Nicolas Hamel

@hamelnico.bsky.social

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He/him, 33, Canadian (Québécois), bilingual (français/English), friendly geek, sole author of video game review blog Planned All Along. https://plannedallalong.blogspot.com/

Text box for a convention panel International Furs Meetup Location: 106C (at the Ottawa Convention and Events Center) Meet and Greet set on Sunday August 9th, from 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM Description: "Furry is an international fandom, and this fact ought to be celebrated. Did you take a plane or cross a border to attend Canfurence? Or were you the international fur traveling abroad to visit another country's conventions? Come chat and make friends with furries from all over the world! Share your best memories!"
A panel from a page of Pizza Cake Comics. The main character, a woman with long hair, glasses, and a green shirt, is being smacked in the face by a hand that came out of her screen holding a paper. Speech bubbles coming from the screen are yelling "YOU NEED TO GAMBLE! GAMBLE ON EVERYTHING! WHY AREN'T YOU GAMBLING? Sign this form so you can gamble through your TV!"
A plushie of an elderly husky dog wearing a blue shirt that bears the AnthroCon logo. He has a bit of a grumpy look the way his maw is made.
An anthropomorphic raven with dark blue hair and wearing a yellow top is chirping with her eyes closed.
An anthropomorphic crow in a grey three-piece suit (with a red bowtie) and a cape poses for the camera, holding the cape in his raised fist.
A spoof of a "clickbait"-y title card. The Steam picture for Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection is on the top left, above the box art for Duel Monsters II: Dark Duel Stories, which shows Yami Yugi, Kaiba, and a Blue-Eyes White Dragon. I am holding my face in a "shocked/surprised" expression on the right. Above all this, breaking over everything else in bright green text are the words: "probabilistic NIGHTMARE?!?" as well as various probabilities: "1/2048, 3/4096, 1/1@24??"). The last bit of text, much smaller on the bottom right, says "OK but is it worth it though?"
Screenshot from Free Guy: Guy, portrayed by Ryan Reynolds, is handing sunglasses to Buddy, a Black security guard, who's laying on the ground. Buddy hesitates to take them.
The video games I own as physical media that I intend to play this year. From top to bottom: -Nintendo 3DS: Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance Nintendo Switch: Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, New Pokémon Snap, Disney Illusion Island Wii: Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Metroid: Other M, Donkey Kong Coiuntry Returns
A list of video games. Column 1 ("GROUP 0", AKA Quick Reviews): Cat Quest, Disney Speedstorm, Distrust, Fluffy Horde, Guacamelee! Gold Edition, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (+VR edition, which I'm unlikely to play), Rakuen, Road 96, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Sonic and SEGA All Stars Racing, Sonic Generations, Stories: The Park of Destinies, Verlet Swing, Waking Mars, Waveform Column 2 (YEAR PLANS): Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Fallout: New Vegas, Far Cry 3, Final Fantasy VI, Garry's Mod, Grimm, Lead and Gold - Gangs of the Wild West, Lux Delux, Magicka, Millennium - A New Hope, One Way Heroics, Portal 2, Scribblenauts Unmasked, System Shock: Classic, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (see below)
A comedian costumed as Donald Trump, three-piece suit and garish red tie, with the blond hair, pointing at the screen, while he stands in front of a large golden wall with "TRUMP" in golden letters. The comedian's face has been arranged with prosthetics to make "Trump" look like a literal pig, not just a figurative one.
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing my 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "review" (158×), "games" (122×), "game" (102×), "done" (91×), "sonic" (84×), "reviews" (65×), "article" (64×), "film" (53×), "movie" (48×), "final" (41×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
The "change my mind" meme template but the sign posits "Nobody looks cool playing VR" and I superimposed my face over the guy's in the picture.
A male anthropomorphic lion in a blue vest and a silly upwards mane doing the finger-guns towards the viewer.
An anthropomorphic raven wearing jeans and a yellow tank top with an upwards pentagram in red at the front is staring at a scientific beaker containing green, glowing liquid.
Anthropomorphic lion and raven next to each other; the male lion wears a hoodie with the logo of Dream Theater on it, while the raven wears a t-shirt with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album cover on it above her usual yellow top. They're both winking and smiling at the viewer, and while she has her hand resting on his shoulder, he has rested his cheekily on top of her head; both hands are doing the devil horns, index and little finger raised.
A demonic-looking cat with tattered clothes, a chipped ear, and with an evil-looking grin.
A young adult woman talks to a junkie sitting in a corner. His face is almost entirely obscured by his hoodie, other than a wide, creepy smile. "I've seen beginners do far worse than you. I've seen some run away crying in the middle of their number. Funny, no?"
