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Chris
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My nephew is turning 9. I’m buying him Paper Mario Origami King. Lots of text, good puzzles, colorful visuals. Hopefully it pries him away from Fortnite.
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Lot less punk than expected. A lot less Raffi too. Perhaps that’s more records. Listened to a butt load of Fantome and Stellar Blade.
December 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Anyways, a box that looks like the OUYA and Kinect had a kid has 82% 5 star reviews at Target, and a 4.7 overall rating with 2.5k reviews on Amazon.

www.nexplayground.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Beautiful.
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Having my 3DS download a bunch of games I had bought. Some I had played, some I hadn’t. Would be interesting revisiting A Link Between Worlds.
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I was watching a YouTube video that I in the end put in the background and at the end of it buddy said “I want to thank you for watching and I hope you have a great rest of your day”, and man does that feel nice and much nicer than “don’t forget to subscribe”.
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Loved loved loved playing Layton on DS and 3DS. Important part of my Japanese learning journey. a single page of text and having to understand enough to answer the riddle was heaven.
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Another game to get it. Atlus’s final 3DS sale was great. Everything for 1,000 yen.
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Watched the intro to Majora’s Mask 3D in bed, with the 3D way up. So good. I neee to redownload all my games.
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This Ahamo campaign I did does me 4,000 Dpoints a month. Perfect for when I have the itch to buy an old game I don’t need.
November 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Tempted to play a 3DS game on the train today. Much easier than any Switch. I’m often tempted to get into Fire Emblem If again, but then remember how incredibly shit the story is.
November 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Look at it. Beautiful. This calls for tea.
November 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Replaced my circle pad on my new3DS! That was not easy for me, especially putting back the SD card ribbon cable. Whe I tightened the circle pad screws all the way, it felt too tight, so I made it looser, but now I’ll forever be wondering if it’s too loose.
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My wife is quite worried about flu season this year with our little baby, and it’s led to me being a lot less social than I had planned. Come spring time, lets all play Bomberman or something.
November 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve been watching TV shows with my spare time instead of playing video games. It’s a change of pace.
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

Propagandhi
Weakerthans
Bouncing Souls
T字路s
Kemuri

Used to go to a lot of concerts. Once life is more settled, hope to go again.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

DJ Jazzy Jeff & Grandmaster Flash
Jimmy Eat World
Jeru the Damaja
The Futureheads
Friendly Fires

Never been a big live-music person. Missed the chance to see some of my favourite artists, which I do regret tho. D’Angelo at the top of that list
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen

The White Stripes
Audioslave
The Stooges
Pixies
Beck
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Not gonna lie, I thought the Americans gave thanks for giving last week.
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I’m not sure if I’m brave enough to try and replace the circle pad on my 3ds. I’m hoping that if I fuck it up, I can still use the dpad an touch screen to transfer things to a new severely overpriced 3ds
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I wrote about adding a fourth spice orange controller to my spice orange GameCube and other unnecessary, non-spice orange purchases that have made me happy (DS TV and Saturns)
Four Spice Orange GameCube Controllers
I'm not sure what I'll do with four spice orange GameCube controllers. It's highly unlikely I'll ever need that many. I very rarely have fri...
www.toomanywires.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I’d like a blog that is very limited in scope, and more biographical. I talk about doing kids eikaiwa in 2006, then kindergarten and high school in 2008, then grad school in 2011, then shukatau in 2012, then black kigyo in 2013, then uni admin in 2014. The end. Six blog posts. Maybe there’s more.
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I wrote something very incoherent about life this morning. I think the only way to write coherently would be to write often An edit often.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I booted up my Analogue Pocket for the first time in forever today. I still haven’t beaten any game on it. I think my Lunar Game Gear game has a busted battery. Looked into save states. Could back them up once a week or something.
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Narrow Urawa roads in twilight on a rainy day at 4:30 give me stress when trying to park at the packed pediatrician.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Thought I had more. Will have to look again.
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Booted up Dragon Quest II, but I will give it a long break. I’ll aim for when I’m back from Canada.
I should have a goal for number of books to read next year. Or maybe even do December. Well, I mean that would be two books most likely. I should read two books by the end of the year. One in English
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM