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Retro Gamer Ryan
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Uh, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Stardew Valley Cookbook!
https://stardewvalleycookbook.com/

I play video games, and sometimes I write books about them!
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'Tis the season ☕👻
An orange coffee mug full of what I can assure you is coffee, topped with "latte art" that looks like a ghost either trying to scare you or going in for a hug
October 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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It me 🎃
The cover of a mystery thriller book of some sort titled "Pumpkin Spice Peril"
August 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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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.
July 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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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."
June 25, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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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.
June 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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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.
May 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Can confirm 😎
A cinematic shot of Kiryu from Yakuza: Dead Souls, the camera pointing slightly upward from waist-level, showing him from the waist up. The subtitle reads "That's Kazuma Kiryu."
April 27, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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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.
April 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Post a Duo (adhering to the letter of the assignment with no regard to the spirit~)
Duo from Mega Man 8
January 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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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 Blu-ray package, with beautiful artwork and red spot foil logo, raindrops and umbrellas The cover of the booklet, showing the Medicine Seller's updated design
January 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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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.
December 23, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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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.
December 14, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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One of the highlights of my last trip was koppe pan filled with MAX Coffee whipped cream 😍
November 19, 2024 at 5:44 AM
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🤔
An email header from Wayfair that's titled "The Trampolines EVERYONE'S talking about 💬"
November 17, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Yo dawg, I heard you like smelt roe 😅
A sushi roll getting absolutely bodied by a huge pile of little orange fish eggs
November 17, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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Yo tambien, amigo 😫
A warning in Spanish on a bag of Cheetos which reads "EXCESO CALORÍAS" (excess calories) and "EXCESO SODIO" (excess sodium)
October 26, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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😎
The original HeroQuest board game system, in box
September 14, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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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.
July 16, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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Time to annoy everyone around me 😈
A regular pink Otamatone and a black Deluxe Otamatone
June 22, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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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.
June 16, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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This is what it would look like; I have a version 2 keychain, and it plays the new melody that like half the stations on Yamanote use 😩
May 30, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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I'm officially in bookstores! #stardewvalleycookbook
Several copies of the Stardew Valley Cookbook on the shelf at Barnes & Noble The Pepper Poppers recipe spread The Fall introduction spread The back cover
May 14, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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This photo was taken at 3:15 pm~
My street during totality; it looks like dusk, or even a bit darker, though it's the middle of the afternoon on a sunny day.
April 8, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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I got eclipsed #eclipse
A selfish with me looking like a doofus in my eclipse glasses A total solar eclipse, just before the "diamond ring" effect appears near the bottom
April 8, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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New friends! Or at least old friends in new poses :3 #ごろねこサミット #日光浴
Three of the original Goroneko Summit cats (Itou, Yamada and Watanabe) lying on their backs with their little foot nubbins spread out, enjoying sunbeams~ They lookin~ at u
March 25, 2024 at 8:38 PM