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Ryan Blanchard
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sr. community developer @ dead by daylight // prev. gameloft, ubisoft, evolve_pr // he/him // video games + horror + wrestling // jamiroquai enjoyer
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2025's half over so whaddya know, here's the albums I've been digging most 🤙
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
July 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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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 🎷🏁
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"
June 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I'm convinced the other 88 songs of revolution would fix me
The album cover for 99 Songs of Revolution by Streetlight Manifesto
June 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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"Do not pursue Lububu"
Lu Bu from Dynasty Warriors
May 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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she is beauty
she is grace
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
May 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Promise Mascot Agency serving up the match of the century over here
Screenshot of the game, Promise Mascot Agency, showing match card of To-Fu (a humanoid block of tofu) vs a Normal Sized Door
May 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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First day back in the office post-PAX like
Photo of someone in a Michael Meyers mask at a computer, wearing glasses and a headset
May 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I'm going to tell my kids this was Eddie Van Halen
The Rizzler posing with a guitar
January 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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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
Black and white photo of David Lynch sitting on a couch, surrounded by stuffed Woody Woodpeckers
January 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Finally getting around to redoing my walls feat. Matt Talbot's stellar Archie series
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
January 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Made the jump from Goodreads to Storygraph because I'm a lil freak for data visualization
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.
January 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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*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) ⤵️
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
December 31, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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*Free Bird guitar solo plays*
A screenshot from the game, Arctic Eggs, showing a frying pan filled with cigarettes and one egg
December 30, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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I'm something of an Adam Sandler fan, myself
A chapter heading from the book Words of Radiance that is titled, "Uncut Gems"
December 29, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Bespectacled Man In Distress (Arctic Eggs, 2024)
A screenshot from the game, Arctic Eggs, in which a man in sunglasses has subtitles beside him that read, "I wish they would invent a toilet that doesn't whisper sweet nothings in your ear"
December 22, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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It's late December and you know what that means...

Here are my fave albums of 2024 ⤵️
A 4 by 4 grid of album covers with titles and artists listed. The albums, left to right, top to bottom are: Charli XCX - BRAT, Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal, Drug Church - PRUDE, Fontaines D.C. - Romance, Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore, geordie greep - The New Sound, Ginger Root - Shinbangumi, Joey Valence & Brae - NO HANDS, Machine Girl - MG Ultra, Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk, Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud, The OBGMs - Sorry It's Over, Pearl and the Oysters - Planet Pearl, Peggy Gou - I hear You, Stress Eater - Everybody Eats, and Squint - Big Hand
December 17, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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s/o to hard pose angel
An angel statue that looks like it's doing a hard pose
December 14, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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The overwhelming urge to buy one of these bad boys to Cave those Quds
A numpad peripheral with a C64 colour scheme
December 14, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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Damn, they really went all out on this F1 game 😳
Headshot of the character, Strohl, from the game Metaphor ReFantazio Headshot of the character, Hulkenberg, from the game Metaphor ReFantazio Headshot of the character, Alonzo, from the game Metaphor ReFantazio
December 7, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Dawn of the final weekend with these chaotic lads on the grid 😭
Photo of Kevin Magnussen at an F1 event Photo of Valtteri Bottas at an F1 event
December 7, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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David Byrne waving his arm in the "Once In A Lifetime" music video
December 6, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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So, the xenokitty's out of the bag...

I joined Behaviour Interactive and the Dead By Daylight team (a couple weeks ago)!

Balancing the powers of Community Developer and Dracula main, I'm so jazzed to be working with such incredible folks!

See y'all in the Fog 🤙
Ryan posing in front of a mirror, wearing a Dead By Daylight hoodie
December 6, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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Tis the season to once again make this album my entire personality
Album art for Like A Gift From God Or Whatever by Chris Farren
December 3, 2024 at 11:48 PM
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i'm convinced it could fix me
A tub of President's Choice Candy Cane Chocolate Fudge Crackle ice cream
December 3, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Wow! Taylor Swift took time out of her busy day in Toronto to get a kiosk coffee from Galleria Mall!
A photoshopped image of Taylor Swift in the Galleria Mall
November 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM