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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just in case anyone was wondering, both in stock at the Nintendo Store in San Francisco! 😁

The Super Mario Halloween 2026 T-Shirt Bowser Jr. for sale on a shelf in Nintendo Store SF.

The Super Mario Halloween 2026 T-Shirt Rosalina for sale on a shelf in Nintendo Store SF.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Normal Casual baby! #FireEmblem Fortunes Weave

Difficulty select screen for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave showing "Normal" selected instead of "Hard".

Mode select screen for Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave showing "Casual" selected instead of "Classic".

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've been waiting for this day for six years! Finally gonna play some Hanafuda! #Nintendo

Screenshot of the Nintendo eShop product page for Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics, showing it's current sales price of $27.99 which is 30% off

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We need to issue Nintendo Switches and Pokemon to everyone STAT (and resist the calls to add voice acting to it!)

Image of the back of the original Pokémon Red box, showing the area where it says "Requires basic reading skills to fully enjoy the entertaining story."

Image of the back of the Pokémon ZA box, showing the area where it says "Basic reading ability is needed to fully enjoy this game."

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Rolled credits on the (true) ending of The Adventures of Elliot. It feels like ages since I've beaten a game... it's a great feeling to have had so much fun with a game but also be able to cross it off the list and move on to new adventures! #Switch2

Screenshot from The Adventures of Elliot.

Screenshot from The Adventures of Elliot. Elliot is speaking to a fairy named Faie, she says, "Heh heh... You'll find out soon enough!"

Screenshot from The Adventures of Elliot. The screen is almost completely black. On the right we can see two of the game's main characters standing in a spotlight. In the upper left section of the screen text reads: "Thank you for seeing this thousand-year journey to its end."

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Earthbound, eat your heart out.

Screenshot of the SNES game EarthBound in its "New Game" flow allowing you to select the color theme of its menu windows. Choices include:
Plain flavor
Mint flavor
Strawberry flavor
Banana flavor
Peanut flavor

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If FF Resonance or Muramasa are on SW 2 GKC I'll just buy the Switch 1 version!

Infographic showing logos of games from the 6/9/2026 Nintendo Direct with the following games highlighted:
Zelda OoT Remake
Xenoblade Genesis
Kingdon Hearts IV
Star Fox
Splatoon Raiders
Pokopia Expansion Pass
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 S2 e edition
Ninjala 2
Space Marine II
Kingdom Hearts 1+2
Kingdom Hearts 3
Final Fantasy Resonance
Muramasa
Rhythm Heaven Groove

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Interesting to see that a suite of policies supporting child birth CAN actually have dramatic results by including not just cash support and parental leave, but organizational/cultural trust and automatically hiring replacement staff too. biz.chosun.com/en/en-it/202...

The main pathways to increasing the intention to have children differed by life cycle. For single employees, improved work immersion through non-cash policies had the greatest effect; for married employees without children, trust in organizational culture; and for married employees with children, support for work-life balance.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hmmm... Beyond Good and Evil 2 looks different on the Switch 2

Screenshot of Pigma Dengar from the Prologue Cutscene from the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 game "Star Fox"

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Pull a PS Vita TV and release a version that is TV only and requires you to bring your own memory card for storage?

Publicity shot of a small white Playstation Vita TV Microconsole and a white PlayStation dual analog controller against a white backdrop

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I've been playing too much Pokopia. I just saw these signs in the real world and thought "That's exactly what I need one more of for that new habitat I wanted to make".

Stock photo of four road signs on the left edge of a curve road that have yellow backgrounds and solid black arrow/Chevron symbols pointing right

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Luckily I sorta already had a text file with my top 10 games so.... my9games.com

Three-by-Three image grid of game box cover art, displaying (top-to-bottom, left-to-right): Zelda: Link to the Past, EarthBound, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Animal Crossing (GameCube), Pikmin (GameCube) Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy VI, WarCraft III: the Frozen Throne.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Not sure if you've already actioned this, but there's an imposter account on bluesky masquerading as you: bsky.app/profile/priv...

Screenshot of an imposter Robert Reich account on BlueSky replying to a new follower and offering to connect on Telegram.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Even in happier times Duolingo has delivered relevance.

Duolingo screenshot of a Japanese lesson where the user isprompted to practice speaking "Zeruda no Densetsu wa watashi no ichiban suki na geemu desu."

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score. (There's... too many of them!)

Rotten Tomatoes page for the drama movie Angel Eyes (2001). 32% Tomatometer 46% Popcornmeter

Rotten Tomatoes page for the scifi movie Waterworld (1995). 59% Tomatometer 44% Popcornmeter

Rotten Tomatoes page for the scifi movie Wing Commander (1999). 10% Tomatometer 26% Popcornmeter

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar for Nintendo Switch 2 includes a travel guide mini booklet(manual?)!

Photo of the table of contents in the mini booklet travelguide included in the physical copy of Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar for the Nintendo Switch 2

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

First time eating rambutan!

Three eaten rambutan fruits, just dark red hairy shells and hard seed pits left, on a white paper plate.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

And it's so cool that #ChillinByTheFire supports GameShare online or local, Switch 2 or with original Switches! I can't wait to play this with my brother and nephew soon one evening since they can play with me just off my single copy!

Infographic illustrating that the Switch 2 game Chillin' by the Fire can use the GameShare feature in local multiplayer to allow four people, using either Switch 2s or Switch 1s, to play with just one purchased copy of the game.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Okay, so Chillin' by the Fire is actually... fire! It's simple, cozy, and exactly what I needed after a long day of executive dysfunction. Fhe Nintendo Direct really undersold this game's appeal. #NintendoSwitch2 #ChillinByTheFire

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Being grown up is a curse. I want to throw one of these on and run around the park SO BAD.

A gift shop wall showing rows of dinosaur costumes consisting of a cape and hood in different colors, patterns, and cuts to evoke the particular dinosaur each costume is modled after. The costumes are meant for young children and would not the adult author of the post.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Crossed off my bucket list visiting the fossil rich Alberta badlands (Dinosaur Provincial Park), and spotting fossil claws, vertebrae, and trees! Next up the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology!

Picture of the author sitting on a rock, looking at the camera, in khaki pants and an orange shirt, amidst the sun-dried backdrop of the Alberta badlands, a combination of hardy shrubs in silty soil and dried up creekbeds, with eroded hills and rock formations around.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

What fresh level of #duolingo hell is this?

A screenshot of the animated owl mascot of the DuoLingo app from after a level is cleared, but instead of an owl it's a green unicorn horse body with toeless orange nubs for feet, a pink horse tail, a pink unicorn horn with a rainbow above it, and the owl'a head grafted onto the body. The transmogrified mascot has turned it's head to the viewer with a scrunched face which contextually should be an expression of approval, but the overall vibe of the chimera may strike the viewer as unnatural and unsettling.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Omg YES! I just KNEW BlueSky had something like this, it's exactly what I needed! (Though I am often the greatest sinner when it comes to reposting more than making original posts 😅) bsky.app/profile/did:...

Screenshot of the "OnlyPosts" filter description in BlueSky: "Posts from people you follow without reposts and replies"

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Finally, #DuoLingo becomes useful in my everyday life. #TheLegendofZelda

Screenshot of a Duo Lingo prompt for the user to tap a button and practice speaking the Japanese writing "Zeruda no Densetsu wa watashi no ichiban suki na geemu desu."

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

I keep a big 'ol sorted Google Sheets document 😁 My cousins have seen me pull it out! Only problem now is navigating the interface and limited selection of the Karaoke joints we go to...

Screenshot of a portion of a google drive spreadsheet, organized alphabetically by artist, ranging from "More" from Bobby Darin at the top and "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" from KT Tunstall at the bottom.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #582,229!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #582,229, Kairon ‪@caired.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 15, 2023"

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Had to prove to myself I could still get 1st place if I put in the work! This is actually the second time I topped the Diamond league, but the first time I took advantage of new mechanics after Duolingo made a big change to the scoring and before everyone figured out the new meta.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Duolingo tallying up the actual words I've "learned" is a good feeling. For the life of me I can't recall what those 1079 words are, but it's a nice simple metric to enjoy going up.

Duolingo-generated graphic "2023 year in review" saying I'm a top 8% Japanese learner in the app with 6154 earned experience points, 1340 minutes spent, 1079 words learned, and 603 daya as my longest streak.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

I had 90 minutes of Zumba today and just finished 70 minutes of #JustDance but what I REALLY want to know is... #Karaoke

Screenshot of a smartphone screen showing "how many calories does Karaoke burn" typed into an internet browser search bar

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

I got a GLENN MILLER in my first booster pack of Tromboner Cards! #TromboneChamp #NintendoSwitch

A screenshot from the game Trombone Champ showing a digital card called Glenn Miller with a black and white picture of said person with text of "This trombonist and bandleader, extremely popular in the early 1940s, died while flying to France to entertain U.S. troops during World War II; his aircraft disappeared over the English Channel during bad weather.

Screenshot from the game Trombone Champ showing four digital collectable cards showing pictures and text: Al Grey, Arthur Pryor, Design your own, and Glenn Miller.

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Kairon @caired.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

Some discussion in the family Viber chat got my Dad planning to watch #Oppenheimer tomorrow, which gives me the perfect excuse to tag along and watch it for a second time!

Image of Mr. Burns from the Simpson's cartoon with a sinister smile while says something and bringing his hands together in front of him with anticipation and self-satisfaction. The caption at the bottom of the image reads "Excellent".

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