![[Splatfest/Maximus] Splatoon 3 / Tetris 99 POWER of FOMO Never Takes a Vacation @YuuGiJoou](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RaS4wmSM2Nk/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Something's Wrong with the Ink and/or T-Spin Diffuser!
If you needless chatter, there's that version as well:
youtu.be/I4n9CJPtVnc
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Something's Wrong with the Ink and/or T-Spin Diffuser!
If you needless chatter, there's that version as well:
youtu.be/I4n9CJPtVnc
Originally ALSO streamed at:
twitch.tv/yuugijoou
Stay up to date on what nonsense I'm doing:
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discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, y'know, just harass me if I'm doing something you don't like, whatever.
![[Splatfest/Maximus] Splatoon 3 / Tetris 99 POWER of FOMO Never Takes a Vacation](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RaS4wmSM2Nk/mqdefault.jpg "[Splatfest/Maximus] Splatoon 3 / Tetris 99 POWER of FOMO Never Takes a Vacation
Somethings Wrong with the Ink and/or T-Spin Diffuser!
If you needless chatter, theres that version as well:
https://youtu.be/I4n9CJPtVnc
Originally ALSO streamed at:
https://twitch.tv/yuugijoou/
Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
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...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
![[Gameplay Only] Splatoon Raiders 5. Its Getting Spicy in Here](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SOxpTR-Lbd4/mqdefault.jpg "[Gameplay Only] Splatoon Raiders 5. Its Getting Spicy in Here
Yknow, because the allure of murder ovewhelms the dread of omnidimensional grind.
If you NEED needless chatter, theres that version as well:
https://youtube.com/live/zIP5S0aP2sU
(the gameplay resolution will be lower on account of streaming, though)
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![[Stream Archive] Splatoon Raiders 8. Just Keep Digging!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tb4uJ_XGyl4/mqdefault.jpg "[Stream Archive] Splatoon Raiders 8. Just Keep Digging!
With any luck, Ill finish early and spend my videogamelife playing video games instead!
I kinda screwed up the capture environment this time... so you CAN watch this one in the customary higher quality and no chat... but only the first two and a half hours or so were salvageable:
https://youtu.be/1O74_X_63LA
SORRY! (this ones going to stay unlisted, but ill still be linked here for posterity)
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![[Too-Late PSA...?] Monster Hunter Rise In the Event of Discontinuation](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Un6rOBCBZ3A/mqdefault.jpg "[Too-Late PSA...?] Monster Hunter Rise In the Event of Discontinuation
Apologies in advance for the extreme length of this video and description... but I feel strongly about this matter.
Id SAY this is a public service announcement... but Im really late to do anything about it myself, so... its not like Im actually DOING anything for this minor crisis of preservation. Im barely staying ahead of it myself... sometimes.
In this regard, I suppose Im a bit of a cautionary tale of my own, rather than someone helping keep things on straight. Maybe more of a postmortem autopsy...
Monster Hunter has a bit of an odd relationship with its event quests... specifically the ones made with regard to outside third party content and collaborations.
Make no mistake, some of these are really interesting things. Things Id never have thought would come to pass, even. Some absolutely lovely, top-shelf crossover content.
My personal favorites have been some truly outlandish collabs with Shonen Jump properties... actual, honest-to-goodness manga content adapted into the games. Plus a nifty pirate-themed getup modeled after the publications distinctive mascot. An absolutely ornately-crafted Final Fantasy-style quasi-organic armor straight out of the imagination of Tetsuya Nomura. Actual crossovers with tight-fisted Nintendo of all things (especially notable before they started loosening up on their IPs for a bit of late), including Zelda and Fire Emblem and Mario and Animal Crossing! Across multiple games!
In the HD era, such collaborations grew rather sparse, but the efforts grew all the more elaborate and interesting. Added entire monsters to hunt from both The Witcher and Final Fantasy. The bulk of them from Capcom, of course, but theyre still getting increasingly detailed and bespoke engineering feats for wholesale replacements of both hunter and hunting buddies.
But now with increasingly (always-)online connectivity... some strange things have been afoot... ... ... ones I find a bit troubling and disturbing.
In the two most recent Monster Hunter games, World and now Rise... events can be taken BACK... that is, the crossover content removed and lost to the ages.
The Ubisoft-based events for Assassins Creed have been taken out of the game, the items earned from it no longer usable to create a signature item with unique gameplay impacts. The box office blockbuster movie tie-in quest and rewards are now rescinded.
The is happening to a couple of Monster Hunter Rises notable tie-in events. Specifically, ones pertaining to Sonic the Hedgehog and Universal Studios Japan. The latter of which is a bit of a surprise, because theyve been one of the most longstanding of all the various collaboration partners... and even then, the relevant tie-ins are STILL in the previous game, amidst other delisted collabs!
However, and heres where things get at least a LITTLE bit brighter... if were to call it that. A silver lining to all this doom and gloom, at least.
Rise uses the old style of event quest distribution, the one that most games in the franchise have made their bread and butter, in contrast to Worlds initially irregular coming and going of online-enabled quests in rotation, something that the mainline series hadnt tried since Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii, in fact. The upshot here being that if you download the quests before theyre no longer being distributed, you get to hang onto them in your expanded save data in perpetuity. You just wont be able to download them after the fact.
NOW were finally onto the point of order that has captured my curiosity.
With a totally blank slate for save data, youll definitely need to start up the game, get to the point where they stop trying to teach you how to interact with the home bases facilities... and THEN you can get the courier cat NPC to give up the goods. You MUST do this before the quest distribution is ended.
Somewhat surprisingly, it seems to do this... automatically now? At least the end of Senris spiel leads straight into telling you whats available in add-on content. You dont need to manually goad him into downloading it for you. (This might be a tip of the hat in favor of user friendliness to the sunsetting of the quests in question.)
THEN, I went out and made a SECOND fresh hunter alongside that one, to see how the procedure works out... and I didnt even need to do that much. The game apparently already recognized the relevant data and announced it being present and accounted for. Senri just needs you to claim it for the new players amassed content reserves.
I hesitantly take this to mean that you can conceivably make and unmake and remake as many save game files as you want afterwards, so long as the downloaded data remains intact for you to use at your leisure thereafter. Maybe.
I still wouldnt risk it, personally. So I have spare files just in case. (Well see!)
More super-untimely public service announcements where that came from!
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![[Gameplay Only] Splatoon Raiders 6. Some Like It Hot](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VMGIaHMUsLc/mqdefault.jpg "[Gameplay Only] Splatoon Raiders 6. Some Like It Hot
And some cant stand the heat... or the fishy smell?
If you NEED needless chatter clogging up the sidebar, theres that version as well:
https://youtube.com/live/Ff747jXD_v4
(but you lose some resolution coming from the livestream version)
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![[Gameplay Only] ICh Bin(M) Queen of (other peoples) Games... Development?!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VQAdTYkpJxc/mqdefault.jpg "[Gameplay Only] ICh Bin(M) Queen of (other peoples) Games... Development?!
I rule you? I rule you.
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(If you come on MY show, then Im afraid I somehow DO have some sense of non-fake authority. Yes. Please understand.)
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If youd rather see the game with a minimalistic puppet show facade and a distinct lack of sauciness involved, that versions here:
https://youtu.be/uUYvO7-lttg
If you want to see the gameplay more legibly, but still want to have the creators insightful anecdotes getting in the way of actually playing it, weve got that covered, too:
https://youtu.be/uPrdb8GvqSc
While im USUALLY a gameplay-only purist myself when it comes to video content (as much as thats at odds with the great lengths I go to insert MYSELF into the mix above all else... I at least DO make certain that I retain the clean copy like ID want all the same, with very few exceptions, EVEN when it doesnt make any sense anymore! like here!) ...I actually VERY MUCH recommend watching one of the other two versions for full and proper context.
