Kerry Wall
@kerrywall.com
Web developer/writer/content producer. Researched and wrote 23,000 words about game hardware mods. Enjoyer of JRPGs, VGM, yarn, and tea. She/her. Ace.
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Not to drag this out anymore, but just to be clear: the problem with numbered console generations is that they're not *useful*. The numberings aren't descriptive, and the groupings are arbitrary and US-centric. That's why people who study game history don't use them
September 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Not to drag this out anymore, but just to be clear: the problem with numbered console generations is that they're not *useful*. The numberings aren't descriptive, and the groupings are arbitrary and US-centric. That's why people who study game history don't use them
Can we also talk about Triple Triad cards?
June 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Can we also talk about Triple Triad cards?
I haven't seen the word "Xanga" in a hundred million years and just had to stare into space for a few seconds. (I had one too.)
June 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I haven't seen the word "Xanga" in a hundred million years and just had to stare into space for a few seconds. (I had one too.)
Honestly, having your own emotes is fun.
June 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Honestly, having your own emotes is fun.
I really just had to adjust a line about how comment sections were saying the Switch was dead before its predecessor had been announced, "a fact that was still true as recently as last week." But I also made sure to say "thanks for the last-minute curveball, Nintendo." 😅
May 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I really just had to adjust a line about how comment sections were saying the Switch was dead before its predecessor had been announced, "a fact that was still true as recently as last week." But I also made sure to say "thanks for the last-minute curveball, Nintendo." 😅
Me when Nintendo announced the Switch 2 eight days before I presented my hardware modding research at MAGFest.
May 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Me when Nintendo announced the Switch 2 eight days before I presented my hardware modding research at MAGFest.
@bardicknowledge.bsky.social plays this one!
May 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
@bardicknowledge.bsky.social plays this one!
Saw her live once. S-tier life experience.
May 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Saw her live once. S-tier life experience.
I still do the SMRPG timed hit inputs out of habit no matter what the game is, even if it doesn't have the mechanic. It's too deeply ingrained in my muscle memory. I can't stop.
April 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I still do the SMRPG timed hit inputs out of habit no matter what the game is, even if it doesn't have the mechanic. It's too deeply ingrained in my muscle memory. I can't stop.
Technically the SNES version and not this, the PSX translation, but the PSX FF Chronicles two-disc set contained the first edition that I actually owned for myself.
soldier captain we are the red wings the pride is displayed on the screen
Alt: A screenshot from the opening cutscene of Final Fantasy IV. A soldier NPC tells Cecil "Captain, we are the Red Wings, the pride of Baron! Must we be thieves sent to plunder the weak?" This is the PSX English translation. The SNES translation said something like "Looting is out of the question!"
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April 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Technically the SNES version and not this, the PSX translation, but the PSX FF Chronicles two-disc set contained the first edition that I actually owned for myself.
I definitely still call it that in my head.
April 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I definitely still call it that in my head.
My sister had friends who pronounced the restaurant "Milestones" like it was Spanish. Mill-ess-TOH-ness.
April 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
My sister had friends who pronounced the restaurant "Milestones" like it was Spanish. Mill-ess-TOH-ness.
I'm so sorry.
I'll be 40 this year and I'm going to borrow her brilliant idea of learning something new every decade.
I'll be 40 this year and I'm going to borrow her brilliant idea of learning something new every decade.
April 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I'm so sorry.
I'll be 40 this year and I'm going to borrow her brilliant idea of learning something new every decade.
I'll be 40 this year and I'm going to borrow her brilliant idea of learning something new every decade.