go my essay/ ramblings on pokemon stats because I dislike the nature/ EV/ IV system. the concept of the three stat modifiers make sense, but in execution; theyre trivial to optimise, cause pokemon to be born inferior/ superior, and makes training pokemon feel like erasing their identity.

the best solution for retro gaming is to have all the NSO apps downloadable without a subscription and to have 2 collelctions within the app; one where you buy individual games from and one that contains the entire catalogue if you have an NSO subscription

better yet, download a romhack for a GBA experience with modern design sensibilites and up-to-date game mechanics (you can patch ROMs online these days even if you only have a phone, its really only 2 more steps than emulating an official ROM)

pokemon frlg for switch is gamefreak doing the minimum work they can get away with to sell a product at the maximum price they can get away with and thousands of people preordered it without waiting for info from an official announcement but youre the asshole for criticising mindless consumerism

was gonna talk about how xenoblade chronicles x definitive edition nintendo switch 2 edition is another horrible name but nintendo today stopped allowing screenshots???

despite speedruns being against my nature, I finally completed one in my journey to 100% silksong to take a break from steel soul I messed up counting deaths but it was between 12-18 in total not my best work but i got it done

clicked on the middle of this persons silksong playthrough out of boredom "i dont know what to do to get a different ending" then they opened their inventory

it feels strange to have effectively memorized an entire game I checked the silksong wiki to see how many shard bundles and silkeaters there were in the world and it turns out I've acquired them all already

tbh the zelda series peaked at zelda 1

Im ready to get the first steel soul achievement and enter act 3. i just have to finish 90 journal entries first (thats not hyperbole, i counted them)

tbh i dont really like character customization in video games if youre gonna spend hours toiling over your designs instead of playing the game, play a life sim and im not super interested in the story a game has to tell if its written around the main character being a blank slate

I thought I was so smart benchwarping back to bellhart after getting the bilewater map to unlock shakras wish, alongside completing every journal entry along the way, so i would only have to go through bilewater once. i forgot the fucking flea fuck my life

people overrate first sinner so much (like I saw someone say she should be the 3rd to last boss in silksongs pantheon, before gms and lost lace) in 3 playthroughs ive first tried her every time shes not difficult at all

minecraft snapshots are starting to feel less like public betas and more like a poor attempt at hype cycles if youre gonna use beta content for advertisements without disclosing that theyre subject to change, is it really a beta? like how often do snapshot features ever get reworked anymore?

savage beastfly is an easy boss to die to, but very hard to get hit by, if that makes sense

australia really is just the USA but a couple months behind... last month, aussies were bragging about our police while turning a blind eye to our systemic police brutality against indigenous people. now those same people are appalled about police brutality against white people. sound familiar?

ORIGIAMI KING ON NINTENDO MUSICCCCCCCC AND THEY SEPERATED THE BATTLE MUSIC INSTEAD OF COMBINING THEM INTO 1 TRACK EVERYONE LISTEN NOWWWWWWWWWWW

every day I have to grapple with the fact that winged nosk (my least favourite enemy in hollow knight) is one of the most important hollow knight characters to the story of silksong

remind me to do this next time i play hgss

minecraft and pokemon are a kind of series where theyre only a global phenomenon because they were early when you actually analyse the gameplay and read what the developers have to say, you realise the entire franchise was a fluke and theyve just been getting lucky for decades

the year is 2030. we are waiting for deltarune and silksong news. we get FF7 news instead.

oh cool hollow knight NS2 comes out on my birthday

I've come to realise that a lot of my taste in video games come down to whether or not the game looks visually appealing. id probably be the most obnoxious vn fan if they all didnt look terrible this is also why i refuse to engage with twilight princess

this partner directs gonna just barely drop my birthday but I dont know what would qualify as a birthday surprise for me in particular..... especially something I care about that wouldnt be guaranteed a spot in the regular direct Im not very superstitious but I guess I'll have to see

this is the most difficult boss in silksong

is online top ride lost media

ive just completed 2/3 of the ACNH 3.0 tasks! now alls left is to get 4 more lost tourists to appear (which seems to be a 50% chance on any given day), and what ive dubbed as the 4 titan tasks and the grand titan (pictured in the replies)

its actually hysterical that the mario wonder amiibos are releasing before the mario galaxy amiibos what the fuck are they doing behind the scenes lmao and wheres that damn mineru amiibo. she got added to animal crossing before we got a release date

