Spread out the drop cloth. Cut the Bristol board. Brush the dust off the cans. It’s spray painting season!
Here’s a recap of everything that went down during Steff and I’s first session of the year.
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Why Did You Eat That!? – Stardew Valley Live Stream – Part 3
Though I’ve been pining for Haley for weeks now, we’ve made inroads with someone else in ways that I didn’t expect. Besides that, we partake in our first egg festival, discuss our issues with using social media, and geek out over the return of the Tony Hawk series!
Never Leaving the House! – Tetris 99 Live Stream
As if we didn’t have enough going on in the world, now the murder hornets are here? It’s not all doom and gloom throughout this Tetris 99 stream though! We get in a few wins, discuss which gaming studios you’ll give all of your money to, share streaming advice, and I get on my soapbox to state why I hate the term “gamer”.
View the full post to see the full stream, highlights, and shoutouts!
Improving My Streaming Content with a Voice Changer and a Little Ingenuity
“Haley is ignoring you.”
After receiving a harsh comment from Haley in Stardew Valley about my perceived lack of fashion sense the other day, the animosity grew with this latest interaction. Refusing to even look me in the eye, I decided to find another way to her heart: through my phone.
In one hand, I picked up my phone. The other hand was holding down the button to my new voice changer. Now sounding to the viewers as if I was actually on the phone, I left a pathetic voicemail of my character begging for Haley’s attention.
As I hung up the phone, the Simp Phone was born. What started as a silly spur-of-the moment test of my new voice changer became a recurring segment. More importantly, it was a step towards shoring up one of my biggest weaknesses as a streamer.
Why Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island is a Timeless Classic
Over on Twitch, I recently wrapped up a playthrough of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island. It’s a game that I’ve always held in high regard, but going through it now as an adult decades later further solidified its standing in my mind as an all-time great. What makes this one so special?
Arc System Works: The New King of Fighters
For a long time, I perceived fighting games by Arc System Works as being too complex for me. Initially drawn to their work by how amazing the BlazBlue games looked, my mind melted when I struggled to grasp the game’s intricacies. Guilty Gear games up to Xrd might as well have been rocket science. Love watching the pros play these games, but I have no clue where to being learning how to play.
Their penchant for designing characters that function wildly different from one another while layering on tons of system-level mechanics for fighters that were inpenetrable to me. Even now, after a decade of serious fighting game experience, it would take me a ton of work to just feel competent at any of legacy Guilty Gear or BlazBlue games.
In recent times, Arc System Works have gone a long way towards finding a better balance while also pushing the limits of anime-style graphics. Between their tireless efforts to improve (and Capcom’s well-documented struggles), I think that Arc System Works is the king of fighting game publishers right now.
Not Ready For This Jelly – Stardew Valley Multiplayer Stream with Double Jump and PlayerTwoStart
Kris from Double Jump and my brother Randy join me to start our latest venture: Triple Jump Start Farm! While the two experts breeze their way through the early stages of Stardew Valley, I spend too much time pining for love in all the wrong places. Also, did we make it out of the mines alive?!
Celebrating a Twitch Milestone with a Money Gun!
200 follows! Thank you so much for all of your support throughout this journey! I get super sappy and shout out everyone who follows the channel before blasting the money gun in a blaze of glory!
The Best Games Starring Yoshi
Mario’s dinosaur friend makes appearances in a plethora of fantastic games. As a solo star, Yoshi’s output is…a mixed bag. A slew of mediocre puzzle games, one-off ideas, and a disappointing collection of platformers makes up the majority of the library.
Though Yoshi could be used better, there are a some real gems in the catalogue. Here are my picks for best Yoshi games!
6 Games to Play in My Backlog if I Ever Stop Playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons
As soon as I pay off the final installment of my mortgage, I think I can finally ease off of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Sure, there’s still my house and a whole island to decorate. I also have no plans on exiting the turnip market. However, I can probably let go of my daily runs for fish, bugs, and wood.
What’s next on the queue? Not exactly sure, but I’ve got a bunch of games to work with!
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