Jarel Jones

Jarel Jones

@arrowned.bsky.social

IT engineer @ National Geographic, merchandising @ocremix.org, @zeldathon.com stream engineer, Twitch team @wmgso.bsky.social. All views/opinions are my own. He/him. http://twitch.tv/AnArrowReborn

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To any new followers: thank you & welcome! I spend my day job doing neat IT things, but please also note that I spend a lot of time here discussing video games, niche VG soundtracks, spandex-suited heroes, & karate bugmen on motorcycles, so temper your expectations accordingly.

Starts tomorrow! And is also the reason I've had zero time to stream on my own channel this week 😂 (FFXIV raid was canceled yesterday, but should still happen tomorrow, so I'll stream that if so. But otherwise, all busy this weekend with this!)

Zeldathon@zeldathon.com

THE PICORI FESTIVAL SCHEDULE IS HERE! 🍄 ✨ We have a weekend absolutely FULL of fun, friendship, and fundraising for @stjude.bsky.social! TUNE IN THIS FRIDAY STARTING AT 10:30AM EDT!!! 📺 Twitch.tv/Zeldathon

FFXIV raid is happening as usual, but we have a PF fill since one of our static members is out, and I generally don't like streaming when we have PF fills (the people filling in are not always willing to BE streamed), so no stream tonight! Be back tomorrow for FFXVI

I used to get a little annoyed when I was watching streamers and they missed my messages in chat. Then I started streaming, and would on rare occasion get raided by friends who brought along 20+ people (like last night with @drumultima.com!), and I immediately lost all sense of what was happening

Ever since then, I never get annoyed when a streamer doesn't see my message. I 100% understand now how difficult it is to actually pay attention to a fast moving chat. It is *extremely hard*, and I'm impressed at the level of skill required to do it consistently

No stream today, as my sleep schedule got fucked up by that 9 hour Twilight Imperium play session yesterday 😂 (I don't regret it one bit, that was fun as hell)

Feeling a bit nauseous, so unfortunately gonna cancel FFXVI stream tonight and get some rest. Should be back tomorrow for FFXIV raid night! (unless that gets canceled again, in which case I would play FFXVI then instead)

Raid was canceled in FFXIV tonight, but instead of streaming anyway, I think I'll take the opportunity to work on some other stuff! And by other stuff, I mean my weeklies in FFXIV, my dailies in Palia and Pokopia, and the Genshin Impact Imaginarium Theater run I have to do before it resets at 4am

twitch.tv/AnArrowReborn - Last week was a false start, but let's try to get back to it! That said, Metroidvania Monday is on Tuesday this time because I'm busy tonight, plus I've got another Pokopia stream happening on WMGSO's channel on Sunday, so no stream Saturday so I can sneak a break in

I am unbelievably tired, so instead of trying to make it through a 2 hour stream while coffee doesn’t work and I’m half dozing off, it’s probably better if I just nap instead

Gonna have to cancel stream tonight, cause it is thunderstorming EXTREMELY badly here right now. FFXIV raid was canceled tomorrow, so I'll catch up on FFXVI then!

twitch.tv/AnArrowReborn - Had to take Monday off, but the rest of the week is standard! ish. I'm swapping FFXVI to Thursday (and might just do Metroidvanias on Monday going forward, for the nice alliteration), and I've got *another* Archipelago stream this Sunday, over on the WMGSO side this time

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Really excited for episode 1 of Kamen Rider My-th next week though. Head writer is Naruhisa Arakawa of Kamen Rider Kuuga fame, and the mouse design of the main rider is absolute FIRE

It's not perfect; every show written by Yuya Takahashi has encountered *some* level of issue along the way. See: Ex-Aid's tepid first half, Zero-One's ZAIA arc (though COVID is partially to blame there),

--Geats' weird villain turn with Tycoon, and Zeztz' tendency to let the entire side cast lose focus as the plot got going. But he's always brought the heat, as well as the crazy ass plot twists at the halfway point, and I'm definitely gonna miss this show!

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Tonight’s the night! Roll through to the OCR Twitch to see @kitvivid.bsky.social @arrowned.bsky.social @paradiddlesjosh.newgrounds.com @coloradoweeks.io JSABlixer The Vodoú Queen and me try to finish this one up in 3 hours! We’ve got Metroidvanias, Paint, and Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom coming your way

Pixelseph 🎸👾🎧🎚️@pixelseph.newgrounds.com

@ocremix.org has been getting up to some of them #archipelago multi-game randomizer shenanigans, and we’ve got a LIVE #OCRchipelago event on 8/23 starting at 7:30p EDT over on Twitch! Hope to see y’all there! There will plenty of BK for everyone 😄

So my account got caught in the Fanlore data breach, and I'm still surprised by it, because it's probably the first time I ever got an email notification from the org in question 1) within a few days of the breach, and 2) before I get an email notification from HaveIBeenPwned about it.

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Zeldathon Community Archipelago Update.....someone added paint as one of their games and it's starting to come together......interestingly 💀

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Correction: stream is starting at 6:30pm! We’ll be live in a few minutes on Twitch 😍 Twitch.tv/wmgso

twitch.tvWMGSO - TwitchWelcome to our channel! The Washington Metropolitan Gamer Symphony Orchestra (WMGSO) is a nonprofit community orchestra whose mission is to share video game music by putting on affordable, accessible ...

🎮 WMGSO Plays 🎮 Did you miss us at Zeldathon? Don’t worry because we’re recapping our segment TODAY, as well as playing more Cadence of Hyrule. Join us for some Hyrulian rhythm fun! 🗓️ Sunday, August 2nd | 7:30pm ET 🎹 Twitch.tv/wmgso #wmgso #Zeldathon #CadenceOfHyrule

Me this morning: "Okay, now that I'm back home from Super Zeldathon, time to get back to my usual weekly stream schedule" Me this evening, 15 minutes before I'd normally start streaming: "Cripes, I've been on and off camera for a week straight, TAKE A FEW DAYS OFF you idiot"