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31 | Pan | He/Him | The Remake or Rebreak Guy | Co-Host of Unversed Cast | Background by @nickonripple.bsky.social. In a creative rut.

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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I want to thank you all for sharing your comments here, on the new review, and on the explainer vlog. After being away from reviews for so long, I wasn't sure what the response would be to a new video. I never anticipated such an outpouring of support. I am truly touched by all your kind words.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's finally done. An exhaustive deep dive on Donkey Kong 64, plus a look at Tag Anywhere and DK64 Rekongpiled.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have seen a couple people request the upcoming Ocarina of Time re remake. I'm honestly kind of game, but I really don't want to have to deal with the original's horrifically slow text speed again. Would people riot if I recorded the original with the Better OOT mod with only 3x text speed enabled?
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just found out Prime 4 officially takes place between Other M and Fusion, a period where Metroids and the Space Pirates are both pointedly extinct. Watching fans try to headcanon their way into making sense of this makes me feel like I'm going insane.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was really hoping to release the new review on Friday, but after watching the whole thing I noticed an audio issue and a few abrupt edits (one full res file was variable fps while the proxy was not, so it didn't manifest until the render).
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's basically finished and sitting at two hours, 32 minutes, and twenty seconds. It's longer than both halves of the Unleashed review combined.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Paper Mario pc port has an integer scale mode for 240p but no option for nearest neighbor. Am I missing something?
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Adobe picked a hell of a time to break Media Encoder. Instead of throwing everything in a queue so I can go off and do something else, I need to individually render each of the 26 segments directly in Premiere.
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eric wenske @capsulecity.com · 15/09/2026
Imagining every game as a Simple 2000 game.
A photoshopped cover making Mario Sunshine look like a Simple 2000 PS2 game titled "The Jumpman Vacation"
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Turns out I was right. This boss just straight up moves faster in the Recomp.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I swear the Recomp not having lag is making certain sections harder. The team fixed the rabbit and Krazy Kong Klamour, but occasionally I had trouble with sections (like the barrel cannons) I've never had before. I never died to the final boss even once on N64 but died to him twice in the Recomp.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Turns out trying to get four friends together who have the NSO expansion pack and an inclination to play the DK64 multiplayer is actually very difficult.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm in the home stretch of editing before I add music and do general polish. I needed some footage of the Recomp since that dropped while I was editing. Even though it was working fine just a few hours ago, the thing has started crashing five seconds after booting. There's always something.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
With all these excellent and technically impressive N64 Recomps coming out, I realized how bizarre it is that Piko Interactive has produced and sold two underwhelming PC ports of Glover despite being the IP owners and ostensibly having the source code.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's amazing how much more progress I can make when I can focus on just one session of gameplay, the endgame in this case. I edited 15 minutes of finished video today.
A screenshot of the editing timeline for Exo's DK64 review. It is about 90% edited.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Anybody ever play The Simpsons Game? This gag has stuck with me since 2007.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I've been twisting myself in knots trying to avoid reusing clips or putting clips of the same level or character too close too each other. I even wrote an app to track the last three levels and characters and rng one of each. All for the sake of a video most people will listen to rather than watch.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Looks like I'm about halfway done. But there's still so much left to do.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Looks like Donkey Kong 64 Recomp has just released. It supports Tag Anywhere if that's something you need. Seeing this game run in 60fps after scrubbing through N64 footage for two weeks is actually cursed, but in a wonderful way. dk64recomp.com/index.html
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
These split screen edits are a pox on my editing pace. Basically gotta do twice the clip scrubbing for one shot, AND position and crop the damn things.
A splitscreen of a shot of Donkey Kong swinging on a rope in Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong swinging on a vine in Donkey Kong 64.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Can someone tell me if lossless HEVC is really lossless? I just realized my "archive" recordings have different noise patterns compared to the avi originals. Is it an RGB to YUV colorspace conversion thing?
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Any retro gaming PC enthusiasts out there who can help with running Unreal on a bare metal Win98 machine with 256 MB of memory and a Pentium III 450MHz processor? Despite exceeding the minimum requirements the game runs at an N64 framerate on an ATI Rage Fury Pro and somehow worse on an FX 5500.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Well, I've edited roughly 25 minutes out of 150 for the DK64 review. There's nothing that slows things down more than agonizing over the perfect clip to showcase the lighting engine, only to find a better one by accident while looking for something else. If only I wasn't such a perfectionist.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If anyone knows a good marker plugin for OBS or mkvs, I could really use one. I just had to place hundreds of markers across 20 hours of footage by hand and it was pretty tortuous. But if I don't do that I'll never be able to find anything during production, so I'm stuck.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I dusted off my Wii U to record some DK64 on VC so I could get footage of the stuff made worse by lack of lag like the rabbit race. I discovered that Mad Jack has a much better camera angle if you press down C. After threeish playthroughs I'm still somehow learning new things about this game.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Just had a pizza in Canada and it had sesame seeds on the crust. I mentioned it to my Canadian friend, and he said "Doesn't all pizza have sesame seeds?" Evidently that's a thing up here.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Tried playing Psychonauts on my Legion Go S and the Linux version runs like dogshit. The graphics look wrong, the camera constantly spins and all the UI shows keyboard icons no matter what. It's so bad that Steam shouldn't be allowed to sell it.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Wii U discs are strangely brittle and easy to damage. I have GameCube discs I've owned since I was a child that are scratched to hell but still boot, yet pristine looking Wii U discs just give me an "Invalid Disc" error and refuse to boot.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Is Diddy's piranha submarine supposed to be impossible in the Tag Anywhere mod? In the vanilla version I can usually do it in two tries, but in the mod I've failed 7 times. I swear there's not enough time.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Vaguely curious about the Halo remake, if only to verify the mixed reviews for myself. With all due respect to Halo fans, who else would get mad about the addition of an optional run button?
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I'm recording Sonic Adventure stock footage on DC. To kill time during cutscenes I went on Reddit. Seems like for Redditors there's still no middle ground between "a poorly aged 3D fiasco with a bad camera and controls" and "an early 3D masterpiece you can't criticize because it came out in 1998."
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I ordered an Everdrive 64 just to record DK64 Tag Anywhere on real hardware. Now that I can record any game, you know what that means...
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I just played DK Barrel Blast for stock footage, and it's really weird how the toss off motion waggle racing game does way more to celebrate the franchise's legacy than the fourth and fifth Country games. They even brought back stuff from DKC3, which DK64 didn't even do.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Can someone remind me where the famous orange mission is in Sonic Unleashed? I might need footage of it...
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Just realized something. Same composer and similar melody. youtu.be/ezodVG5rLCA?...
youtu.be
Metroid Fusion Music - Arachnus-X Boss Theme
YouTube video by Metroid Music Channel
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Been recording a whole bunch of stock footage, and the original Xbox was a really interesting time. You had Blinx, Crimson Skies, Fable, Ninja Gaiden, Fuzion Frenzy, Mechassault, Psychonauts, and of course Halo. It's interesting to see them try to establish an identity in the very early 2000's.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Seriously, dude. Fuck this.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Some of these Star Fox challenges make me grumpy. It seems to think I'm shooting the Meteo Crusher's shield even when I definitely did not. Then you have to replay the entire level just to try again.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Metroid Prime 4 is a weird one. I agree with virtually all the common criticisms and found certain aspects very disappointing, so I can't relate to those who loved it. On the other hand, I don't think certain common criticisms are AS bad as other people do, so I can't relate to those that hated it.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Recorded some stock footage of a few early 3D games from 1996. I know it's easy to judge it with hindsight, but I'm seriously wondering how something as clunky and plodding as the original Tomb Raider got four (or was it five?) PS1 sequels. It really was a different time.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Serious question: why does the PS1 laser suck so much? I put a PSone laser in my HDMI modded phat and it still struggles to read discs that look fine.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
What is going on with my Perfect Dark cartridge? I tried to load a save, only for it to tell me the save was corrupted. Now the file select is empty, but it refuses to make a new save because the cart is "full." But it also won't let me delete anything.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Is the Frosty Village Silver Coin challenge supposed to be impossible? This is to a comical degree significantly harder than the others.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I just finished editing the VO. I may have gone too far in a few places. Is this my longest single review yet? I think it might be.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
For the past several months I've been mystified why my disc drive would randomly eject for seemingly no reason. Turns out, iTunes is configured to auto-eject your drive whenever you close it. Apple insists that this is a feature and not a bug.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This might be a new record for an unedited voiceover in one of my videos. Six hours and forty eight minutes. Holy smokes.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Goodness gracious, this is one of the hardest conclusions I've ever written for a review.
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Is anyone going to be seriously upset if I don't talk about the multiplayer in DK64, or can I skip it?
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Exo @exoparadigmgamer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Widescreen playthrough recorded. New record for me.
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