Nicolas Hamel

@hamelnico.bsky.social

He/him, 34, Canadian (Québécois), bilingual (français/English), friendly geek, sole author of video game review blog Planned All Along. https://plannedallalong.blogspot.com/

This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.

Photo from the telegraph. Red background with a roll of wheelchair stickers on white paper. Text reads “how having a disability became cool”

Back home from seeing Coyote vs ACME again (but this time my father came along). I learned about these last few months we have to transfer our 3DS-era Pokémon to Bank and then to Home, so I'm doing that now. I have X, Sun and Ultra Sun Pokémon to move around. It's gonna be a lot.

That thread was such a delight to read, I must've gone back to it three times in two days. The movie will still be in theaters in my area tomorrow, I already went last Saturday, and I am planning to go again tomorrow with my father, a huge fan of the Looney Tunes. I know he'll love it.

Robin Sevakis@jadedsketch.bsky.social · 6d ago

Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.

Wile E Coyote in an office, pointing to a sign he's holding that reads "WE CANNOT JUDGE OUR WORTH ON THE WORK OF OTHERS"

Maybe it's the exhaustion from my busy yesterday but I so feel like doing nothing tonight... My review for tomorrow is ready and I should start playing the next game, but it's like interest (or will) isn't quite there. On the plus side, I'm already down to just 11 Quick Review games to test!

At the Bell Center tonight to attend a Rush concert! As a fan of Dream Theater since 2013, I knew I wasn't gonna pass up a chance to see one of their biggest inspirations! Rush are legendary after all.

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo

Unfortunately I don't have 10. Have this list of 7 though! Dream Theater Weird Al Yankovic QW4RTZ Lisa LeBlanc Les Trois Accords Grand Corps Malade I've Made Too Much Pasta And in less than a week, I'll be seeing Rush, so... make that a potential 8. Wow, my music interests reach wide 'n weird.

Jen@brokemycoccyx.bsky.social · last wk.

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen Live Duran Duran The Cure The Cult Nine Inch Nails Indigo Girls Coheed and Cambria Ice Cube Alanis Morrisette Tool Deftones

Probably the toughest part of writing lately has been trying to remember very specific words and failing to recall them. Weird how often TVTropes has helped me with that, too; the latest one I was racking my brain trying to remember was "Rube Goldberg device".

In Distrust, you play a rescue team stranded on the Arctic base they were coming to help. Something happened here. Throughout the adventure, you'll be battling hypothermia, hunger, exhaustion, illnesses, and monsters that appear when a character is asleep. No, I didn't stutter. Good luck surviving!

Quick Review: Distrust

Planned All Along is a video game review blog that puts emphasis on the story aspect of games. With occasional comedy. New reviews on Fridays.

plannedallalong.blogspot.com

I'm gonna publish another Quick Review tomorrow, and then I'll wait for next Friday before publishing the next. This coming week is going to be extremely busy for me, and I don't think I'll be able to keep up the two-reviews-a-week speed for that one.

Somebody's been commenting on my Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon articles with comments about keeping up with the news. Okay. Their latest comment has a link to a website that goes by Hero Luigi and highliting the name "Steve Bannon". ...Lemme guess, that's a roundabout way to be about Luigi Mangione?

My review is genuine; would be a great game if the game wasn't trying to pick your pocket every chance it gets. But also, for the first time in forever, I cannot spend on fun stuff, so this game's naked (and incessant) attempts at making me reach for the wallet induce annoyance bording on anger.

Nicolas Hamel@hamelnico.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's no shortage of freemium games out there. Disney Speedstorm offers competitive multiplayer, fun remixes of famous songs, 130+ racers across many properties... It's a fun concept. One which will eventually goad you into pulling out the credit card if you want to make any progress fast.

There's no shortage of freemium games out there. Disney Speedstorm offers competitive multiplayer, fun remixes of famous songs, 130+ racers across many properties... It's a fun concept. One which will eventually goad you into pulling out the credit card if you want to make any progress fast.

Quick Review: Disney Speedstorm

Planned All Along is a video game review blog that puts emphasis on the story aspect of games. With occasional comedy. New reviews on Fridays.

plannedallalong.blogspot.com

Music: Angine de Poitrine, Rush, Harmonium, Mes Aïeux (of course I'm gonna recommend mostly French Canadian stuff!) Movies: You ought to watch all of the pre-Hollywood Denis Villeneuve films. Hell, the same goes for every one of our directors that's made the leap. Phenomenal artistry.

Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · 2w ago

Also - please join me if you will in flooding Bluesky with Canadian culture. Music, art, film, TV. Let’s show the vibrancy of this place I’m proud to call home.