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www.noahsbarks.com he/him. professional writer. BS in technical writing—and that's no bs. i write about the things i love (and hate). these include video games, music, film, tv, literature—pretty much everything. i eat a lot of cottage cheese.
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not even Hard mode, but i think Gunfighter in #AdvanceWars 1 Normal is maybe the hardest 300pt S-rank i've ever achieved (at least as far as i can remember.) i literally do not know how it could be completed in time for 100 Speed points without exploiting the AI's priority targeting of APCs.

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my #AdvanceWars Re-boot Camp tour steadies on. i finished AW2 Normal Campaign, so i'm now focusing on AW1 Hard. this will (hopefully) be my first time completing it. it's comical. every map is just littered with additional enemy spawns and they guarantee you 100pts in Power and Technique rankings.

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the #ShiningForce: The Sword of Hajya review has been finalized and will go live Monday the 24th at 10:40 AM EST. thank you for your patience on another longform review. I'm so excited for anyone to read it!

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right now I'm taking a look at my #ShiningForce The Sword of Hajya review to see what still needs to be done on it so it can be published. i recall it being close to finalization. it will be the first #GameGear game to be reviewed on my site. i'm so happy that honor goes to SF!

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i started a reddit for my site. i would love to have you join! www.reddit.com/r/NoahsBarks/

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gee i sure wish i could get any help at all from support subreddits, but my account is new so everything gets auto-deleted. cool site

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I'm watching a #darksouls iceberg video and it talks about Egyptian writing on textures in the earthen peak in ds2 and they're like maybe this implies the earthen peak is in Egypt and it's like dudes it's just a fucking reference image or pre-made asset

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REPOSE: Find oxygen and sleep. That's the job. And don't ask about Aaron. akuparagames.itch.io/repose by @akuparagames

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i just saw an ad for a company that used the tagline "AI-first customer service." weird to see ads made solely for investors, but not even in the sense they expect investors to watch them. thanks for letting everyone else know to say away, though.

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new blog post. nothing revelatory, just general updates about what i've been doing. if you follow me here, you already know most of it. have a good, uh, (checks calendar) Presidents Day! that name was never possessive? huh. noahsbarks.com/blog/touchin...

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I only just learned that #AdvanceWars Re-Boot Camp lets you fast-forward enemy turns by holding R2. I wonder if there are any other QoL features out of sight. annoying

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me: I'll just revise my old #Castlevania 1 review. should take about an hour. over 2 hours later and I've written thousands of words on the merit and eloquent, deliberate design of classic Castlevania physics. I'll let you all know when it's done...

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i intended to participate in the #Yu-Gi-Oh! #MasterDuel tournament today with my beloved #Solfachord, but i had to bow out due to being sick. my head is not in the game, and my girls deserve my A-game.

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I've had the theme song to #CatDog stuck in my head since waking up at 2 PM with a cold. I wouldn't wish this existence on my worst enemy

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one of my favorite gaming youtubers, Majuular, doesn't have a Blue Sky account and i can't message him on Blue Sky to tell him to get a Blue Sky account. this is so fucked up.

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apologies if anyone's seen my imports of older reviews to my site appear in feeds. Jetpack auto-posts to BS, but that's intended for new reviews. for reasons unknown to me, sometimes pre-publish checks, where i disable this, don't appear. i've temporarily turned simulposting off. should be fine now.

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sorry for the self-shilling with the last bleet. i wanted something to pin to my feed.

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submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

i think #Illbleed for the #Dreamcast is up there when it comes to games i really regret not writing a review for. what a fucking compelling disaster of a game that was. absolutely loved it.

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grinding medals in Days of Ruin. once I realized that I had the enemy on the backfoot in the final map, I just had to capture everything. so satisfying. lol at my speed score though. by the way, the map actually does end if you destroy all of his troops, regardless of if The Nest still stands.

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i have a mild cold right now. took all of my energy away from me until i slept till 3 PM today. not feeling super terrible at the moment, so i'd like to get another review edited. made a lot of progress in AW1 Re-Boot Camp. playing a lot of Master Duel and Duel Links. Melodious in event.

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how do I block the Superbowl

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i cleaned up my ancient review for Battle Clash's sequel, Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge. there is a brand new section where i speculate on the failure of the Super Scope. hope you enjoy! #BattleClash #SuperScope #SNES #Nintendo noahsbarks.com/video-games/...

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