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I write stuff about stuff | ✍️ Nintendo Life & More | 10+ Years of Art Directing 🖼️ | Just getting the hang of Bluesky! nintendolife.com/authors/Pandaman
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What can I say about Brian Wilson not already said? Imagine sitting in a bedroom and conducting your brothers and friends until you create a harmony that would flip out a dog? Or having strong enough boundaries to stay at home and write while they go tour your music? A neurodivergent hero of mine.

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BREAKING: Brian Wilson, visionary leader of the Beach Boys and a giant of modern music, dies at 82.

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What do you MEAN, "What do you mean by that?"......???

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I spent like $700+ on a Switch 2 and accessories, and still the only thing I play on it is Balatro lol

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IT’S BEEN 84 YEARS

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I never miss an Indie Mix!

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The graffiti in LA is out of control

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I GOT THE SWITCH 2*!!!!! *pro-controller

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People are live streaming themselves trying to order a Switch 2 online to hundreds of viewers. ………..🫠🫠🫠

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Okay, okay, I'll bite....what's a Switch 2?

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reading dorian gray the way oscar wilde intended

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This is quite something - massive respect to Kate Nash for putting this out into the world. Give it a listen. Kate Nash - GERM youtu.be/q2MoQJP-PhA?...

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My favorite part of Super Metroid was when an army of dudes burst through the wall and started shooting all the army gu- oh wait, no...it was being alone?

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do any of my mutuals do portraiture editorial illustration...? 🤔

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the same people who were pissed video game journalists accepted a free bagel at a press event ten years ago are now totally chill with the President accepting a 747 from Qatar makes you think!

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"The body of Christ..." "Yes, Chef."

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video games make eleventy billion dollars a year but we can only have one website about them, and it’s owned by The Bastard Group

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A poem my dad helped me type on the computer when I was 5

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(its not games going up by 10% thats the problem, the problem is that everything else in our lives has gone up 30-50% while our wages are stagnant, or we've been laid off)

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The coolest part of the Nintendo Switch 2 event was this TV at check in that had a incredible low resolution image of Mario for no conceivable reason

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I want to rebuild my ENTIRE personality around the unburdened flair of a Nintendo sizzle reel casually dropping a Silk Song release date.

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To be fair, our understanding of Latin is reverse engineered through context clues in text, poetry, and culture, so, we'd need an etymologist to weigh in on the specific evolution of the word "Balatro" to know if we're sa- WAIT, DON'T STEAL THIS IDEA FROM ME I WRITE ABOUT VIDEO GAMES.

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"the nintendo app seems like nintendo complicating things for no good reason" was my first thought, but it became infinitely funnier when i realized elon has burned nintendo's trust on social media and they want an app they control so they dont have to deal with it

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Apropos of, uh, nothing, I once wrote Miitomo was the greatest game in Nintendo history (but only because it was almost Tomodachi Life) 🙇‍♂️ www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/01...

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Whoa, thank you to all 10,000 of you who DM’d me about illustration work! For reference, I generally seek out editorial illustration, sometimes product illustration and biz dev stuff. This, as opposed to portraiture, or fan art, which is cool but not what I work in sorry! Thanks if you reached out!

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Someone just lit a firework when the eclipse started. Thanks, LA.

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Illustrators of bluesky, where are you??? DM me if you are a cool one who likes taking commissions!

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Niantic is selling our data to Saudi Arabia...I didn't think the fall of the Roman empire was going to have its bits and pieces carried away by little Pikmin...

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The end of Whiplash except it's the Mute City theme from F-Zero.

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IM NOT OKAY

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Finishing up whichever Oscar movies I hadn’t seen yet. ….is Emilia Perez…a…prank? Is Conan going to announce they were just goofing around…??? WHAT WAS THAT.

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who up stomping they turts

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Just made a new pinned post in hopes of finding my old twitter audience again. I especially would love to re-add all the illustrators who I've worked with over the years, as I am dead-set on using any power I have to getting them paid ahead of AI. Please pass this along to the them!

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