ShadowXeldron

@shadowxeldron.bsky.social

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Crazy stupid person. I like mainly Sonic the Hedgehog, Ys and Shin Megami Tensei. I'm also a daily driver Linux user, rookie Rust programmer and Sonic 3 AIR modder. Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/ShadowXeldron If it matters to you, I use He/Him pronouns.

PSN login error screen reporting a server connection failure. The red box is my email address, no spam for you.
Screenshot from a modified Pokemon Ruby ROM, showing a Machoke holding a box saying "I can't believe those humans make us do all the hard work."
Screenshot from Metaphor ReFantazio, wherein Atlus aren't beating the one trick pony allegations. They're standing in the Ruined Capital of Shinjuku (oh, I'm sorry, Drakongrace Shinjuku, it's like Etrian's endgame if Trogdor burninated it) and Strohl is saying "If we can predict its movement, then we can slip past it. A fight isn't necessary. Let's be extra cautious."
Sonic Live In Concert's expensive tickets at the Apollo Eventim. Some of these literally cost more than Crossworlds.
Demonstration of my Sonic 3 AIR soundtrack customiser that has
A fake PS2 boxart for a game called Mega Man X Goes To Tescos To Get A Bottle Of Milk. The front cover features Mega Man X in his Command Mission design standing in front of Tescos with a bottle of whole milk. There is a "featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series" sticker on the front cover, and the game is rated PEGI 18. The back cover reads the following: """ AWFUL NEWS AT HUNTER HQ! The Maverick Hunters have run out of milk. This is very bad. Unfortuntely, Tescos have rearranged their store layout again for some stupid reason. Why do they keep doing that? It's up to X to figure out where they moved the fridges this time. RIVETING SHOPPING GAMEPLAY! Try and find the dairy aisle! And make sure you don't pick up red milk by accident, since that stuff's rank. (below this statement features a screenshot of Mega Man X standing in the dairy aisle at Tescos) Dante's also here for some reason. (below this statement features a screenshot of DMC2 Dante standing in the middle of Tescos). DISCLAIMER: Dante only shows up twice and only on one of the routes. Play as fan favourite characters like X, X or X! *Zero's dead again **and everyone forgot that Axl exists """ This may or may not be a vent meme.
Persona 4 Dancing All Night for PlayStation Vita, the most "what the heck"spinoff of a spinoff to ever exist
Demonstration of a status screen for the enemy Securitron Alpha in this week's stupid idea that likely won't get anywhere. It's a level 1 Mecha enemy with 14 HP and the following description: "Rusted mechanical security guard that patrols the upper levels of the Terafactory. The Securitron series was designed to use conventional firearms and has an integrated ammo container for reloading, although this first model's accuracy leaves much to be desired. A fatal flaw in its security system also makes it somewhat easy to hack. It is currently only employed in low-clearance areas of the factory." Even Cyberpunk Megacorps have to cut corners somewhere.
Sonic Central Bingo & Knuckles! - Lego Sets - DC X Sonic - Movie Stuff - Crossworlds DLC (both free and paid) - Ports of older releases to modern systems (not Frontiers) - Major new release announced via five second all-CGI teaser trailer - Sonic gets licensed to brands I've never heard of - Sonic Rumble has another stupid crossover with another IP - Unleashed glazing since that game is trendy at the minute - Nostalgia bait - Shadow shows up in some capacity - Anything that I didn't expect - Sonic Symphony rerun - Sonic Forces Speed Battle gets new characters/skins - A Sonic meme, preferably a dead one, gets referenced - Some kind of time-limited deal or event - Less than five game-related things are announced - Shadow gets at least something (yes, he's on here twice, I was scraping the bottom of the barrel here) - IDW Comics - Switch 2 version of Frontiers - 35th anniversary content - Uh... chilli dogs? - I run our of ideas for my bingo card - Everyone wonders what the point of that (being the Sonic Central) was Pascal the Dog is here.
Screenshot from one of my Dwarf Fortress worlds (namely of my half-built dwarven hotel). The screenshot focuses on a room with engraved wooden flooring as well as a table, a chair, a treasure chest, an armour stand and a weapon rack. Inside that room is an iron cage containing a Goblin Swordsman named Fun fact, goblins in DF are biologically immortal and can be hundreds of years old. This one's 175 years of age, and will be spending the rest of time as a decoration in my mayor's office.
