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set up a new TV for my parents, and disabled the motion smoothing so quickly that they didn't even have time to question it #familymaxxing

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 3h

i got like 15 yoyos before i lost connection. but i did unlock the 10k monsters achievement. the grind never stops

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Brian Coia @briancoia.com · 7h

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 · 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 · 20/09/2026

this orange does not respect the player's time and misdirects for no reason, What were they thinking?

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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 · 09/09/2026

two kirbys, zero ricks

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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 · 31/08/2026

ai ruined small-caps low-saturation headers. i can't use them anymore without feeling gross. this is my own personal em dash crisis

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

there is zero chance that i would have done this without emulator fast-forward

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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 · 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 · 09/07/2026

seconding tailwind (use your stuff from anywhere without poking holes in your home network) and home assistant (unify smart devices and random data, make annoying automations like "make lamp turn red when internet latency increases") also: self-hosted dns with ad block (technitium or adguard home)

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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

putting on my apple vision pro, saying "siri, open retroarch" and staring at the tiny SNES window with Tetris Attack! amidst my infinitely wide virtual display

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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 · 08/06/2026

an achievement didn't unlock due to a server error. my options are "replay most of banjo-kazooie again", "request a manual unlock", or "stop, and return to ignoring retroachievements"

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

not sure how long i'll stick with it, but i appreciate any excuse to replay old favorites. follow.. if you dare (to watch me gradually master banjo-kazooie for event credit) retroachievements.org/user/Karsh

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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 · 27/03/2026

my original ds lite is the only nintendo device i've owned that has ever completely stopped functioning. i had zero desire to fix it. pathetic ds

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

i consider this a win for all 30-somethings trying to get into rhythm games. i will now return to never scoreposting

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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

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 · 17/11/2025

i'll see what i can do..

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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

that would've been smarter, but nope. we cut out the mouth pixels and put a phone in there

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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 · 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 · 18/07/2025

trip report, one week in: it's brutal, but i think i'm through the worst of it absolute rock bottom was monday, featuring the hour where i laid on the floor, sweating, after a 102 fever. but sweat can also beneficial, as pocari sweat has been my lifeblood through this mess

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