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TrooperBari
@trooperbari.bsky.social
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Have notebook, will travel. Indie game aficionado, "Asia hand" (whatever that means), too stubborn or cowardly to quit newspapers. He/him
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/trooperbari
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trooperbari
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A fun moment from my recent Growing Up streams. North American football (i.e. not soccer) knowers might catch this, but check the background. The goalposts on the left are in front of the end zone like in Canadian football, but on the right they're behind it like in American football. 🏈
A still image from the video game Growing Up by Vile Monarch, showing an ostensibly American football field. A green field with white football markings and teal end zones is surrounded by a tan running track with white lane lines and stadium seating with yellow dividers and teal bleachers. The yellow goal posts on the left side of the image are placed in front of the end zone, as they are in Canadian football, while on the right the goal posts are behind the end zone, as in American football.
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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(I would feel like death afterwards, but still.)
Text saying "would" in all caps beneath the image of a Japanese lawmaker leaning in to use a microphone despite many other lawmakers grabbing at him to stop him from speaking. The "would" is in reference to a photo of a burger offered by Burger King in Taiwan with 10 patties of grilled brown meat, deep brown BBQ sauce, red and white striated bacon and layers of sliced yellow cheese, all for NT$269 (US$8.75).
October 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Oh, and for the well-meaning people saying to check Humble Bundle instead:
An error screen and message from the Humble Bundle website saying "Hollow Knight: Silksong is no longer available for purchase". This was seen while attempting to buy Hollow Knight: Silksong on release day.
September 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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My #Silksong experience so far, 90 minutes after release.
An error screen and message from Steam saying "Something Went Wrong. We were unable to service your request. Please try again later. E502 L3". This was seen while attempting to buy Hollow Knight: Silksong on release day. An error screen and message from Steam saying "Oops, Sorry! An error was encountered while processing your request: There was an error trying to load your shopping cart. Please try again later". This was seen while attempting to buy Hollow Knight: Silksong on release day. An error screen and message from Steam saying "There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assitance". This was seen while attempting to buy Hollow Knight: Silksong on release day. An error screen and message from Steam saying "An unexpected error has occurred. Your purchase has not been completed. Please wait a few minutes and try again. If you encounter this error repeatedly, please contact Steam Support". This was seen while attempting to buy Hollow Knight: Silksong on release day.
September 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you.

Open the steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> view purchase history and scroll down

First five games plus DLC here. Just like Civ VI, I took a big early swing at VII. Hope it pays off.
A list of my first five Steam purchases (plus DLC) that reads as follows: December 18, 2016: Sid Meier's Civilization VI - Digital Deluxe July 2, 2017: Stardew Valley October 4, 2017: Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon: The Crimson Court January 1, 2018: Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Rise and Fall May 16, 2018: Democracy 3 Collector's Edition May 28, 2018: Cities: Skylines and Cities: Skylines - After Dark June 25, 2018: Cities: Skylines Green Cities, Mass Transit, and Snowfall
August 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Text saying "would" in all caps beneath the image of a Japanese lawmaker leaning in to use a microphone despite many other lawmakers grabbing at him to stop him from speaking. The "would" is in reference to a photo of the McMuffin® Twarożek i Rzodkiewka, a cottage cheese spread and radish sandwich offered by McDonalds in Poland. The sandwich contains green arugula leaves, radish slices with red edges and a white interior, and a large dollop of lumpy, white cottage cheese between two halves of what appears to be a light brown English muffin.
July 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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There was about 3 dozen cedar firewood, 10 or so fir, about 200 sticks, 80 pieces of coal, my bedroll, and about 2,300kg of raw fish, bear, and wolf meat. Obviously carrying all that was out of the question and most had to get left for later. On the plus side, the Quonset has a cool new welcome mat.
A screenshot from the video game The Long Dark. Pictured is a massive pile of Coho salmon, rainbow trout, rockfish, and Red Irish Lord fish on the snow in front of a dark blue door leading to Quincy's Quonset in Coastal Highway. In total the fish weigh about 2,300 kilograms.
July 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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A screenshot of dialogue from the video game Disco Elysium. Reads as follows: Rhetoric -- Mazovian theory and practice. But mostly you'll probably complain about other communists. You -- Isn't that last part kind of counter-productive? Rhetoric -- Not at all. Complaining about other communists is one of the most important parts of being a communist.
June 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Tough call as there are several games I enjoyed (or am currently enjoying) but haven't played enough to judge or have yet to release in 1.0.
Cover art for the video game Dredge, showing a small, light brown fishing boat set against a cloudy siena sky on turquoise ocean with a red and white lighthouse in the background Cover art for the video game Growing Up, showing a teenage girl with shaggy brown shoulder-length hair, freckles, brown eyes, an orange tank top and dark green beanie standing in an elementary school playground Cover art for the video game I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, showing the main character Sol on the left in wavy blue hair and a green, blue, and white coat in front of a purple sky with 10 supporting characters in muted background images Cover art for the video game Slay the Princess, showing the titular princess wearing long hair past her shoulders, large anime-style eyes, and a white gown in a black and white image with shattered glass displaying several of her various personalities
June 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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More importantly, dinner. Char siu sausage roll and Coke Zero, a cool HK$90 (US$11.50). Not quite scran, but filling.
June 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Text saying "would" beneath the image of a Japanese lawmaker leaning in to use a microphone despite many other lawmakers grabbing at him to stop him from speaking. The "would" is in reference to a photo of a "meat pie crust" pizza from Domino's Australia loaded with Four 'n' Twenty Aussie beef mini pies.
May 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Share the last 4 games you've played and expose your gaming habits.

