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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️

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Brony, avgeek, enthusiast of travel, transit, voice acting, video game soundtracks, Nintendo, graphic design, et al. Might find cheap airfares. 📍 San Francisco, CA, USA 🐴: @topaztracker.bsky.social 🎮: @toopmoh.bsky.social

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Catbus @hayao.lol · 5h

hea'ds up

A meme with four images and advice for resetting them for Daylight Savings Time.

Image 1 -- "A Smartphone: Leave it alone, it does its magic."

Image 2 -- "Sundial: Move one house to the left."

Image 3 -- "Oven: You'll need a Masters in Electronic Engineering or a hammer."

Image 4 -- "Car Radio: Not worth it, wait six months."

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 19h

OH NO

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

oh hey happy Clock on the Stove is Now the Right Time for Six Months day to all who celebrate

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 19h

with this crepe in hand, as I turned around a person asked to have a closer look at the buttons on my bag

he was very enthusiastic about them

as was I of his appreciation of ART

(inkling boy by @starsalts.bsky.social, thunderlane by @twistedsketch.bsky.social, rosalina/banjo by @samkalensky.com)

Photo of pinback buttons of a blue inkling boy design with blue paint splatters in the background, and Thunderlane from My Little Pony backed with thunderbolt graphics on a light blue background.

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 19h

🍓🥝🍦🥭

Photo of a strawberry and kiwi crepe topped with mango ice cream, with the ice cream decorated with chocolate chips, marshmallows and cereal flakes to resemble an animal face.

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · Sep 12

oomf linked this in our chat and declared them TJ and Ash

so I had to make this image

TJ's ghost costume sprite from the Route 65 visual novel and Ash's ghost costume sprite from the Remember the Flowers visual novel, with a blurred photo from a Daiso store as the background.

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 1d

it's halloween so I can 100% wear my fuecoco hat in public, right

Photo of a red hat resembling Fuecoco on the user's head.

ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 1d

MORTY, POKÉMON BREEDER AND INKLING BOY COSPLAYS YIPPEE

#Pokeween

Photo of the user with a Morty cosplayer at Nintendo San Francisco, with both individuals holding plushies of Gengar.

Photo of the user with a Pokémon Breeder cosplayer, with the user holding a Gengar plushie and the cosplayer holding a bucket with an Oshawott plushie.

Photo of the user and an Inkling Boy cosplayer alongside a large Gengar mascot costume, in front of a promotional Pokéween backdrop.

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 1d

LISIA, CORBEAU, PAXTON, LORD FARQAAD AND SPIDER-MAN COSTUMES AND COSPLAYS WOO

#Pokeween #PokemonLegendsZA

Photo of the user photographed with Lisia and Corbeau cosplayers at Nintendo San Francisco.

Photo of the user with a Paxton cosplayer.

Photo of the user with Lord Farqaad and Spider-Man cosplayers.

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 1d

The Gengar costume might be done at the nintendo sf store but the spooky night is still young

#Pokeween

ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 1d

(he became team MVP in my z-a playthrough)

#Pokeween

Photo of the user in red clothing and a Fuecoco hat, holding a plushie of Gengar and pointing at the camera, photographed next to a large Gengar mascot costume during the Pokéween event at Nintendo San Francisco.

Photo of the user in red clothing and a Fuecoco hat, holding a plushie of Gengar and making a peace sign, photographed next to a large Gengar mascot costume during the Pokéween event at Nintendo San Francisco.

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 1d

IT'S HIS TIME 👻

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 1d

IT'S SPOOKY TIME 👻

( #pokeween tag because sure )

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 2d

(it's a glow in the dark design)

Tag for a Luigi/Boo shirt.

Glows in the dark after absorbing UV rays/light.

ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 2d

they are also debuting a Luigi/Boo shirt design

Photo of a shelf at Nintendo San Francisco featuring Luigi and Boo merchandise, including Boo plush, Luigi and Warp Pipe plush set, and a gray shirt with Luigi and Boo.

ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 2d

(more photos)

Photo of a vertical banner at Nintendo San Francisco promoting Pokéween, featuring Cubone, Mega Sableye and Pikachu backed by a purple-toned pattern.

Photo of a backdrop for Pokéween, using purple tones portraying haunted house decor, including candlesticks, cobwebs, and a grandfather clock.

ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 2d

for halloween, the nintendo sf store is having a gengar photo op 👻🎃

Photo of promotional signage for "Pokéween" at Nintendo San Francisco.

Meet Gengar

Friday, October 31
4PM - 7pm PT

First come, first served. Capacity is limited.

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 2d

that's a lotta blåhajs 🦈☀️🐴

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 2d

end goal

Pokémon Showdown screenshot of an opponent Cleffa with several disruptions and debuffs applied, including a Toxic status ailment, 0.33x Attack, 0.25x Defense, 0.33x Special Attack, 0.25x Special Defense, 0.25x Speed, 0.33x Accuracy, 0.33x Evasion, Salt Cure, Leech Seed, Curse, Foresight, Torment, Embargo, Infestation, Mimic, Heal Block, Taunt, Disable, and Encore.

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photoJDL @photojdl.bsky.social · 3d

aloha 'oe to the Hawaiian Airlines callsign, which retired this morning after 96yrs aloft.

The brand will remain for the foreseeable future.

Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767-300 | Maui, HI | 2004

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 3d

🐴🍜

Photo of a blue articulated toy pony posed with a bowl of nikutama udon from Marugame Udon, the branding of which is visible on a set of packaged chopsticks placed on the bowl.

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 3d

There was a free teahouse in the middle of the Nakasendo hike!! And a box full of handmade souvenirs from a Grandma Kunie 🥹🥹🥹

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 4d

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

Ethan Evans, former Amazon VP

As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam. We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost. Here's why:

The 15+ year long attempt to challenge Steam started before I was VP of Prime Gaming, but we never cracked the code. Not under my leadership or anyone else's.

The first way we tried to enter the online-game-store market was through acquisition. We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere.

Then, after buying Twitch, we created our own PC games store. Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch. Wrong.

Finally, we built "Luna," a game streaming service that let people play without a high-end PC. Around the same time, Google tried the same thing with their
product "Stadia." Neither gained significant traction. The whole time, Steam dominated despite being a relatively small company (compared to Amazon and Google).

The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam

It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well.

At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available

We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so. And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either.

Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 4d

"250x bigger and lost" is pretty insane. Imagine 250 Steam competitors all spinning their wheels

And it's not like the labor is crap. It's not like thousands and thousands of people did their job wrong

They had shit captains who will experience no repercussions for Shadow Realming billions of $$$

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ChainChomp2 🔜 Booyah Bay 🦑🌁/PAWCon 🏴‍☠️ @chainchomp2.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately, as of this week, there aren't any screenings of #TheBadGuys2 within a reasonable radius of me, therefore, the streak of watching the film (mostly on Tuesdays) comes to an end, at 15 screenings.

See you for Zootopia 2 and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie!

Photo of a plush of Mr. Wolf from The Bad Guys 2 with a 4K Ultra HD home media release of the film.