![Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition [Intermission] 9.5.5 Seas the Day! ...Again?! @YuuGiJoou](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qn2c8utoL54/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
We now return from our unscheduled deliciousness interruption. I'm sure this won't be a plague upon anyone's activity feed given however YouTube handles those these days now...
This is a little experimental format change JUST for the fact that the game crawls to a complete stop outside of the JRPG antics the series is known for... THAT way I can spend my REAL time throwing saucy tea party puppet shows during appropriate moments and story content!
...in theory, anyway!
Fancy way of saying that I'm just un-skipping the sidequests that I was otherwise rushing past when we were "on" and the hour was fast becoming late and I wanted to end stream on a high and bombastic "I'LL KILL YOU!" note. (Thanks, Shoolk!)
But make sure you seize it some OTHER day, just to be sane and well-paced?
If you need LESS chatter, there's that version as well, recombined into one video:
youtu.be/g3QWz-MjT9E
Originally ALSO streamed at:
twitch.tv/yuugijoou
Stay up to date on what nonsense I'm doing:
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, y'know, just harass me if I'm doing something you don't like, whatever.
We now return from our unscheduled deliciousness interruption. I'm sure this won't be a plague upon anyone's activity feed given however YouTube handles those these days now...
This is a little experimental format change JUST for the fact that the game crawls to a complete stop outside of the JRPG antics the series is known for... THAT way I can spend my REAL time throwing saucy tea party puppet shows during appropriate moments and story content!
...in theory, anyway!
Fancy way of saying that I'm just un-skipping the sidequests that I was otherwise rushing past when we were "on" and the hour was fast becoming late and I wanted to end stream on a high and bombastic "I'LL KILL YOU!" note. (Thanks, Shoolk!)
But make sure you seize it some OTHER day, just to be sane and well-paced?
If you need LESS chatter, there's that version as well, recombined into one video:
youtu.be/g3QWz-MjT9E
Originally ALSO streamed at:
twitch.tv/yuugijoou
Stay up to date on what nonsense I'm doing:
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, y'know, just harass me if I'm doing something you don't like, whatever.
![Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition [Intermission] 9.5.5 Seas the Day! ...Again?!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qn2c8utoL54/mqdefault.jpg "Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition [Intermission] 9.5.5 Seas the Day! ...Again?!
We now return from our unscheduled deliciousness interruption. Im sure this wont be a plague upon anyones activity feed given however YouTube handles those these days now...
This is a little experimental format change JUST for the fact that the game crawls to a complete stop outside of the JRPG antics the series is known for... THAT way I can spend my REAL time throwing saucy tea party puppet shows during appropriate moments and story content!
...in theory, anyway!
Fancy way of saying that Im just un-skipping the sidequests that I was otherwise rushing past when we were on and the hour was fast becoming late and I wanted to end stream on a high and bombastic ILL KILL YOU! note. (Thanks, Shoolk!)
But make sure you seize it some OTHER day, just to be sane and well-paced?
If you need LESS chatter, theres that version as well, recombined into one video:
https://youtu.be/g3QWz-MjT9E
Originally ALSO streamed at:
https://twitch.tv/yuugijoou/
Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
https://twitter.com/yuugijoou
https://discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
![[No Commentary] Sea of Thieves #00x. Quality Assurance](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qr7XQvDkaXw/mqdefault.jpg "[No Commentary] Sea of Thieves #00x. Quality Assurance
As often I doth protest too much, I feel like... at least in THIS case, the version polluted with uncanny puppetrcraft is the... ... ... less unbearable alternative. If I may grudgingly be forced to admit so myself (under extreme duress), at any rate.
If youre willing to tolerate my unseemly alternative lifestyle choices and want some insight as to WHY were doing all this? Well... it MAY be gleaned to some small degree here (no promises):
https://youtu.be/Cpa3dQSSJ4g
Now, bring me that draw distance and field of vision:
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
This ones just a little bonus addition.
Being as this is the bleeding edge of... six-year-old games-as-a-service slightly-less-than-massively-multiplayer-always-online design paradigms... crossed with just a pinch of western game dev decisions and/or problems which will now be YOUR problems, dear player... PLUS a heaping spoonful of the PC master race meme dolloped on top... ... ... well, things were going to get complicated no matter what, its just a matter of how much it just works we were going to reasonably expect.
Just kidding, this is a Rareware game. A *Microsoft* era Rareware game. Seeing all the exposed wires and confusing little bits and bobs poking out from under the hood is a FEATURE and it shows just how COOL a piece of genuine software engineering youre interfacing with. Thats all! (Plus obligatory Britishisms and odd spelling choices. They actually FIT the setting for a change, though!)
Mark my words. This is neither the first nor the last time Ill be tweaking these things. In just the time since this was captured and I put off describing any of what went on in it... Ive had to fix at least three major technical, visual, and control concerns... and several more of those are lurking in store that I just... didnt want to deal with. And well see what THAT costs me in terms of professionalism and presentation!
...not counting the issues that Im definitely just making harder on myself for no other apparent reason than... because I can.
Its always FUN to learn where the out-of-the-box settings and input norms of TWO distinctly different eras and ecosystems are just jammed together in one place and see which one gives way first!
Since Im probably going to refrain from complaining in any level of detail or capacity later on, lets just catch a few of them, not all of which are in any way the games fault!
Did you know this game is one of the few Ive run across thus far (baby steps!) that DEFAULTS to an unbound framerate? Dont you usually need to opt into that, with the stern warning that youll possibly generate some extra instabilities as a result? (Fun fact: the warning is still here, but the opting in has already been done FOR you!)
The keyboard and mouse setup is super sprawlingly comfy with a bunch of eras-old conventions of where certain types of actions are located, and no pesky need to inform players, just assuming they know how those things work. Its a game with guns and melee attacks in it! Theyll be fine! Multiple interact keys? Theyll figure them out! Context clues!
Shockingly, the controller layout is super cozy and almost... entirely comfortable? The game even has radial menus! Yknow, the things analog sticks make sense for, but keys and scraping-and-clicking input devices might struggle a bit with?
Heck, I only learned you CAN aim and sprint because of the conventions they absorb for these functions in this mode... but of COURSE it happens that I learned the ropes by the OTHER input method. (I was too lazy to plug in a controller meant to be used more monogamously with its own intended subcomputing television attachment device.)
Inverted aim! Makes sense one way for a mouse. A different way for a joystick! ... ... ...unless decades of conventional unwisdom have trained you to think the opposite! ...from decades of conventional wisdom PRIOR instead training people to believe otherwise! Huzzah!
And what if I want to put on a saucy poppet wench show oer starboard side? That surely wont complicate matters one bit! (The high seas SURELY cant be any more graphically rigorous than free-roaming the fightin streets of Metro City, riiiight?)
And I (wisely?) havent even chosen to dig into what might be in store if I decide to retrofit traditional two-thumbed controls with gyro aiming! I swear! Its not weird! (No, YOURE weird!)
The game defaults to a 720p viewport for windowed mode, but full native resolution if you put it on the big screen. You can also only change the latter in menu form... you freely drag the former! Dynamism!
And Im PRETTY sure the recommended settings of BOTH Mythical for one set of options and CURSED for an entirely other indicates to me that... ... ... this ancient unlost software has no idea what Moores Law has been up to in the meantime, and can only vaguely guess at certain bits and throw up its arms in disgusted resignation at the others.")
![[VTuber] Splatoon Raiders 1. Lets Get Salty](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rxsznc4IZO0/mqdefault.jpg "[VTuber] Splatoon Raiders 1. Lets Get Salty
Y-yknow... the spirahlite and whatnot... r-right?!
If you need LESS chatter, theres that version as well:
https://youtu.be/lDjoiJOW13Q
(the gameplay resolution will be higher at least?!)
Originally ALSO streamed at:
https://twitch.tv/yuugijoou/
Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
https://twitter.com/yuugijoou
https://discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
![[Archive] Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls (Open Beta) Lets Fighting Love (feat. B-Squared)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/s1lTl5W-g9M/mqdefault.jpg "[Archive] Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls (Open Beta) Lets Fighting Love (feat. B-Squared)
I have absolutely no idea what Im doing. SHOULD BE FUN, THEN.
If you need LESS chatter, theres that version as well:
https://youtu.be/F2EJ_zrP9uo
(the gameplay resolution will be higher at least?!)
Originally ALSO streamed at:
https://twitch.tv/yuugijoou/
Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
https://twitter.com/yuugijoou
https://discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
![[Archive] Street Fighter 6 Happy Birthday, Zangief!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sB9Uk1jLdS4/mqdefault.jpg "[Archive] Street Fighter 6 Happy Birthday, Zangief!
For your birthday, I got you a severe beating from a technological abomination:
twitch.tv/yuugijoou
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
(said abomination was NOT my uncanny puppet show for a change... though something even freakier appears within the confines of the Battle Hub, I suppose)
For the record, it would appear that the odds are significantly better overall if you take it to the Avatar Battle variation, since just as in World Tour, the level number inflates far faster than their relative stats.
