Ryan Blanchard

Just like how the original THPS games rewrote my brain chemistry growing up, I hope this game leads to a kid somewhere hearing Jeff Rosenstock, X-Ray Spex or IDLES for the first time, completely changing music for them

While I can't deny being a little bummed by how little of the original soundtracks are present in THPS 3+4, this new soundtrack is an absolute RIPPER

And most importantly, there *is* a ska track 🏁🤙

A grid of album covers, with a title that reads, "Top Albums of the Mid Year 2025". The artists in alphabetical order are, Aesop Rock, BACKxWASH, clipping., HAIM, Heartworms, Hiromi's Sonicwonder, Lambrini Girls, pinkpantheress, PUP, Spiral Deluxe, Turnstile, and Viagra Boys

2025's half over so whaddya know, here's the albums I've been digging most 🤙

A reddit post showing The Dredge from Dead By Daylight, edited to be wearing pork pie hats, a tie, and playing a sax, trumpet and guitar. The post title reads, "a dredge skin that I know at least one of the people who work on this game can appreciate" and the post description reads, "the mighty mighty pile ‘o bones"

I wish nothing but great vibes and skanking pits for the person (thanks u/Borz_Kriffle) who drew ska Dredge in response to my dev quote 🎷🏁

My dev quote *definitely* isn't about ska 😇

Anniversary time means anniversary dev quotes time! 🎭

The Fog is clearing, and it's almost time to go #IntoTheRainbow. 🌈
Register now if you haven't already and start earning these drops by watching any Twitch channel streaming Dead by Daylight between June 23 and June 27, including our five Into the Rainbow streams. 🔗 dbd.game/twitchdrops

The album cover for 99 Songs of Revolution by Streetlight Manifesto

I'm convinced the other 88 songs of revolution would fix me

It's a HUGE day over here!

Give our patch notes a (bigg) scroll and check out everything the team's been cooking up!

I'm extremely happy to report that Mario Kart World has a ska song. I repeat: Mario Kart World has a ska song 🏁

Lu Bu from Dynasty Warriors

"Do not pursue Lububu"

Shining On Big D and the Kids Table · Strictly Rude · Song · 2007

*as your ska-mmelier*

Might I suggest:
open.spotify.com/track/0h0iun...

✋ you've reached the ska checkpoint 🏁

It's a sunny long weekend, which means you're legally obligated to listen to some ska today

Sorry, them's the breaks

A photo of a cat stepping up onto a chair, looking concerned

A photo of a cat from above, eyes wide open, mouth open, looking like she's talking

A cat, out of focus, sitting on a desk in front of a screen with Dead by Daylight on it

A cat laying on a bed, reaching out her paw

she is beauty
she is grace

Screenshot of the game, Promise Mascot Agency, showing match card of To-Fu (a humanoid block of tofu) vs a Normal Sized Door

Promise Mascot Agency serving up the match of the century over here

s/o to the guy down by the river last night who hollered "otter in the house!"

Simultaneously delivering the immaculate vibes and advocating for Lil Critter visibility 🙏

Photo of someone in a Michael Meyers mask at a computer, wearing glasses and a headset

First day back in the office post-PAX like

Rachel, you're an absolute hero, a fashion icon, and I'm so lucky to have been able to work with and learn from you!!

The Rizzler posing with a guitar

I'm going to tell my kids this was Eddie Van Halen

I have no idea why I drew this…

Black and white photo of David Lynch sitting on a couch, surrounded by stuffed Woody Woodpeckers

No artist has impacted me like David Lynch. He's in a league of his own and will be missed so so much

RIP to the best to do it

Got new glasses with translucent frames and let me tell you

this new HUD is going to take some getting used to

A series of framed art prints, showing horror movies done in the style of Archie Comics. The movies shown are Halloween, The Witch, The Lighthouse, and Army of Darkness

Finally getting around to redoing my walls feat. Matt Talbot's stellar Archie series

When you're listening to Jamiroquai and pass a guy with a big fuzzy hat 😎👉👉

A graph showing number of books read per genre. The top 5 genres based on volume are: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Classics, and LGBYQIA+

A graph showing the mood of the books read over time, with copy that reads, "Your 2024 StoryGraph. A mood map of your reading. Lighter books push the line up and darker books pull the line down". April is the lowest point, whereas January, September and October are the highest.

Made the jump from Goodreads to Storygraph because I'm a lil freak for data visualization

✨Some 2025 Goals✨

📚Read more books that intimidate me
⛈️Catch up on the Cosmere
🍪Bake once a month
🎲Play every board game I own
🌶️Get good at making chili
🀄️Play mahjong in person
🕺Go out dancing with pals more
🧶Make time for rug tufting

A 4x4 grid of video game key art. From left to right, top to bottom, the games shown are: Arctic Eggs, Astro Bot, Balatro, Caves of Qud, Dragon's Dogma II, Echo Point Nova, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Islands of Insight, Journey of Wrestling, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Path of Achra, Rabbit & Steel, The Rise of the Golden Idol, Tekken 8, Thank Goodness You're Here!, and UFO 50

*yet another 2024 GOTY list*

Here are the 16 games that I couldn't stop thinking about this year (accepting that I'm only halfway into Metaphor but it does, in fact, rip) ⤵️

If you start listening to Sorry You're Not A Winner by Enter Shikari at 11:59:39 tonight, you'll 👏👏👏 into the new year

A screenshot from the game, Arctic Eggs, showing a frying pan filled with cigarettes and one egg

*Free Bird guitar solo plays*