Drawn sketch of a smiling anthropomorphic lion with a beard and a mane that rises upwards. Signature says "Scott Fraser, 2025"
Traditional drawn art of a crow in a nice suit, wearing a bowtie, and with an eye comprising yellow, purple and red in its colors.
Selfie of me with a toy of a crocodile on my shoulder, held in place thanks to a magnet.
Picture drawn with pencil on a lined notebook sheet, showing a smiling dragoness in a striped hoodie.
Box art for the Nintendo DS game "Desktop Tower Defense" showing roung creatures awkwardly moving through halls made of turrets.
An anthropomorphic lion in pants and shirt, a hand in his pocket and holding a pen with the other. His mane sticks upwards like a flame.
Box Art for the Nintendo DS video game Big Brain Academy
Box art for the Crash & Spyro Superpack, a GBA game featuring two games, Crash Purple: Ripto's Rampage and Spyro Orange: The Cortex Conspiracy.
Buffalo poutine with chicken and shallots
Tweet from Elon Musk on X: "Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein Files. This is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!"
(excerpt from my blog, Pixels review) "Now that this is all out of the way, we can actually talk about the movie. And I’ll provide plenty of pictures, don’t worry. I mean, what do you expect me to do? Use my own sketches, my own footage of a parody of the events of the film to illustrate my point? You need the actual images to properly judge of the quality – or lack thereof – of the work you’re reviewing. How can you go and just make sketches, and review THAT? Come on now, that’s the stupidest idea ever. I don’t see how a reviewer with any self-respect would do such a thing."
Title card for my review of No More Heroes, where I wear cunglasses, a red coat (no leather, sorry!), and use a toy sword on which I applied a white beam effect to make it look like Travis Touchdown's beam katanas.
Title card for a review of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Aside from the game box art, the picture is in black and white, I wear sunglasses, and I even added a fake cigarette (...was it a candy stick? I don't remember) to my lips, with a tiny trail of smoke added. The result looks sufficiently small-time gangster to work with the concept.
Title card for my review of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, where I am dressed like Link using a(n obviously store-bought costume quality) costume and wielding a small toy sword.
My title card for my review of the Assassin's Creed movie, where I am dressed like a "ninja" or "assassin" (with hoodie and face mask).
Title card for my review of "Pokémon: The First Movie", where I edited psychic powers onto myself (a reference to Mewtwo from the film).
A list of games I am hoping to cover in 2025. A long list of games intended for Quick Reviews, and a much shorter one (containing longer games) for the rest of the year. Not shown are the games on other platforms (GOG Galaxy, Ubisoft Connect, and physical consoles like Wii, 3DS and Switch).
An anthropomorphic raven sitting on a counter and enjoying a cup of coffee.
A Blogger comment awaiting moderation that's a long, long repetition of "die!" from a non-logged-in user remaining anonymous, published in response to a post on my blog, Planned All Along. Gee, I wonder why they remain anonymous.
Screenshot from the end of Sonic 2 (released in 2022). Sonic with his adoptive parents Maddie (left) and Tom (right), during the film's climax, the three staying close together in the face of a possible death.
Paddington (in the movies) doing a hard stare at someone who has "forgotten their manners".
Mobian/Sonic-style version of Nicolas the Lion, my fursona/main character. A lion with an orange mane that forms a beard as well.
Silver the Hedgehog, with silver/grey fur and hair in five bangs going upwards.
(screenshot from Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)). Sonic has just received his red shoes and is dancing in place to test them, and he looks extra sassy (completely by accident) right now.
A ref sheet for "Nicolas the lion" - regular clothes on the left, scarf in the center (if applicable), Halloween/cosplay costume on the right.
My Steam Replay for the year! 44 games played (33 new), 841 sessions (oof), 362 achievements, most played games were Valheim, GemCraft: Frostborn Wrath, and Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Links, Master Duel and Legacy of the Duelist.
Photography of a billboard for the "PlayStation Portable" "White is coming" marketing campaign. The billboard shows a white woman in a domineering stance, grabbing a Black woman by the jaw.
Prime Minister of Quebec François Legault shaking hands with Voilodymyr Zelensky in Notre-Dame, last weekend.
My Spotify Wrapped, listing my most listened artists as bootleg Gizzard, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Bryan Scary, Marc With A C and Worm Quartet.
Poster for slasher horror film Scream (1996)
Poster for Final Destination (2000), showing five characters with their face half obscured by skulls.
Poster for the Quebec horror movie 5150 rue des Ormes (trans. "5150 Elms' Way).
One Like on this post = One favorite horror movie
Two false Throne accounts, @thrronecom.bsky.social and @jointhronee.bsky.social. Beware of them.
Images and Words, the second studio album of prog metal band Dream Theater, released in 1992.