Nayan Ramachandran
@thetrin.blacksky.app
Producer and Bizdev working with Basically Games on Baldi's Basics Plus. Writing a sci-fi/fantasy novel. Previously Sr. Producer at Akupara Games, & co-founded Dangen Entertainment. Still in love with Osaka. 英語と日本語もOK!
Words: https://medium.com/@thetrin
Words: https://medium.com/@thetrin
Love your work, dude. Maybe not right away, but I'd love to chat with you at some point soon about some logo work for a project of mine.
January 13, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Love your work, dude. Maybe not right away, but I'd love to chat with you at some point soon about some logo work for a project of mine.
Like, by all means, vote with your wallet, and don't buy games you don't want to. But like, cheering when a game fails is just wild to me.
January 13, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Like, by all means, vote with your wallet, and don't buy games you don't want to. But like, cheering when a game fails is just wild to me.
Yeah, exactly. Often times, though, all combat bottlenecks at the stagger gauge, because no matter what build you use, you have to go through that first.
January 12, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Yeah, exactly. Often times, though, all combat bottlenecks at the stagger gauge, because no matter what build you use, you have to go through that first.
I also think a lot of games make stagger gauge block too much HP damage prior to depletion.
January 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I also think a lot of games make stagger gauge block too much HP damage prior to depletion.
I dig the idea, but I think too many games make the stagger gauge take too long to deplete. Most of the fight ends up chipping away at the stagger gauge, and then once they're staggered, their HP depletes super quickly.
January 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I dig the idea, but I think too many games make the stagger gauge take too long to deplete. Most of the fight ends up chipping away at the stagger gauge, and then once they're staggered, their HP depletes super quickly.
Essentially. It's this further abstraction of HP depletion, but the feedback is terrible. Until you deplete the gauge and start doing HP damage, hitting the stagger gauge feels like you're hitting the enemy with a wet noodle.
January 12, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Essentially. It's this further abstraction of HP depletion, but the feedback is terrible. Until you deplete the gauge and start doing HP damage, hitting the stagger gauge feels like you're hitting the enemy with a wet noodle.
I'm playing Fate/Samurai Remnant right now, and HOLY SHIT the "shell gauge" (basically the game's version of a stagger gauge) is FUCKING AWFUL.
January 12, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I'm playing Fate/Samurai Remnant right now, and HOLY SHIT the "shell gauge" (basically the game's version of a stagger gauge) is FUCKING AWFUL.
I forgot FFXIII had it! It's annoying as hell in FFXVI too.
January 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I forgot FFXIII had it! It's annoying as hell in FFXVI too.
It just feels bad. When you're depleting it, you feel like you're hitting a brick wall with very little feedback, and when it depletes, you're just unloading everything you have before it refills. It's so annoying.
January 12, 2026 at 9:20 PM
It just feels bad. When you're depleting it, you feel like you're hitting a brick wall with very little feedback, and when it depletes, you're just unloading everything you have before it refills. It's so annoying.
I'm not against stagger gauges, but they serve better as a parallel gauge to HP which empties as you do decent dmg, and depleting it just stuns the enemy.
Boy do I not like it as a shield gauge.
Boy do I not like it as a shield gauge.
January 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I'm not against stagger gauges, but they serve better as a parallel gauge to HP which empties as you do decent dmg, and depleting it just stuns the enemy.
Boy do I not like it as a shield gauge.
Boy do I not like it as a shield gauge.
You can never underestimate the incredible power of the marquee tool, and adding/subtracting selections. Literally the back bone of everything I do in Photoshop.
January 12, 2026 at 9:10 PM
You can never underestimate the incredible power of the marquee tool, and adding/subtracting selections. Literally the back bone of everything I do in Photoshop.
Oh man, do I ever love pho.
January 12, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Oh man, do I ever love pho.
I really miss it! It was like reading an encyclopedia about a fictional world.
January 12, 2026 at 4:03 AM
I really miss it! It was like reading an encyclopedia about a fictional world.
This is peak libertarian behavior. Let horrible crimes go unpunished because they don't affect me right now.
January 12, 2026 at 2:10 AM
This is peak libertarian behavior. Let horrible crimes go unpunished because they don't affect me right now.
Mamdani's work so far has retroactively made me hate past politicians so much more, because I finally realize what they COULD have been doing this whole time.
January 11, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Mamdani's work so far has retroactively made me hate past politicians so much more, because I finally realize what they COULD have been doing this whole time.
Awesome! Yep, I was very much the same as a kid. Hell, if manuals still existed, I'd read them all the time even now. I just have to live with watching Youtube videos about the game I'm obsessed with.
January 11, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Awesome! Yep, I was very much the same as a kid. Hell, if manuals still existed, I'd read them all the time even now. I just have to live with watching Youtube videos about the game I'm obsessed with.