Just... dont do what I did and please TRY to remember to pack all your fight tools, since having access to a Lv. 3 Super and therefore Critical Art would be VASTLY preferred for all the various reasons.
Ill finish you one day, World Tour. But first, so many new Masters to curry favor with and further pollute my moveset pool choices with!
... ... ...Ill also put down the unnecessary collab objects at some point, I swear. Probably. (Maybe.)
Im going to TRY to be more consistent going forward with a) stream archives (which I have over a hundred of, easily), but also b) actual uniquely not-streamed content (which laughs heartily at how little the stream archive backlog has to its name)
...but... um... well see? (I sure hope we will, anyway... this habit of generally NOT-seeing has had me massively bummed out for longer than YouTube can actually remember.)")
![[Gameplay Only] Marvel Tokon: Fighting Spirits Just a Cozy Crash-Testing Stream?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tpMUdOF2sOE/mqdefault.jpg "[Gameplay Only] Marvel Tokon: Fighting Spirits Just a Cozy Crash-Testing Stream?
I aint no dummy! Ill believe it when I dont see it!
If you need to see me and chat losing our minds over the game crashing, theres that version as well:
https://youtube.com/live/qB1zR42sJ_s
Originally ALSO streamed at:
https://twitch.tv/yuugijoou/
Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
https://twitter.com/yuugijoou
https://discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
![[Chat] ICh Bin(M) Queen of (other peoples) Games... Development?!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uPrdb8GvqSc/mqdefault.jpg "[Chat] ICh Bin(M) Queen of (other peoples) Games... Development?!
I rule you? I rule you.
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
(If you come on MY show, then Im afraid I somehow DO have some sense of non-fake authority. Yes. Please understand.)
Originally streamed at:
twitch.tv/yuugijoou
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 JUST want to see the game, with absolutely no explanation for awkward pauses and lingering on features and functions for no apparent reason, you can make BOTH of us shut up. Permanently:
https://youtu.be/VQAdTYkpJxc
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
twitch.tv/piratesoftware
twitter.com/piratesoftware
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")
![[VTuber] ICh Bin(M) Queen of (other peoples) Games... Development?!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uUYvO7-lttg/mqdefault.jpg "[VTuber] ICh Bin(M) Queen of (other peoples) Games... Development?!
I rule you? I rule you.
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
(If you come on MY show, then Im afraid I somehow DO have some sense of non-fake authority. Yes. Please understand.)
Originally streamed at:
twitch.tv/yuugijoou
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
If you JUST want to see the game, with absolutely no explanation for awkward pauses and lingering on features and functions for no apparent reason, you can make BOTH of us shut up. Permanently:
https://youtu.be/VQAdTYkpJxc
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
twitch.tv/piratesoftware
twitter.com/piratesoftware
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")
![[Gameplay Only] Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Corporate Overlord Mandated Stress Test Perception](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uUy4SWueTAE/mqdefault.jpg "[Gameplay Only] Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Corporate Overlord Mandated Stress Test Perception
WARNING: there are LOTS of technical difficulties, here please bear with them. or dont. Its kinda amusing and also sad at times.
But the game itself is quite fun! I swear!
Its not like people actually PAID for artificially-created performance struggles... right?
The stream chat chatter might ACTUALLY make it a bit clearer the nature of whats amiss here, if you prefer:
https://youtube.com/live/CAeavHtXcq8
(the gameplay resolution will be KINDA sometimes sorta higher at least?!)
Originally ALSO streamed at:
https://twitch.tv/yuugijoou/
Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
https://twitter.com/yuugijoou
https://discord.gg/bKT9pRW
...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
![[No Commentary] DRAG x DRIVE Shut up and Jam](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uYw96u7PG5s/mqdefault.jpg "[No Commentary] DRAG x DRIVE Shut up and Jam
Originally streamed at:
twitch.tv/yuugijoou
Thank goodness were spared any notion of the player controller interface throughout all this:
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
If you get worried these robot players have too little personality, heres a version of the same footage with sideshow act of saucy puppet show:
https://youtu.be/5bMWg1pjh4s
As with the preceding session, Im pretty impressed with the games level of polish and detail... but I can already tell its going to fall on an exceedingly niche audience. At best.
So Im glad to share what I can of it while weve got people crammed into close quarters and temporal proximity. For free!
...but I still strongly advise keeping sessions to around two hours at most unless you want to invite the wrath of vengeful ergonomic powers beyond potential reckoning, much less proper catering to.")
