Making the thumbnail first sounds really cynical for YouTubers to do, but honestly thumbnails are fun to make so I get it

I like that the Street Fighter movie is using game accurate moves. Not because it's "a more accurate adaptation" or whatever, but because it means we'll get wacky fights that executives in other major Hollywood films would never allow

I thought about uvulas a lot more as a kid when I watched TV shows where people shrink and enter their mouth to stop them from being sick

wait a second i was a child when i did competitive pokemon fuck dem kids #iwannabetheverybest #pokemonchampions #morelikeelitezeroamirite

Pokemon Champions is a fun excuse to get into competitive Pokemon again but I feel bad for absolutely destroying what I assume are children

I feel like Invincible and The Boys are incredibly intertwined for me. But Invincible makes me go "Wow! Fun episode!" and The Boys uhhhhhh doesn't

It's funny that DLC tries to bribe me with powerful gear, but then I don't buy the DLC because it feels like cheating

I wish I could make porn like they did in the 70s. And by that I mean reasonable budgets and cool experimental filmmaking, not, like, the abuse and stuff

Anyway Fred Halsted rocks

Replacing social media time with video game time is one of the best decisions I've ever made. I'm way more productive with being unproductive now!

I like that Nintendo does straight queerbaiting.

Mario and Peach are just friends.

Luigi and Daisy are just friends.

Link and Zelda are just friends.

Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong are just friends.

If they're not a Fire Emblem or Xenoblade character they will never know romantic love

Started Sonic Frontiers and it's rad as hell (to my surprise tbh). It's doing the BOTW melancholy vibes even better than BOTW maybe? I'll have to see if that sticks but either way, shit is cool

RetroAchievements is such a cool project but I will never even consider touching it

"Oh no my mom died and I'm sad! But I'm going on an adventure and now I have a Luma found family! Even if I lose loved ones, there's a whole Super Mario Galaxy of friends to make! Wow!" The end. Happily ever after. Like every other kids movie template

Honestly baffling if Rosalina is sidelined in the Mario Galaxy movie, because she's like the only Mario character with an arc and complex emotions in the whole series. I'd make the whole plot revolve around her!

I'm friends with the spider in my shower 😁🚿🕷️

I hope the Ocarina of Time remake is BOTW-ized or some other radical departure because I can already play OoT and it's good. I don't understand why everyone wants games in the style of Gus Van Sant's Psycho

I've decided I unironically love the PC-98 Touhou graphics

RIP Yorhel, I wouldn't have anywhere near the same appreciation for games if it wasn't for VNDB

(if anything else on earth was advertised with the same consumer fantasy as videogames) YOU'LL BE WATCHING THIS MOVIE UNTIL THE DAY YOU DIE

In the middle of making a bunch of serious videos essays about stuff that mattered to me, I did a video journal where I just talked about all the games I played through the year. I thought it was a pointless low effort project at the time, but it ended up unique and fun I think!

I had a dream I was being chased out of a house by a chainsaw wielding killer, but my gamer brain kicked in and all I was thinking was "Man, these new horror games are so predictable. They clearly mapped just enough room for him to catch up, then do a cutscene to load the next area."

They should make a Freddy Got Fingered sequel called Freddy Got Pegged

I'm so close to beating Oeuf, I've spent hours on the last level and I keep convincing myself I can do it on the next try and failing

Badly paraphrasing a half-remembered Game Studies Study Buddies quote that stuck with me, "The amazing thing about art is that people will often point to some part of it and say, 'That is not true' and continue engaging with it anyway in defiance of the text."

Love your reviews as well! Seems like half the time I want to find discussion on obscure games, HG101 is the only one that comes up, and they're always insightful!

@hg101.bsky.social did an Ever17 podcast episode and I cannot explain how much joy and excitement I felt as I saw it on my feed

I feel like there should be more identical twins in games, just for easy asset reuse

Can't get over how good the GBA Fire Emblem animations are

Oeuf is such a an incredible game! I haven't had this much fun with a difficult platformer since Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

The curl area and the squat racks were both open! He had to spread his legs to straddle the bench!