Been mulling on finding an excuse to buy Mario Tennis this week, which has slowly turned into mulling over finding an excuse not to buy Mario Tennis Fever, and I think this is how they get us, man.

Batsugun is like the Higgs Boson particle for the Shoot 'Em Up genre.

It's kinda rude that we keep popping out Bowser's skeleton to do things like play Tennis.

Did you guys know that Kirby is my close personal friend? My close personal friend Kirby and I go way back, I love my close personal friend Kirby. You might know him from the recently released Kirby(who is my close personal friend): Air Riders.

My heartbeat under the floorboards is my neighbors choosing to piss loud as fuck at 2:58 AM. What're you hitting the water for? Who's this performance in tribute to, brother? They invented Mortal Kombat fatalities for people like you, you know that?

Beating Cairn was a mistake, man, I hit such a stride playing that game every night for the past few weeks and no idk what to do with my hands. I'm pissed. Good game though, play Cairn. It's a slow burn Gotta Sit With type game, real good, real methodical. Maybe I go free solo.

Every year I realize I've never to celebrated Valentine's Day, it's this funny annual checkpoint where I'm like "Perhaps this year I will not let circumstance or that I'm a pussy that would rather DIE than even LOOK at somebody's boundaries in fear of crossing them, stop me" LMAO

Found out that the savefile screen in Cairn shows you your climbing route and I just about died seeing mine. You can see the exact moment I started running out of food LMAO.

I'm gonna be so annoying if this keeps up, man. I'm gonna be such a dickhead about this shit all the time, dude.

A friend of mine showed me Doorman and now I'm a Deadlock player.

Alright, fellas, I think we're running out of places to put the Z in zombie game titles and we gotta give something else a try.

Unemployment is so sick, man.

Finally decided to play Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon this week after owning it for an actual 8 years. That game is good as hell, man. It's bitesized, doesn't overstay it's welcome, has a good difficulty curve and plenty of things you can do, routes to take, etc Great lil game

When somebody tells me to "just ask AI"

After 7 and a half years I've decided not to renew my contract with Paradox. It started as a 2 person team and in my time has flourished into a fully fledged video marketing team that I'm lucky to have been able to lay some foundational blocks for. Good times, man :).

Upset how accurate these prices are in 2026

Not discussing spoilers obviously, but I was a bit iffy on a short sequel manga to Jujutsu Kaisen, and while it starts a lil slow and the main conflict feels a bit sudden, it's landing some characters and narratives that I adore, man. It's fun, it's good, it's jimmy jutsu dude!

Hate being stuck in a Nice-Off with customer service over the phone, I'll be hitting them with the just frame "Perfect, thank you!" all call before they go "Heh... no need to thank m-" as they forward me, leaving no room for me to counter, losing me the game. Terrible matchup.

I ported Super Monkey Ball to a website. You can access it in the replies. (or just type what you see in the video, I'm not your boss.)

How did Leonardo DiCaprio do all that shit in the sixteenth chapel, man? I thought he died on that boat.

Somehow, some way, through no action of my own, I've been added to a creator only game key mailing list, I just woke up one day to getting a new free game every few months and I pray every single day none of these come with deliverables. It's been 2 years of dodging the draft.

I love having long hair but why is all hair care discussion just bots trying to sell you products you don't need, or somebody hiding their zombie bite giving you routine advice with 10,000 steps that are IMMUTABLE, and you should DIE if you don't do em. It can't be that complex.

You think they ever found the unknown player or are they still in the battelground about that?

Call me chronic the way I've been sick as hell for a long time.

We are all only ever one timeless art piece that people would appreciate and pay for in our lifetime away from becoming an overnight millionaire. All you gotta do is get it in one and live it up, man.

There's 2 types of Baba puzzles, a fun little brain teaser that you remember fondly, or an abomination that triggers fight or flight, something created to burden you with forbidden knowledge, the walls have eyes and they are opening. They know you know you shouldn't know. RUN.

