updated the forums today (), added two new categories: creativity zone and gaming zone! the former for sharing, learning, and chatting about physical and digital art and the latter for everything gaming-related :)

note that the forums are still invite-only, so guests will only see the visitor center.

im eager to create some tutorial threads for making profile pictures and signatures in gimp, stay tuned!

1 week ago

been doing some coding and webcurating, and have two new pages to share:

the first is a stream schedule! the events right now are test data, but I'll be updating that soon. the schedule displays events directly from the underlying .ics file, so whenever I make changes to the calendar, the schedule will reflect the changes (upon load/refresh) :) I plan on sharing exactly how I made this, since it's quite simple and anyone else could do it too! check it out at

the second is the first weekly recap! :) made possible by , this is my first time learning/using php and it's been a joy. thanks to the templates/power-ups of neato, I can easily create new weekly recaps so I'll be posting those regularly to share progress and status updates. i actually didn't play any games this past week so there isn't anything to recap, but the week prior I played and beat three games so that's what the first weekly recap features. check it out at

that's just the "test" recap (with real data and real reflection), the URL will change once I figure out exactly how I want to handle that.

has also been on my mind, planning on making some fun progress there soon, stay tuned :)

1 month ago

the results are in: 95.3gb originally, 25.7gb compressed

that's 70gb of freed up storage! this is for a 26 hour long stream, so it comes out to ~1gb/hr (useful to keep in mind for future streams)

before compressing, i didn't think i'd have enough space to upload the whole stream, but now it definitely would fit in the storage i current have available, so now i can start to plan and prepare these recordings for uploading :)

2 months ago

i've been slow to prepare and upload the dr mario online rx race to mastery stream because it's 26 hours of recordings and they total up to 95.3gb 😬 that's 25gb larger than my total storage available for vods at the moment...

however, good news! ive started compressing the recordings and the results are very good so far. the quality of the recordings have hardly changed, yet the total size has reduced dramatically! the recordings from day 1 originally totaled 32.7gb, and after compressing (took about 8.5 hours total) they now total 8.5gb! that's nearly a 75% reduction in file size 😊

day 2 and day 3 recordings are still currently being compressed, but should be done by the end of the day. i'll post another update with the total time it took to compress and the total reduction in file sizes after being compressed

2 months ago

quick update: the next Dr Mario 64 stream is still upcoming, stay tuned for details :)

2 months ago

okay so it's been 4 months since the last statuslog update. there's a LOT to catch up on :) in that time, i've started a new job, setup a new operating system on my pc, and adopted a new cat!! i've been busy preparing all the "behind the scenes" setup and very excited to share it all with you! as i settle into all the newness, streams+VODs will be starting up again and becoming more regular and routine.

the first one will be the exact same stream that i talked about in that last update from 4 months ago, as i never ended up going live and getting mastery. i'll be playing Dr Mario 64 and going for all the cheevs to get mastery, and I won't stop playing till I do :) stay tuned for confirmation of when the stream will be, right now it's looking like Friday evening (9/4). new emotes dropping with this stream too!! catch the stream live and you can spam them all you want on the emoji wall! :)

2 months ago

going live right now, streaming the journey to mastery for Dr. Mario 64! just four days ago was Dr. Mario 64's 25-year anniversary! in celebration, i'm going for the 11 remaining achievements i need for mastery. and check out the controller i'm using! :)

i've made some updates to the streaming homepage, , so now anyone can see the achievements tracker and streaming schedule right from the homepage :) the schedule is available as a public calendar .ics file for anyone who wants to subscribe from their calendar app.

the stream layout looks a little different now, too. for the 11 achievements i still need, i added a livesplits overlay where each achievement is a split, so that i can time how long each achievement takes to complete. below that is an achievement tracker showing progress towards mastery as well as the names and descriptions of the next three achievements i'm working towards. there's also now a timestamp in the top-right corner, which I think will be nice to have both for streaming and VODs.

the chat and emoji wall are still there :) if you're lucky to catch a livestream, be sure to spam your favorite emojis in chat to see them all float by on screen!

7 months ago

i'm very happy to introduce: !! 🎉🎉 this is a self-hosted instance of peertube which i will be using for uploading and sharing clips and VODs from livestreams and playthroughs!! the very first video is already uploaded and available for viewing 😄 it is the perfect run of levels 0 to 20 in the germ buster mode of dr. mario online rx, which was also the final achievement i needed for mastery!! check it out !

this 28 minute video came out to a little under 400MB, and at first I didn't have any additional storage space. so yesterday i added a 70GB volume to the machine hosting all of my various services and now there's enough space for about 175 videos of the same length 😊

7 months ago

let's goooooo, first mastery!! what a grind, what a joy to play dr mario all day and all night for the huge hyped wii launch weekend!! all those moments where it seemed out of reach, all of those times the emoji wall blocked my screen so I couldnt even see 😂 all the effort came together in the end 😊 i'm going to need to rest a bit before the next big grind 😆

stay tuned for the VOD!! it will take me a bit of time to prepare it, though, because we streamed for over 26 hours!! my RA profile shows for Dr Mario Online Rx: "Mastered in 26 hours, 20 minutes over 2 days, 1 hour" 🤭 now that's a good, long stream! and what a fun stream it was!!! oh my gosh now that I've done one and have everything all setup, im itching to stream some more :) so stay tuned, ill have a schedule up at some point too. I'm serious about beating and reviewing all 785 of these games, this is going to take me years. and how fun that it's just beginning, and what a way to start it than with a 26 hour mastery grind of my favorite series dr mario!! 🔥❤️🫶

7 months ago

going live now!! im keeping an eye on the game page for any updates. i noticed the dev is currently testing the game and resolved a ticket for an achievement i still need, gonna get that one and hopefully more!

7 months ago

the race continues in about 10 minutes! going live again and recording my attempt to be first to Dr Mario Online Rx mastery ❤️ if you catch it live be sure to spam emojis 😁

7 months ago

first stream today!! it's a race to first mastery for Dr Mario Online Rx! no one has earned it yet so will continue tomorrow! had sooo much fun, i love the emoji wall sooooo much!

7 months ago

first pass through the wii games and i focused on adding my favorites. i ended up adding 42! my big list of games is now at 770 :) gonna update the tomorrow! basically all of my favorite wii games are ready at launch! twilight princess, smash bros brawl, mario kart wii, super mario galaxy, super mario galaxy 2, super paper mario, wii sports, and more! i can't wait to scroll through all of the achievement lists to see the names and requirements and badges. it looks like there are some intense masteries. animal crossing city folk has 189 achievements! brawl has 375!! 🫢 it's time to dig up all of my peripherals, gonna need that wii zapper for link's crossbow training 😁

7 months ago

it's finally here!! after much anticipation and hype, the incredible gamers behind have launched Wii achievements!! the launch is epic, with a whopping 181 games now ready for achievement hunting! my big game of lists is currently at 720, so we'll see where it's at after scrolling through the wii games 😊 so excited, feeling like '06 again 🥹

the launch brought in a new all-time high record for the RA website, and I was there for it!! 🎉

7 months ago

first status! 😊 gaming.omg.lol is a personal website of yours truly, poprox! i'm very excited to build this out! to start, i have a list of over 700 games that i plan on beating and reviewing (and eventually streaming). explore the Poprox Big List of Games for yourself here!

i also made an Achievements Showcase webpage to showcase my retroachievements! see it at: .

it's always been a dream of mine to develop video games so i will also use this space to document and share my dev journey 😊 anything you see here, you can do too! trust me!! stick around if you want to learn how to build a personal website or develop games!

as with everything I create, not a single "ai" prompt was used. the use of "ai" is plagiarism and there's substantial cost and harm for every single prompt. if you love gaming and hate "ai" then you'll probably enjoy this space 🤭

anyways, looking forward to what comes of this! 🫶❤️

7 months ago