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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 1d

Let's give this another try today, going to be streaming more Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma with hopefully less technical issues in about 30 minutes! www.twitch.tv/thomal9

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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 2d

I think I figured out why my stream connection earlier was so awful. I guess Twitch silently removed a bunch of servers a week or two ago and the one I had on by default isn't an option anymore. Reset a few things and looks like it's stable for now. Going to try streaming again tomorrow instead.

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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 2d

Nevermind, after an hour of trying to maintain any type of connection with the Twitch servers, I'm calling it here and cancelling the rest of today's stream. I think I'm going to try tomorrow afternoon instead but I'll announce it ahead of time here and in the discord.

Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 2d

It's been a month but it's time to return to Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma! Going live in about 10 minutes so let's see if I can remember what we were doing before we got distracted by the Bazaar. www.twitch.tv/thomal9

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I'm a variety streamer who tends to play old games I'm nostalgic about or just whatever strikes my mood. Hope you enjoy the content!

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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 8d

Finally home after driving most of the day, took forever with some random traffic jams on the way back.

Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 8d

The Trails in the Sky remake definitely picked an interesting way to pronounce "Liberl"

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max @gaydragon.bsky.social · 11d

action/platformer speedruns: yea we have to do 100 frame perfect tricks to clip through all these sections and it's all skill based and precise practice and speed

old jrpg speedruns: WE HAVE TO TORTURE THE GAME BY RIPPING ITS SOUL OUT AND REPLACING IT WITH DR MARIO TO FORCE IT TO DO OUR BIDDING

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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 12d

Been playing the Trails in the Sky remake and I thought that since I've played the original before that going Nightmare mode wouldn't be too bad. I'm a few hours in and I think I've died more times then my entire first playthrough of the original. Nightmare mode has hands.

Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 17d

I've been dealing with food poisoning all weekend and am basically running on no sleep right now. So I think I'm going to do the smart thing and cancel today's stream. I'll be out of town next weekend, so we'll get back to Rune Factory in October.

Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 19d

Food poisoning sucks. That's all.

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Nova Crystallis @novacrystallis.com · 20d

found it

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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 21d

Yakuza 3 but with better combat sounds like an absolute win.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 21d

Yakuza Kiwami 3 (with JPN/English voices) is officially announced

Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 23d

Going live soon! www.twitch.tv/thomal9

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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 24d

Just as a heads up, due to some afternoon plans, I'm going to be starting the stream earlier then usual today. We'll be getting back to the Grand Bazaar remake for another session or two! I'll likely be starting around 11AM PDT (about an hour earlier then usual).

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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 24d

Finished my no alert/non lethal run of MGS Delta. And yep, I'm a Tsuchinoko. Gotta love your Japanese snake cryptids. Overall, a very good remake of a very good game. Although it's a bit too faithful to original at times.

Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 24d

One day, I'll have a weekend where I don't need to catch up on work due to dumb delays from clients pushing things back. This weekend is not one of those weekends.

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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 27d

I can't believe The Super is bringing us some heavy rain.

New York Times Weather @nytweather.bsky.social · 27d

Moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Mario is expected to bring an unusual set of risks to California this week, including heavy rain in the Los Angeles area and dry lightning to the north.

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Tropical System Brings a Messy Forecast to Much of California

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delta! 24/7 PROTOMEN LOCKDOWN @peachdelta.bsky.social · 29d

I was about to be like “Why is he offering it like it’s a multiplayer experience, is he just going to sit there and watch her play” and then mid-sentence I realized every single Xenoblade fan in the world would do that

Nintendeal @nintendeal.com · 29d

In this scene from the long-running American soap opera Days of Our Lives (s61e008), Aaron uses playing Xenoblade as an excuse to invite Arianna into his dorm room.

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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · 28d

You know what? I'll take second place.

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niko da splunky stan @snugcrow.bsky.social · Sep 14

really big fan of this post. goated imo

tumblr post from astralcafe. "I Hope people are aware that the dominant strategy in magic the gathering right now is putting vivi from final fantasy 9 in a witch's cauldron to extract his powers" followed by a picture of the Vivi Ornitier card and the Agatha's soul cauldron card. Further text reads "watch any tournament footage and you will see him being boiled in the corner, often on both sides of the table"

zidane final fantasy 9 saying "its so fucking oppressive, the dominant strategy doesn't even begin to describe that 80% of all decks used at tournament right now are this. i hope they ban both these frickin cards the standard meta sucks right now for a broke bitch like me". Next to zidane is Adelbert weeping with his eyeliner running hollering "NO NOT MY BOY NOOOO SAVE HIM FROM BEING SOUP theyre boiling my son NOOOOOO"

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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · Sep 14

Woke up a bit sick with a cold so I'm going to cancel today's stream. We'll get back to Grand Bazaar next week.

Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · Sep 13

Just as a heads up, I might need to cancel tomorrow's Grand Bazaar stream. Some IRL things have come up but I'll provide an update tomorrow morning if I need to cancel.

Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · Sep 12

Metroid Prime 4 actually getting a release date is also nice.

Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · Sep 12

I think the new things I'm most looking forward to from the direct are Fire Emblem, the new Yoshi game, the Fatal Frame 2 remake, and the Dragon Quest 7 remake (maybe I'll actually beat it this time).

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Sir Thomal @thomal9.bsky.social · Sep 10

Finally won the FFXIV housing lottery and upgraded to a medium lot. Now to figure out how I want to decorate it.