K this place rules

#anthrocon 2026 con report:

"🦝 I found that rather overstimulating," says man who works in pinball arcade with tile floor

🦝 "I'm gonna do the full three day #anthrocon next year" says guy who only started using raccoon emojis because of all the time he spent ripping spare parts out of dead flooded pinball machines riddled with snakes

@ifixcoinops 🦝💻🪛 "Raccoon Computing" is basically how I exist these days. I've done support for a bowling alley where their official support channel closes tickets without comment and turns of the customer's Urgent flag without comment, parts are shipped from another county and at amazing markup for (checks notes: serial cables) that, as it turns out, were not the problem.
We tested it all, it was the ATX PSU in the scoring computer that was reaching end of life and not able to push out as much W as the computer plus the additional scoring components needed.
I suspect they had been provisioned at JUST the needed wattage. At normal operation. Add 15 years of operation in a dirty dusty hot space and that will degrade.
More in current tech cycle, getting a PSU with appropriate pinning and form factor to fit into the milled aluminum chassis without modding and connect faithfully to the 17 year old mainboard...
Some racooning did happen to get then though league night before a proper solution could be sourced.