Screenshot of the protagonist from Metaphor ReFantazio (who I have named Garion, if you get that reference then you're based) petting a cat in Metaphor ReFantazio. He is saying "Thaaat's right. Who's a good kitty?"
Demonstration of tonight's stupid impulse production
Video of an Eevee losing to a Ledyba in a rather crappy Godot project. He gets so embarrassed at losing to a Ledyba of all things that he deems whoever his nonexistent trainer is to be extremely cringe and decides that they're not friends anymore. Cue sad Mystery Dungeon music.
Screenshot of a Magnemite generated with the above Pikachu program.
A small Godot engine project that randomly generates Level 5 Pikachus.
A grid of Pokemon titled "About Me: Pokemon", because why the heck not. Favourite: Sandlash. I just like him. 2nd Favourite: This was a stretch, but I ended up going with Skarmory. Skarm's cool. Least Favourite: Couldn't decide so this one's blank. It was almost Toxapex because of his stupid Scald and Regenerator combo, but since I like his visual design he gets off this time. Underrated: Voltorb, it's supposed to be a Mimic. I think people dismiss this design as being uninspired, but it makes way more sense when you consider the trap dungeons. Overrated: I also couldn't think of who to put here. Best Starter: Delphox. Fire/Psychic is a cool combo, it's a nice change of pace from all the Fire/Fighting types. And I like the whole fox-witch aesthetic she's going for. Best Dynamax: Calyrex-Shadow. Hey, you said Dynamax. Not Gigantimax. Most D-Maxes and even G-Maxes require the use of an evil skeleton dragon from space. Not Calyrex, he uses his own power to get a blue Dynamax and that's just cool. Best Mega: Beedrill. This choice was hard, but Beedrill's my favourite Bug-type and I thought he needed a win for once. Best Regional Variant: Marowak, mainly for how different it's appearance and typing is from the original. Best Eeveelution: Espeon. I like that one the most because she was talking to Sonic in one of my dreams once. Yes, really. Would have as a pet: Tropius. I guess he'd be low maintenance? Best Shiny: Charizard. I don't care how basic that take is. I don't know why I like this, but I do: Trubbish, you guys are all so mean to object 'mons. Has a personal story behind it: Squirtle. I was one in a Minecraft world I had with my friends back in the day. Very nostalgic to me: Typhlosion. The first Pokemon game I played was SoulSilver and I picked Cyndaquil. Then I destroyed the world with my horribly overleveled Typhlosion.
Screenshot from the Sonic Crossworlds Mega Man festival, showing that I'm on Team Air Man for some reason
Picture of a wrap with sour cream, a bean chilli made with chickpeas, black eyed beans, onions, carrots, peppers, tomatoes, Caerphilly cheese and bacon. Because why the heck not.
One of those Spongebob "Except you, you stay" memes. In the first panel, Mr. Krabs says "All right, get lost, all of ya. You're fired, Go on. Scram." to Mario and Luigi. In the second panel, he says "Get out of here, you moochers. That's right, keep moving" to Mario, the Honey Queen (who is holding a pistol), a crudely cropped Peach and Bowser from the Japanese SMB1 boxart, Toad, Matt the Mii, Shy Guy, Woolly Yoshi, an angry Wiggler and Rosalina. On the third panel, Waluigi is off to the corner of the screen in a pool of blood because the Honey Queen murdered him to take his place in Mario Kart 7's roster. Mr. Krabbs says "Except you. You stay." to an N64 model of Donkey Kong, who on the next panel does one of his pervy faces from the old DK cartoon.
Series of KDE error messages regarding Steam crashing due to a memory shortage. No idea why that happened because I have 16GB of RAM From top to bottom: """ abrt-applet Oops! We're sorry, it looks like "pv-adverb" crashed. Please contact the developer if you want to report the issue. """ """ Crash Reporting System Application Crash /usr/lib/pressure-vessel/from-host/libexec/steam-runtime-tools-0/pv-adverb (part of Steam) has encountered a fatal error and was closed. """ """ Linux Kernel Memory Shortage Avoided Steam has been terminated by the Linux kernel because the system is low on memory. Consider closing unused applications or browser tabs. """
Screenshot of Vintage Story running in an ultrawide window. The player (me) is hiding in a sad underground dirt hovel during a Temporal Storm. The chat box contains the following text: """ Welcome ShadowXeldron, may you survive well and prosper A light temporal storm is imminent ShadowXeldron: Oh crap ShadowXeldron: OH MY GOODNESS (this text is messed up; for context I just got chased around by Drifters) ShadowXeldron: AND MY LETTERS ARE MALFUNCTIONING ShadowXeldron: HOLY SILENT HILL BATMAN """
Screenshot of StreetPass Mii Plaza for the 3DS, taken using Luma CFW's screenshot feature. A Mii wearing black with black hair (who, for the record, is ostensibly supposed to be the Demi-Fiend) stands in front of a yellow arch. He is being talked to by a bald Mii wearing blue who claims to be Sans Undertale.