Blue Prince has so consumed me that it was a wrestle to think back four games ago (thanks @haelian1.bsky.social). I guess my gaming habits are indie titles that will rule my life for hundreds (or thousands, in TLD's case) of hours.
Blue Prince, by Dogubomb and Raw Fury Hades II, by Supergiant Games Subnautica, by Unknown Worlds The Long Dark, by Hinterland Studios
May 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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The scene at 0330, almost 2 hours after scheduled takeoff.
Passengers crowd around Cathay Pacific staff at Gate E10 of Boston Logan Airport, seeking answers as to why their flight is delayed by 2 hours and counting.
May 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Cancelled TV show you will never stop thinking about.
Title screen for the original Nickelodeon show Are You Afraid of the Dark?, showing the title in light purple text above a hand holding a single lit match, all in front of a black background
March 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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A nod to someone who wasn't an EIC but should've been:
Baltimore Sun city desk editor Augustus Haynes from The Wire, wearing a light purple button-down shirt with a brown tie and sports an incomplete goatee
March 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Started replaying the Wintermute story mode of #TheLongDark last night in anticipation of Episode 5 (no, I don't know when it's dropping, either). Found this while gathering lore. Is @raphlife.bsky.social cursed with the gift of prophecy, or was the current nonsense that foreseeable in 2017?
HISTORY OF THE COLLAPSE, PART ONE: In the mid-20XX, the ongoing global economic crisis, fueled by continued political instability in the US and Europe, contributing to increasing volatility in the financial markets, led to the sudden catastrophic collapse of the Canadian, and in general, the North American banking system. This immediately rendered Canadian currency worthless, triggered super-inflation of the US dollar, and all trade and economic activity promptly shifted to the Chinese Yuan or crypto-currencies (a la Bitcoin). Crippled economically, Canada was brought under the financial oversight of the North American Economic Zone, which positioned Canada as a kind of protectorate of a larger US-based economic bloc. From this point onward, the majority of economic activity became centralized on Canada's already densely urbanized population, with smaller rural and remote communities being essentially cut off. Without a local economic lifeline many of these communities had become dependent on for their continued existence, most rural or remote communities became hollowed out, as people fled to urban areas in search of greater economic stability.
March 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Text saying "would" beneath the image of a Japanese lawmaker leaning in to use a microphone despite many other lawmakers grabbing at him to stop him from speaking. The "would" is in reference to a photo of bowl of Cup Noodles Campfire S'mores flavored ramen noodles in sauce.
February 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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One of the joys (and dangers) of #Cuisineer is the artwork and descriptions of the dishes you can make. Maybe unsurprisingly given the dev team is from Singapore, but they go HARD on the food art and I inevitably get hungry while playing the game.
An image of roasted chicken rice from Cuisineer. Five strips of deep brown roasted chicken sit atop a bed of white rice with slices of cucumber and tomato and two halved hard-boiled eggs on the side. An image of a curry puff set from Cuisineer. Seasoned beef and potatoes sit in a brown curry sauce inside semi-circular, light brown puff pastries with crimped edges. An image of chilli crab from Cuisineer. A deep red, whole steamed crab sits in a dish filled with red, spicy sauce with a side of light brown mantou bread. An image of kaya toast from Cuisineer. Green kaya spread and yellow salted butter sit between two pieces of sliced, toasted bread.
January 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Starting the year off with a new snack: bibimbap-flavored chips. They taste almost entirely of gochujang, and to be clear I am 100 percent in favor of that. 6.5/10, might try again.
A photo of a bag of Korean dolsot bibimbap-flavored potato chips (or crisps, if you prefer). The bag has a teal top and bottom, with an image in the middle of a stone bowl filled with bean sprouts, diced cucumber, beef, carrots, a raw egg, and gochujang.
January 1, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Only a few hours left of 2024, so I made a tier list of games I played on stream or YouTube this year. I don't play games I don't enjoy, so the games are ranked by a mix of how much I enjoyed them and likelihood of replaying them (hence Elden Ring and Celeste being so low).
My tier list on all the games I played either on my Twitch stream or on YouTube during 2024. There is no F tier or its equivalent as I bail quickly on games I don't enjoy. Instead, my ranking of the games goes from those I want to jump back into now (I'll Be Back), ones I will definitely revisit at some point (Rotation), the ones there's at least a chance I'll play again (Replay?), those I enjoyed but will not revisit (Fun But Done), and ones that were Just OK. I'll Be Back: Cyberpunk 2077, Dredge, Hades II, The Long Dark, Vampire Therapist Rotation: Backpack Hero, Balatro, Chinese Parents, Growing Up, A Highland Song, Orgynizer, Stardew Valley Replay?: 30 Birds, Cuisineer, Edge of Sanity, Elden Ring, Little Ghosthunter, Matchmaker Agency, Mexico 1921: A Deep Slumber, Peglin, Potion Craft, Tiny Bookshop Fun But Done: Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus, Celeste, Short Snow, Little Kitty Big City, Mars Horizon, Mound of Music, Moving Houses, Plushie from the Sky, Still Wakes the Deep Just OK: Lost But Found, The Cold White, Under Canopies
December 31, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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Post four indie games you think more people should have played.

Backpack Hero: store.steampowered.com/app/1970580/...
Growing Up: store.steampowered.com/app/1191120/...
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: store.steampowered.com/app/1148760/...
Orgynizer: store.steampowered.com/app/1114380/...
Cover art for Backpack Hero, showing a mouse clad in a red shirt and black pants fussing over a highly stuffed backpack Cover art for Growing Up, showing a light-skinned girl with shaggy brown hair and freckles wearing a dark blue beanie and orange tank top in front of a suburban cityscape Cover art for I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, showing the main character Sol in white and blue coat and blue hair in front of the rest of the cast and a purple background Cover art for Orgynizer, with the game's title in stylized pink font in front of images of characters and rooms from the game
November 27, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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Text saying "would" beneath the image of a Japanese lawmaker leaning in to use a microphone despite many other lawmakers grabbing at him to stop him. The "would" is in reference to Lawson's convenience store in Japan offering "drinkable mayonnaise".
November 26, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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Maybe the most satisfying part of achieving Perfection in Stardew Valley: "No Joja services used". No big box memberships, no waivers, no walnut-seeking parrots, just a hoarder mentality and a fanatical devotion to making wine.

Joja -- not even once.
Black screen with thin line green lines along the top and bottom. Green text reading "No Joja services used!" above an image of a distressed-looking Morris during the credits upon successfully achieveing Perfection in Stardew Valley.
November 25, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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It's done! After 1,400 hours in Stardew Valley, I have achieved Perfection for the first time. I am exhausted but glad I took the ride. Being a hoarder paid off at the end as I sold off any stack worth 5k or more to hit the 10 million for the gold clock before the end of Year 3. I need a nap.
Me -- clad in all green and a leprechaun hat, with my parrot floating overhead -- and my wife Leah looking out from the Summit after I achieved Perfection in Stardew Valley.
November 24, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Hooray for psychologically satisfying round numbers! My expectations for YouTube were low as I'm not technologically inclined and mostly use the channel for clips and VOD storage, but it's gratifying to see people dig what I do. Thanks to everyone who's joined us at www.youtube.com/@trooperbari.
A screenshot of the home page for the YouTube channel of TrooperBari (that's me!) with the subscriber count reaching a record 200.
November 20, 2024 at 2:59 PM