Alan Wells

On this day, I found a full odds Mirage Island in Pokémon Ruby.

CRACKED BLOCKS SHOULD BE BLOCKSTATES imagine left clicking a brick block with a pickaxe and you get cracked bricks. It would remove inventory clutter. It would allow for *EVERY* bruick to be cracked without adding to the inventory problem AND gives picks another use!

My entire fyp is just bowser and that fucking frog and I haven’t even seen the movie

@cloudyatnight_ Maggie is not the reason gibby has been struggling lol

so maggie can still press one button and win the fight. nice.

“Every game follows this pattern except for half of them which don’t” like this has to be rage bait like every single post I cannot take this account seriously

@MizutamariVT Nearly every game ever created has a meta, you can’t “game design” your way out of having a meta. Only exception I can think of is like, Pong, which is boring af. If you want player expression, a meta will necessarily arise! Could be character choice, strategy, mechanical style…

A good example of why this is wrong is 9 times out of 10, "getting good" in competitive games is finding a macro to abuse or a combo that's so overpowered there's no reason to play anything else. They do, in fact, make the games shit to play because if you want to do anything remotely fun, you have to understand you're never going to win. Dominant strategy is bad. It's not suddenly good when it's in a competitive environment.

These California hills. I painted this a couple summers back.

This week, we are devastated to learn that we lost an RGL player, Cambonieboo. We have provided a GoFundMe link made by their family if you wish to donate or spread the word to help their family with their funeral costs and final expenses. gofundme.com/f/help-cameron…

Dear game industry, What was so horrible about this and why did we get rid of it? Thanks.

@CapitanCricket @plasma_lizard Oh yeah that’s actually true. Why would we as humans talk about art and what we like and dislike about it and what it evokes in us. Let’s not try to understand each other. Totally pointless exercise. Why do anything

Not to participate in discourse but this is the reason I personally believe the Gen 8 starters to visually be the weakest Individually their designs are fine, but as a group they’re too similar

And I could explain how it’s not about the humanoid shape or bipedalism but about the strict alignment to a completely arbitrary aspect of human society, and using that lens the gen 1 guys are Not As Bad™️ but still not great but THEY DONT CARE TO HEAR IT

You can’t critique modern pkmn designs without ppl being like “BUT MACHOKE HITMONCHAN MR MIME” and it’s like yes I actually think those are some of the lowlights of gen 1, they are not the reason gen 1 is praised, I will not die on the gen 1 hill for the sake of hitmonchan

I’ve improved so much at tf2 recently and I’m really proud of myself send tweet

@FadedJq @LeotheLion25 Hard to hit due to his SPEED Octane’s supposed to take less damage by dodging and using speed to enhance his strafes. If he has fortified, why does he even need to dodge? He straight up has more health than the opponent This clip is not the best example, but still

@LeotheLion25 He’s not a team character he’s suppose to be a slayer that jumps in your face and is hard to hit due to his speed it’s the whole point of the character it’s only thing he can do😂

Octane makes bad players good. This is getting out of hand. How we supposed to kill someone doing this in our face with increased speed, no bullet slow, fortified and you cannot stun/slow him while fighting? Any other legend dies, but Octane dances in your face. #apexlegends

