iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Absolutely blessed Event SSR ticket in granblue today; I'd pretty much resigned myself to these always being gold moons so nabbing one of the two Providence summons I'm missing is a fantastic get

The draw results screen from Granblue showing the Versusia summon stone

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in case you were wondering, the Swordcraft Story 3 translation is Very Good

A screenshot from the fan translation of Summon Night Swordcraft Story 3 where the female protagonist is saying "That's right! A guy should own up to his mistakes!" to a robotic summoned creature.

The robot replies with "I Have No Gender."

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

did you know gaming (real) gaster in undertale was originally supposed to be cartilage head from achewood, but it was deemed too difficult to take and send a real life photograph of every player who would abandon a dying man, so it was scrapped and turned into an ARG for dataminers instead

A series of panels from Achewood featuring Cartilage Head, a character who looks very similar to Gaster from Undertale

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

making the gundam newtype noise when i see a new chronicon DLC dropped out of nowhere

A screenshot from my Steam library announcing the new Cosmic Curse DLC for Chronicon

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I did one of these relatively recently but I think it was on Twitter, so fuck it, have an updated 9 games that define me

A grid of 9 games that define me. From left to right, in each row:
Earthbound/Mother 2, Team Fortress Classic, Dynasty Warriors 5
Zelda: A Link to the Past, Doom (1993), Phantasy Star Online
Secret of Mana, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Pokemon Red

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

me watching exactly one video on some random synthesizer: maybe i do need to start purchasing audio production equipment (i did not buy it but the video itself has a fun little history lesson on the yamaha dx7 which is neat! link to watch is here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyUo...)

A screenshot from a youtube video entitled "FM-1: A full FM Synthesizer for $67". The M-VAVE FM-1 synthesizer is being used in the video itself.

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Completely unintentional, but did you know that the bass thumps in the final Trauma Team operation theme kick in at the exact moment during the KH2 title screen sequence when the screen flashes and the dot lands in the box to give you control of the menu? Neither did I.

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I figured out how to get custom music working with KH2 rando! There's a nice little tool called SCDToolkit2 that lets you convert audio files to the .scd format that the game uses, along with setting up loop points for tracks, and even volume auto-balancing. Now I just gobba grab some music...

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

unmanned WWE AI slop channels be like

A screenshot from a battle with Solt and Peppor in Chrono Cross where Peppor is saying "...WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-WH-"

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

every time mickey shows up in a cutscene in DDD i lose my shit because he looks like a dog waiting for you to drop something off the kitchen counter

A screenshot from Dream Drop Distance where Mickey is staring blankly at Riku and Sora from the corner of the shot

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finished up with BBS! I do have some gripes, mostly with humanoid bosses deciding to not be in a combo anymore, and the game balancing is kind of all over the place, but they threw a ton of new stuff at the wall here and overall it felt like more hits than misses compared to Days.

The Steam achievement unlock for completing Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep's secret chapter

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today's stats for BBS mutes. Got 6 minutes cut from Neverland, the first 2 minutes of Keyblade Graveyard, and 2 minutes from Runble Racing for some reason. Weirdly enough Disney Town, the place that has the Michael Rodent March playing nonstop, was left completely untouched?? Idk man

The VOD playback bar from my last stream of Birth by Sleep. Only 3 segments got muted this time!

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Congratulations to Birth By Sleep for having the most VOD mutes per capita of any KH game I've streamed! They are apparently very protective about the Command Board theme for some reason

The VOD playback bar from my Birth By Sleep stream with 8 different muted segments

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BUT WITH ALL THOSE GAMES FINISHED IT'S FINALLY TIME FOR THE NEW SHIT Never played Birth by Sleep, Dream Drop Distance, or Fragmentary Passage and I'm excited to hang out with another trio named after land, sea, and sky for some reason. Still not sure if I wanna stream it, guess you'll see tomorrow

The Kingdom Hearts collection selection menu with Birth by Sleep selected

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anyways that is Days Done And Dusted Divided By Dos. I definitely get what they were going for with the game and it does a nice job of fleshing out the story of Ice Cream Squad, but the gameplay has too many frustrating parts that it's a really hard recommendation for anyone but the KH superfans.

The ending screens from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, featuring Axel, Roxas, and Xion eating ice cream

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

looked up the current prices out of morbid curiosity, what in the goddamn hell I paid 300 CAD for this kit, pc building is so cooked right now

The current price history for the same RAM kit mentioned in the previous post. The lowest price is now $1700 CAD.

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Looks like my Texas Hold-em Tuesdays are...over...

A screenshot of Luxord from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days saying "What shall I do without half the poker league?"

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

people give kingdom hearts 2 shit for "press triangle and win", but turns out chain of memories is even better at it

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

PSA: If your Steam client is suddenly running like dogshit for no discernable reason, there's a good chance it's Warframe's fault. If you see a news post for Warframe called "Operation Epoch: Taubound", click the little arrows in the top right of the thumbnail and select "Remove This Update".

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Rolled credits on KH1 Proud! While it was mostly fun there are some bosses like Cave of Wonders, big Ursula, and the the first phase of World of Chaos that just do not play nicely with the increased lethality. I did have a good time enjoying how busted magic is when you build into it, though.

A screenshot of the achievements unlocked for beating Kingdom Hearts 1 Final Mix on Proud

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The framing on this shot looks like Kairi is struggling to read the subtitles

A screenshot from Kingdom Hearts with Riku and Kairi. Kairi is looking down in a daze, making it appear as though she is reading the on screen subtitles.

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh man core memory unlocked. I used their Laguna on an old forum I used to post on

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

About time I knocked that out

The Fighter Origin unlock screen from Granblue Fantasy

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Astlibra stick only status: Doing the optional Lieselotte fight way before I'm supposed to and utterly destroying the game's graphics in the process

A screenshot from Astlibra Revision. The main character is fighting Lieselotte but the background graphics are completely broken, with random body parts and background images from the spritesheet scattered everywhere

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

ogm chat i did it!! sealed j sword is a real streamer now!!1

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Current status of Astlibra Impossible tree branch only run if you even care I was REALLY worried about Agni since it's already kind of a rough fight even with proper gear, but I was able to play super safe to eke out a win. The hitbox on Agni's Fury is HUGE so just block it if you have the meter.

A screenshot from Astlibra Revision where I am defeating the volcano boss, Agni, with the stick given to you at the start of the game

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I guess they're finally getting revenge for the Tezuka Zone

The steam page for The Prince of Tennis Doki Doki survival, with the current screenshot showing a dinosaur for some reason

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Okay druid magic in Convergence might be a little busted

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I think my favourite part about the coffee scene in Tales of Symphonia is how the coffee mug hits TERMINAL FUCKING VELOCITY before it even leaves Colette's hands

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

shoutouts to the dude wearing the mario mask in the cannon fodder intro

A still from the Cannon Fodder intro showing the dev team wearing military uniforms sitting in an APC. One of them is wearing a Mario mask.

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ooooh, Cocoon 3 just dropped yesterday and it is real slick, scraping in particular is waaaaay better now that they've added more scraping sources, and it allows you to modify the priority or even turn off sources entirely. You also get more feedback on what's happening which is great!

A screenshot of the Cocoon 3.0 frontend for Android devices displaying the process of scraping my library for logos, descriptions, and screenshots. It is currently scraping Rockman Battle and Fighters.

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Tested it out a bit and it works really well! Ring Racers is already well-suited for an archipelago because of all the different unlock conditions, and Chao Keys can also be used to slam-dunk checks if you want to try and push unlocks for other people or yourself. Lots of customization options too!

A screenshot from the Ring Racers challenge unlock board showing Mail unlocked with a different set of requirements than normal due to the usage of Archipelago

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Stay safe Ontario peeps, we got some of the worst air in the world right now

A graphic from the weather network showing the current worst air quality in major cities of world. Toronto is at the top.