Balan Wonderworld This game's actually good. Stop parroting the memer streamers who play up negative aspects of games to get more you sheeple.
The game over sequence from Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series, where the Demi-Fiend is surrounded by angels and is probably being dragged off to YHVH for some serious brainwashing
Old picture of a Commodore CD32 (bascially a consolised Amiga 1200 with an optical drive) advert outside of Sega's headquarters. The Commodore advert reads "To be this good will take Sega ages". (This is funny because the CD32 bombed even harder than the 32X)
A DVD copy of Die Hard
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "sonic" (122×), "game" (102×), "games" (56×), "persona" (47×), "played" (33×), "steam" (25×), "final" (25×), "characters" (23×), "least" (22×), "hard" (21×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
Sonic Racing Crossworlds' Steam Page. It's 30% and now costs £45.50 (or £56 for the digital deluxe edition, but that's still stupid) so it's finally within my price range!
That "guy tries to get a yellow ball but is held back by a pink thing" meme format. The guy is "Moi" (me) and the yellow ball is "the desire to make a Pokemon fan game". The pink thing is "The fact that Nintendo will absolutely nuke it off the internet (and the series' wack-arse damage formula)" No joke, Pokemon's damage formula is ridiculous.
KDE Wayland window titled "pokemon-bevy" running a simple Bevy Engine project that shows a Spheal of Approval sitting in the middle of a the window over a dark grey background. Above the Spheal (a round blue pinniped Pokemon) is the text "GOAT Garuntee [sic]" with the text "CERTIFIED SHADOWXELDRON SPHEAL OF APPROVAL!" written on the Spheal's chest. This image was used because it was a PNG on my hard drive that I had easy access to. If you want the context behind it, go read my Sonic Stadium blog.
Screenshot of NetHack's Qt interface on a Garuda Linux Dragonised install. It shows the first turn of a Lawful(since Law's the best alignment; sorry Chaos fans, not sorry Neutral fans; also Dwarves have to be lawful in this game) Level 1 Dwarven Valkyrie named "We're so NetBack the Stripling" who is at level 1 of the Dungeons of Doom and has 18/02 Strength, 13 Dexterity, 19 Constitution, 7 Intelligence, 7 Wisdom, 11 Charisma, 0 money, 18 HP, 1 MP, 6 Armour Class (basically anti-defence; number gets lower if you have better armour and you want it to be a minus number). The player character is in a rectangular room with a cat, a jackal and a fountain (which is very lucky since Valkries start with a longsword that, at level 5, they can dip into a fountain to turn into Excalibur because, like I said, Law is the best alignment).
Text box system starying everyone's favourite bizarrely coloured erinaceidae, Ogilvie Maurice "Sonic" Hedgehog. He's reading out part of Lorem Ipsum, and also the Bee Movie script: "Expedita placeat cum laboriosam ab delectus. Molestiae ea blanditiis aliquam reiciendis consequatur pariatur nemo. Rem mollitia officiis natus et sed dolore pariatur voluptatem. Quo illum in sint voluptate alias ut qui. Deleniti qui rerum laborum sed non consequatur rerum. In other words, according to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly."
A low-resolution, pixelated 3D dungeon maze with checkerboard patterns on the walls and floors. There is a translucent text box with white text with the heading "Speaker". It reads "the quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox, who was livin' that 180p lifestyle" Sonic the Hedgehog is also here because I didn't have any other pixel sprites on hand.
The invincibility power up from that video. There's text that says "Pause to power up!" and you click at an exact moment to see what image you get. I got the invincibility, which is a bunch of stars in a monitor.
