iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

ascending to a new tier of gaming by playing on the ragnarok online retroachievements server, on a steam deck, on a plane

my level 58 rogue on SpringRO as played by my dumb ass on a steam deck on a plane

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 27/09/2026

it's still 2026 and the streets are saying that i may have made yet another flash-like mini-site. there may be a new side of thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com ...

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 10/09/2026

it's the year 2026 and i helped create another flash-like mini-site

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 12/08/2026

i now understand quest 64 on a much deeper level. thank you @authorblu.es

Completed Quest 64 'Barbarian' achievement set on RetroAchievements. The achievement 'BarbarBrian' is highlighted, with the description "Defeat Mammon having never used magic or opened a chest; using Silent Flute, Celine's Bell, Replica, Giant's Shoes, Silver Amulet, or Golden Amulet is considered spell-casting by the game, and are banned"

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 04/08/2026

average monkey ball 1 stage: series of narrow paths and physics props average monkey ball 2 stage: Hahaha, this is Dr. BAD-BOON's Fast-Moving Symmetrical Device For Pissing You Off! Good luck not getting Pissed Off!!

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 30/06/2026

"oh we're doing a Tetris Attack thing at work, that's a fun game, i should de-rust and participate" Yoshi, possessing my body and forcing me to master Tetris Attack on RetroAchievements: "We can't just be strong. We must be strongest."

Yoshi in a weirdly serious tone at the end of VS Mode: "We can't just be strong. We must be strongest."

Screenshot of my RetroAchievements Tetris Attack record, with all 50 achievements completed in a mastery time of 11 hours, 13 minutes

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 27/06/2026

my ultrawide just died. now i am caught in a gamer's dilemma: do i get another ultrawide, or go back to living a normal healthy 16:9 life..

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 24/06/2026

seeing rumors that there's an unskippable 3 second sequence at the end of chapter 5 that looks like this.... Unbelievable if true

Screenshot of DELTARUNE, black screen with light text, reading "–Website– Brian Coia"

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 18/05/2026

finally reached the depression/motivation levels necessary to start earning retroachievements

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 11/05/2026

note for followers: i changed my handle to my name! it's still me, @redco.in. (i got sick of "redcoin" not autocompleting, and phonetically saying "red co dot I N")

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 02/04/2026

the word 'gaming' is lodged in my top left of my discord window

The top left of a macOS Discord window, but it says "gaming" beneath the stoplight buttons

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 21/03/2026

after years, i've finally broken through the sound voltex 16 volforce wall

Sound Voltex Nabla cabinet, displaying "FORCE EVOLUTION!! 6 - CORAL CLASS UP!!"

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 18/02/2026

16th biggest tiltify fundraiser of 2025, but the #1 coolest thing i've contributed to in my career

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 10/01/2026

@hantani.bsky.social i finally completed the @angelineera.bsky.social han-tani challenge. i am now the world's 6th most powerful bumpslasher

Steam achievement, "I Beat Han-Tani's Challenge", completed by Karsh on January 9, 2026 at 8:38PM. The achievement description reads "WHAAT? Send the devs a pic of your playtime/deaths and we'll indust you into a hall of fame."

Angeline Era file select screen, showing my completed Han-Tani's Challenge save file, with 17:37:12 playtime and 617 deaths.

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 07/01/2026

@angelineera.bsky.social i'm up to probably 200 deaths to YW on a han-tani challenge run. i finally beat them.. sort of. this is the true #AngelineEraExperience

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 18/12/2025

my favorite kirby character

An isolated photo of an enormous burger from Kirby Air Riders, now available as a Nintendo Switch 2 user icon. The UI says "GOT IT!" because I most certainly did

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 28/11/2025

kirby air riders' rick is too cool and lovable. to preserve the balance of the game, kirby must eliminate rick

Image of my Kirby Air Riders license card, with title
"Temporary Rick". On the card, Kirby is aiming a partially-charged laser cannon at Rick. Rick is sweating because he knows that he is the Temporary Rick.

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 03/10/2025

they should've called it hollow knight 2, because of how often the game has made me shout "2 of them??"

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 22/09/2025

i was responsible for the UNDERTALE 10th Anniversary stream tech and memories project. truly thankful to be part of something so important to so many, even as a humble internet janitor

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 26/08/2025

said this as a joke but honestly,,

I'm starting to believe good code architecture is bad because it lets you keep blowing up scope. If your code turns into spaghetti by the end of the month you have more incentive to make it releasable sooner

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 14/07/2025

it's been five years, figured i should finally try out 'COVID'. i got the 'RAZOR THROAT' variant. i do not recommend it

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 04/06/2025

pleased to announce that for DELTARUNE Chapters 3-4, i was asked to reprise my role as –Website–. i hope you enjoy my performance!

