In Part 2 of the “My #Pokemon Journey” series, I talk about how adulthood got in the way of playing games, and then how my kids pulled me back in: freshfeeling.dreamwidth.org/67686.html

Having been playing a TON of Pokemon this year, I've written a series of blog posts about sort of its role in my life. The first part, at freshfeeling.dreamwidth.org/67577.html, is about when I was new to the series in Gen IV (and going back into Gen III). @kouban.bsky.social's in there, sorta.

Rotational Gravity xkcd.com/3220/

Quote with your first Mar10 game! First Mario game I owned? Super Mario Land on GB. First Mario game I played with "Mario" in the title? Super Mario Bros. on the NES. But *really* the first Mario game I played was on the 2600.

The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

Great point — I said the Black Mage can be promoted to a Ninja. I was wrong, and you’re right to call me out on that. The Black Mage can be promoted to a Red Wizard.

Unpopular opinion, but a lot of this "doing it right" mentality is how we wind up with games all feeling the exact same. Difficulty spikes, weird controls, ropey onboarding all of it critical to prevent games feeling like they're ground down and pumped out safe mush. www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/s/...

The ONLY problem with Dino Riders is that they had those guys with gun turrets on one side of a dimetrodon’s sail so that from one side enemies couldn’t see them, and then the dimetrodon would turn and BAM! But they used this, their very best idea, in episode 1. There was no way to go but down.

With apologies to Mr Larson #art #fanart #thefarside

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

Connections Puzzle #1000🎉 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 I do this everyday still, as sort of a brain-warming routine. Oddly, I missed yesterday’s for like the first time in a year! (because it was an off-routine day) I am at least somewhat glad I got to do #1000 though.

March #promosky and I don’t know why! I have a variant-based retro gaming blog at freshfeeling.dreamwidth.org . I like: 👾Retro games 💨Speedrunning & TAS 📜Game history ⚔️Final Fantasy 🤖Mega Man 🐀Pokemon 🗡️Xenoblade 👨‍💻Programming (AI-lite) 🎮Game dev 👨‍🏫Education 🌴Survivor 🦸‍♂️MCU and I like looking at art.

Every time I upload a big pile of garbage to the GTS, I think about whether the research has been done relating Pokemon trades to broader open economies. Then I forget about it and don’t bother searching.

Four games that defined my 2025.

TIP TO NEW BLUESKY USERS: Junction enables characters to power up and use abilities. This means a GF must be junctioned in order to power up and use abilities. Let's begin by junctioning a GF. Right now, no GF is junctioned. All other commands in gray cannot be selected yet. Once Junction is selecte

I'll never forgive Nintendo for taking away Mario 35. When I meet god, I'm tellin' them to not let the Nintendo staff in.

Great news! I am only 19 years old! At least I *think* that’s what this means…

Dude I am officially so done with speedrun leaderboard discourse

Yesterday, with 2.5 hours to spare, I finished @revenantkioku.letsplaying.com’s Trials of Mana event. It was my first time completing the game! The time pressure of an especially busy month is really what made it challenging. freshfeeling.dreamwidth.org/66637.html

[This is where Luke's Anno 117 impressions were going to go] aftermath.site/this-is-where-...

Ranking classic video game boomerangs Phantasy Star 4 by SEGA Pros: Hits everything. Can equip two of them at once. Wipes out weak enemy groups quickly. Cons: Mediocre damage. Not great for bosses or single enemies. Rank: B #retrogaming

Studying the sacred texts

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it" My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

I very recently finished my OR4M - Final Fantasy Tactics with a beastmaster and 4 monsters. Friday, I’ll probably be back to FF1 with 4 monsters! #FinalFantasy freshfeeling.dreamwidth.org

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

New games weren't scarce in the 90s, but you could've easily played most of the hits. Now there's so many masterpieces that everyone has their personal endless backlog of amazing content. AI slop shouldn't be able to thrive in a market bursting with so many human-made, genuine banger pieces of art.

Xenoblade Chronicles X Switch 2 Compatibility Update Released www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/11... (via @nintendolife.com) Huh. That feels odd. I played this entire game end-to-end on Switch 2 and it was great. The one time I switched to Switch (1) briefly was terrible.

Since everything has to have "a message"

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My kids accidentally made the words from a Batman fight scene.

Updated image of best hardware first years. I've added an extra mark for where the newly increased Switch 2 forecast through March 2026 would put it.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

This was pretty cool! The scripts worked well, anyway. I finished the first half of the Earth Cave. More to come! freshfeeling.dreamwidth.org/64861.html @timeextension.com #finalfantasy

Going live with the first actual play of Final Fantasy Monster Party - playing the game with a team of monsters. #finalfantasy www.twitch.tv/freshfeeling...

It's wild the phrase "speedrun marathon" is about video games even though actual marathons have always been speed run

Here's my interesting thing I did recently: Lua script + C# app to play as the monsters in Final Fantasy 1 (NES), with substantial script help from FatRatKnight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xMh... I'll start streaming a full playthrough of "Final Fantasy Monster Party" for Halloween. #finalfantasy

I just backed Vampire Survivors: The Board Game on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/152...

My inaugural playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is the monster-heavy O4RM variant pushed by wpot. I finished chapter 1 thus far and wrote about it here: freshfeeling.dreamwidth.org/63704.html #fft

action/platformer speedruns: yea we have to do 100 frame perfect tricks to clip through all these sections and it's all skill based and precise practice and speed old jrpg speedruns: WE HAVE TO TORTURE THE GAME BY RIPPING ITS SOUL OUT AND REPLACING IT WITH DR MARIO TO FORCE IT TO DO OUR BIDDING

From the boss of Pinterest: "It wasn't long ago that major carmakers said seatbelts were against their business model. Now families want the cars that most exceed crash test ratings. Why shouldn't parents want the same from the apps their children use?" It’s a nice idea. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Four ways to avoid taking damage in FF6

i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"

It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️

It's Marina Monday, if you haven't heard. Background inspired by the Migan Brawl!! boss fight