hastypixels

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Writer, artist, musician and student. Always.


Mario Paint on Switch
August 06, 2025

Mario Paint on Nintendo Switch has been an interesting shift for the console, because it brings the mouse back into Nintendo’s accessory list. If you own a Switch 2, you’ve already got that covered, since the controllers double as mice, but this review covers the experience on the Switch, not its predecessor. Suffice to say, apart from the emulation, absolutely nothing has changed for Mario Paint since its release in 1992. It’s a fun, easy to use suite of introductory digital creation tools for drawing, animation, and music.

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When Do You Bail? Nintendo's Bargain Bind
July 25, 2025

Honest Trailers rightly accuses Nintendo of exploiting nostalgia, and well, there's no defense for that. We're of the generation who ponied up for the dominant console platform of the day and/or watched our parents do it. Looking back at the NES and SNES, these were based on hardware already a decade old at release. If you knew that there was some satisfaction that could be had seeing the equivalent of a calculator provide a novel gaming experience. Things have changed quite a bit since then.

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Touching Base
April 25, 2025

It's been a while since I've been here, and I can firmly blame a(nother) medical issue for it. Nothing serious. Just an auto-immune reaction called urticaria that no one understands well enough to do anything other than throw pills at. I'm sure we all know the story of having to wait months to see a specialist. Be at ease: It's no better up here in Canada, though at the moment things are significantly worse in the US.

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Everything Matters
April 10, 2024

I couldn't not come back here. World culture is doing as it does, galvanizing into groups who are fixated on values, behaviors or needs. That's a little vague. I'll say this instead: We're forming two groups. Those give a toss about others and those who give a toss about themselves. It's sobering to read about JoeTheDestroyer's divorce. As a child - and adult - I grew up with that threat always looming over my head, and I am fortunate that after forty years the relationship of my parents has taken a healing turn.

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I won't stop until I do
February 28, 2024

I just won't give up. Hey, wait. That's good news. Who says that we don't need editors? We do, of course, to learn from. They also have their pulse on things we don't get with our heads in the clouds and fingers on keys.

My Super Mario Wonder review is the product of some good feedback from a skilled, professional editor and Hemmingway - the web app. See, it turns out that post-graduate writing and the average reader don't mix. Better to save that for my school essays. Which, by the way, I'm about a little over a year from graduating. Yay! (I mean that.)

https://www.campfirewriting.com/explore/65c3d6746b28161300589ee3

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Bonehealing and other stuff
August 13, 2022

Two more weeks. It's been six so far and apparently I'm healing slow. There could be a real, identifiable reason for that which I will be investigating. In the meantime I wear the Aircast boot for a little longer, but not when I'm at home. It's neat that we have something this useful, but not that it barely holds together in some places. Modern medicine is complicated.

I have a box of computer components which have little value to me. Video cards are annoying. You'll get the latest beast only to find yourself outpaced within a period of months or years. Progress is nice, but this is why consoles are comforting. The age of the Nintendo Switch does not diminish how much fun it is, and legacy hardware has always been one of the strengths of gaming.

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Miss me? Of course you did!
July 27, 2022

It may be premature to announce your return before you actually make the stage, but I'm doing it anyway. Honestgamers is still where I am most read. When I last posted here I was going on about writing and so on. I haven't stopped, naturally, but I have shifted focus.

I am working with an editor now. Pretty crazy, right? You guys get to hear it first. So, it's actually awesome and I'm learning a lot. It doesn't feel right to get into details, but I can talk about other things that have happened in my life.

Well...I had a slew of health issues and haven't been functional for a while. Lately I fractured my ankle, so I'm healing from that as well. Wait, wasn't I supposed to be talking about good things that have happened?

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