And some improper context. And some general talking all over each other. Thats how a show is run, right?!
The game you see in this thing you CAN play. YOU! Yourself! It was made and published and even exists within a web browser for maximum portabilty and/or user safety!
ICh Bin(M) can be played here:
https://fromscratchsoftware.itch.io/ich-binm
From Scratch Software
https://fromscratchsoftware.itch.io/
https://twitch.tv/fromscratchsoftware
This was originally created as part of a Game Jam run by Pirate Software (there are even a few in-jokes to that effect!), so feel free to check out @PirateSoftware :
youtube.com/piratesoftware
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Full disclosure, I kinda screwed up here. Again. As usual. I mean, w-what?! N-Never! This never happens to me, I swear! Obviously!
I streamed AND captured this thing at a piddling 30fps by freak accident... its Monster Hunter Wildss fault, obviously, because it made me make a bunch of extra OBS layouts and configurations such that my array of choices got confusing! Yep! thats it!
Also, if there are any super weird pixel scaling issues, its because of the abnormal way in which I had to play the thing. (Some of which becomes apparent when I try to do something weird and impromptu during the stream itself! Fascinating! Definitely suboptimal! Sweet, sweet scuff!)
Theres no FULLSCREEN button in the corner either! The WHOLE time! Thats a figment of your imagination!
This is a bit of a weird one, but a pleasant one to have had the chance to do. And all it cost me was a day of trying to wrangle my local distractions AND an ill-advised night full of Xenoblade Chronicles! (Grr?!)
My buddy Scratch (see what he did there?!) makes games! I saw him build this one, somewhat. When I could spare some time and didnt mind vegging out and just listening to keys clack and tests run and information looked up. (He also cooks up a mean spreadsheet just to keep himself on task! Tasks like making spreadsheets! Productivity!)
Its a fairly simple game, which is part of why we were able to just sit down on a whim and try the thing in this fashion. I desperately tried to not-remember anything I mightve picked up while NOT zoning out during his development streams over on Twitch (or even as far back as when he was just showing them off to whoever would listen and watch on Discord), and I think my self-brain-erasure was PRETTY adequately performed. I now forget what turquoise means, but Im pretty confistruggle that it was a worthy sacrifiblender!
He also joked while we were watching him run through the stuff that I should voice the main character. A machine. Since its an indie game jam made under time constraints and natural complexity limitations, I goaded him on, as there was NO WAY this could EVER actually be turned into a thing.
And thats how the game got an ad-libbed, one-time-only performance by two people who only know how to speak in complete monotone. (Im playing a robot, whats your excuse?! ... ... ...whats MY excuse the REST of the time?!)
We also did some fun things like looking at his OTHER published game jam product that he now hates like a first or middle child who wont stop writing on the walls for attention.
Also I (eventually) broke his game! I told him I would! And not even in the way he told me would probably result in a catastrophic system failure!
Overall, it was a lot of fun! For me, anyway! Scratch assures me likewise, but I mightve had him under some sort of unspeakable duress at the time. You dont have to trust anything he says!
If YOU thought this was neat or fun or weird or interesting or a hellish experience youd never want to be offered ever again, please let me know, and Ill arrange appropriate reward/reprimand accordingly! :3")
![[Super Game Boy] Donkey Kong #4. Nature Walk](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VtVWbN7bs9Y/mqdefault.jpg "[Super Game Boy] Donkey Kong #4. Nature Walk
Going on an ape hunt! Gonna find a big one!
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For extra funsies, hows about playing the thing WITHOUT the parts that ostensibly make it Super and not just Game Boy?
To get down to just the pixels and utterly defeat any purpose to playing it like this at all, try here:
https://youtu.be/lmMPOu6SrHU
I promise Ill be DONE talking about the Super Game Boy enhancements specific to this game and this hardware configuration soon enough... but I played it this way SO much that I flat out did not even KNOW for the longest time that the vocalized cries for HELP! at the start of nearly every stage were one such feature.
