Hot Death Cornhole

August 17, 2026 Leave a comment

OK this is a crazy idea.  I have this idea for a game that modifies the rules of cornhole.  Call it Hot Death Cornhole.  Before every round a card is drawn that effects how that round is scored.

Idea for cards are as follows….

Pit Monster.  There is a monster that lives in the hole on the board and the monster eats any beanbags that land in it.  No score for bags on the hole.

The Broad is Lava.  Any bag that lands on the board is zero points.  Only in the hole gets points.

Player Advantage.  The first player to get a bag in the hole get one bag on the board count as if it went in the hole.

Close Counts.  If any bag lands within 1 ft of the board counts as one point.

Score +1.  Hole counts as 4 points and board counts as 2.

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Batocera – The Retro Arcade OS

May 16, 2026

I have a mini-PC that my workplace isn’t using so I grabbed it and brought it home. With this home labbing I have been getting into I thought about having a retro video game box. Most people get a Raspberry Pi and install RetroPie on it. The limitations is the micro SD card that the RPi boots off of. I have a mini-PC that uses an M.2 SSD drive to boot the OS off it. So I chose that to host my retro video game box.

It only has a 250 GB SSD so I ordered a 512 GB SSD. As for the OS I found on called Batocera and it is designed to be for retro video game machines. So instead of installing Ubuntu and RetroPie it will boot up right to the Gamestation interface. Flashed that to a thumb drive and it isn’t installed because I am waiting for the new SSD. As for ROMS I am going to get them from The Internet Archive.

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