Getting a job is easy, all you gotta do is put your hype moments on your resume and in the interview you farm a little aura. Then 2 weeks later you get an e-mail or god forbid a phonecall calling you washed, and not their goat, and then you gotta try again until you die.

I only ever played Radiant Dawn and never Path of Radiance, which I'm finally amending now that the latter is on NSO. Gotta say, it's nice to finally see a bunch of characters I've loved for years be introduced LMFAO. I just accepted their existence without knowing their origin.

I made a song for what it would sound like if you got into a dubstep bar fight

Older arcade shmups are so funny, cause all of them are just Level 1: Cruising, good time, blasting, you're so cool, you're flying!! What fun!! Level 2: Alright buddy, kill yourself. Make sure you drop those quarters when you hit the concrete, pussyboy. Those aren't yours.

The most important fundamental truth of the universe is that the game is called Super Monkey Ball, because the Monkey is inside of the Ball.

Finally watching Invincible season 2 and 3 and it's messed up that every single day of my life, I have to live with not sounding even a little bit like JK Simmons. Messed up if you ask me.

Having long hair is so cool until you inhale a bunch of it as you're having a sneezing fit. I'm shaving my head, dawg.

I'm getting absolutely bodied by my own body this week, but at the end of the day, baba is always only a few pushes away from flag is win. Baba will always be you...

Been trying to learn A.B.A. in Strive, but made the mistake of thinking about how I've never played a zoner in a fighting game before and now Dizzy calls to me like the green goblin mask. I'd play Asuka, but I don't think at 32 I have the mental capacity to be doing all that shit

I'm so tired of reflecting on myself, I am GOING to blame the beasts, dawg, it's over.

Learned how to say "Sorry, I don't speak Chinese." in Chinese and just been hitting random people with it, never elaborating or explaining. Just making them feel like a glitch happened in the simulation.

Been trying to get back into fighting games, cause I keep talking about them but never actually playing them, and my biggest problem with learning fighting games in 2026 is that I could be playing Baba is You right now.

Happy new year to all the fake bitches, and happy Juri from Street Fighter's birthday to all the real ones.

Wishing Goku back with the Dragon Balls? Call that the auf wieder saiyan.

Ok I know 1993-2025 have been kind of a bust, but 2026 will be the year where I get jacked, find a wife, fail upwards into a career with a life altering salary and my hands will magically heal from RSI so I can play Dustforce regularly again.

I'm so bad with chopsticks man, it's embarassing, I can do it, I will finish every meal, but the sushi will have an entire heroes' journey to my mouth man, it's going THROUGH some shit, finding itself, developing, increasing in power level, all of it, dude, it's messed up.

Ruri Dragon anime announced much much sooner than expected, but no manga more deserving than that, honestly. What a delight, man, I don't think anybody could handpick a better studio than Kyoani.

Thought I finally dodged my annual curse of getting insanely sick during the holiday season, but no, it was just delayed. The negatives: No archery The positives: Perfect excuse to boot up Baba and Kirby for at least 48 hours.

Idk what prompted me to finally sink my teeth into Baba is You this month, but that game is truly phenomenal, huh? Idk if there'll ever be another Push Thing puzzle game better than this in concept. What a delight, man.

As per usual I'm having a dogass Christmas, but at least they gave King Dedede a santa hat to wear in Kirby Air Riders, unleashing his full power at last.

Hate when a game tries to justify the heinous actions of it's villains by making you play as them.

Bro... Turn your phone off, bro.... They're making Hatsune Miku say some crazy shit about you online bro.... They made it sound like her actual real thoughts, bro.... It's so messed up, bro... Even Kasane Teto agrees, bro... Don't go online bro... Please....

Y'all think I'll fall in love next year or should I continue to boot up increasingly specific indie games on migraine medicine at 2 AM and wait for god to witness my resolve?

Haven't done this in a couple years I think, but these are my 4 standout favorite games from the year. Lots of stuff I haven't played yet, but these are bangers through and through, and I need to play more of all of them once god figures out how to tear my away from BG3.