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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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@darrenkorb.bsky.social - after losing many contacts in the bluesky migration, is it possible to get a quick DM in sometime? Thanks!

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Hi 👋 I'm Alan! I'm a: ✏️ GAME JOURNALIST with 100+ bylines after 10+ years on the beat! 🧑‍🎨 ART DIRECTOR & MARKETING MANAGER 10+ years. I collab w/ illustrators, writers, designers, & video directors (I make calls out to #illustrators here!) 📩: alan [at] nintendolife // alanlopezwriting [at] gmail

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I don't think ppl understand just HOW scandalous the Pokemon prototype situation is. All these fake prototypes that sold for thousands don't only potentially implicate the grading company & maybe resellers, but fucking Takumi Akabane, co-creator of Pokemon TCG, FULL STOP. "From his collection".

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This morning, I left my house and got startled when I turned around and saw my landlord silently sitting crosslegged in a chair, on my driveway, reading ANIMAL FARM — a visual so profoundly ironic, MAD Magazine would have rejected it for being too stupid.

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Great read! 😇

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You might not have noticed among the chaos, but the new #PokemonTCG set is BLOWING UP. In-store riots are happening again. And sadly, that's by design. This new set seems to have been fundamentally designed from the ground up to feel like a lottery. www.nintendolife.com/features/opi...

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When faced with an oligarchic, racist tyrant as an overlord, I did what any peasant in my position would do: write about Pokemon cards. www.nintendolife.com/features/opi...

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sad news first: unfortunately, earthblade has been canceled. maddy wrote a really heartfelt post here talking about what led to this, and i'm still personally sad about it since i was exploring some really interesting sounds with the EXOK team for the past several years. but that's life sometimes

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This is a lovely contemplation on Mario Odyssey, reframing the game as awkwardly sitting in the uncanny valley of the series’ logic. I don’t know that I fully agree with it, but I loved reading it! www.eurogamer.net/with-switch-...

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I'd really love it if the plethora of #illustrators I used to have access to on twitter followed me here instead. If you've worked with me and know others who have, or want to recommend someone to me, PLEASE do so here! I will have freelance opportunities to hand out soon!

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In the 90s, the majority of pro baseball players who took steroids said they took them because there were no repercussions against top players that were taking them. (In fact, only rewards.) Many players who testified in the 2000s and later said they were just trying to keep up.

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Honestly, no problems getting Pokemon Prismatic Evolution at the store today. (I rode in on a rhino.)

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LA is so weird because there’s like 22,000 acres of 0% contained fires and my apartment is still freezing.

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Was wondering where all these messages were coming from?? Thanks @nintendolife.com for putting several of my articles on the best-of 2024 list!!! www.nintendolife.com/features/bes...

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