Semi-Casual

*This is a Pastebin conversion that I wanted to throw on here. Because it'll be a lot easier to navigate with the formatting and pretty pictures, I feel it's only appropriate that I touch it up to be blog-friendly. Alright, so for no reason in particular I'd like to chronicle some thoughts on this large and unnecessary arcade cabinet I have sitting in my basement through a hodgepodge of images and private YouTube videos I've created over the past year. The Cabinet The struggle to get it to this point was a long, but mostly enjoyable one. So! I bought myself a nice arcade cabinet through a company called RecRoomMasters. They're basically the IKEA of Arcade Cabinets. They send you the kit, then you put it together yourself. When it arrives, you add whatever internals you want on your own (monitor, PC, speakers, and controls if you don't want to buy their frankly overpriced joysticks). These guys were great to deal with and I would highly...

Long ago I registered chaide.com with the intention of doing something with it.. some day . Today is that day! Except I let the domain expire years ago and now an Ecuadorian mattress company owns it. as if I actually planned this So I've whisked myself away into Google's tightly integrated platform of choice for blogging. Today, I learned that Blogspot is now called Blogger.   neat.   I also happened to learn how easy it is to sucker me into spending 12 dollars on another .com. To that end, I bring you Semi-Casual! Has a nice ring to it, yeah? I'm happy with this for a multitude of reasons that I'll eventually use to justify this inevitable regret. It's just where I happen to be right now. My entire online existence is fragmented, somewhat deliberately, across the internet. I suppose my most recent  interests are what this blog will focus on despite those interests having stayed relatively consistent for years, so.. I'm just winging it. The inspiration ...