DELTARUNE credit, for '-Website- Brian Coia'

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 27/05/2025

i'm free from xenoblade x, after a mere 102 hours

The final screen of Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition, with several of the main characters accompanying the text "Congratulations! The survey of Planet Mira is 100% complete!"

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 18/04/2025

the blue prince experience

SirSamVimes on Something Awful: "it's been really funny watching a poster go from "I hate this game" to "I have complicated feelings about this game" to "I'm getting a tattoo of a symbol from this game""

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 16/04/2025

i figured i'd be done with blue prince by now, but it keeps going. the puzzles don't stop. genuinely impressive how it continues to add new layers, even 40 hours deep

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 12/04/2025

okay yeah, blue prince is phenomenal. puzzle sickos ride again. my obsidian notes are growing and my screenshot folder is overflowing

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 08/04/2025

as a Puzzle Sicko myself, i must answer the call and signal boost. all puzzles must be solved

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Shiburizu! @shib.live · 22/03/2025

If you're not watching the Hokuto No Ken 3v3 team tournament right now you're fuckin up plain and simple twitch.tv/gamenewton #FGC

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 17/02/2025

finished a hard-mode-no-subweapons run of La-Mulana 2, after my original playthrough years ago

Final screen of La-Mulana 2, showing a sunset and the spirit of the Fish King over the horizon, captioned 'Presented by NIGORO'. Play time: 31 hours, 26 minutes, 40 seconds.

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 25/01/2025

i have mastered the art of FOMO-Maxing, as i watch friends at MAG, frosty faustings, and in japan simultaneously

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 12/01/2025

Getting really into the Fast Grabbing Guys on Instagram

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 09/01/2025

puzzle gamers, it is time to abandon newer genre tags like "epiphany-based gameplay" and "metroidbrainia", and return to the classic "think-em-up"

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 31/12/2024

in 2025, i need to travel. planning on at least one convention. maybe japan, finally?

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 30/12/2024

wanted to give the trails series a rest after cold steel 2, thus spent the winter break playing other falcom games. i've now played ys 1&2 chronicles and ys origin ys origin was fun. ys 1&2.. i understand why people suggest playing them first, but they are not video games, they are sick jokes

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 27/12/2024

abandoning my career to pursue my dream of becoming the most insufferable arcade youtuber on the planet

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ted @ted90909.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

you have once again been greeted by holly jolly takenobu mitsuyoshi, repost or you will still never see burning rangers underneath your christmas tree

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 19/12/2024

thank you @mossmouth.bsky.social and @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social for simultaneously fulfilling my wishes for cool UFO 50 art and an easy, rewarding way to make my yearly VGHF contribution

Framed art print by Derek Yu, featuring Pilot and Isabell playing games on an LX system, on a bright blue background, captioned "PLAY FOREVER"

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 19/12/2024

my steam recap is a wild swing between 'hundreds of hours of path of exile' and 'like 7 different games in the Trails series'

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 27/11/2024

fiber internet is everywhere around me.. except my neighborhood. and until i'm eligible for fiber, 5G ISPs should be forbidden from sending me "there's a new internet option in your town!" mail

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 12/10/2024

this must be one of those "secret Fortnite room hidden in my walls?!" videos, but for linkedin guys

youtube thumbnail of a man in his titular tiny office pod under his stairs, titled "Building a Tiny Office Pod Under My Stairs"

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 25/09/2024

"spending money on gachas is bad" i think to myself before loading another $110 at the Round1 Bowling & Arcade

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 12/09/2024

using new video powers to bless this web site with the WACCA error noise (sound on + volume maxed)

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 01/08/2024

yahoo auctions haul day. if you are a true controller freak like me, i highly recommend these new nintendo gacha keychains

Nintendo controller gacha keychains, in order: SNES face buttons, Gamecube face buttons, N64 face buttons, Super Famicom face buttons, Gamecube C stick, N64 control stick

Close-up shot of the N64 controller face button keychain

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 07/06/2024

attention people who originally followed me for weird trackmania stuff: today, one of these four gamers may complete Deep Dip 2, an hour-long vertical challenge track with no checkpoints. they've been grinding for over a month. watch: multitwitch.tv/elconn21/Haz...

multitwitch.tv

multitwitch

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 27/05/2024

now up to my fifth trails game, trails to azure. loving the continuity between games. also enjoying them more now that i've put down the FAQs

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 23/04/2024

somebody used my email to sign up for a car dealership under the name 'Truck Horsepower'

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