Marc Watson

One of our Minecraft programmers is looking for some Pokemon Go pals. Help her out with some friend requests?

The world feels like it’s on fire and I’m going to meet up with my friends for a weekend of catching digital monsters and I don’t quite know how to reconcile that.

I still believe in peace; I still believe that we all, the everyday citizens of every place, deserve to live without fear and chaos imposed upon us by our leaders.

Oh hey I physically own this! It’s very good.

I’m sorry that it took so much out of you. The game was incredible, and as someone from the Pacific Northwest living across the world, it was a wonderful and mysterious world that helped with some homesickness. Very strong memories of this game, which are always a good indicator for me of success.

A world map overlaid with vivillon Pokemon and their respective regions

Looking for Pokémon go pals from Sun and Sandstorm regions! Lemme see those friend codes.

Oh hey I recognize that character! @unormal.bsky.social said I should try it and so now the wildnerness is littered with praetorian corpses 😂 Interested to hear how you're faring.

I had a weird dream that everything in Minecraft was aligned to the block grid, and you and every mob moved one block at a time. Unsure if board games or Caves of Qud are to blame for this nighttime hallucination. 🤔

It wasn't part of the story, so it wasn't featured.

Thank goodness the sun is starting to peek out, it’s been dark or grey for like two months now. And I’ve been sick twice this year already somehow, so I’m really done with my apartment. Sat so much I’m having shooting leg and back pain, so it’s back to stretches, a foam roller, and massage gun.

Just finished Öoo. One of the smartest, tightest puzzle games that I’ve played. Surprising amounts of complexity for a little guy with two bombs. And each time you’re stuck you can think, what did the game just teach me? Recommend playing it in 1-2 sittings though, so you don’t forget things.

That seems reasonable!

Oh. Also, hi!

I should say I sank 55 hours into it about a year ago and loved the idea of everything, and knew that it held more for me later. Now here I am trying to remember how to do basic navigation. 😅 It is quite disorienting, yeah.

lol that’s how I died in a minute. Grabbed an item and got attacked in the starting area 😂 I might try again but losing an hour or two of work at a time is really frustrating

I have never tried, and failed, to like a game as much as Caves of Qud. I picked it back up again after a year off died a minute in. Next time it took me 20 minutes to die, and I was back to 0 minute of progress through a world I want to like. The game is like if an ASCII TTRPG hated your guts.

Old Man’s War and We Are Legion (We Are Bob) sort of fit the isekai to space opera criteria. Have you read either?

Glad that the area is catching up in transportation technology. I moved away in 2014 and arrived in a place with a huge public transit network, and it felt like living in the future 😂

This may surprise you to know but back in the day we had to wait several days before we knew what our pictures looked like 😂

One of my favorite photos ever, especially pre-digital: a guy walks in front of the camera while my mom takes a picture of my dad and sister.

I wonder if any Washingtonian friends or other internet sleuths have any chance of figuring out who this was. 1993, Smokey Point rest stop by Marysville.

Yeah I’ve been kind of all over the place and not near core Minecraft in a while in any way. But I’ll have neat things of my own to share eventually!

Loved this show as a kid, definitely funny as a supercut!

I will say any Minecraft mob in an intense way, it’s my new thing I guess 😂

YouTube video by Minecraft MORE BABY VERSIONS INCOMING! 🚨

Hi it’s me again, being dramatic at a microphone. It’s so much fun. 😁 youtube.com/shorts/eW5oQ...

Whoops, nice catch, I hadn’t noticed I hadn’t worn that one

Haha I almost wrote Starkiller but figured that was the more obscure role. But honestly it’s the one I associate him with more, even though he’s now spent less time with it.

And (animated) Darth Maul!

Rarely have I found someone who so consistently posts very specific takes that I wholeheartedly agree with 😂

The whole show is incredible. Maybe I need a third rewatch 🤔

But for real, whenever someone wants to point a mic at me and have me say things in different voices, I'm taking every opportunity I can get. I've always wanted to do some voice acting, especially if I can make it weirder than just narration. 😁

YouTube video by Minecraft HAVE YOU SPENT TOO MUCH TIME IN A MINE?

Mojang video team: "Hey Marc say some words into this mic."

Me: "Sure- wait what was this for again?"

Video team: "Okay, perfect, thanks!"

😂