Jeff Ballard

Developer for Ripple Effect Studios, former Xbox dev, does not make treadmills, opinions are all my own.

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@CelesAtXbox It's quirky, has catchy music, and is just... chill. I don't love it but I do wish more games were as silly and cool.

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@CelesAtXbox I can totally pick out 3 I can't live without and 3 that are great but I never need to go again... but when it comes right down to it these are all incredible franchises that can do whatever they want and rightfully find success. Renew them all!

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@CelesAtXbox Great movie (and book). I'm actually finishing Project Hail Mary right now and it definitely gives the Martian a run for its money.

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@BrannonZ I usually give up it requires too much, but I beat Final Fantasy X out of spite in college. I had to grind a bunch of side quests to get the power to beat the last boss and it took about 50 hours. On the distance of time, I finally beat Ninja Gaiden a few years ago.

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Fuck me, I'm going to have to chose between Brady's Bucs, QAaron's Packers, or a non-Seahawks NFC West team for the Super Bowl? Go AFC!

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Oh hey, I know what this is now. It's actually not bad

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@KKHickey1 When my phone rings and I don't know who it is, I get mad and forward to voicemail. Then I get mad when I have a voicemail notification...

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@PSETalk The large outage along WA202 outside of Redmond has claimed a crew is onsite since 10:15PM last night. Can we get an update?

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Power and internet out since 8am. I hate that we are burning gas this evening to keep semi normal, but love that it is watching Ghostbusters on Blu-ray. The argument tonight is over the best lines in the movie.

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@KKHickey1 Nonononono

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@KKHickey1 @laurenboebert Nobody gives a fuck what she thinks

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@KKHickey1 Feel free to just cold drop them in Kingston and see how it goes.

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@KKHickey1 This makes no sense. The original still holds up fine.

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I'm not a big Halo guy, but that is a damn good looking game console/controller.

[XBOX @XBOX]

20 legendary years of 117. ​

Introducing the @Halo Infinite Limited Edition Xbox Series X - pre-order today: https://t.co/Lw3KEYkHho | #XboxGC #OpeningNightLive

[Jeff Ballard @lifespan]

How I can tell I am getting old. I have been using Twitter a lot for months now, then I realize it has been 3+ months since I last actually made a tweet. So... guess I will go back to playing Hades and Issac and let achievements be my posting for a while.

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Twitter trip report. I believe I am seeing far less ads on here than other places which is great. A lot public figures have way too much free time. My network is too small to really make things interesting so the best outcome might just be trolling politicians...

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I am realizing today that COVID led me to not only lock down physically, but emotionally. I have fallen very much out of touch with a lot of people and really need to step up my game in just being a social human again.

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Does Twitter advertise more over time? Because today as part of my "I'm getting more in to Twitter" I noticed that my Facebook feed has become 30%+ garbage ads and that is actually why I am having more fun following many of the same people and pages on Twitter.

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Just realized that I have been spending more time surfing around Twitter than other social networks over the last few months. Maybe this will be my ~20th attempt to engage on this platform?
...Just kidding, I'll give it up in a day or two.