passed you by and there it is. All my life I heard, "when you get older life gets slower",well I think it's the opposite or is it? Now I feel it depends but here in the 21st century I do feel time seems to fly by faster because we are always hooked to something. No I'm not saying it’s the Internet's fault but I want to explain why I do blame our culture. 

    To elaborate on this, look at how people act nowadays. There used to be a subculture or counter culture, from the hippies and punks to weebs and emos, but most of it was that generation's rebellion. However looking onto the generation now with social media, and something start to rear it’s ugly face. Most of the time each generation has about one of two sub cultures or counter cultures that last around a decade or however long. But with the new generation you barely see that to a point it seems a new subculture is made each year and the old one dies out like it was nothing, or in a week it seems sometimes. With a culture that is on overdrive 24/7 is makes since to think people are on speed, or it is just a small digital Fun House Mirror?

    If you look at the, let’s call it the Fun House Mirror Culture, everything seem over exaggerated to an extreme degree. For example most social media that involves a more visual look into someone’s life like Facebook on Instagram. On these platforms, you are not going to see reality but reality ran through many filters to make it look like something it is not. Add in a system of mass production and it makes the world seem like it is on turbo all the time.

    Lets talk about fads for a sec. So look at all the fads of the past years and or what was popular on the web, and see how in that same time it went out like a honeysuckle. It smells great, it looks divine, and the taste is rich as gold, then nothing. Just like that, it is over right as you set your eye on it, sort of like disco (But disco is 50 times better then any fad of the last few years). Now take any fad and run it through the fun house mirror, now add the clown who keeps saying,"It is real, all of what you see is real, everything is like this, you are looking at "real life"." The way the internet warps what is real to push ideas, make bank off it, then add on the fads with diminishing rates, that changes every week, and you are running through that fun house on speed, with the suits, and influencers that look more like clowns, trying to sell you on the next big thing.

    So you have what seems to be an endless hall at this point, one that never ends or so that what they want you to think..You don't have to play the game and get sucked in nor do you have to have your prospective on life distorted because the Internet is telling you this is the "real life". If you are running around thinking the world is ending and can't escape that endless hallway, turn around and go the way you came. Now the world may not be as well, calm most of the time, but it sure as hell is better then krusty and his hall of misery loving clowns. At this point it is better to leave the park entirety. To quote Bender from Futurama "I'm going to build my own theme park! With blackjack! And hookers! You know what -forget the park!" (That's a joke son, I say that's a joke)

    Alright time to end it here before this thing start to look like a damned APA paper. That is all I got folks, now to end it here with the Oasis favorite thing, some good solid gold music. Here is Time Marches On by Tracy Lawrence from his 1996 album of the same name. (the 2004 remaster because I could not just find the original song in audio) This is the One-Eyed Nerd saying good night and raise your red solo cup to a brand new year. This is the One-Eyed Nerd signing off, and see you in the next year, So Long Space Cowboy.

 

Introducing O.E.N Rambles: Hey It Adds More Posts To The Oasis

    Greetings to the interwebs, its the One-Eyed Nerd here again. Now yes this place is looking more like a ghost town because well I might have devoured more then I could chew with the long form blog posts here. This in turn came into the idea of the rambles, more short form posts, that I can type out without overthinking them. Now idea of this blog was that I wanted to post more and grow it to say form a community around it. That was great on paper and if it was the still early 2000s, then it could work. Unfortunately, the landscape has changed for a lack of a better word. I guess most people would go to social media and post whatever idea comes to their head, hit post, then it is already out there for the masses.

    Let’s take for example a small post on a blog vs mainstream social media. Here you make the post, check for spelling and grammar as that matters more. Now yes you do have more control and if you know HTML and CSS, then you can waste a day just with formatting and experimenting alone. Compare that to social media on the other hand. You have a word limit depending on the platform, not counting your freedom is limited as in how your post can look, and you might have to deal with some form of moderation. Now here come a major issue with a blog. You have to work to get it seen.

    Now you be thinking, "But the Internet is what everyone uses nowadays, its filled to the brim, someone will see it." To that I say here is a question for you. Where are the people at exactly? If you said any of the big social media platforms then congratulations because I bet you got here from social media. If you got here by word of mouth, or hell even a damn search engine then I must of hit the big time then.

    To clarify, sure I have my opinions on the modern internet, but that could be it own ramble or technically a rant. It is wild to think just how huge the web is now, but has anyone notice it don't seem to lead to anywhere cool? Sure if you search for say, how to replace a oil pan in a Datsun 380z, you will get Youtube videos or old car forums, but that would make sense, because it is a niche interest. A regular user will get 1,000s of the same damn title of a website headline with tiny changes to set them apart. You know the ones I am talking about, and don't get me started on recipe websites or god forbid gaming news.

    Well that's all folks for tonight and hey for shits and giggles lets play a game. I created a few (totally real) headlines for the top site on the internet, lets see if you been on the web long enough to pick them out. Post the reference and the site down in the comment, I want to see if people can get it. This is the One-Eyed Nerd saying good night and don't take the internet too serious, it not the most accurate depiction of real life. Now here is I Love My Computer from Bad Religion's 2000 album, The New America.

 O.E.N Presents: Click Out That Click Bait.

"Top 10 ways to Boil an egg, You Never Known About Number 5."

"Call of Duty is Doing What? Find Out in The New Teaser For Call of Duty 156."

"Fact Checking the Conspiracy That the X Files is Real."

"Idiocracy Could Happen in Real Life, Here's What to Know."

"Demonic Invasion on Mar's Military Base: It's [ Insert Name Here ]'s Fault."

"Zeon Is The Good Guys: Expert Says."

"The X-Virus is an Biological Weapon (And That's a Good Thing)."

"How to Make a Pig in a Blanket, After you read my Long and Boring Ass life story About my Family Tree and how it Somehow Relates to Making a Pig in a Blanket." 

And much more on Click Out That Click Bait. 

 

The Joys of Arcade Racers

    Greetings to the interwebs its the One-Eyed Nerd here again, and spring is now upon us. Time to get outside, hangout with friends, the family, hit a few thrift stores that hopeful are not overpricing their stuff, and hit an arcade and sit down for a friendly competition at the classics. It is funny to look back on growing up in the 2000s as I got to experience things that I don't think will ever happen again. Set before the second mainstream internet blowup (The Smartphone) and the early rise of the high definition TV, there still was a use for analog and that included hangout spots even at that time included the decaying arcade scene.

     Now during this time, I cut my teeth on machines that now looking back on were some of the top of line during that time. My earliest memory that I can think of with playing an arcade machine is NASCAR Arcade, that was developed by Sega in the 2000s when EA owned the NASCAR license. Now granted I don't remember if it was good or not and I have never seen one in person ever since. Some more I remember was mobile ports back in the 2010s like Namco making Ridge Racer for the phones and Sega porting a faithful port of Crazy Taxi to the small screen.

    Now yes we are talking about mobile games here that were free with ads and DLC to make their money back, but at it’s core they are great games. Go and look at the 100 best selling arcade racing games and you will see the same developers behind them, teams made up of some of the greatest coders, musicians, and artists that made theses teams and to top it off, most of the ideas was them getting creative and not rehashing what has already been done. From Hydro Thunder with boats with rocket engines on the back of them and waterways that make no sense, Project Gotham Racing with real city's that were scanned in real life and an in game radio stations that felt real as you raced around and its gameplay loop that prioritizes driving with style and leading then just having the best race line. Burnout incorporating reckless driving and being a total lunatic on the road to gain boost and take out your opponents was revolutionary, not even mention Road Rage was well a game mode. Daytona USA was the SEGA of Japan’s take on a redneck classic.

    The rabbit hole just keeps on giving and there are years and years of games as well as ones that are still being made to this day. Now there is no way to say everything I want to in one post, it will take going to have each game having their own post. So I will end it here then, as my final word is that the level of creativity and skill to have to make a game that has to be easy for people to play and hard but rewarding to master is impressive, and on top of that creating long lasting legacy’s that are still around. Here to the classics and the newcomers, this is the One-Eyed Nerd saying good night and signing off.

The Mainstream Trap And Standing Against the Grain: A Introspective

    Greeting's again to the Interweb, It's The One Eyed Nerd here with another, well let me rephrase that, more like the first real post not unless you count the greeting as one. Now this thought has been with me for a while and if you read the title of this post then you might have a good idea about what this is going to be about, and today’s topic is more to get my thoughts out on the younger generation and to myself. Before I start no this is not....

 

    This is more of an introspective on myself more then a, “Here is the key to this generation’s way of well doing anything”. To begin in earnest, the way I was raised plays a role in this and for my parents not getting me onto social media (Thank the Lord for that) oh and those PSA about internet safety they played in schools that scared the students, well me shitless. I swear some of them were more like horror films than PSAs. I got to find the one they played and share it here it is something. So back to the topic on point, growing up in the early 2000s was something, now sure I heard and remembered some of the shit that happened but It didn't feel like it was everywhere back then, now yes I was still a child but the later part of my generation knows about everything nowadays and not in the good way.

    Now comes the 2010s well 2015 and later. During this time two things happened, one was my interest into modding and retro gaming and number two, good ole number two. Politics, social media, later on high school and the thing that shall not be named, now lets start with politics. One thing I still kick myself about these years later was I should of never gotten into it at that time in life. I was not mentally prepared for it, Hell it was my early teen years in middle school for crying our loud. Look when you are a teenager, you are dumb, that's the truth, you are stupid, young, immature, and a know it all (ok I still am to this day but that's another subject for another time) and here I am worrying myself to death about who to vote for, what is going to happen in the future, and I couldn't even drive. In yes middle school, let me repeat that in middle school, all this started in middle school, no not high school but in middle school. So at this time I was a junkie in politics, always reading and listening and I had no idea what the real world was like, only what the talking heads said and from the family (no this is not a jab at them).

    So high school rolls around and it is the same old story, teenage angst, a lot of embarrassment of trying to fit in, you name it, and add on top of it, the insanity of politics. Now around this time most of my generation is on social media well actuary this happen back in middle school, but let’s say I took the old way around, I'm talking about theses...

  

    Yes that is an old school forum and yes I am a sucker for old technology. Around this time I looked for what I liked with music, TV shows, video games, animation, and car culture (oh the joys of being a nerd). During this time most of what I came to enjoy ended up being old stuff and this...

    Then 2020 hit and man this was not what I expected, not at all. Before we hit this uhh interesting time, lets take two years off for a second. Remembered how I mention I wish I would of never gotten into politics? Well this powder keg aka me at this time and a teacher, butt heads hard, extremely hard. Two years of the same shit at the same time about you guessed it, and I got the best analogy for it, as it was like that prank where light a bag of crap on fire and leave it at someone’s doorstep, but replace it with politics and falling for it every single time for two years. Now you got the idea, so fast forward to 2020. Lock downs and online education and not being able to see the people you went to school with and that bag of crap now is taken up to 11. During this time I mostly hanged around with the great folks on a forum and trenched on, watching so much of The Simpsons and I mean way too much of The Simpsons. The next year passes on and I encounter an old friend called darkness and I mean it in the literal sense and Ironically on Halloween of all times. Weeks pass and it all works out but coming out of that unscathed taught me something. Life is way to short to waste on bullshit like keeping up with what is hip at the present time.

    

    Here is to what life brings in all of its uncertainty's, and to my fellow peers in this generation and to the next, take some time to find yourself and not just what the mainstream thinks you need to be. No I'm not saying be a hipster and look down on people who like to chase the next golden egg, but to not let the masses rule your judgment and be a wise consumer. Because hey you only live once, why waste it on misery and people’s opinions. This is the One Eyed Nerd saying good night and signing off.

 

A Greeting to the Interweb

    Greetings programs, welcome to a new age of the interweb. One full of hatefulness and people on soapboxes trying to be the next street preacher of information that they think is facts but is just their opinions, but they want you to accept as facts anyway and no is not an answer. A new era where nothing is real and everyone's truth is their truth, a place were people want you dead just for shitposting or having an opinion on a topic then that they do not want to hear. A time in history that would make Edger Allen Poe seem like Aristotle. A new world of....

    Wait a cotton picken second now, what is this the schizophrenic nerd rants about society blog now. It is funny to think about just how caught up we get in the littlest things nowadays to a point where we lose ourselves, and everyone starts sounding like damn Light Yagama. Great a Death Note reference just what people want to see on a blog uhhh hey people look it its the best of western animation!!!

                                 USA USA USA USA

     Anyway, I think you get the point by now and my humor. I’d like to introduce myself, name is the One Eyed Nerd and I welcome you to my little oasis on the digital wasteland, so come on by and pull up a chair cause its Hell out there.

                   Gentle hearts and happy people oh wait wrong song

    I got more stuff brewing in the ole still in the back, so stay awhile and enjoy this as is just the beginning. This is the One Eyed Nerd signing off, until next time GET OF MY LAWN YOU YOUNG BOTS!!!!

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