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Can't believe they hid Granblue's secret third protagonist in Maglielle's fate episode (if you've never played GBF, Gran's name is taken from GRANblue and Djeeta's name is the last two syllables for fanTASY in Japanese reversed, fans have speculated about a third MC named Blue or Fan for years)

An excerpt from Maglielle's Fate Episode "Sword of Blue" in Granblue Fantasy Relink. The text reads:

"Where are my manners? My name is Maglielle, and I've been sent to investigate the curious winds plaguing this valley. Now, may I have your name?"

"Blue."

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Managed to clear Proto Bahamut after boosting my gear a bit and decided to jump right into the promotion test for the DLC. The game tried to be like "hey you don't have any terminus weapons at all, are you sure you want to try this", it might have been a 23 minute boss fight but we got there baybee

The grade promotion screen from Granblue Fantasy Relink showing my promotion to Fatebreaker

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I appreciate that everyone's canonical reaction to Kalymos in Warframe is "hell yeah love that cat take care of her"

The character Marie from Warframe saying "Dear sweet giant cat, lead us swiftly to the heart of corruption!"

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

spending resources in warframe for new weapons and frames: i sleep spending resources in warframe to convert my mods into shiny foil art variants that only i can see: REAL SHIT

An Atragraph mod from Warframe depicting the Blood Forge augment with alternative art of Vena

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

IT WAS ALL LOCKED BEHIND IBJ Just my absolute terrible luck that the first time I stream SMZ3 in a long while requires the one trick I cannot do consistently We're moving over to the Cas' fork from now on i think!!!

The spoiler log for my most recent Super Metroid + Link to the Past randomizer seed showing three critical items in Lower Norfair

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A nice little Canada Day heatwave

The weather app on my phone displaying an orange heat warning from Wednesday at 4AM to Sunday at 12AM and the humidity causing it to feel like 40 degrees celsius

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Testing stuff out with the Stug Incarnon in Warframe, I love when the game devolves into angrily screaming red numbers at you

A screenshot from Warframe where I'm dealing dozens of crits per second to enemies, resulting in large red numbers with three exclamation points

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This alt twitch channel stuff is actually a good excuse to play around with multiple profiles and scene collections in OBS! I'm not gonna fuck around with point redeems or alerts or anything but I'm color-inverting the usual assets so it is extremely obvious to me when I'm using the wrong set

A screenshot from OBS showing my usual go-live scene on Twitch but with inverted colours

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I love Miko's super in AoCF where she hits you with the MVC2 character select screen

A screenshot from Touhou 15.5 where Miko uses her super which fires a transparent blue wireframe globe at the enemy

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

i can't get over the fucking persona 6 page on steam dude, featuring all the iconic images like "a bunch of fingers pointing" and "the part from the trailer where a bunch of W's are on screen"

A screenshot of the Persona 6 steam page where the current image is a screenshot from the trailer with a bunch of W's onscreen

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Just finished Kashuan Keep in FF2 and I can tell the monster closets are gonna be my biggest pain point about the dungeons If you haven't played FF2, there are a bunch of doors that lead to these trap rooms which spawn you in the center, are completely empty and have a much higher encounter rate

A screenshot from the GBA version of Final Fantasy 2, showing one of the many trap rooms in the game that have a much higher random encounter rate.

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Almost passed on this in the new Warframe vendor shop since I thought it was just a decor item, but it turns out I have to actually build this in the foundry? And it looks like some weirdass Void Relic? ...Yeah sure I'm game. See you in 12 hours

An image from Warframe showing Hunhow's Trinket, a blueprint for an unidentified item. It resembles a Void Relic in appearance.

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AndyAML @andyaml.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Finally playing through FF2 and I do love how inn prices are dynamic based on how badly hurt you are. MP is actually cheaper to heal than HP is, so it works out to be cheaper if you heal everyone via spells before sleeping.

A screenshot of the Final Fantasy 2 party overview screen. Most of the party members are heavily damaged and missing a good chunk of their HP.

Another screenshot of Final Fantasy 2 at an inn, costing 149 gil to rest at an inn.

The status screen again, but all party members have been healed to full, with some MP missing

The same inn from before, but now charging only 28 gil to stay

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