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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cleveland snuck into the post season AGAIN somehow. Guys, baseball is good sometimes

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I live in the best city in America

Thereshouldbeayogiberaquoteherebutfucktheyankees

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Folks, something is happening on YT this last month

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Nothing more satisfying in the world

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Friends, this is a christmas beer before a baseball game and this may be the best day of my life

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Emily, a real person that really exists, tells me that my most recent position has an unfortunate end date that is in The Future Today is July of 2026

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The first thing it dinged me on was "Resume Clarity." It proceeded to give me perfect scores on this, except for resume length because 2 pages is just too long. My resume is a tight single page

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Turns out that a big project that I wanted out in the world by now is running into some roadblocks. And now I'm thinking of doing something on YT that I've been actively avoiding IYKYK

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

When this image was shown without knowing what it was, I thought it was a port of Wild Card and thought, holy cow, that was gutsy

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Gaze upon the the steps that I hath made!* *didn't do all the work

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

We over here throwing (unblockable) punches

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The nonstops for me (made with topsters.org)

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

A little coffee in a cabin didn't hurt nobody no how. Spring means new projects popping off soon

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Come to me, baseball. Save us from this relentlessly shitty winter

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It's like it's not worth defending a pedophile or something. Weird

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Swerving a little bit, these are my 9 favorite Metroidvanias off the top of my head. There's some recency bias here

Symphony of the Night, Faxanadu, Hollow Knight, Ender Lilies, Astalon, Blasphemous, Metroid: Zero Mission, Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight, Chasm

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Me and the boys over here working on something

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This is like giving yourself a nickname

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Look, I don't want to be a pedantic asshole, but didn't this piece come first?

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Final Fight had lots of awesome art attached to it. To wit

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Officials didn't say it, a fucking video did. Clear as day

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

5. Metal Gear Solid There's a time in everyone's life when they put away childish things, and in 1998, that was video games. That is, until Metal Gear Solid. If SMB started this whole mess, MGS reinvigorated it. I will love it forever

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

6. Super Mario Bros. In my life, there was a time before this game, and then everything after. You might think it weird that a kid could divine their purpose in life at the age of 7, but maybe you never played SMB for the first time at that age. I would be a different person without it, full stop

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

7. Tetris At no time in your life will you refuse to play Tetris. This is coded into us as a species. Even if it's the Mega Drive version, Tetris is Tetris. It's a part of us

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

8. Bloodborne The total package. Phenomenal combat, satisfying exploration, and one of the best settings in the medium, this game never, ever gets old. I still concoct builds in my head sometimes that I know I'll never play, but just doing that means it never leaves my brain. An all-time king

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

9. Tekken 3 For me, there is no better 3D fighting game. This game kept me company in my early college days, helped me make friends in the dorm, and was the game of my first ever tournaments (which I lost badly). Love the cast, love the evolution of the template, love love love everything about it

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Quick reminder that 3rd Strike takes place over the holiday season. It is therefore the Die Hard of video games.

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

10. Dark Souls The Dark Souls of this list

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

11. Castlevania: Rondo of Blood If there's a reason they stopped making them like this, it's because they hit the apex mountaintop. In a better world, we would still be seeing RoB-likes. If I ever made a video game myself, it would likely be one. Perfect in nearly every way

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

12. Sonic the Hedgehog Lots of great memories sneaking in Sonic time when my parents were out, but this is more special to me because it's the first console game my kid ever wrapped her head around. She still doesn't play games very much, but when she does, it's almost always Sonic

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

13. Metal Gear NES I actually hate this game. On the other hand, this was the game I played all night with what became one of my oldest friends. So maybe I actually love this game

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John Learned @johnlearned.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

14. Warframe I didn't buy a game when the PS4 came out, just re-upped my PS+ sub. I stood in line at midnight, took the thing home, and dumb lucked my way onto PSN at 12:30am, which was in the middle of a glut. Somehow, I got Warframe working, and it was THE PS4 game for months and months

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