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Preston Black
@captstickfigure.bsky.social
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Equal parts tenacious artiste and humble laze about. Finger guns. They/Them
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This week I beat The Adventures of Bayou Billy for NES. Original hardware, no hacks or anything. This game is brutally difficult owing in part to very simple controls and an entire enemy roster of tanks that have quick counter attacks. Too bad because I think it’s a unique concept.
In the center, pixel art of a man wearing a vest and a “Crocodile Dundee” hat facing a shorter woman. Color is generally just white and brown and the shot is close up so there’s no real features of the characters shown. Above is a text box indicating speech which reads, “Thank you, Billy!” On the right is pixel art of an archway that appears to be made of brick lit to be the color aqua. It’s backlit and the aqua light shines through the darkness of the foreground lighting the ground. Standing in the archway, a man and woman embrace. To the left, text reads, “Billy” and “Billy West”. Which is the name of the man, not a credit to the voice actor Billy West. “THE END” in stylized, sort of Wild West type letters.
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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I had an absolutely amazing time at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo yesterday. I came away with a great pile of games. Most of these are games that I owned previously and lost/sold and rebuilding my collection is one of the most rewarding things I’ve done in recent history. 💜 retro
A photo of several video games laid out on a table. Left to right are Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt for NES (it’s loose and the rest are in boxes), Kingdom Hearts for PS2, WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth for PS2, Disney’s Aladdin for SNES, Devil May Cry (Greatest Hits) for PS2, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses for PS2, Super Smash Bros, for WiiU for WiiU, and Grand Theft Auto III (Greatest Hits) for PS2
October 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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I worked Hollow Knight into my ranked platformers list on Backloggd. I’m amazed that it took the #2 spot beating out some of my fondest gaming experiences. But it was an obvious choice when I think about how I felt playing HK. There’s just something really special about Super Metroid haha
Screenshot from a ranked list of video game Ties with accompanying box art on Backloggd.com. The list reads: 1 - Super Metroid 2 - Hollow Knight 3 - Super Mario World 4 - Super Mario Bros. 3 5 - Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse 6 - Mega Man 3 7 - Super Mario Bros. 2
September 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Hey I'm playing Breath of the Wild!

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A stick figure drawing of Link from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
September 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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TLoZ is ranked in the action adventure genre. This an extremely competitive list and while I think the value of the original Zelda is worthy of respect and it’s certainly a super fun game to play, I can’t deny that it isn’t AMAZING. It still sits among games that adore. It’s not a slight.
Screenshot of a list of video games and accompanying cover art from Backloggd.com. The list reads: 13 Metal Gear Solid 14 Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt 15 Silent Hill 16 The Legend of Zelda 17 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 18 Rule of Rose 19 Batman: Arkham City
September 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Hey, I missed stream this morning; but I’m going to stream for a while right meow! More breath of the wild!

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A person with a great and white dotted button up shirt with a brown strap across the chest is half grinning and half mean mugging the camera. They have long, greying, brown hair and black frame glasses. They’re outside and there’s a small tree behind them.
September 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Last night I finished The Legend of Zelda start to finish with no guidance for the first time. It’s such a blast to see the roots of the series here. It’s so smooth to play and is much more clear with its instructions compared to some of its contemporaries.
Link recount Zelda in the original “The Legend of Zelda”. 8-bit Princes Zelda stands in a black area of a top-down dungeon room which is meant to be some sort of holding cell. The room is gray and there is a door to the south with four animal-like statues and two flames arranged symmetrically in the bottom half of the room. In the top of the screen is the player’s HUD, displaying the Level 9 map, rupees, keys, and bombs, B and A items and rows of hearts representing health. A back screen with white text that reads, “ANOTHER QUEST WILL START FROM HERE. PRESS THE START BUTTON. ©️ 1986 NINTENDO”. An image of the Triforce is in the center.
September 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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No cheating, post your Lock Screen
Phone Lock Screen displaying date and time. The image is an extreme close up of a grey car with urgent, blue eyes.
September 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie
A duckling wearing pilot’s goggles faces the camera with its beak open. Black text below reads, “THIS IS SEWIOUS”.
September 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I finished Breath of Fire III last night! What a joy this game is. I owned a copy after its release in 97 not knowing anything about the series and I never got further than about a third of the way through. As you can see, it’s a top 5 RPG for me now. This particular copy was the PSP version.
Screenshot of a list video game titles with accompanying cover art from Backloggd.com. The list reads: “2 Chrono Trigger 3 Bloodborne 4 Kingdom Hearts III 5 Breath of Fire III 6 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 7 Paper Mario: Color Splash 8 Parasite Eve Photo of the ending screen of Breath of Fire III. It shows the ground of a desert area with a single plant sprouting through the surface in the center of the frame. In the bottom right white, italicized text reads, “Fin.”
August 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Last night I finished X-Men Legends for PS2. It was a weird experience. I enjoy the top down/isometric dungeon crawlers but I softlocked a couple times and that’s points off for me, quite honestly. The story and VO were strong and the graphics hold up very well, though. Also, use the Danger Room!
The title menu of “X-Men Legends” on PS2. Game title is top centers. Below, the menu options “Begin Story, Load Game, Danger Room, Options, Review, Credits” and below that, “(X) Select” button prompt. In the background is the interior of “Cerebro”, the inside of a sphere composed of medium sized metallic panels. A platform leads from a door on the side to a computer console in the center of the sphere; but this is mostly obscured by the menu. A ranked list of video games with accompanying box art. The list reads: “13 - Paper Mario 14 - The 7th Saga 15 - Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch 16 - Child of Light 17 - X-Men Legends 18 - Shadow Hearts 19 - Faery: Legends of Avalon 20 - Mega Man Legends
August 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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New Breath of the Wild edition of the Link StickFigure is done!
a stick figure wearing a blue tunic, holding a sword and a Hyrulian shield. Figure has shaggy blond hair, tan pants and brown boots, and has several brown straps across their chest.
August 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I'm starting a new adventure right now! #breathofthewild twitch.tv/captstickfigure #trepies #fruities #retrosaurus #clubcrt #streaming
The box art for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Switch. Shows a young man wearing a blue tunic holding a sword and shield, with a bow strapped to his back. He's standing on a rock surrounded by waving grass and he faces out over a vast landscape showing many landmarks, notable a castle surrounded by red mist and an smoking volcano.
August 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Hey I'm up and doing this thing! I don't have the slightest idea what I am doing in this game since I haven't played for about 10 months 😆 twitch.tv/captstickfigure
The cover art of Final Fantasy XII (Greatest Hits), which is to say many characters in a bundle together in the center (similar to a movie poster) over a background that shows a cityscape at the bottom and airships in the sky, where all the characters' faces have been replaced with stick figure faces. Text reads "PlayStation 2" at the top with the PlayStation logo and "GREATEST HITS" below that, all in a red band. Below, over the image is "FINAL FANTASY XII" in a classic FF Font. At the bottom left, the ESRB "T" Rating and in the bottom right the logo for SQUARE ENIX.
August 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I finished the Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster pack this week and I’ve placed it in my ranked FF list. My second time finishing X. X-2 is an absolute delight! Last Mission was entirely unexpected; but I had a lot of fun with it (though it was a bit long).
A screenshot from a list on Backloggd.com which contains the following entries accompanied by cover art for each game: “2 Final Fantasy VII Remake 3 Final Fantasy IX 4 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 5 Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster 6 Final Fantasy III 7 Final Fantasy X 8 Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest”
August 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Yesterday I finished Final Fantasy X-2 (HD Remaster) and it was such a delight. A beautiful story of friendship that I dare say I enjoyed even more than FFX.
The words “THE END” with sort of a watery wave going up and around the right side appear on a television screen.
July 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I’m thrilled to declare that I’ll be taking part in 16BIT raising money for the National Children’s Alliance. This is a wonderful organization that I’m always proud to support! This time I’ll be playing through SM64 and every donation will add a star to my list. 7/19 & 26 at 6 AM PST #16bit #NCA
Main text: “16BIT Battle Injustice Together July 16 - 31 Charity Streaming for National Children's Alliance Super Mario 64 I'll be collecting as few stars as necessary. Donations: $1 or more - add a star for me to collect. $5 - choose a specific star for me to collect. Schedule: Saturday 7/19 @ 6AM PST Saturday 7/26 @ 6AM PST twitch.tv/captstickfigure” Image is a dark blue background. Banners on the top and bottom in a slightly lighter blue show vague approximations of iconic gaming figures from the 16 bit era including a pokeball, Mr. Saturn, a moogle, Kirby, Samus, Link’s hat, Frog from Chrono Trigger, and Mega Man as well as other shapes like stars and diamonds. The main text appears over a light blue background accompanied by a stick figure drawing of Mario with white wings attached to his hat. On the right is a red border surrounding a stick figure with a red cape inside a speech-bubble shape. Underneath is the text, “CaptStickFigure”.
