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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's finally getting to that nice and cool lounge-around-outside weather here, so I sketched up an annual Pokémon autumn-themed scene to commemorate.

Colored-pencil sketch of the Pokémon Braixen, Floragato, Pachirisu and Dedenne sitting at a table playing cards.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A few days late, but a couple of my faves were looking spiffy in the Pokopia update trailer. Maybe I'll finally get around to picking up a copy if I get bored prior to the Ocarina remake's release!

Digitally-colored pencil sketch of Braixen with a red bowtie and Dedenne with sunglasses.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My band Lazy Shell's upcoming video game music cover album, "Beach Bums" has its release approaching sooner every day! When, exactly? Well, according to the latest trends, this might be the the...

Dewford Town trendy phrase: Now, "THURSDAY BEFORE" is what's vital and in tune with the times!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My band Lazy Shell's excited to announce our first FULL-LENGTH album, "Beach Bums"! Releasing in just a couple of weeks, enjoy 10 beach- and island-themed tunes, featuring our largest variety of styles and collective of players yet!

The album cover for Lazy Shell's album, "Beach Bums", featuring a view over a wooden bridge towards the ocean.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My band, Lazy Shell, just released an EP of a few of the tracks from the concert we did at VGM CON back in April! Check out our Linktree and listen to "Stitched Together: Live" on whatever service you get your music from: linktr.ee/lazyshellmusic

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My band Lazy Shell's going to be playing the house band set for next month's NYC VGM Jam session at OS NYC; the show's Friday, August 7th at 7pm (doors at 6)! Hope to see some folks there, and stick around later for open jams!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I just recently recalled that while playing 3D World back in 2013, I noticed the pitch of small Toad's yell when falling in a pit was a dead ringer for Braixen's cry, and now you can share in this useless knowledge. One of the fun passive perks of having perfect pitch...

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A few months late, but here's a sketch of my team for the Legends Z-A main story! A couple old and several new faves; getting to swap between multiple new Megas was cool (would've been nicer still if Delphox could've gotten in the mix, but Game Freak did non-Greninja fans dirty at launch).

A colored-pencil sketch of the male trainer from Pokémon Legends Z-A, and a team consisting of Meganium, alpha Hawlucha and Scolipede, Excadrill, Aurorus and Braixen.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Here's my final 'favorite Pokémon per type' grid, for the Paldea region! Was fun getting a chance to sketch a bunch of guys I've never tried drawing before throughout the project, especially the last few generations.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

My band Lazy Shell's debut album "Winter Staycation" is out on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and other platforms! Listen to the album here, and keep an eye out for more video features on the band's YouTube and Insta pages! linktr.ee/lazyshellmusic

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Nearly finished with my favorite Pokémon by generation series; here're my favorites from Galar + Hisui!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The whole Kalos Mega trio's together now!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Everyone's favorite fox mage and mage-in-training, with new Mega flair!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Picking back up with these sketches, here're my favorite Pokémon of each type from Alola! This should end up being the last generation where I'd never sketched any of them before, but I'll definitely still have a lot of new ones for the remaining two gens.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Also, as a bonus, I did a pixel-art version of the final Braixen sketch in wplace a bit ago!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Didn't have time to finish the Alola favorites sketch this month, but here's a couple alternate sketches I had for the previous grids:

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Finally time for sketches of my Kalos favorites; most of these are among my favorite designs from the whole series! Had already sketched most of these for something or another at some point in the past, but the last three generations will be mostly untrodden territory!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The setup (I was expecting to play the "S" variant, but Z just happened to show up); took about a dozen resets to get the basically-required Glass + "Start with all tile slots filled", and also have enough Plays/Refreshes to get me close enough for the swap upgrades to get me the rest of the way.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

One ridiculous achievement down...

Final results screen from Hard Mode on "Word Play" on Steam, showing a longest word spelled of "INTERNATIONALIZATION".

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Another month of Pokémon favorite sketches; it's well and truly summer here, and perhaps appropriately, my Unova favorites have a lot of Fire- and Bug-type representation.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Another monthly favorite-Pokémon grid, this time from Sinnoh, perhaps exhibiting some additional bias on top...