I mean, in hindsight, yeah, no, that makes sense... it definitely doesnt fit within the tech specs of a Game Boy game. But part of the magic and whimsy of having discovered the bizarre treasure that was the Super Game Boy and its capacity to confer bespoke diffentials from the original capabilities of a games base content... is the part that I hadnt even discovered just how well it was doing its job without my knowing it!
Listen. Kids are stupid. And observation skills and critical thinking come later. Sorry, kids. Youll grow out of it! Into... it? Something! You got this!
At least the lush, but INSANE (and not programmatically scalable with tech of the time) colorization was really eye-catching, so I didnt miss that. Until I was trying to figure out why a Game Boy Color apparently COULDNT manage to figure out how to do the same thing.
A wizard did it. At R&D2. Yep.
In this pre-World demo, we get introduced to... switches!
No! Wait! I swear! Its good! Its not oh, thats totally obvious!
Umm... ... ... Donkey Kong uses switches of a totally unnecessarily different design than the ones Mario uses?
(Its actually quite rare that Mario can even REACH a switch that DK might be using, and not just because theres some big palooka in the way, but this is more of an observation of the visual language of Donkey Kong 1994 than anything actually useful.)
In case it was unclear up to now, theres... like... a LOT of extra lives to be had in this game. Bonus stages. Time bonuses! Every four stages, the combined remaining timer values for stage clears all get added together, and you get a 1up for every 100 counts left over! Even the excess extras after that is an extra life!
Collecting all of Paulines dropped accessories (hats and handbags are one thing, but how many parasols does she ACTUALLY need?!) also gets you a free play of either a slot machine or a wheel of extra lives. Sure, its usually one life per visit, and Im REALLY bad at slot machines, but it all adds up! Mario is basically immortal! ... ... ...he better be, with how easy it is to utterly destroy his flimsy body.
Forest, 2-1
You may also quickly notice... this game has an absolutely absurd variety of enemies. Sure, most of them end up funcitonally identical in many ways and are just a snazzy coat of paint, like... two sprites at most each time. Its a small detail, but also simultaneously an abundant one, serving to make the overall flavor of an otherwise gentle curve of simple gameplay very gradually ramping up can always feel fresh.
Forest, 2-2
See? You didnt know all there was to know about switches from just that one little demo segment! They dont just control platforms in a slightly different fashion from those ladder and bridge pickups! They can control the movement of elevator platforms! They can even have more than two states!
Forest, 2-3
Two helpful notes here that dont really get shown off... you can actually safely crouch under the plants projectiles, but only when youre not holding something in your hands.
The other thing is that because the ladder pickup is so close to where Mario starts and the path to the door only shutters off once gameplay begins... you can actually block that shutter with the temporary ladder occupying that space, even after the ladder disappears.
These kinds of quirks in object interactions are critical to later stages in the game, but its more of a quirky footnote in this one.
Forest, 2-4
In a DK stage thats NOT the capstone of the whole themed world, youll tend to just need to reach Donkey Kong to scare him into running away, much like the three stages leading up to 100m in the original arcade progression.
In this case, its a recreation of the original stage layout for Donkey Kong Jr.!
... ... ...so... a reverse-reversal!")
![[Clip] F-Zero 99 First, Do ALL of the Harm! #fzero99](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W0LNLFTja1c/mqdefault.jpg "[Clip] F-Zero 99 First, Do ALL of the Harm! #fzero99
*You can trust me, Im a doctor!
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*This is terrible medical advice for patients and practitioners alike. No one should ever follow anything I do for any reason whatsoever. In fact, its probably more medically sound to do the OPPOSITE of what I do or say. Probably.
(Bearing in mind that this is also something I said to do, so doing the opposite of... doing the opposite of what I say means... um... ... ... I need a doctor!)")
