I like the game. I like the game a lot. I get why others may not, but this was another peak game from a peak series for me. backloggd.com/u/DurchBurch...

Hell yeah

My GOAT, @4dozeneggs.bsky.social , has officially completed the Super Mariomon Playthrough's final team art!

I basically sprited Slaggush from scratch since I hated the angle my sketch was from. I did reference the top of its head and the bottom of its body for positioning, and then I decided the legs needed to be both taller and more in line with Slaggleak's. I had to rotato this potato.

Slaggaga is just a baby. Slaggaga feeds on metal ores and refines them, producing large volumes of slag in the process. Jewelers often keep them to refine small amounts of precious ore. #pixelart #fakemon

Amalgomorph longs to wiggle. Amalgomorph, while liquid, is surprisingly resilient. It takes a significant amount of effort to kill one, as its body has a tendency to slip around blows. However, it moves very slowly along the ground, barely beating a Sludragora in a "footrace." #pixelart #fakemon

Bobobubbobo is more Bo than Bubbo. The disease has reached an inflection point where there's more Bo than Bubbo. The deep purple Bo sprays its fluids with reckless abandon, all the while, the Bubbo is becoming more and more strained. Its hard to say how much longer it has. #pixelart #fakemon

Bobubbo is struggling. Bobubbo is starting to lose the battle to its disease, which is now becoming conscious and revels in spreading its infection to others. The body is still referred to as a Bubbo, but the new growth is called a Bo, hence the name Bobubbo. #pixelart #fakemon

Meet Bubbo, it's not a boob. Bubbo's body is full of dangerous fluids that can cause a severe and deadly ailment. The boil-like arms weep these fluids, allowing it to infect any it touches, though it can also spit them as a defense mechanism. #pixelart #fakemon

I got the new Samus & Vi-O-La amiibo, and this thing is both huge and gorgeous. Age of Imprisonment for scale. #amiibo #MetroidPrime4

After 70ish hours, I've reviewed Z-A over on Backloggd. bckl.gg/pvVP

My god. This election has me actually feeling some hope. In my area, literally every contested election has dodged the Republican candidates except for one that hasn't been called yet where it's a Republican vs. a Labor Party guy. Here's hoping we get the clean sweep.

Looks like I'm a day late, but I wanted to pop in for #PortfolioDay. I make #pixelart, most often monster designs and #fakemon. I've recently been on a roll making designs for a Monster Tamer RTS concept I've been thinking up for a little while.

I'm so ready for Z-A, and knowing my usual Pokémon habits, it'll mean I won't be seeing Violet in a long time. Lol To send it off, I built one last team, making my 30th team. That's the most teams I've ever trained in one game. Tera just made team building so fun.

Flagelloom and Nucleist make for another goo-o of monsters! Flagelloom's body only has one cell (which is a fact that surprises many when they first encounter it). On close inspection, the mouth that it appears to have is a partially formed vacuole waiting for food to waltz in. #pixelart #fakemon

Today I have a double batch of sprites. Domen and Cralo are here to spread a little light with a little might. Domen's visage remains peaceful, no matter how actively it moves with its legs. It's said that it remains cool to the touch, even its bright halo. #fakemon #pixelart

Behold, Oculight is upon you. #fakemon #pixelart Oculight emits spheres of light that act as sensory organs. A sufficiently old specimen may appear nearly omnipotent, as its numerous lights would be scattered across vast expanses by that time.

I've beaten Monster Hunter Stories now, and I have many thoughts. Check out my review: backloggd.com/u/DurchBurch...

Gastrocompi done growed up. #fakemon #pixelart Sludragora's shell is rock hard and contains a massive heap of rotting plants. They're sometimes used as beasts of burden in humid regions, though their slowness makes them less desirable than some weaker monsters.

This little guy is kinda wacky. #fakemon #pixelart Blinkling's lights dance hypnotically around its body, much of which is just an eye. It's not well understood how it eats or if it even does at all.

I've made what's probably my most complex and largest pixel art project in a while: a pixel art version of the wedding portrait that my wife commissioned from @4dozeneggs.bsky.social for our first anniversary. This is 192x108 pixels and 32 colors. #pixelart

Who up feedin' they Gastrocompi? #fakemon #pixelart Gastrocompi is a slug-like monster that eats just about anything that's actively rotting, sweating a potent poison from the spots on its body. It will try just about anything once, even the paint its tamers use to mark it as their own.