Ive only been interacting with legends ZA through only this youtube channel I like and they only post an pokemon episode once every few days why have I not seen more discussion about how much this games story sucks. literally every plot beat is nonsense designed to get you to the next fight

minecraft should add a "recycler" block to turn sub-blocks (stairs, slabs, fences etc) back into the base block so we can funnel our bits and pieces out of our storage systems and back in so everythings more organised

spent the entire match chasing dragoon parts and failed died and couldnt find a flight capable machine before i timed out ended with <30 patches but skill is the great equaliser

WHAT DO YOU MEAN IF YOU DONT HIT THE TOP OF THE FLAGPOLE YOU DONT GET THE LAST BADGE??? WHAT THE FUCK

its a shame only the US direct is getting spread online because the international version is just objectively funnier also I may be crazy but the US version has less and simpler dialogue? like the int. narrator says "who left their lion in there?" while theres no narration in the US version

alright soooo whens the rhythm heaven groove direct? next week please : )

nintendo is catering to its audience by making the main character of the demo island a girlfailure

theyre not even trying to keep things sane for the direct tomodachi life 2 is going to be nonsensical at every point

ITS WOKEEEEE ITS WOKEEEEEEEEEE WOKEEEEEEEEEEEE WOKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

replaying mario wonder, they fixed the hoppycats in tubes escaping and making the level gimmickk unusable in the switch 2 patch, but that seems undocumented

yk hollow knight would have so many good contenders for smash bros fighters if smash were run my way, the DLC packs would be 5 characters from an unrepresented series and hollow knight would get two DLCs

dracoreon bolteon coreon (core like geode, NOT korean) wispeon (will-o-wisp) numbeon leapeon (grasshoppers, just give me this one dawg) faceon (sphinx, cliff face) nimbeon (nimbus cloud)

last judge is probably the least memorable song in silksong and it was a huge missed opportunity to not incorporate a brass rendition of pilgrims elegy (unofficial name via yours truly) (the song the pilgrims sing before the grand gate and for pilbys funeral) at the climax of her song

it really doesnt matter how slow stealth jump is, you can feel how much it jeopardises the match if you go without it in soloq as a short/ mid range weapon its not safe to jump to the frontline without SJ, it puts both players at risk. so if you dont have an anchor up, you shouldnt jump at all

after sleeping on it, Im not a big fan of S3 11.0 - A snowball mechanic was unecessary considering ranked matches can already end in 30 seconds - health bars are visual clutter when it takes <1 sec to heal to full or for basically any weapon (main, sub or special) to get a kill

btw the warioware OST added to nintendo music today has the second most tracks (356) to ACNHs 407 but its runtime is TEN HOURS!!! shorter than ACNHs each track averages at 23 seconds lol. absolutely unlistenable OST

flow aura is a terrible name btw

ok so 1.11 included - snowball mechanic to make carrying easier (since carrying is difficult in S3) - visible healthbars to make teamwork easier - an overall hurtbox buff to make aiming easier, squid form got its hitbox shrunken to compensate - stealth jump nerf (since it was universally used)

oh fuck yeah i love these riders but their specials were so fucking useless they were the "1 damage into suicide combo" and "tactical piss gun" before this patch hopefully these changes are enough

TOMODACHI LIFE DIRECTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

i refuse to engage with [redacted] and dont own a computer or a drawing tablet or have a honed ability to draw so i must return to the tools of my ancestors (compass and straightedge) to put the visions from my head (that are luckily geometric) onto paper unfortunately i suck at using compasses

one day I'll make pokemon desert red and ocean blue. just not today. or tomorrow. or the day after. or