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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 9h

This paragraph from a Gameye post about collecting resonates with me so much.

For myself, it is about what games I love, and the memories they hold.

While I love seeing people who have combed through and gathered every official release for a console, that's just not for me. I'm not really a sports fan (aside from tennis), so you won't find many sports titles on my shelf. But my collection isn't simply a collection of "my favorites." It's a bit more complicated than that. I have duplicate copies of games, broken cases, wrinkled and creased manuals, and discs with deep ring scratches from the time my Xbox 360 got knocked over and ruined my baby brother's cherished copy of Halo 4. Which happened to his copy of Halo Reach as well, oops! Those games aren't just things I own. They're reminders of the people I played them with, the places I was in, and the moments I might otherwise have forgotten.

Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

I've already submitted three games to Gameye's database in the last 24 hours, and I'm becoming increasingly annoyed each time I realize said game isn't in the database.

My pending submissions for the Gameye Database: Fire Emblem Musou for Switch, Hanjuku Eiyuu Tai 3D Collector's Edition, and the JP Xenoblade 2 Collector's Edition.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

For reference, this is how it looked before (awful).

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

The N64 display stand arrived!! This part of the collection looks so much better now. Still waiting for the SFC and Famicom stands to arrive.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

There's an air show featuring the Blue Angels going on over the entire town today.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Guys, this Zohar keychain I got from Etsy is so tight, I can't handle it.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

This week's #RandomGameSaturday is a Game Freak hidden gem: Drill Dozer for the GBA.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

Been getting really into Indian snack mix lately. We went ham and got like, 8 different kinds to eventually go through.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

FYI friends, System Shock 2 25th Anniversary Remaster is a free to own gift on Epic right now, until Oct 8. If you don't already own it, now it's the time!

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Oh my god, AI is the anti-life equation.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Lmao the dialogue in Fortune's Weave is good.

Bonaventure calls Cai's team a "ragtag assemblage of street urchins"

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

"I caused irrevocable damage to my psyche by playing great video games!"

Obliterating my Mental Health with Xenoblade Chronicles

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Good lord I made exactly this joke back at the start of September lol

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

LMAO, Green Lantern (2023) issue #33 is about Kyle Rayner beating a genAI obsessed, light construct wielding movie executive with his raw creativity, and that's pretty awesome.

Kyle Rayner takes out an AI obsessed movie executive with raw creativity.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

I missed #RandomGameSaturday yesterday, so here's a late entry. To coincide with the release of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, here's my copy of Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem for Super Famicom.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

I'm not too happy with how my Famicom, SFC and N64 loose carts are stacked in my bookcase (since you can't see the labels), so I bought some tiered display stands from etsy. They'll display much better once those have been installed in the bookcase.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Some views from my backyard as I was walking my dog last night. The view behind our house is absurd.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Hey guys, I think this dude with the forked tongue might be up to no good.

Prince Dyan looking evil with a forked tongue

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

This line resonated with me SO MUCH.

“What I’ve learned is that people in the game industry didn’t just come here for the stability, or come here for the lifestyle; they came here because, in their head, there was no other choice, but they had to work in games. It’s just what they decided to do and they love it.”

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

That is so sick. Reminds me a bit of the Deja Vu box art.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

My keychain and half my keys fell off my key ring last saturday (thankfully I recovered the keys), but now I'm like -> <- this close to buying this Zohar keychain.

A Zohar keychain, made by a very talented designer on Etsy.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

It's finally arrived! Looking forward to starting it, but I still have to finish Onimusha!

My hand holding a copy of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I love the plethora of parry animations in this game. It's nuts.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

This run of Green Lantern is pretty damn good, y'all. It's a fun read. Highly recommended, especially if you're a fan of the emotional spectrum stuff from Geoff Johns' run.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

The tragedy of Hal Jordan and Sinestro.

Sinestro: What was it?
Hal: Were we ever truly friends?
Sinestro: That's the tragedy of all of this, Jordan. Hal. We'll always be friends.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

LMAO, wait, is THAT how Mongul got the Black Mercy in For The Man Who Has Everything? (from Green Lantern (2023) #21)

Kon: You're pretty good at that.

Odyssey: You have no idea. Once I stole this flower from the Phantom Zone for guy named Mongul. Now that was a challenge.

The first page of For The Man Who Has Everything. Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman visit the Fortress of Solitude to find Superman dead eyed, with the Black Mercy wrapped around his chest.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

I know something about squish faces.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

I've had a larb gai addiction for the last week, and I'm worried it's not going to go away, no matter how much I eat.

larb gai, a thai salad with minced chicken, red onion, lime, cilantro, and more.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

Also, I love his big laughs. He reminds me of Brian Blessed.

Brian Blessed as Richard IV in Black Adder.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

Man, I love Takamura. He's legit my favorite character in this game. He's larger than life.

Takamura Ono in Onimusha: Way of the Sword, saying "No? What, then? Are you going to start taking human souls?"

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

If you ask me, Beat of the Rising Sun is still the king of eurobeat.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

As a fun treat to close this thread out, here is my copy of Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir on Famicom Disk System!

Famicom Detective Club for Famicom Disk System.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

I also highly recommend playing the first two Famicom Detective Club games. They've been remade and localized, and they're available to play on Switch!

key art for Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir/The Girl Who Stands Behind.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

Finally finished Famicom Detective Club: Emio - The Smiling Man. Absolutely fantastic game. A dark, emotional game, especially its epilogue. The story goes to some very dark places (darker than the first two games!), especially near the end, and it's astonishing that Nintendo published it.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

I just met these two and I love them.

The Mr. and Mrs. Todoroki, the owners of Todoroki Motors.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

I was playing some Famicom Detective Club: Emio - The Smiling Man a couple nights ago, and ran into this gem.

Mama Shoko in FDC: Emio - The Smiling Man talking to player, and says "Cops are real pieces of shit."

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Yooo, no one told me that the NPC Lady Murasaki in Onimusha is THE Lady Murasaki Shikibu, writer of The Tale of Genji. She's a Japanese historical heavyweight, my dudes. The Tale of Genji is widely regarded to be one of the first novels ever written.

A screenshot of Lady Murasaki from Onimusha: Way of the Sword

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

I honestly don't think it's related, but it's funny to me that Kojima was decrying the death of physical games at an Italian film festival in July, just a month after Sony apparently withdrew from PHYSINT.

A translation of a quote from Kojima at a film festival in Italy, decrying the death of physical media, games in particular.

A tweet by Hideo Kojima that confirms that Sony withdrew support for PHYSINT in June, and that Kojipro has instead gone to Xbox.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

So, MAGES, the visual novel company, decided it would be a good idea to make a game almost entirely with AI, and then proceed to give everyone details on how much of the game they didn't make.

AI Generated Content Disclosure
The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI Breakdown
Source code: 100%
Graphics: 60%
Sound: 50%
Effects: 100%

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

With my ADHD brain being very easily overwhelmed by multiple potential tasks, the Adventure Guide in FE: Fortune's Weave is a godsend. I unabashedly love a good task list in games. Up until I saw this, I was worried about being able to keep everything available in my head.

A screenshot of the Adventure Guide in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. It lays out potential task you can do at any one time during free roam.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

Nothing crazy. Just built a video game museum in my house.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

These Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough snackables are dangerous. I should not have these in my home.

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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026

This week's #randomgamesaturday is a doozy. All 7 parts of El Dorado Gate for Dreamcast, developed and published by Capcom. I'd love to see a collection of all 7 parts released in North America.

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