Jorobi was a fun concept to try to think up. I knew I wanted it to be a larger candle, but I couldn't think of how to give it arms without making them extra candles à la Lumière. Eventually, the scarf came to me and I was hype af to finally have an idea pinned down.

I'll be going live on YouTube today at 7pm Eastern to benefit NEED, a charity that benefits underserved youth in the Pittsburgh region. Please feel free to stop by, and, if you have the money to give, please feel free to donate. youtube.com/shorts/q5CkG...

So I beat Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. Check out my thoughts. Read in full only if you've played, if you haven't, just know this is the only piece of media I've given a perfect score to in years, and, if you really want to read it, maybe read just the start. bckl.gg/n5vm

I titled my DxD stream "Am I Ballin'?" and it seems I got my answer. youtube.com/clip/UgkxCx-...

Had to come into work early this morning and got a nice photo of the sunrise next to a crane at the construction site across the street from me. There's something deeply beautiful about the juxtaposition of the natural sky and that lone crane.

I'm so happy I managed to pull the "New Art Coming Soon" Lugia. Huge day for me.

I recently got my own copy of Pokecology imported, and I've been using it to both make some fun sprites of the artwork inside and to practice my Japanese. This thread contains my efforts! #pixelart #pokemon #pokecology

Peak game, peak name

Got this fun little Mario Kart World clip with my brother last night. He really prepped a hop to dodge a banana. Lmao

Managed to nab a shiny while streaming a bit of the Pokémon Violet update on the Switch 2 launch day.

My master plan is in motion. My wife and I's anniversary is coming up, and I secretly bought her a Switch 2 under the guise that it was for my brother. She's currently protecting it at her office since I have to wait until noon to grab my preorder at GameStop.

Finally got to the point in X where I can fly in plane mode. It's so fun. #XCXDE #XCX #Xenoblade

Got a 4K TV ahead of the Switch 2 and immediately put it to good use by watching Hoodlum Callum play a GBA ROM hack on a 55 inch screen.

6 Red Coins was a lot, but then they raised it to 7 Red Coins, which was too much. That makes 8 Red Coins way too many! Drop the coin counts, or I'll get the Star for 0 Red Coins, if you catch my drift.

I'm still super excited for Mario Kart World, but my god was that Direct 90% already known information and 10% small new things. Why did they even make that a full Direct? 🙃

The wonderful @4dozeneggs.bsky.social has officially completed the Pokemon X Randomized Nuzlocke's final team art!

Gwen and I's impressions of the Switch 2 Experience from last weekend is officially live! #NintendoSwitch2 youtu.be/9Nk5WjnvO8E?...

Okay, so I legitimately dreamt about pilk last night. I had a dream that I woke up and there was a glass of Pepsi on my table next to a little shot of milk. I tossed the milk into the Pepsi and chugged it, before insisting to suddenly present random people that it was good.

It's pilk time, baby!

It's crazy to think I'm less than a week away from playing the Switch 2... and taking a much needed vacation from work.

Monday morning sun. My eyes hurt a little while lining this up (I didn't stare directly in, it was just bright), but the photo opportunity was too good to pass up lol

Also, because I didn't actually share it here, my wife and I are going to the Switch 2 Experience in NYC this April. Expect some content themed around it afterwards.

Recently Jazza made this video featuring some cut Pokemon designs with his team. I really liked how their designs turned out, so I decided to make some sprites of each of them based on the art Alisha made of each one. #pokemon #pixelart

Here's to 2024! It was a good year for me artistically! Don't mind May's weirdness. I downscaled it into oblivion to censor it since I haven't formally revealed it yet. #summaryofart2024 #summaryofart #artsummary #pixelart #fakemon

Been watching Squid Game season 2, and it's honestly surprisingly good. I was worried it would feel too forced, but it's very clear that there was either some idea of how to follow up on season 1 or that they at the very least nailed the extension of the plot. I'm not done quite yet, but I'm hooked.

So I might've gotten on another kick like this and made a Google Sheet to start organizing things better...

I got visual storyteller, which does make sense considering the Fakemon Type Challenge from early in the year and Inktober from later in the year. That said, I'm hoping to up my post numbers down the line. Try it for yourself at blueskywrapped.com #BlueskyWrapped2024

A year of bangers, honestly. I can't lie, this may have been my most artistically successful year yet. A high volume of entirely original works, a good number of lessons learned, and some of my favorite sprites ever. #artvsartist #artvsartist2024 #pixelart #fakemon