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 · 05/10/2026

yoshi, ash ketchum, buff brian quest64, and bomberman hero will see you in the prontera culvert next week

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 06/09/2026

big fan of gamepro 3.0 as tacit approval and/or helplessly smiling at chaos

Gamepro's 3.0 rating face, a miserable(?) smiling guy with diagonally raised eyebrows amidst a yellow void

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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

Dr. BAD-BOON's most sinister obstacle: a series of stairs that are not intended to be navigable in this game engine

Super Monkey Ball 2 Story Mode stage 10-7: POSTMODERN, a horrible 'house' of ascending stairs that Piss you 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 · 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 · 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 · 10/01/2026

least favorite was KB. i genuinely do not know how you're intended to do this fight, especially on this difficulty. so i jumped on them and prayed. hate this dude

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

favorite fight was YW. although it was responsible for nearly half of the deaths of my file, i ended up loving the design of the fight. extremely challenging yet very fair, a perfect test of bumpslashing skills

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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 · 12/12/2025

evidently i wasn't the only one who wanted to destroy rick. i apologize to rick, the only character adjusted in today's kirby air riders patch

Kirby Air Ride patch notes, reading: "Balance Adjustments
The performance of a rider [Rick] has been adjusted.
Affected modes: City Trial/Air Ride
Lowered HP and Defense.
Lowered the power of the Rip-Roaring Rick Special."

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

deploy rick annihilation beam

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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 · 22/09/2025

there are a million things i want to talk about, but instead i'll first take credit for the latest in IRL vtuber tech, the synced TTS dog mouth

Slack post: "i was thinking about some way of visualizing TTS on the dog plush, ranging from "motor that moves the dog??" to "LEDs or something idk", and had a dumb idea: attach a spare phone or ipad mini to the dog, load up a page connected to the TTS relay, and animate the two mouth pixels in sync with the TTS" with an attached image of the Annoying Dog Pillow Plush with a phone over its mouth, saying "hi" with two pixels lit up in one frame

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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 · 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 · 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

they call me the ARPG/JRPG Gamer (balatro and void stranger are honorary ARPG/JRPGs)

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

i recently felt similar pangs of nostalgia for my first laptop: a 2008 acer netbook. so i set up an ebay saved search and got one (in mint condition, too)

Acer Aspire One ZG5 in dark blue with an Intel Atom processor from 2008, next to an M4 Macbook from last month

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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 · 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 · 26/01/2024

marvelous mail day. i'll swap this marquee onto my WACCA cab some day. or just put it on the wall

Freshly unboxed original WACCA arcade cabinet marquee

WACCA marquee held above a WACCA cabinet, displaying "MARVELOUS!" on screen

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 21/01/2024

finished trails in the sky, fantastic game, i'm hooked on the series. but i think this is the one time i've ever wanted to use steam achievement manager. this hurts

Screenshot showing 2 missing achievements: 'complete all achievements', and the 'open all treasure chests' achievement with 162/163 progress.

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 26/08/2023

forget this place, nextdoor is where the party's at

nextdoor post that reads "I admit it, I’m addicted to Werther’s Original hard candies"

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