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Jadarina
@jadarina.bsky.social
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Community Lead for IGN
Host on Podcast Beyond! & NVC
D&D DM for hire
She/Her
Bulbasaur is life!
Talk to me about all things Sonic, Pikmin, Monster Hunter, TMNT, and Final Fantasy!
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Jadarina @jadarina.bsky.social · Nov 7
A few things to get to know me

Video Games (I’m quite good at them 😉)
Game development (Narrative and level design focused)
Binging TV shows
D&D + other tabletops
Building Legos
Archery
Large Pokémon Plush collecting
MTG & Pokémon TCG
Writing/Podcasting
Cooking
Traveling
My cat Atreus
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Don’t nobody talk to me this weekend I’m gonna be chillin with my favorite lil guy.
My Pokemom trainer in Pokemon Z-A wearing a teal and white jacket, black pleated skirt, teal socks and sneakers with a teal bottom. Standing in a field with tall grass and a wooden bridge in the background and a Bulbasaur in the foreground sleeping. My Pokemom trainer in Pokemon Z-A wearing a teal and white jacket, black pleated skirt, teal socks and sneakers with a teal bottom. Posing with my Bulbasaur with his mouth open in front of Lumios Tower at night. My Pokemom trainer in Pokemon Z-A wearing a teal and white jacket, black pleated skirt, teal socks and sneakers with a teal bottom sitting at a cafe enjoying some tea opposite my Bulbasaur in a chair as the sunsets. My Pokemom trainer in Pokemon Z-A wearing a teal and white jacket, black pleated skirt, teal socks and sneakers with a teal bottom enjoying some tea and cookies while looking over my shoulder seated at a cafe with my Bulbasaur who’s giving me suspicious looks.
October 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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This is the set I’ve been waiting all my life for! Over the moon excited I was able to order everything I wanted! Some players say Universes Beyond is bad but they just haven’t got their dream crossover yet.

Turtles are going to be my whole Magic personality!

#TMNT
Heroes in a half shell MTG card featuring all 4 ninja turtles. Splinter, The Mentor MTG card featuring Master Splinter. Doubling Season MTG card featuring all 4 ninja turtles. Swamp Land MTG card featuring a pizza with mushroom toppings shaped like a skull.
October 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I played my first competitive flag football game in years over the weekend and I kid you not this is what it felt like for our team of free agents vs the one team in the league with matching custom jerseys.
Cover of backyard football for windows and Mac with three kids playing football Madden nfl 26 cover art with one player jumping over another.
September 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Happy Hades 2 and Alice in Borderlands S3 day to all those that celebrate!!!
a drawing of a woman with a sword and a star in the bottom right corner
Alt: a drawing of a Melinoë and the Hades 2 logo in its iconic ghostly green and a shadow of Hecate in the background.
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September 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Predictions for today’s State of Play!

1. Wolverine 🤡
2. Saros news
3. More RE9
4. Pragmata release date
5. Bluepoints next game
6. Little devil inside 🤡
7. Persona 6 announcement
8. Astrobot DLC
9. New game from Sony Santa Monica
10. Next Xbox game coming to PS
11. FF7 PT3 🤡
12. Intergalactic news
September 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Chat can I get a hell freakin yeah!!

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate - Official Free Update & Metalhead DLC Trailer - IGN
Metalhead comes to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate. Watch the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate trailer for the action roguelike game to see what to expect with the Me...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Casualties from my office after this mornings earthquake.

This must be the alternate timeline where cloud and Jessie ended up together.
Collectible Figures of cloud and Jessie and their bike from FF7 on the ground after an earthquake. Collectible figure Red XIII laying on his side after an earthquake knocked him down.
September 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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My latest review is here! I’m so happy with how Amazing Sonic Racing Crossworlds is!

Video is coming soon, had a slight delay due to some sound issues with some of my capture on my end due to my capture device but it’s all fixed can’t wait to for you all to see it.

www.ign.com/articles/son...
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Review - IGN
Sonic's latest kart racer fires on all cylinders with excellent courses and a lengthy list of customization options.
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September 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Didn’t get a chance to promote it earlier today but be sure to check out this weeks Beyond! As we talked Borderlands, Battlefield with @tieguytravis.bsky.social and as a bonus we had Bennet Foddy on to talk Baby Steps!

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Borderlands 4 and Battlefield 6 Are Playing it Safe, But Playing to Their Strengths - Beyond 912
YouTube video by IGN Games
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September 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Probably my favorite reveal or tied for my favorite part of the direct with Hades 2!
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · Sep 12
new Fire Emblem game
September 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I can’t believe I missed the Metroid prediction by a day! Also got most my predictions right or very close to the announcement! Was a solid direct, nothing that blew me away but definitely lots of good stuff to look forward to!
jadarina.bsky.social Jadarina @jadarina.bsky.social · Sep 12
Nintendo Direct Predictions for the 9/12 direct:

Metroid 4: 12/5 or 2/13
Splatoon Raiders trailer Q2 2026
Switch 2 game DLC/Upgrade pack for a Switch 1 game
Age of Imprisonment Release date: 1/13
Mario Movie 2 sneak peak includingcasting of 1 new character
Fire Emblem reveal
Mario 40 BR
Hades 2 PLZ
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Hang out with NVC during the Nintendo Direct! We'll be live from 5:55 a.m. Pacific, live react to the show from 6-7, and do a live post show from 7-8:15. Hope to see you there!
www.youtube.com/live/6xF_F4K...
Nintendo Direct Livestream: IGN Watch Party and NVC Post-Show
YouTube video by IGN
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September 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Nintendo Direct Predictions for the 9/12 direct:

Metroid 4: 12/5 or 2/13
Splatoon Raiders trailer Q2 2026
Switch 2 game DLC/Upgrade pack for a Switch 1 game
Age of Imprisonment Release date: 1/13
Mario Movie 2 sneak peak includingcasting of 1 new character
Fire Emblem reveal
Mario 40 BR
Hades 2 PLZ
September 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Nearly kicked one of my managers in the face today and it was glorious and met with applause. Happy Gamescom 2025 everybody!
a cartoon character is laying on his back with his arms outstretched
Alt: Kakashi from Naruto doing cartwheels
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August 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I said it before I’ll say it again FAFO.
August 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Shared with permission: my incredible colleague, NVC producer Red Rigos, was impacted by IGN's layoffs yesterday. We're heartbroken: Red is kind, funny, talented, and dedicated and has been a huge part of NVC's growth and success.

Please hire him: www.redrigos.com/ign
IGN | home
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August 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition.

Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:
Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public. The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events. Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts. At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical. This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech. While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.
August 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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It’s been-

One week since we asked IGN Entertainment to recognize our friends on the product, engineering, and Humble Bundle teams as part of the IGN Creators Guild.

The sooner that happens, the sooner we can start working with management to build towards a stronger future for us all!
Recognize IGN Creators Guild (2.0) Now!
May 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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The bird is the word!
My winning board from my chocobo deck for a match of Magic the gathering featuring 4 chocobos two with +12/0 and two with +8/0. Family guys Peter griffin in a restaurant with his family singing and dancing the bird is the word!
July 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Played in my first draft last night for FNM and did surprisingly well with these leading me to a 2-1 record.

Ended with a 3-way tie for second place before tiebreakers came into play which sadly moved me to 4th overall.

Fingers crossed hoping my Sealed tourney today goes as good or even better!
8 FF MTG cards, including Blitzball, Joshua, Snow, Zidane, Jill, Squall, Rufus Shinra, and Tidus.
June 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I couldn’t sleep any longer so I came down to organize and log some of my new magic cards and he is NOT happy about bright lights at 6AM 😅😅
A black and gray cat sitting in a light green chair looking upset.
June 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Best Nintendo Crew in the Industry!
duckvalentine.bsky.social Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · Jun 8
super ninfriendos ♥️
A photo backstage from IGN Live with the cast of Nintendo Voice Chat just before going out for a live show
June 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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#IGNLive friggin rocks so excited I got to meet the cast of my favorite game of 2025!
Me with the cast of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 at IGN Live 2025.
June 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I know it’s been out for like a year on other console but damn TMNT: Splintered Fate is so much fun and was worth the wait to play it on PS5 with my partner.

We are obsessed with it! #TMNT
Raphael fighting Leatherhead in the sewers in TMNT: Splintered Fate
June 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Here’s the full line-up for everything coming to IGN Live, come hang out with us so I can throw you some free prizes!
ign.com IGN @ign.com · May 29
The IGN Live full event schedule has been revealed! Check it out to find when your favorite interviews and panels are happening, all the cool things to do on the floor at #IGNLive, game reveals to expect, and so much more! bit.ly/43xYniQ
IGN Live Event Schedule!
May 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM