i want to replay banjo-tooie. this may sound surprising but the last time i touched it was when i was capturing footage for the nuts & bolts lp, and i haven't booted it up once since. it's been 16 years. ive booted banjo-kazooie up a few times in the last decade and a half, but not tooie

the amount of bots in the ranked ladder in pokémon champions is really frustrating. it seems like if you lose a single match then you get auto paired into bots... to help you overcome your tilt? but the bots are fucking brainless. i had a beedrill use agility three times in a row against me

i feel like i overprepared in pokémon champions by planning and testing and building a team and having it ready to go day 1. ive been using it on the ranked ladder, and i gotta say - it's a bloodbath. i want to get to the actual other experienced vgc players asap lol

LMAO they make 90% of the new mega evolutions have garbage abilities! can't wait to build a team around *checks notes* innards-out mega victreebel

how did nsync get away with sampling The Prelude in the middle of Bye Bye Bye but not crediting nobuo uematsu

what doesn't kill you makes you STRONGER better at donkey KONGA

i will never understand why people upload stream vods that include the 10-15 mins of STREAM STARTING SOON at the beginning. surely cropping that off is the easiest thing in the world? about 2/3 of the time i will just click away from the vid rather than bother looking for the actual stream start

when i die i want a bunch of oompa loompas to come out and do a little song about how much i fucked up and how awful i was

a great joy of having very young kids is handing them some random object and telling them to deliver it to someone else. 'give this measuring jug to nanny' i say, knowing my mum is about to have an excited and purposeful toddler barge into her room and thrust a piece of kitchenware into her hands

oh fuck that is kind of an easter day miracle! 1229 resets for a shiny starter! HAPPY EASTER XBOX

i can't find the link but my favourite tweet was the one that says like 'love the bell lol ding dong ding dong, you wouldn't happen to know whom it tolls for would you'

wow just found out that one of the people my parents go dancing with is the guy who did concept art for the lord of the rings trilogy! alan lee. this dudes portfolio is insane

think it's for to say that my experiences with legends z-a could be described as 'powering through it'. the game has the bones of something really fun, and much of it is genuinely enjoyable, but so much of it is just time wasting / pointless wandering / slogging through dialogue with terrible npcs

(extremely 'guy who recently played ffv' voice): "i want to play ffv"

decided to start a professor oak challenge in black version. very much "back on my bullshit". section 1 is usually always the hardest bit but then you nuke the first gym leader into orbit

the piles of used toilet roll tubes on our bathroom windowsill are like an adventure playground for the ampher gramphers. they come through the cracks in the window frame and immediately encounter a labyrinth of tubes, tunnels and slopes. "HOW THE FUCK DO I GET OUT OF HERE?"

what modern kid cares about fox mccloud. what modern kid even knows who he is? what game would they even be recognising him from? im not gonna tell luna that Fox McCloud is in the mario film because she doesn't know who that is. and why would she? he's an ancient retired character

mobile games peaked when they were just about trying to keep a sunfish alive despite everything in its environment being dangerous to it

we told luna that kids her age don't usually like halloumi, now she's shovelling it down and shouting "I'M NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE"

lmaoo they gave mega meganium and feraligatr kickass abilities and they gave mega emboar absolute trash. rip pig, and justice for meganium who has been shafted for 26 years

THIS ART STYLE IS NOT KIND TO HITMONLEE LMAO, DUDE LOOKS LIKE A SHOE

"punchy" - how's that supposed to work then. dude is just a face

i wish we could get another normal dissidia game

i hadn't had a coke float since i was like 10 years old but i made some for me and luna today and hell yeah, they still get it done. obviously she fucking loved it

if i was the black hole sun, i would simply come and wash away the rain

most powerful

the thing that made me really improve my smash bros skills was learning three essential strategies: - keep charging smash attacks and the ai will just walk into them - stall until a powerful item appears and then use it to blow up the enemy - half the time they will kill themselves on stage hazards

if i could fall into the sky do you think time would pass me by? cause you know i'd walk 500 miles and you know i'd walk 500 more just to be the man who walked a thousand miles to see you tonight

i would catch 500 squirtles and i could catch 500 more just to be the man who caught 1000 squirtles and one bulbasaur

what's fucked up is that slippery climb is not even the most anxiety inducing level for me in that game. as a kid i had no issue with it. toxic waste was the level that scared the fuck out of me

last night i had an anxiety dream, but the dream was just that i was playing slippery climb in crash bandicoot

me to play crashed bandicoot

i love when shiny hunters are introducing the video of their hunts, and they're like "after 8000 encounters you won't believe what happened". and the thing that happened is always the appearance of a shiny pokémon. just once i want it to be something else

i like it when people pronounce jacqueline as if it rhymes with cackling. jackling.

LMAO

had a handmade pamphalet through my door educating us about therians, guess there's some local kid trying to raise awareness? in fairness i did google it afterwards so i guess it did the job

i've never really liked the way super mario world feels to play. the floaty jumps and the irregular running speeds are a combo i could never get the hang of. as a kid i 100%ed it on GBA but that part of my brain must have rotted because as an adult ive had like 6 game overs before getting to world 3

i wandered too far from myself. i lost sight of who i am. remember that i spent about 18 months playing nothng except for crash team racing. what happened to me.

fuck it, i wanna play a proper video-game type video game. everything i play these days is either a long-ass grind, or a massive glorified checklist, or a cutscene viewer, or an idle time wasting simulator. ive hit breaking point. im gonna race some fucking bandicoots & reset my brain, who's with me

its depressing that 'at one point in the trailer chris pratt almost sounded like mario' is the bar of quality that has been set here

Ehrgeiz: Buddy They Won't Even Let Me Fuck The Ring

why are all these characters equally huggable according to their stats

thinking about that hypothetical version of wuthering heights that has wobbuffet in it (Wobbuffet Heights)

the thing is, i get that the appeal of linux is that its decentralised and free of scummy windows bloat. but that comes at a cost of being utterly impenetrable and impossible to pin down. you try do a bit of research into which distro to use, and you will fall down a rabbit hole

god. my home computer is barely used for anything other than retro gaming these days. i should absolutely switch it to linux and get the fuck away from microsoft. but i just know im gonna have decision paralysis trying to choose how to do it and which distro to use and never end up actually doing it

enjoying the implication that, if zidane can be considered a goku, then kuja must be a raditz

tier list of daffodil colours - pale yellow petals with an orange trumpet gotta be S tier

in awe of the retroachievements '126 combination challenge' for FF1 that tasks players with beating the game using every single possible team composition. im at 4/126 and i basically see this as being a decade long project lmao

the series lost its way when moogles stopped looking like bundled up carpet balls

i will admit, it did my heart good to see that my main guy tropius got almost top billing by being one of the first pokémon shown in the new trailer. i hope it doesn't get an evolution or a special wind-wave-gimmick form, i hope it just keeps on trucking doing its same old thing (bananas)