iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 04/09/2026

I'm not sure how much of this result is from my upbringing, and how much is from me trying to "correct" my dialect, but I did try to only answer based on how I would've answered as a kid. mydialect.us

A dialect heatmap of the US, with slightly reddish regions around Michigan and the entire West Coast, and slightly bluish regions near the Dakotas and the Deep South. Alaska actually looks the reddest to me, with the far reaches of New England the bluest. Hawaii's pretty blue as well.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 01/08/2026

compact disc email California roll RGB log out

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 28/07/2026

I needed to make this to get it out of my head, and I'm not sorry. #auguste #marvelous #octopathtraveler0 #octopathtravelercotc

A partial screenshot from a DDR game in which the player has hit a note perfectly, triggering the "Marvelous!!" text. Next to this is a blown-up sprite of Auguste from the Octopath Traveler series, for obvious reasons if you're familiar with him at all.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 27/06/2026

Titania is a delicious hamburger. Retrieve Slippy before he eats the whole thing. 😋

The stage intro for Titania in Star Fox (2026). The description reads "Titania is a treacherous wasteland. Retrieve Slippy before the planet claims its next victim."

But the planet kind of looks like a hamburger.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 30/05/2026

I won't say it was the highlight of the trip, but I do love topping off my MAX Coffee supply (I also brought home six of the 500ml bottles). 😋 #MAXCoffee

A close-up view of a 30-pack case of 250ml MAX Coffee cans in their iconic yellow and brown livery

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 22/05/2026

I was just very quietly asked to move out of the way by a cat robot 😭 #ジョナサン

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 18/05/2026

They don't usually show Tokyo Station from behind, and now I see why 😅

A fancy brick building (Tokyo Station) with a network of stone and metal platforms and other infrastructure mostly blocking the view.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 16/05/2026

@klaige.bsky.social We're up so early that they're not even open yet~

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 21/04/2026

Sure, why not? A flying squirrel suit keeps me from freezing to death and allows me to basically fly.

A scene from Tomba 2 in which a woman carrying an empty hexagonal basket on her head is giving Tomba crucial information: "If you put on a Pig Suit, you'll be able to understand the pig language."

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 01/03/2026

What games came out when you were 12? I guess violence was the answer back then 😱

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Kari Fry @keefry.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Congratulations to ConcernedApe on 10 years of Stardew Valley!! 🥹❤️ Oh to have such a positive effect on the world. I'm so grateful to have the chance to support Stardew Valley with artwork whenever I can 🙌😭

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 24/02/2026

It's still far from finished, but my NES collection is on display! I've misplaced my Street Fighter 2010 and the Stadium Events cart is a repro I made for this display, but the rest of the licensed US carts are there!

A large white shelving combo made from two wide IKEA BILLY units with a narrow unit between them. Each wide unit has a whopping TWELVE shelves, and the top 8 shelves are crammed full of NES cartridges, 45 to a shelf.

The left unit, containing 0-M, with a full set of Tengen and Camerica carts on the shelf below, followed by empty shells I'd been using for filler.

The right unit, containing M-Z, followed by most of the PAL-exclusive games. The shelf below contains a mostly-complete set of Color Dreams and Wisdom Tree games, and the one below that has a full set of AVE and AGCI games, two of the Panesia games, two Game Genies, two Action 52 carts, Cheetahmen II, and the Caltron and Myriad 6-in-1 carts.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 17/02/2026

Everything old is new again ✌️

An original Virtual Boy next to the official Switch / Switch 2 Virtual Boy accessory, which is nearly identical, though maybe a tiny bit taller. Two stacks of boxed games sit behind them.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 25/12/2025

It took me several watchings of Die Hard to notice this little Sunflower ferry in the model of Nakatomi's Indonesia project. 😍

Sunflower, Sunflower, taiyou ni mamorarete~

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 09/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits.

The princes of Midenhall and Cannock, and the princess of Moonbrooke, from Dragon Quest II. Malroth is visible in the background, but he doesn't count.

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Kari Fry @keefry.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

¡La edición en español de la guía de Stardew Valley ya está disponible! The Stardew Valley Guidebook is now available in SPANISH, in the US and EU 🎉 I'm thrilled that we're able to offer this!! 🥹 www.fangamer.com/products/sta...

A photo of the cover of Guia de Stardew Valley, an all-new translation of the Stardew Valley Guidebook into Spanish!!

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 16/09/2025

I just finished Silksong (in around 48 hours total with 80% completion), and boy does my hand hurt 😅

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Kari Fry @keefry.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This is a GOOD DANG DISCOUNT ($32 ➡️ $26) on our Wanderer's Journal book, if you had your eyes on it but haven't picked it up~ It's an official Hollow Knight lore and art book I illustrated and @retrogamerryan.com wrote. Discounted in honor of Silksong day!

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 11/07/2025

Sometimes, the first step is the hardest 😩

A pair of white faux wood sidelight blinds, held up entirely by the power of magnets; coming up with a way to get them to hold took much longer than I expected.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 25/06/2025

Ah, I thought I detected the subtle flavor notes that come only from the 100-548050istillation process. 🧐

A screenshot from Yakuza 5 showing a bottle of Herradura tequila. The game's description reads "Herradura Tequila is a premium tequila, 100-548050istilled from the blue agave plant."

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 05/06/2025

Day one: a million things to download and update 😅 #Switch2

A Nintendo Switch 2 system sitting at the main menu while dozens of pieces of software wait to be downloaded.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 25/05/2025

Gotta love a good fake Ghibli movie billboard 😍 #Yakuza5

A fake billboard spotted in Yakuza 5 advertising a non-existent movie called 疾風鷲伝說 (Shippuu Washi Densetsu). It features a serious-looking young woman in a red outfit with a bag slung over her shoulder, and an eagle is loosely perched on that same shoulder. The art style is VERY strongly reminiscent of Studio Ghibli / Hayao Miyazaki.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 24/04/2025

Costco, how did you know? 😍😍😍

Two big bags of Black Thunder, a Japanese candy bar that's like a cross between a Crunch bar and Oreos; it also contains just enough sorbitol to keep me from eating a whole bag in one sitting.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 10/01/2025

Post a Duo (adhering to the letter of the assignment with no regard to the spirit~)

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 04/01/2025

Hee, the last pieces of the Kickstarter have come in! #mononoke #モノノ怪 #唐傘

The Blu-ray and crowdfunding-exclusive booklet for Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (劇場版モノノ怪：唐傘)

The cover of the booklet, showing the Medicine Seller's updated design

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 23/12/2024

I don't know what I enjoy more about this: the impracticality of it, or how weak it is 😅

A weapon menu screenshot from Tears of the Kingdom showing Link with his favorite Mine-Cart Hammer, a stick with an entire minecart fused to the tip. The minecart is as large as Link himself, and adds a single point of strength to the stick as a weapon.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 14/12/2024

My morning coffee wishes you all a merry Friday the 13th~ 👻☕

The surface of a cafe latte in a blue mug with, if I'm being totally honest, a slapdash foam that just happened to coalesce into a shape that resembles a cartoon ghost waving.

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Kari Fry @keefry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If you're an anime enjoyer and appreciate horror/mystery elements, please do yourself a favor and watch the series 'Mononoke' on Netflix. 🤩 It's stunning and strange. @retrogamerryan.com and I rewatch it every October. www.netflix.com/title/80169676

A still image of the anime show, Mononoke (モノノ怪). It features a long-haired pointy-eared man with unusual makeup in front of a multi-floored background rich in patterns and murals on all surfaces. The art direction is magnificent. The background is more complicated than a shirt from Dan Flashes.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 17/11/2024

Yo dawg, I heard you like smelt roe 😅

A sushi roll getting absolutely bodied by a huge pile of little orange fish eggs

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 04/11/2024

I just replaced the RAM in my desktop PC AGAIN, and went with Crucial instead of Teamgroup this time; I immediately noticed an improvement in performance even though it's rated identically. 🙃

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 02/11/2024

Man, for someone without a MetaMask wallet, my MetaMask wallet gets suspended REALLY often 😩 #spam

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 10/09/2024

Maybe Josh McDaniels if you're a jock, Brannon Braga if you're a nerd, and all of the founding members of The O'Jays if you're neither?

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 16/07/2024

I finally got around to installing new RAM in my work desktop (the old RAM was kind of disintegrating), and this was nice to see 😁

A screenshot of RAM Test by Karhu Software, showing 0 errors after doing a full pass over all available RAM. The old RAM generated 18 errors at this point.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 23/06/2024

Time to annoy everyone around me 😈

A regular pink Otamatone and a black Deluxe Otamatone

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 16/06/2024

Mortal Kombat II (Super NES, 1994) If more than one person gets this joke, I'll be so happy 🤣

A traffic light at an intersection; the street sign attached reads "E Friendship St" with an arrow pointing right, and "W Friendship St" with an arrow pointing left.

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Retro Gamer Ryan @retrogamerryan.com · 30/05/2024

Huge longshot I'm sure, but does anyone out there have an original version JR Yamanote melody keychain for Komagome? From before they changed the jingle? I really want one with the original "Sakura Sakura" jingle 🥺🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLby...