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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 14/09/2026

Finally finished a playthrough of Fire Emblem: Three Houses just in time for the release of Fortune’s Weave this week. I mostly liked Three Houses but the pacing of the calendar stat and relationship grind was not my favourite.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 04/09/2026

I’m just assuming the Spy Party booth has PAX tenure at this point.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 02/09/2026

If anyone can figure out how to make the instagram filter look make sense it’s gonna be Remedy. Just like they proved Raytracing worked with good art direction in Control after it underwhelmed in Battlefield V. But right now it just reminds me of the dead end Stadia “Style Transfer” from GDC2019.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 03/07/2026

Lol to this audio calibration warning in Rhythm Heaven. Nintendo has a history of being dissatisfied with people being able to play their games on screens they don’t control.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 02/07/2026

I got it. Olan Rogers near impossible accomplishment of self shipping the only ending to his TV Series that the WB lawyers would allow. He couldn’t: - Work with a publisher - Use a crowdfunding platform - Sell on any website he didn’t own - Release more than one instalment - Release Digitally

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 01/07/2026

Though to be clear the Atari ST was a hand me down from a family friend. I’m not quite that old.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 27/06/2026

It’s cool how much the cutscenes in Star Fox change based on route and the objectives. Even the credits change a little based on the route.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 25/06/2026

Unlike Nintendo’s new pricing scheme, Rockstar is charging the full $109.99 CDN for the digital versions.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 21/06/2026

The N64 version of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine kind of rocks? It feels more polished than the PC version. It borrows a bunch of design from Ocarina of Time for UX. It was developed by Factor 5 but bizarrely only released on the Lucasarts store and Blockbuster.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 21/06/2026

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons image.

Image of Grampa Simpson at a store checkout holding a nickel. With the quote:

“Ah, there’s an interesting story behind this nickel.”

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 21/06/2026

Toy Story 5 can feel like a bunch of the shorts jammed together and it’s opinions about tech less nuanced than 007 First Light but it’s still pretty fun and heartfelt. Andrew Stanton proves he can still wrangle together a solid film when it’s not about Mars and Men.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 21/06/2026

Japanese standards making their way to Canadian Transit.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 17/06/2026

Holy crap the Scarlet Deer Inn demo is not just gorgeous, it has a fantastically compelling gameplay and story arc. This is near of top of my most anticipated games now.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 27/05/2026

I’m telling my friends’ kids this is Mr Clean

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 24/05/2026

Met the dev of and Roger today and told him how effectively the moments in the game resonated with my experiences dealing with my Mom’s dimensia.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 24/05/2026

The BitSummit post-river party cleaning crew.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 21/05/2026

Toilets with no bidet in Japan after 7 days: 2

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 20/05/2026

Blast the local museum into your eyeballs!

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 19/05/2026

The Yokohama BayStars lost hard to the home team of the Hiroshima Carps. But I appreciate the Away Team’s instrumental cheer section.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 18/05/2026

Made it to Hiroshima. My great-grandfather grew up in the area.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 17/05/2026

Men be like: “It’s fine honey, I can hold it for another flight of stairs”

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 16/05/2026

Finally, Political shortbread.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 16/05/2026

I found the random loot drop of Japanese vending machines.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 15/05/2026

Hachiko as he was meant to be photographed. With a Game Boy Camera in 2026.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 15/05/2026

I went into the Star Wars popup at Shibuya. It had a nice entrance hall. But I’m not paying 5000¥ for a Star Wars anime logo T-Shirt. So I mostly came out of it with Game Boy Camera photo opportunities.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 15/05/2026

Name two more iconic movies from the category of “Wait did my kid brain dream this shit up or were these actually real?!” I’ll wait.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 15/05/2026

Police Pikachu does not approve of your underage drinking.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 14/05/2026

I was excited to discover this built-in game controller in my seat on my flight to Japan. But saddened by zero game content on the app.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 03/05/2026

I love that Titanium Court detected I performed an unrecoverable action and broke the 4th wall to say that I should probably roll back to my last autosave.

Screenshot of Titanium Court showing a cat character saying "Wait! Great Queen! Your last save precedes this comical blunder. If you quit and reload right now, you can reverse your mistake!"

And a tooltip explaining exactly how to reload the autosave.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 03/05/2026

#randomgamssaturday General Store™️ is a 1988 edutainment game for the Atari ST where you played as Bentley Bar stocking and selling items at his store while staving off the big box retail next door. My questionable strat was pricing up the cake when the rotund lady entered the store.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 26/04/2026

Happy with the custom dress I made Bulma in #TomodachiLife

Screenshot from Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream of the close of view of a Mii based on Bulma from Dragon Ball with blue hair tied into a pony tail and a custom pink dress outfit that has the word Bulma emblazoned on the chest.

An info panel describes Bulma Brief as having relationships with Captain Haddock, Asterix and Carmen Sandiego.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 26/04/2026

#RandomGameSaturday Bill Nye: The Science Guy - Stop The Rock is a 1996 edutainment point & click FMV puzzle game where you need to convince a computer to destroy a meteorite by solving its riddles in various themed science labs. Honestly pretty good for an educational kids game.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 06/04/2026

Life is Strange: Reunion sticks the landing. The Double Exposure plot threads are a little messy and the plot beats don’t reach the heights of the series but the core Max and Chloe relationship is so well handled and acted that if this is the end they went out on a high point.

Screenshot of Life is Strange: Reunion featuring Max Caulfield on the verge of tears staring into the eyes of Chloe Price who is comforting her.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 31/03/2026

Max and Chloe relationship is great. I can't imagine playing this if you chose the Save Chloe ending in the original. They've retconned the comic series but it was clearly an inspiration for what happened in the decade between.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 31/03/2026

Not a lot of people seem to be playing LiS: Reunion. The likely final game in the series (RIP Deck Nine). They’ve dropped the episode format so it’s hard to tell how far I am. It kind of feels like the extended missing finale episode of Double Exposure. But I am enjoying the indulgence.

Screenshot from Life is Strange: Reunion of dual-protagonists Max and Chloe sitting across from each other on couches in Max’s cabin living room. A fireplace is in the background.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 18/02/2026

Damn, this stereotypical Final Fantasy wizard has my number.

Cropped image from the Altair throne room in Final Fantasy 2 Pixel Remaster. The protagonist Firion stands in front of a wizard. The speech bubble showing the dialog says "You? Blow up the Dreadnought? You couldn't blow your way out of a cloth sack."

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 21/01/2026

Gradually building the nonsense I need for my MTG Final Fantasy Cube.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 19/01/2026

Oh wait actually. It might have been completing the trip in Cross Country Canada. There is a good chance I completed that on the Elementary School computers before we got the hand-me-down Atari ST.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 19/01/2026

Post the first game you actually completed. I’m not sure Bentley Bear’s General Store for the Atari ST had a complete state. But I’m pretty sure I unlocked every product, outmaneuvered the evil department store next door and figured out the cake meta.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 27/12/2025

Forgetting that Still Wakes the Deep had DLC this year made me really excited when I saw it listed on the PSN sale. More great atmosphere and fantastic local Scottish casting.

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Galen Ryder @galenryder.com · 23/12/2025

Sometimes I think about how crazy it is that Last Action Hero exists, made by the actual people who made the real 80s action movies. A decade later we’d just have the Friedberg and Seltzer barely a parody trash.