July 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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I finished Re: Chain of Memories last night! I’m doing so, I’ve finished the 1.5 ReMIX and that pretty much brings my Kingdom Hearts journey to an end for the time being.

I have to say it wasn’t my favorite but I did have fun in parts. The story was good but the combat was a huge hurdle.
Photo of the end screen of Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories which shows Sora with a Keyblade hanging by his side holding stylized cards. In the background are stylized cards with images of Kingdom Hearts and Disney characters. The left side of the image displays game stats: “Game level: Standard Mode Journal covered: 87% Card Collector Rank: Rare Card Hunter Enemies defeated: 5979 Special treasures obtained: 12/24 Card Breaks: 6599 times Sleight most often used: Confuse 202 times Clear time: 52:12 The End”
June 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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In other news, there’s a birb outside.
A ragdoll cat with blue eyes stares intently out of frame. A songbird picking at flower off a tall plant in front of a grey, brick wall.
June 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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This billboard is well known to anyone who travels between Portland and Seattle. The messages that get put up are outlandish to the point of parody and it’s an ironic highlight of making the drive. But in reality this is a HUGE W and it won’t be missed.
A screenshot of a web browser showing “r/Washington 12h Chehalis Tribe Buys Billboard, Plans to Replace Messages with Accurate U.S. History” An attacked image of a billboard shows a drawn likeness of Uncle Sam with the text, “YOU TOOK THE LAND. WE TOOK THE BILLBOARD.” A screenshot, “Kai Uyehara Seattle Times staff reporter The highly contentious Uncle Sam billboard off Interstate 5 in Lewis County has a new owner: the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation. And yes, the tribe intends to take down the right-wing messages that have lingered on the 40-foot-by-13-foot sign for years. The tribe closed on the 3.5-acre property hosting the billboard for $2.5 million in cash Friday morning, said Chehalis Re/Max real estate associate Israel Jimenez, who listed the site for sale on March 3. The property went up for sale when the owner's family decided to reposition their assets, Jimenez said in March. The property, though small, has historical significance, said Jeff Warnke, the Chehalis Tribe's director of government and public relations. The sale presented an opportunity for economic development right next to I-5 with good signage, but it's also an opportunity to buy back tribal land the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation ceded more than 150 years ago, Warnke said. The Upper Chehalis tribes did not sign treaties with the United States. But in the mid-19th century, many white American settlers filed claims to the land in the Chehalis River Valley and its tributaries, according to HistoryLink. As it reclaims the land, the tribe doesn't have a "serious" idea about the sign's future, whether it will post its own messaging or not, Warnke said. But the current messages are coming down. For the past few years, the billboard has been stuck on the same two lines. "How many Americans will we leave behind in Ukraine?" it reads for drivers traveling southbound, and "No one died in WW so you could show papers to buy food!" for those going north.”
June 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I inserted Mega Man Maverick Hunter X into my ranked platformers list on Backloggd and it’s in very good company!

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A ranked list of games displaying their cover art. The list reads: 20 - Metroid 21 - Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze 22 - Donkey Kong Country 23 - Mega Man Maverick Hunter X 24 - Super Mario Maker 25 - You Have to Win the Game 27 - A Nightmare on Elm Street
May 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I spent all weekend trying to get the PSP I bought on Saturday in working order to play games I bought online like 10 years ago 😹. I finally got it and while I was home sick today I played Mega Man Maverick Hunter X! I never played Mega Man X at all and this game was a DELIGHT!
Anime style image of Mega Man X (a blue humanoid robot with a human face a red gem on its forehead) looking up at a cloudy sky with a determined look.
May 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Last week I finished HP: Order of the Phoenix for the Wii. It should go without saying that JKR is garbage and extremely harmful to the queer community. I didn’t pay for this game, a friend gave it to me years ago. I don’t normally spare a thought for anything HP related; but it’s in my backlog..
Ranked list of video game titles with their accompanying cover art. List reads: 29 - Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition 30 - Disney’s Goof Troop 31 - The Order: 1886 32 - LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game 33 - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots 34 - MediEvil 35 - Disney Universe 36 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
April 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Yesterday I beat Buck Bumble for Nintendo 64! This is another game that I’ve owned more or less since its release and never really made much progress on. It’s fun! Not really much in the story department, just a thin pretext to justify the game’s existence and give objectives for each mission.
An anthropomorphic bee wearing futuristic blue and green boots, a vest, goggles, and grey gloves looks at the screen and gives a peace sign with one hand and holds a large, cartoonish gun in the other. Text over the image reads, “GAME COMPLETE!”
April 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM