Jonathan Ober ➡️ Zenkaikon-Love God, Love Others

I didn't do a great job of keeping track of the games I played or completed in 2025. Let's see if I can start off well and keep up with the list this year.

@zukiinis If you need to see buggies head east on 340 near Bird-in-Hand/Intercourse. Also stop at Immergut for the best hand-rolled soft pretzels...ever!

On the way to Zenkaikon I’m going to get delicious pierogis and I hope I see a horse and buggy at Walmart

@zenkaikon ty, going to be my first Zenkaikon despite living in Lancaster for 17 years.

"POV: you just walked into the con and are already lost" With this helpful video on how to get to registration, no one should feel that way! We can't wait to see you all at Zenkaikon!

@terridactylx I am not sure I have found one yet.

Hi gamers! What are your favorite jrpgs? 🌸 #jrpgs

@KirPinkFury I really should just eShop this game so it's always on my Switch and with me.

I wonder how many times they drown. And if they didn't, I need a tutorial. This is incredible.

@rocknrollofall Considering there are kind of a finite number of notes and combinations of notes this makes sense. Especially when you filter it down to singable notes by most humans. There's really a small subset of all the notes on a piano/keyboard and the range in which most people sing in.

He claimed every pop song is the same and then proved it in the most legendary way possible.

@Mehdi_Mia0 @Baswa_ I am glad it just got right to it and didn't need any kind of fanfare or opening credits.

@Baswa_ La série est bien mais trop courte puis je sais pas c’est grave différent de GOT et de House of Dragon je trouve. Et j’ai trouvé ça nul qu’il y ait pas de générique

Je viens de voir cet edit de “A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS” sur TikTok et c’est tout simplement parfait. Ce serait un trailer parfait pour donner envie à ceux qui n’ont pas vu la série.

@VideoArtGame @64BitsAnimation I want this so bad.

Paper Zelda Artist: @64BitsAnimation

@SecantzArt getting mine in the am, can't wait!

@jonathanober It’s my first Zenkaikon too! I’m just waiting for the badge reg to start

Who’s in Lancaster for #Zenkaikon??

@_The_Prophet__ @paulbettner This post sounds AI generated.

⚡️People are starving for worlds that are small enough to feel real. That is why this hit. A video store sim gives players something modern life keeps taking away. Clear boundaries. Tangible objects. Limited inventory. Simple rules. Human scale. Immediate agency. You walk in, understand the fantasy instantly, and start mastering it. That is rare now. Most of modern digital life feels infinite, abstract, and frictionless. Streaming is endless. Stores are dead. Algorithms choose for you. Games are bloated with live service sludge, battle passes, lore inflation, and engagement engineering. This game does the opposite. It gives you a place. Shelves. covers. late fees. customers. upgrades. small power. The brain can hold the whole world in one grip. That is the deeper hunger. People miss environments where culture had weight and choices had shape. In the old world, scarcity forced taste. You had to browse. You had to choose. You had to live with what was available. Even the inconvenience made the experience more memorable because it gave the world texture. Streaming solved access and killed ritual. Infinite abundance made culture flatter. So this game is not really selling the 90s. It is selling relief from digital sprawl. That is why two indie devs can outrun giant studios. Big studios keep trying to impress the market with scale. Players are increasingly rewarding coherence. One clean fantasy executed tightly can beat a hundred million dollars of bloated confusion. The market is starting to value emotional compression again. If the fantasy is instantly legible and mechanically satisfying, it travels. And this connects to something bigger than games. As reality gets more virtual, automated, and depersonalized, old forms come back as luxury experiences. Vinyl. film cameras. mechanical keyboards. physical books. old interfaces. dead media return because friction starts feeling real once everything else becomes vapor. The obsolete object becomes emotionally premium. The real truth is simple. This game is winning because it gives people a bounded world they can still touch, understand, and rule. Modern life keeps scaling upward. People are starting to crave downward again.

It's your weekend game session with Jay. Checking out a variety pack of PC games with commentary and probably jokes. Cheers! twitch.tv/jayoberlanc

Spider-Jay, Spider-Jay, Does whatever a spider does! Spinning webs and making dreams come true on stream tonight. twitch.tv/jayoberlanc

Playing some backlogged demos, Steam NextFest Games, and otherwise new to me games that I want to share with you! twitch.tv/jayoberlanc

@IndieGameJoe I'd give this a spin :P

These devs are building a survival game where you and 7 friends have to escape a massive tornado. This looks insane!🚐💨 - Survive the storm - Scavenge parts to fix your van - Large-scale destruction Would you play this? It’s called Funnel Runners.

@caelasmah @IGN Yes, but if you go down them you're now a NYC Transit employee working for the subway station.

@IGN So has anybody found the secret star yet

Super Mario Galaxy promotion goes all out at The Shops at Columbus Circle in NYC:

@DaysBehindHQ @IGN No it's not, this is the escalators/stairs at Columbus Circle. The Nintendo Store at Rockefeller Plaza is a different place.

@IGN This is their NYC Flagship Store, or nearby btw

@AccessAnthony @NintyPrime Hence #FallonFlashback

@NintyPrime Isn’t this old?

Okay, this was pretty neat.

Time to get back into the world of Snow Runner with some friends. Join me as I stream for a bit. Enjoy the conversations! twitch.tv/jayoberlanc

@KirPinkFury I was reading the previous one and going to comment. I honestly didn’t think it was condescending. But I do often find it funny when I see post a week after a game came out and someone said “finally beat game xyz” and I’m just like…finally? Really. The game just came out.

Deleted a tweet about playing Pokopia a certain way because it was condescending on my part. Play however you want! In my case though, I'll be taking my sweet time with it. I'm enjoying this game way too much. I don't want it to end.

Friday night game time with Jay! Let’s jump into some Mario Maker 2 for Mar10 and my indie game backlog for game previews and reviews. twitch.tv/jayoberlanc