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Another monthly Pokémon grid, this time with my favorite Hoenn 'mon (or pair of 'mons, as appropriate) for each type!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I'm playing a piano set at VGM CON: Dimensional Riff this weekend! Catch it in person at 3pm Friday if you can (and also pick up some exclusively in-person CDs + merch!) I'll try to live-stream it so you can watch it from home as well, but if not I'll have a VOD up soon enough!

Image announcing Jonathan Aldrich's Key Stage solo piano set at 3:00pm CDT this Friday at VGM CON 2025.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Following up from last month, here's Johto's personal-fave-per-type grid! A few of my overall favorites in this bunch, as well as a couple that couldn't really be helped! (Looking at you, Kingdra)

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Happy Pokémon Day! I thought this year I'd try getting myself to keep up with sketching stuff every so often, so I'm planning on filling out a "favorite Pokémon per type" template for each generation! Shooting for one every month, but not going to hold myself strictly to it.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Thanks to everyone that supported my music on Spotify this year!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Took a couple of creative liberties, but I'm happy with most of these picks. Some of these were way harder to narrow down than others!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Tower of Trials is getting very close to completion; here's one more teaser showing off the reworked "Journal" menu! In addition, I'll be streaming the first hour or so of Tower of Trials on Twitch this Saturday at 5pm EDT! www.twitch.tv/jdaster64

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

I usually do a new Pokémon sketch around this time, and playoff baseball's been on the mind recently, so I thought why not?

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Here's a sneak peek at a few of the changed / new moves in Tower of Trials!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Another quick Tower of Trials teaser, this time going over the changes to Star Power!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Here's another quick preview of some of the mechanical changes coming in Tower of Trials!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

Been a while since the teaser trailer for Tower of Trials dropped; here's a better look at the different rewards you can get after every battle:

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

As if Battle Bits #007 already covering highly specific janky interactions weren't enough for him already, Rawk Hawk's ceiling prop attack can revive fallen partners!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #027: Outta Spite Enemies can "hold" Spite Pouches in TTYD without you being able to tell!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #026: Star Power Level The amount of Star Power you gain by attacking in TTYD is possible to calculate exactly!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #025: Switched-up Spoils By popular request, here's a short description of how item drop logic changed for the Switch version of TTYD! #TTYDBattleBits

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #024: Banking Badges Almost every badge TTYD supports stacking the effects of can be farmed infinitely from enemies!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #023: Nary a Drop Getting an item or badge drop that enemies aren't holding from battle in TTYD is a surprisingly rare occurrence!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #022: Crowd Control Being used to the limelight, Flurrie has a unique reaction when targeting audience members throwing good items!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

In lieu of a weekly Battle Bits update, here are some tiny changes you might not have noticed from preview footage of TTYD for the Nintendo Switch!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #021: Regional Delicacies Zess T. has slightly different cooking recipes available in the Japanese and international versions of TTYD!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

VGM CON 2024's only a week away! I'll be playing keys in three different sets, and will have physical CDs and stickers for merch available on-site only while supply lasts! Here's a list of what I'm playing in (you can probably also catch me at the Jam Space):

Jonathan Aldrich at VGM CON, April 19-21, 2024 - Playing a solo set 8pm Saturday at the Key Stage, with Lucas Guimaraes 1:30pm Saturday at the Boss Stage, and with the Jambassadors 12:30pm Sunday at the Boss Stage. Will be selling physical CDs and stickers on-site only!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #020: Built to Fail Items that inflict immobilizing statuses have a slightly lower than 100% chance to work by default!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #019: Audience Interaction As promised, here's a follow-up to the last post with more details on how TTYD's audience member special events are triggered.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #018: Know Your Audience A brief look at what differentiates TTYD's types of audience members.

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #017: Status Unknown A quick look into some of the rarer status effects you might not be aware even existed in TTYD!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #016: Status Woe TTYD's battle system has several ways to deal with negative status ailments, but a surprising amount of disagreement in what exactly falls under that umbrella!

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Jonathan Aldrich @jdaster64.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

TTYD Battle Bits #015: Unhealthy Communication Magikoopas are pickier about using their spread-healing move than intended, ignoring the HP of all but the right-most enemy!

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