Set of stills from the McLaren Sonic Trailer where Tails draws something, but Pascal the Dog from Shin Megami Tensei 1 is here
Screenshot of my Godot Sonic RPG where Sonic, Amy, Tails and Knuckles are all asserting their dominance by doing the T-Pose in a neverending field of grass.
Sonic running and jumping around a grassy area with random cuboids and a wedge in it
Zen from Persona Q - some teenager(?) with brown hair dual-wielding crossbows and wearing a black school uniform and a cape. Ow the Edge.
Kage defeating Bark the Polar Bear in Fighters' Megamix
Screenshot from the Aeon Genesis fan translation of the original Shin Megami Tensei, showing a blue dog standing in a room with the text "Pascal the Dog is here".
Shin Megami Tensei
Demonstration of a *very early in development* Sonic RPG. It flips from the overworld gameplay to a battle sequence whenever I press escape o the keyboard, and then goes back to the overworld sequence when the battle has been won.
Sonic running around a green grassy area with random white shapes dotted about. (sorry if this alt-text is a bit half arsed; I'm not very good at describing things)
A PS2 Slim and Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil, the latter of which has a reprinted cover and also a WWE official sticker for some reason
Lyric from Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
Half-Life 2
A rather stupid Flipnote Studio animation where Puppy (a stick dog) is locked up in a dungeon and then King Cat (a stick cat) comes to feed him. Puppy is initially elated to find out that he's being fed by his captor only to realise that King Cat wanted to feed him poo. Annoyed, Puppy jumps out of the wall and then lands on the floor. He walks for a bit but then gets into a fight with a bad guy holding a spear. Puppy beats the bad guy and then goes into a building. The building's dark and Puppy bumps into something. He goes downstairs and turns on a light only to run into King Cat. King Cat does an evil laugh and then he and Puppy get into a flight. Their weapons clash and King Cat is blasted away. Puppy wins!... but then an axe lands on his head. To be continued.
A Level 7 Shiny Whismur in Pokemon Ruby
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 1
Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 for PlayStation 3, which is generally considered to be one of the worst games ever made
Screenshot from Pokemon Ruby, running in the NanoBoyAdvance emulator. It shows a summary screen for a Level 6 Skitty (a pink cat thing) named Gotou, whose original trainer is named Raidou with a Trainer ID of 10486. It's a Normal-type with the ability Cute Charm, which infatuates on contact. It has an Adamant nature (+Attack, -Special Attack) and was met at Level 5 on Route 101.
NetHack running in KDE's Konsole emulator. Since it's a text-only roguelike that I can just copy and paste, here's all the text on the screen: You drop a statue of a jackal. Your movements are now unencumbered. #########` ----- #----------- |...|########..........-## --------------- |.$d| ## |.........| # |.............| |.@..### -------.--- ## |.............| -.--- #### # |.............. ######............<.| # -.--.---------- Xeldron the Hatamoto St:16 Dx:14 Co:18 In:10 Wi:11 Ch:6 Lawful Dlvl:1 $:3 HP:15(15) Pw:2(2) AC:4 Xp:1
Mustrum, the Deformed Nightmare from Ys: Memories of Celceta
One of those "1 like = 1 video game answer" things, but I've set the requirement to zero likes because I want to say all of them. 1 - Very first video game 2 - Your favourite character 3 - A game that is underrated 4 - Your guilty pleasure game 5 - Game character you feel you are the most like (or wish you were) 6 - Most annoying character. 7 - Favourite game couple. 8 - Best soundtrack 9 - Saddest game scene 10 - Best gameplay 11 - Gaming system of choice 12 - A game everyone should play 13 - A game you've played more than five times 14 - Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper 15 - Post a screenshot from the game you're playing right now 16 - Game with the best cutscenes 17 - Favourite antagonist 18 - Favourite protagonist 19 - Picture of a game setting you wished you lived in 20 - Favourite genre 21 - Game with the best story 22 - A game sequel which disappointed you 23 - Game you think had the best graphics or art style 24 - Favourite classic game 25 - A game you plan on playing 26 - Best voice acting 27 - Most epic scene ever 28 - Favourite game developer 29 - A game you thought you wouldn't like, but ended up loving. 30 - Your favourite game of all time
The end screen from Persona 4 Golden
The fictional town of Inaba in Persona 4 Golden on the day that the protagonist has to go home.
Sonic 3 AIR
A PlayStation Vita sitting on a train table. It's currently off.