I'm preaching to the choir here I'm sure, but I need to let this out since I run into it daily at work: IF YOU ARE RETURNING A LAPTOP OR GAME CONSOLE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT please reset it. log out of your accounts. format it from the options menu. turn off parental controls. it's really not hard.

(extreme Chris Cornell voice) asshole son

I don't like talking about my health so I'm being very intentionally vague, but know that I am taking steps in directions. hopefully the right directions!!

Aidan@girambquamb.com · last wk.

once my health is in order and I have more energy I promise I will go back to gamedev and make the worst game ever. pinky swear.

on one hand I'm being ragebaited but on the other hand... god what a nightmarish scenario

just a little game about a jumping guy called "super mario" 😏

Retro Blast 💫@retroblastpod.com · 5d ago

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?

everything I hear here about post-secondary game design courses makes them sound way worse than the game studies course I took in uni. perhaps the benefit of getting a useless degree is I actually got to be enriched by my education.......

if my next game was just simon says but it had funny visuals and let you choose one of three things after each round it would do numbers?

started typing a mario 64 star name into the youtube search bar to doublecheck if it required anything more than mario's basic jumps and MAN am i glad mario doesnt have to get that other star

alright well nevermind guess I'm not going to magfest if it's going to sell out in 5 hours what the fuck

once my health is in order and I have more energy I promise I will go back to gamedev and make the worst game ever. pinky swear.

am I wrong, or does it not cost a pretty penny to use claude for coding nowadays? like are all these shitty PC ports and vibecoded emulators costing these people real money?

me too man. me too.

very close to getting off my high horse and going to next magfest so I can see my cool friends... y'all do have to understand that it is actually kinda scary to travel to a country with leaders that talk about annexing mine though. it's not your fault but it's the world we live in.

starting to think that my dark souls 2 experience would be better if I didn't start by hard leveling faith so I could throw the shitty lightning spears it's still dope but I am getting out-scaled....

if you ever (god forbid) see one of my posts "blowing up" please email me at urgent@aidan.com so I can delete it immediately

sending this combination of emotes after any message i send on steam really feels like it amplifies the importance of my message

I have a strong urge to play Zelda II again I genuinely think this game broke me

I have far too many thoughts on this game, but my bullet point thoughts are: - don't bother without savestates or cheats - it would be slightly better if you could walk one direction and block in another - it would be majorly better if every screen in this game wasn't a bullshit trap to make you mad

Aidan@girambquamb.com · 2w ago

beat zelda II I'm kinda over it. I think it has the potential to be the zelda game with the best combat, and it has some great moments that push it towards that (see attached clip - we don't hate these guys as much anymore because we learned how to fight em) but overall it's just not tuned right

We all have 400 errant thoughts a day and have unfortunately been conditioned to post about 10 of them openly, which unfortunately means “getting into greek yogurt” reads as massive news or a hot take to some people who can’t parse that it’s one of those 400 errant thoughts that’s gone tomorrow.

sorry for all the Zelda II posting but just so you know we hate this guy. if you're my friend you fucking HATE this guy.

trying to not put this in a sappy or self deprecating way... but it continues to shock and amaze me that people like me, like what I do, and want to interact with me I have a pretty awful self image which is a me problem to solve. but in striving to be better I really have come to appreciate this.

this might be the most evergreen xkcd. my timeline is 75% this.

idk man Zelda II is just so stupidly hard... it's tough to even call the combat better than the first game it's much more of a combat-y game, but what made Zelda 1 combat so nice was the dichotomy of needing to maneuver precisely in what was a very limited grid-based system.

proud to anounce that Kirby Titans will be revealed 9 hours from now

no arms 2, no mario maker 3, no game builder garage 2.... literally who cares

starting to lose hope that they're gonna announce ARMS 2 :(

nintendo direct prediction: miyamoto apologizes to me personally for putting this enemy here

trying out a new thing where instead of replying to dumbass reddit comments I just type out my reply, post a screenshot here where my adoring fans will cheer me on, and then not actually hit send

oh are you guys still talking about zelda? that's cute I guess but the rest of us have moved on. we're all talking about other things. you should join us in posting different things to my timeline.