This clip is a great example of why I didn't want to continue making Sequelitis. I had an interest in game design, and I had an interest in publicly talking about it, but my thing was comedy, and cartoons. So that's how I did the show... as a cartoon comedy. My schtick was loud characters, and chaotic shouting. Every topic in Sequelitis was shouted at full volume. Every little design choice I thought was smart was "fucking genius" and every minor annoyance I had was a full on meltdown rant. Some things I complained about didn't even piss me off, I just thought they were interesting to bring up. But I exaggerated them for the sake of comedy because I didn't really know how to make them funny otherwise. And I'm sure because I was young and insecure, I had a morbid desire to shake things up... Ocarina was an untouchable game, a 10/10 across the board, and I think being provocative about that appealed to me back then, too. But I love Ocarina. I grew up with it. I genuinely did want to have a discussion about the things that didn't age well, because I think that's interesting. I think we can learn a lot from that. But I dunno... I just don't think I felt confident enough to talk about it with the appropriate tone, so I hid behind what I knew: a cartoon character that shouts. This carried into Game Grumps... I had been doing Game Grumps for like 3 years when I released the Zelda video. I think the lines blurred for the audience because at that point I was "Arin Hanson," not Egoraptor. But Arin on Game Grumps is also a character. If I'm getting frustrated and shouting at a game on the show, it's for the bit. It's a show. Heightened emotions. And the go-to bit for me was saying "this game sucks, it's bad" and going on rants. The intent was to play the buffoon. But I think people just thought that was me. And that's fine. I don't blame them. It is "me," there's always some truth behind that sort of stuff. And I think it was extra confusing because I WOULD just be normal sometimes on the show. But you may notice recently I've very deliberately changed how I handle those bombastic moments on Grumps, where I point the finger inward now. "I suck, I messed up, I can't believe I didn't see that, what an idiot, etc." I just didn't like the bad energy I was putting out there. I hated that people saw me that way. It disturbed me that people told me "wow, you're actually really nice" all surprised when they met me in person, as if they assumed I'd rip their head off. And look, I'm not gunna pretend I'm an angel on the show now, the schtick of "buffoon that is easily angered" comes very easy to me when I'm performing, so I still utilize it constantly. But I usually find a way to channel it inward and be the butt of the joke, instead of just radiating it outward. It's funnier that way. I think I just assumed this was all obvious. You see how I tweet. You've seen interviews. I don't talk like I do on the show, or in my cartoons. I like being supportive of people and I like discussing things. I don't shout in my normal life. So when I see people characterizing me as this idiot who has no patience and sucks at playing Zelda... it sounds so silly but it just honest to goodness hurts my feelings sometimes. I love game design! I love video games! But, I get it. All you can see of me in my shows and cartoons is this loudmouth asshole who says your favorite game sucks. Like, fuck that guy, right? I think that's valid. I think you're right to feel that way. I think I was playing fast and loose with this character and I was being flippant about how frustrated it made people. I regret that. I suppose I should have thicker skin about this. And yeah... it feels so benign in the grand scheme of things. Who cares if people are circulating an 11 year old clip from a cartoon I made and saying "wow this guy's a moron." It shouldn't matter. Why should I care? But I guess I just have to admit that I do care sometimes, and it just kinda bums me out. I cared a lot about game design back then. It wasn't as prevalent as it is now. It was all dry GDC talks (which are, of course, wonderful). I found it really exciting to bring game design to light in a fun way for people that don't usually think about it. I hope I succeeded in that. But if I could go back, I think the in-your-face hyperbolic know-it-all character would go the way of the dodo. I suspect that aspect of it may have done some harm for game design discourse. And that sucks. For the record, the waiting in Ocarina barely frustrates me. I think it's appropriate at times. The game feeling larger and more cinematic just kind of lends itself to moments of pause. Enemies are more sparse so making them "last longer" just kind of makes sense. Did I feel this way back then? I'm sure I did feel stronger that "waiting" was more frustrating... but not to the level in this clip, by any means. That's just being young and insecure, I guess. I felt like I had to beat my chest in order for anyone to listen or be interested in what I had to say.

@gayest_tone @debd5083 Like, identity is completely individual and personal, it’s fluid and really up to your own interpretation, for you to decide. But words have a specific meaning that we’ve agreed upon as a society. It’s not a crime to use the wrong label, but it is dishonest. Why not be accurate?

@gayest_tone @debd5083 This is what you don’t get. Labels are just words; they’re for communication. You don’t have to put your sexuality into an unchanging box for the sake of a label. BUT if you use a label that doesn’t apply to you, you’re just miscommunicating and confusing everyone involved

You know I’m starting to think some of you view your sexuality not as a complicated psychological and sociological aspect of your life but rather as an innate virtue you just happened to have been born with that makes you superior to others.