Dead Pixel Society

Rocketchip!

VOL:

Around 2015, some friends and I started a chiptune pop-punk band called Rocketchip. We would play a ton of local shows, but the best part about it was being able to hang with our best friends, have fun, and make awesome music. As we got older, we all got our own careers, so being in a band wasn't the main focus anymore. We all went our separate ways musically, but remain good friends to this day. I continued on with Rocketchip as a personal project, writing new music and releasing older tracks that we all wrote together. I went on to do more pop-punk, but recently I've been doing more lo-fi and dance tracks. I'm really excited to be working on a new song with an amazing EDM artist named opal.wav. There's something about chiptune that scratches my ADHD brain just right. I've been in other bands and have written many different genres of music, but the chiptune sound palette is something I always come back to. I'm not sure if it's a familiarity thing or what, but I can't deny it's a passion of some kind. There's also an addicting challenge to writing chip music on a tracker like FamiTracker because of the tracker's limiting form factor. FamiTracker forces you to write an entire song with only four main “Pulse” channels, 1 sine wave channel, 1 saw channel, DPCM, and the iconic noise channel. Other trackers like MilkyTracker provide way more functionality and you can get some really awesome sound palettes from it, but it's more of a 16-bit chiptune tracker than FamiTracker's 8-bit sound fonts, which is what I tend to really like.

I've had my ups and downs like any artist, but I don't think I can ever stop writing for Rocketchip. The band will always have a special place in my heart. As I've refined my skills as a writer, artist/designer, producer, and musician, I can't help but feel like I want to do more musically. It's tough being a one-man band, and for the longest time I didn't have anyone to bounce ideas off of. I moved to St. Louis, leaving a lot of friends back home, almost feeling like I'm on an island out here by myself. Luckily, thanks to social media, I'm starting to meet more people with the same passion for music production as me, which has led me to really branch out and grow as an artist. I've always been a jack of all trades in my bands, being the graphic designer, web designer, video editor, songwriter, and band manager. It sounds overwhelming, but there's something fun about building projects and seeing them come to life. I feel like Rocketchip and designing for Dead Pixel Society will give me an outlet for this artistic energy.

Thanks for listening to me ramble on about my little music project! You can check out my merch store at rocketchipband.com and buy my music directly on Bandcamp. With Bandcamp, a majority of the sales actually goes to me, not to major corporations, which is nice. But with the merch, I had to outsource, so I get less of a cut. I'm poor, so merch is real tough to finance 😅

Rocketchip Official Store

Rocketchip on Bandcamp

09/27/2026 12:29 PM CDT

MUSIC

Its finally here…..almost!

VOL:

I have been an avid follower of the folding phone craze since day one. I almost purchased the Samsung Galaxy Fold 1 but opted to wait until the Fold 2, and that phone was hands down my favorite phone I've ever owned. I was one of the lucky few people who had zero issues with the screen, the hinge, or any massive battery issues, and that phone lasted me until 2024 when the battery finally died. I ended up swapping to my old iPhone 12 Pro and am surprisingly still using that phone today with no issues.

Recently, Apple announced its own foldable phone called the iPhone Duo, and I have been losing my shit in excitement. I'm not excited for the folding function because that's been around for a while now; what I'm excited to see is Apple's take on a foldable device. I have always loved Apple's design and UI logic, merging simplicity and aesthetics with common-sense UI design. We are finally starting to see reviews pour in from YouTubers and tech enthusiasts everywhere, and so far the results have been amazing to me. I love that they decided to go with a matte finish interior screen along with a beautiful opening and closing animation for the left side of the screen, really tying in the liquid glass vibe that they have been building over the last year. I've attached my favorite review so far. Aside from the steep price point… I think Imma get it 🤫

09/27/2026 12:08 AM CDT

TECH

Is the IPOD back???

Guys, guess what? The iPod is coming back (not really)! Just kidding. For all my Apple Watch wearers out there, or maybe if you just have an extra one laying around like I do, this cool little attachment turns your Apple Watch into an iPod in a way. Technically speaking, it looks like one, but is it? No, not at all. But hey, like I said, if you have an extra watch lying around—an old one—it's a nice, cool little gadget to have around for all my nostalgia people out there. It's so cool and looks so clean! It brings me back to the old days where you would have to go listen to music on your iPod and scroll using the wheel. That sound is so nostalgic to me, but let me know what you guys think!

09/26/2026 6:01 PM CDT

TECH

Y SI SI??

First of all, can the WWE please go back to Mexico? I feel like the international crowds out of the country are 10 times better than the US crowd sometimes, but something was magical when WWE went to Mexico City and we witnessed probably match of the year. I personally think it was good—it made Penta look good and made Roman look good. The fact that we got to see Roman Reigns take a Mexican Destroyer is still wild. For some reason, he doesn't do that type of stuff, so it was a really great change of pace for us.

It was so electric that night, it made the match 10 times better than what it was. The crowd was so emotional, they were so invested, and "Y si sí?" was being chanted at the top of their lungs. Why not Penta? What if he could... imagine if he did that, the arena would have erupted. Overall, amazing match, even better finish. WWE was not afraid to break the hearts of all the people rooting for Penta in Mexico. I give the match a solid 5 out of 5 (FYI, my grading is super flawed).

09/26/2026 5:37 PM CDT

WRASSLIN

Am I the only one?

This one goes out to all my Overwatch players out there who are grinding that battle pass. First of all, why does it feel like I'm not getting any XP? I feel like I play daily, consistently for maybe five or six plus hours a day, and I can't make a single dent in this battle pass. Like, I really want the UWU—that's all I want. I just want to be a pretty otaku gamer and show off my UWU, but for some reason, this XP is getting really hard to grind out. Is it just me? Will it ever happen? I don't know!

09/26/2026 5:27 PM CDT

GAMING

WHat im watching

I'm currently watching The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System. Pretty solid anime so far—nothing too crazy, just another overpowered main character being OP, which I personally enjoy since it's one of my favorite genres. For a quick synopsis: the MC is somehow reincarnated into his favorite video game. In this world, the Tank class he played is viewed negatively, but in his eyes, it's the most broken build he can get. He pretty much sets out on his own, knowing exactly what to get and collect to become OP, and we're following along on this journey. It's pretty good so far—13 episodes as of today—and you can watch it on Crunchyroll.

My one gripe with this anime is I feel like the animators discovered 3D animation and are just spamming it constantly in any transition or opening scene. It gets kind of annoying because they reuse the same scenes over and over again. It's just a little something I find annoying, but it's tolerable because it's a solid anime. Another thing I have a gripe with is the fact that the recap is literally like the first 5 to 8 minutes of the episode, including the intro. So technically, instead of getting a 25-minute episode, you get maybe a 20-minute episode of anime. But anyways, check it out and let me know!

09/26/2026 5:05 PM CDT

ANIME

What even is this??

Are you chronically online? So are we. We just wanted to share stuff that we like with you—anything from wrestling, anime, music, to tech. That's the stuff that we love to see. We love to dig into all of it, from the top ropes to top tech, and anywhere in between. Just a couple of uncs on the internet who love... I don't know, this! Usually, we just yapped to each other, but why not yap to someone else? Who knows, maybe someone else is just a really good listener, or in this case, reader. Anyways, mess around, click some tabs, and let us know what you think. If you like what you read and want to give us a follow.

09/26/2026 3:41 PM CDT

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