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justBooJay

@justbluejay.bsky.social

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He/Him. Has brainworms from both Scrimblo Bimblos AND McJRPG guys. Sometimes makes things. Donkey Kong 64 has always been a good video game AND NOW IT'S GOT A SEQUELLLLLL

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 8h

They were selling WII GAMES for $60 for goodness sakes!

justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 8h

“This looks like a $40 game”
Stop it. This is PS3/360 era console anime game graphics and you know it. The 3DS looked good but it didn’t look THAT good

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 2d

I did turn down to Story already!!

justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 2d

Battles are so swingy because attacks need to be lethal for you to push those buttons. And if you drop a parry and someone goes down it's hard to get the momentum back. That's not bad game design per se, but it sure is a slog when you can't seem to git gud

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 2d

Also how the game incentivizes parrying by giving you a huge HUGE advantage for doing it? When you parry you get extra AP and free damage from the counter. Dodging on the other hand gets you 1 extra AP if you've got Dodger (and of course every Perfect Dodge means you could have parried that)

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 2d

I've honestly been bouncing off of it as well. I /like/ the story and think the gameplay is neat but also I turned down the difficulty and (the kicker) I feel like it's more of an obligation to play right now than anything, to "be part of the conversation" or whatever

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 3d

a cartoon of a man talking to another man with the caption do i look like i know what a jpeg is .

Alt: GIF: A clip from King of the Hill. Main character Hank is at a photo center airing his frustrations with one of the workers. The caption says: "Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?" The GIF lowers in quality as its loop progresses, mirroring the artifacting that occurs as a JPEG image gets copied and shared.

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 9d

Turns out when you have a team weak to Grass a bulky Grass-type actually becomes a problem that's worth cracking a TM open for #FiestaSideEvent

A screenshot of Pokemon Crystal. The Pokemon Menu is open.
"QUIGLEY learned FURY CUTTER!"

A screenshot of Pokemon Crystal. QUIGLEY the Lv. 20 Croconaw is in battle.
"Enemy BAYLEEF fainted!"

A screenshot of Pokemon Crystal. DWAYNE the paralyzed Geodude is in a battle.
[Rival] "GIORNO was defeated!"

A screenshot of Pokemon Crystal. DWAYNE the paralyzed Geodude is in a battle against the player's rival.
"CHRIS got [960 Poke-dollars] for winning!"

justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 10d

Bugsy down! Currently I don't have a real answer to the Rival's Bayleef so I'll need to grind a bit.

Gym Leader Bugsy defeated by Dwayn the Lv. 19 Geodude.
"CHRIS got [1600 Poke-dollars] for winning!

justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 13d

Zephyr Badge get! This is also a Unique Ball run, so I won't pick up my Geodude until I pick up a Great Ball (there's a couple hidden on the way to Azalea Town)

A screenshot of Pokemon Crystal. The player is conversing with an NPC.
"CHRIS registered JOEY's number."

Screenshot of Pokemon Crystal. Gym Leader Falkner has been defeated by QUIGLEY, the level 16 Totodile.
"CHRIS got [900 pokedollars] for winning!"

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 13d

Here is my rolled team btw:
Starter: Totodile
Water HMs: Chinchou
Early Game: Geodude
Up to Goldenrod: Pinsir
Up to Surf: [Meowth/Mankey] (I'm playing Crystal so I get the cat!)
Up to E4: Swinub
Postgame: Misdreavus

Your Pokemon are:
Totodile, Chinchou, Geodude, Pinsir, [Meowth/Mankey], Swinub. Misdreveaus [sic]

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 13d

You know what yeah let's do a #FiestaSideEvent 🧵

A screenshot of Pokemon Crystal. The player stands in Professor Elm's Lab.
"CHRIS received TOTODILE!"

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · 20d

the ironyyyyyyyyy #spoilers

A crop of a panel from the 4 Unending Journeys chapter "Who is Justice Virtuoso?". Sesame is speaking to Kaiien, who is off panel. Sesame's face is a mixture of shock and concern.

SESAME: "Justice, what did he look like?"
KAIIEN: "His... appearance?"

In this panel, Sesame has purple eyes.

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Sep 20

are you serious i literally just skimmed through episode grey again today

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Sep 16

To me the Hyrule of TotK actually DOESN'T feel the (exact) same as BotW. And it's not just because it was quite a while between me playing each, but also how you're given a different toolset to interact with the world. IMO it's a much better companion if using Zonai parts and other unique systems.

justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Sep 16

(ps I also believe that TotK would have benefited from having a more concrete connection to BotW. I have two hands.)

justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Sep 16

Really neat that people are coming to the same conclusion I have. Reject stricture, embrace comic book style continuity! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bInd...

No, The Zelda Timeline DOESN'T Matter

YouTube video by Blue Stigma

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Sep 16

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX5F...

Lanayru Sand Sea - The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

YouTube video by Nintendo Soundtracks

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Sep 12

Mannnnnn I really hope it's actually Good-Feel

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Sep 2

mannn I'm still on the Demiatma step... I honestly gotta get back into OC

justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yeah!!! It’s a US holiday and the little retro theater near me was playing both

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Sep 2

Superman 🥹
Last Son is the best superhero theme I’ve heard in a while. I love how it remixes the 1978 original!!!

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justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Sep 1

The new Fantastic Four movie reminded how much I love Reed hecking Richards. Our autistic coded king 🥰

justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Aug 29

Partway through this exercise I learned that only Game Boy Color supports tile mirroring but by that point I had really grown attached to the symmetrical design scheme and I still managed to end up with exactly 128 tiles (including the empty tile) #pixelart #gameboy

A piece of pixel art of a set of playing cards, aiming to emulate the limitations of original Game Boy hardware. The image's color palette is the classic Game Boy olive green. The goal was to use background tiles instead of sprites to create a standard French-suited deck with Jokers, and the top half of the image has all of the tiles organized into a tileset. The bottom half of the image shows example cards composed of these tiles: the Ace of Spades, the Queen of Hearts, the 10 of Clubs, the 7 of Diamonds, a Joker, and the reverse side of a card. The 10 of Clubs and 7 of Diamonds show that numbered cards (besides Aces) use two pips regardless of rank as a space-saving measure.

justBooJay @justbluejay.bsky.social · Aug 26

And I touch on that too! My thoughts aren't the most organized 😅