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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think that's why they specified "intentionally." Hot coffee was not meant to be in the final game.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"How descriptive and specific should we be with the captions?" "Err on the side of more specific, just to be safe."

Screenshot from the movie Backrooms with a caption reading, "(DISTANT RECORDED VOICES FROM GREETING IN 55 LANGUAGES)"

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Something similar happened to me. I quietly muttered, "It was you, wasn't it?" and he got super pissed.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Continuing the tradition of "we're going to make the next one more like Diablo 2 you guys"

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

15. Her Trees I planned to just check it out, and ended up playing the whole thing in one go. A cool, free puzzle game that only takes about an hour. All puzzles are available from the get-go, so when one stumps you (most did for me at first!), you can go check out another. I had a great time!

hertrees.io

Her Trees

Play Her Trees and enjoy beautifully designed puzzle rooms filled with hidden symbols, interactive objects, and rewarding mysteries waiting to be solved.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

14. Tales from Candleforth Took a chance on this short, hand-drawn point-and-click adventure (it was at the local library), and glad I did. No moon-logic puzzles; I didn’t have to look anything up. I’d be happy if it turns into a longer series.

A puzzle from the game with animal skulls and icons of animal heads the the background.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

13. Yurukill Fun mix of Danganronpa with shoot-em-up gameplay. I initially had some trouble with the villain’s motivations, but after sitting with it, I have some headcanon that makes it work. Let’s see a sequel that takes it further.

A Maji-kill sequence, where the player tries to convince someone else not to kill them. The text "Urge to Kill Rising" appears over the character Rina saying, "Your sympathy doesn't mean a thing if you aren't willing to confess..."

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

12. Donkey Kong Bananza Predictably excellent. Never really challenging (boss battles ended in about a minute, first try), but a lot of fun. Smashing through everything didn’t get old for the whole runtime. Great soundtrack, too, particularly the Zebra and Banadium Core Tower themes.

Donkey Kong, in Zebra form, runs across water with Pauline on his back.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

11. Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! A good, relaxing game that scratches the Powerwash Simulator itch, but because I needed to be reading the book titles, it isn’t mindless enough that I could listen to podcasts while playing. Really recommended for the price.

Beginning of the game, showing a ton of books on the floor of a library.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I saw three movies in theaters over the last few months, and the line that gave me the strongest emotional reaction was delivered by Road Runner. #coyotevsacme

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I played it there, it's looking great! Looking forward to the final game to get that Nine Sols feeling again

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I played it there, it was a lot of fun! It's on my wishlist; looking forward to playing again!

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It seems that it may require reauthenticating with the disc after a certain period of time. So, you can't do this and then sell your Xbox that has a disc drive in favor of a Helix or Series S without one, or after a while you would lose your licenses.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If they insist we use Lake America instead of Lake Ontario, HOMES doesn't work as a mnemonic to remember the names of the Great Lakes. I suggest we all use SHAME.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Orville season 3 (New Horizons) is one of the best seasons of Star Trek I've ever seen.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For the Xbox, yes, they have all of my games, and I have it set to automatically allow them to play E and E10 games. I can allow other games when they try to launch them. On Steam, they can only use games where family sharing is enabled, and I have to manually blacklist or whitelist everything.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My kids both have email addresses, but they won't get the passwords until they're way older. They were really only used to make their supervised Xbox and Steam accounts.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Removing em dashes from my resume so that nobody mistakenly thinks AI wrote it

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Will all four be on Best Friends, or just episode 3?

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My 5-year-old just rolled credits on Rhythm Heaven Groove. The kids are all right.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Set the time period to "last 5 years" to really see something

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Should I play Type Help first, or go right into The Incident at Galley House?

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Calling it "Taco Bell diarrhea" is like calling the 1917 flu pandemic "Spanish flu"

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

10. Rift of the Necrodancer A lot of fun! A straight rhythm game, but with the main challenge being reading the notes to play that are encoded as monsters. Also has some Punch-Out!! and Rhythm Heaven. On paper, sounds great; in practice, even better. And the kids love it, too.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

100% my experience. I rarely used my disc drive (usually playing indies that didn't get physical releases), but when I discovered my library does video games, I started using it all the time. And the first one I got was Sonic Frontiers

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Definitely give it another shot. I really liked it.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Didn't somebody do something similar on the Vita? Dropped a placeholder game so they could release the actual game later as an update?

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Rhythm Heaven gives me so much joy

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My copy of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Sept 2020, PS4) was made in the USA.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I played a few floors today, it's fun!

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If they didn't get rid of it for DuckTales, they never will

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Oh man, I love that game. We need more Kururin-likes

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I mainly played it single player, but my kids wanted to help, so we found a few levels where they could focus on some sort of non-rhythm task.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I would've thought it was the coolest thing to hang an antenna out of a top floor window and run a long line down to the Xbox '78 to play neighborhood multiplayer

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

9. Egg Squeeze Short and weird, which I always like. A fun way to spend an hour or two!

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Rather than say that Crazy Taxi: World Tour uses generative AI, I'd say that it uses generative A-YA YA YA YA YA

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

8. Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster I’m playing through the Pixel Remasters in order, and had a great time with FF3. A solid return to form after FF2 (which was still fun, but I don’t feel like I’ll go back to it any time soon).

Screenshot from the ending of Final Fantasy 3 Pixel Remaster, showing the main character telling NPCs, "It's been a pleasure."

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

7. Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis P3R was a great time that I recommend to everyone. The DLC was a slog that took a year to finish because I kept putting it off. I ended up turning the difficulty all the way down to just get through it. Even if you loved the base game, I can’t say I recommend it.

Screenshot from the end of Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis, showing my favorite character Junpei saying "Ha... Yeah! That's what you get, fightin' us world-savin'... warriors..."

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

6. Spray Paint Simulator If you’re done with both Power Wash Simulator games and need more content, this will do. That’s definitely me, so I had a good time listening to an audiobook and covering things with paint.

Screenshot of Spray Paint Simulator showing a giant robot with a completed paint job

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

5. One Upon a Katamari Certainly the most fun I’ve had with a Katamari game since the PS2. No weird gimmicks or anything, just fun. Definitely worth a play for series fans.

One Upon A Katamari screenshot showing platinum trophy, 141 crowns

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It would have been so perfect if Colbert's last guest was the pope, over Zoom, and they just talked about Tolkien for a half hour.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm doing the Pixel Remasters in order, and I'm at the end of FF3. It's good! It's very clearly the one they made right before FF4.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I think it's still Facebook, but just closing the tab as soon as you get past your friends' updates and into slop territory.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

He's arguing that something must be true because he can't think of anything that disproves it? That's... quite a shift.

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

After playing for a couple hours, the answer is "yes"

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Mike Kelehan @mkelehan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Suddenly, I'm back driving my dad's car in high school, with a burned copy of Brink of Time in the CD player

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