How FFXI is going: I'M THE ONLY PERSON ON THIS BOAT AND AN OCTOPUS SAW ME AND ITS STRENGTH IS 'IMPOSSIBLE TO GAUGE'

A good litmus test for whether someone is fun to talk to about media is whether they can unabashedly love something that they recognize as flawed and/or very silly. If you NEED art to be something that is taken super seriously, and is above all criticism, I suspect you don’t have much fun with it.

thinking about starting a new channel on social media for videos about the best way to consume small mints. gonna call it Ric's TikTok Tic Tac Tactics

Kefka✨✨✨ hope you like it guys! #ffvi #ffxiv

happy pride month by the way

happy pride month

Something I find charming about FFXI is just how often it gates off essential quality of life features behind goofy bespoke weirdo quests.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

I strongly believe in the breadth and influence of independent art, to grant us oblique angles on the world and ourselves. But also every indie game is somewhere on this spectrum:

Kyrandia 1 returns on #SavingOften! This week, @sousourocket.bsky.social, @mewd.bsky.social and I search high and low for Signposting. Will we find it? I don't know, but we sure are finding a lot of gems. youtu.be/N9k-RFA6c9k

Final Fantasy 11 feels a lot like Quest 64 (complimentary connotation)

Vagrant Story is a lot like the parts of Zelda where you navigate the menu to equip/unequipped the iron boots, except you need to craft the boots to wear on each limb, there are 8 categories and 10 elemental affinities of boots and you train the boots to work at all in different kinds of rooms.

Anytime a website tries to pop up an AI chat box with a stock image of an approachable human being as its icon, I think about those predatory animals in nature that attempt to mimic their prey

I’ve put one evening into FFXI and I think that its opening hours leave a stronger impression than FFXIV’s did and I think this is owed to how much more friction there is in the experience of playing 11. The interface is esoteric and the guidance is easy to miss and that makes everything mysterious

Pray for me

Dragon Quest announcement: "For the next game, you're going to have to pick stairs from the menu again. You fuckers have gotten it too easy for too long. I'm Yuji Horii I invented Portopia"

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By popular demand, today @sousourocket.bsky.social, @mewd.bsky.social and I begin THE LEGEND OF KYRANDIA: BOOK ONE on #SavingOften! An evil jester named Malcolm is terrorizing Kyrandia. The only one who can stop him is Brandon. And he just doesn't wanna. youtu.be/oB2LP3GKkDQ

The kitten has discovered a warm spot and is trying to figure out what it is ✨

Using ninjutsu mudra to stim and becoming a threat to everyone around me

“Think back to your childhood. When do you think the anxiety began?”

Link’s Faith Due to poor scans/photos of a Japanese guide, many wrongly believed Link to be of the Christian faith. Series creator Shigeru Miyamoto clarified that the man Link prays to is not Christ. “It’s Waluigi,” Mr. Miyamoto explained. Here the artist Marc P.I. depicts the original intention.

Silly concepts i made for Bubsy 4d skins. I had fun doing these! #bubsy #bubsy4d @fabraz.bsky.social

I'm very close to owning every home console version of Dance Dance Revolution released in North America but have been informed that I will not be granted a wish from the Eternal Dragon for doing so

I was meditating in my mind palace on the eternal and soul-defining question of "who is the best girl from each Final Fantasy" and, without irony, thought to myself: "Jack Garland is a baby girl"

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

From humble beginnings at the Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School to Silmaria and beyond, our long journey finally comes to an end in the finale of Quest for Glory 5 on #SavingOften. Then, @sousourocket.bsky.social, @mewd.bsky.social and I rank the QFG series. youtu.be/zjNCcTNshh4

In the world of FFXIV, it must be stressful if Azem’s Crystal has you on the call list for summoning to deal with existential threats. Doesn’t seem like there is usually even enough time to even get briefed on what’s happening. Just start hacking and reading telegraphs, RIP to your day off

Navigating a crowded buffet is a lot like playing Pac Man.

pilgrim guy finishes reading a big book, leans way back in his chair and loosens the belt on his hat

im never more assured that im doing a half-decent job at a character-driven story than when no one can agree which characters are in the wrong or why

We've reached the penultimate episode of QFG5 on #SavingOften! The Rites are in the bag, the Blackbird is in our possession, and all that's left for @sousourocket.bsky.social @mewd.bsky.social and I to do now is get the girl and save Silmaria. One will be easier than the other. youtu.be/ZVwYzN71Y8o

I actually LOLed. Which for today is quite a result.

I got around to playing through the fan translation of The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls and was very impressed by it. It’s like a gag manga compressed onto a gameboy cart and it manages to be legit funny way more often than I would’ve assumed based on its hardware and vintage.

My first VN, Akash: Path of the Five is part of the Otome Games Celebration sale on Steam! You can pick up the Digital Deluxe edition for $8.48, or both Enshrined AND Akash in the Truant Pixel Passion Pack Bundle! What a deal! store.steampowered.com/app/1098370/...

Also, it’s funny how Pokemon ZA tries to teach you alternate battle strategies where you fight trainers using them, and the best way to complete these side quests is to bull doze them with hyper offense like usual

I really enjoyed Pokemon Legends ZA for providing a very slightly spicier Pokemon story. Though I’m left wondering why the adults in the story couldn’t do something about the root of the threat other than identifying people to deal with the problem after it explodes

Came to the realization that the Zero Escape game OSTs are very good study/focus music, which should not be as surprising given they are all about using your brain under pressure.

The saga of the blackbird concludes this week in QFG5 on #SavingOften! Sure, @sousourocket.bsky.social, @mewd.bsky.social and I gave it to Ferrari, but why waste a perfectly good inventory item on a guy who won't carry it in his pocket and try to combine it with everything? youtu.be/8ZExICl7A8U

My pal @puccanoodles.bsky.social made a bunch of her friends in Tomodachi Life and she gave me a floppy disk and it’s my most realistic portrayal in anything ever

tried a delicious "coffee" this morning. a type of rich chowder made of beans. similar to japanese miso, with an intriguing flavour of wood

It is so depressing watching everything previous generations fought and died for be dismantled piece by piece. These basic protections and institutions, while imperfect, still pushed in the right direction. We are failing future generations and leaving a worse world behind for them.

feelin nostalgic for game and watch gallery

it's sooooo funny that Magalor got a whole fleshed out redemption arc side story and then Marx is like "yeah and I'm here too :) just trust me, bro :) I didn't learn shit"

A recent commission, not for sale. :) Working on lots of fun ones lately, can't wait to show you all the rest!