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Ryan Miller
Hello I’m Ryan Miller, extremely so, and Ryan_Runs_ is where I do that with videos and podcasts about my life and likes with family and friends :)
When the Sammo wolf is hungry, you must feed it. Also when the Yuen Biao wolf and the Eric Tsang wolf and the Lam Ching-Ying wolf and the Richard Ng wolf and the Dick Wei wolf and Mang Hoi wolf... and the Cynthia Rothrock wolf!
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What happened? What's changed? What hasn't? Huh?
When I talk about videos and pictures from PAX over the years, I'm talking about this stuff!
When I talk about ye olde video game podcast 0HP, I'm talking about this stuff!
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Don't think about the title too much, this one's all about Jackie Chan buddying up with Danny Aiello to take down Roy Chiao AND the U.S. motion picture market at the time, only one of which was successful!
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What's a "cult classic" between friends?
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Oh Boy get ready for a Quantum Leap in video game nerdcore, you've entered Xbox Achievement Land with Ryan and longtime friend of every show Adam Parkin!
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When will Lau Kar-Leung's tyranny of quality kung fu classics come to an end? Now??
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Let the 80s envelop you with another kung fu comedy from Yuen Woo-Ping and Donnie Yen!
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Join me on YouTube every Tuesday at Ten for Tetris! All of them!
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Tempted to say I'm taking a stab in the dark with this one except 1) it's Donnie Yen and 2) it's Yuen Woo-Ping and 3) it's a well-lit fists and feet affair!
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One more round of comic book recs before I dip into the TV show, even if they're a little light on the Moon Knight for the most part...
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This one was too good not to have a bona fide Shaw Brothers super fan on the show, and it was a lot of fun in every single respect. Enjoy!
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2 years ago I thought I'd read a few Moon Knight comics before watching the TV show, so naturally that turned into almost 40 years worth of comics and now I'm mentally required to tell you my top 10!
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On this one we're 3 for 3 as far as dragons go, and I can't help but bring the Mrs. in for her take on... the takes. Take that.
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//Jackie Chan Stunt Team History//
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Hey we get at least 7 warriors for the price of two in what is yet another great Hong Kong action film by Sammo and friends!
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Wow! I mean what? But also wow! It's Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Mang Hoi, and Corey Yuen doing kung fu with lasers and... it's still crazier than you think?
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This one might be a subtle departure from what we've done so far OR I'm totally wrong about that. Check it out!
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The Kung Fu Continues! As does Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, and (turns out) Lam Ching-ying... at the top of their game?
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The shock of having released a new ep of Chasers last week has me all excited about whatever I might do with the next season of the series and/or the current season of Cinematic, Older School, Daily Drum, and whatever I decide to call all those unboxing videos! Seriously what should I call those unboxing videos!?
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What's a couple years between friends? Especially friends who like Marvel's collectible comic book cards from the 1990s, extra-especially 1994, so why not come and hang out while I get back into the groove with Marvel Universe Series 4!
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Horror has entered the fight (kind of) by way of Yuen Biao and Yuen Woo Ping's Dreadnaught, and I'm not scared to say it's pretty cool.
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Hey it took us a week of nightly viewings but we finally watched all of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning: Part One: and would it surprise if I had some thoughts that went all the way back to why I started loving movies in the first place? Then you might be in the wrong room!
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Apparently I've been at this a long time (?), so when I saw the DJI Mic 2 had the possibility to replace everything I own AND a few things I hadn't even bought yet I figured, "okay, let's find out." Here's me finding out!
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Feels like every time we go back it just gets better and better...
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Hey even though I usually don't post unboxings to the podcast feed I thought this one was talky enough to be worth it, but if you feel like you're missing the visuals just bring up the video on Spotify or YouTube!
Having said that, the Playdate is a mingame monster that I thoroughly enjoy!
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Johnathanblades! Sliptides! Would-be Peter Pans! All this and more, where "more" is a small (very good) drawing and a regular sized (very cool) guitar.
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It's good but is it magnificent?
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This may seem like more work than actually just taking a picture and creating a normal Christmas card to look at... but you'd be surprised! Either way, from us to you, Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
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Welcome to the technical second part of the Patreon Update! In it I pitch the whole shebang to all the potential patrons in the world, and if you want to see where that fits into it all just click on any one of the dozen Patreon links I have scattered around here!
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Welcome to the chronological first part of the Patreon Update! In it I go into detail about why I picked Patreon, why Ryan_Runs_ is worth it, and how it feels to have my head in the clouds.
To see where it all fits in just click on this Patreon link in about 30 minutes or so...
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Last week I released a revamped revision of a 20 year old skate video named Old School, this week I answer all the confused silence with a commentary track!
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Let's summon the 70s one last time with one last Chang Cheh movie starring the Venom Mob - The Kid with the Golden Arm!
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There was little chance I wasn't going to watch The Valiant Ones given the pedigree of pretty much every single person involved, and I didn't even manage to mention Hsu Feng, Pai Ying, Han Ying-Chieh, and Yuen Siu-Tin...
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I know, I know, another series? Well old habits die hard, and this series might just kill me!
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Don't worry it's not what it sounds like, unless it sounds like another Kung Fu classic from the late 70s, which I guess it does now that you mention it. Good job!
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(this is another video-turned-podcast so if you feel like you're missing something just bring up the video on Spotify or YouTube, otherwise: enjoy!)
Hundreds of runs later: here's how I handled Hades...
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(this isn't a perfect podcast, watch the video if possible!)
Enjoy this audible autopsy of the latest game I've played to death: Marvel Snap! i.e. here's me talking about my own personal trip down the Snap rabbit hole with my trusty discard deck, how I usually get to Infinite rank, and why I should have recorded this much earlier in the season.You can learn a lot from losing! I hope!
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Change is good!
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(Originally released on 6/10/23)
Is this movie PC? As in: Probably Cool? Definitely!
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(Originally released on 6/3/23)
Turns out 1978 was a good year for Kun Fu with the release of Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Game of Death (okay maybe not THAT good of a year), Enter the Fat Dragon, and Five Deadly Venoms!
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(Originally released on 5/20/23)
This is where I backtrack a bit to include some notable additions to the genre by people of color like Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones), Jim Kelly (Black Belt Jones), Charles Bonet, and Mr. Ron Van Clief in The Black Dragon's Revenge!
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(Originally released on 5/11/23)
I try and tackle 4 heavy-hitters in the Kung Fu field yet again with Five Fingers of Death (1972), The Fate of Lee Khan (1973), The Spiritual Boxer (1975), and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978). The boom begins!
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(Originally released on 5/2/23)
So this is what happens when an unstoppable [one-armed] force meets a [blind] immovable object!
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Irresistible Force Paradox
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(Originally released on 4/15/23)
Here are my thoughts on Come Drink With Me (1966), The One-Armed Swordsman (1967), Dragon Inn (1967), and A Touch of Zen (1971). Three King Hus and a Cheh!
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I decided to re-post re-branded versions of these episodes from earlier in the year, starting with The Tale of Zatoichi from 1962!
(Originally released on 4/9/23)
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Everyone please welcome the newest member of the Ryan Runs family: Movies!
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Let's talk about the future of Ryan Runs: what'll happen to the current shows on the YouTube channel? What new shows are on the horizon? How many times will a "new show" just turn out to be another podcast? Sometimes!
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I, Video Guy, have ordered the iPhone 15 Pro. "But what does that have to do with the mid 90s?" you're probably thinking, well, let me tell you... and then let me to continue to tell you about it throughout the 2000s and 2010s! LET ME
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In the least surprising Ryan Runs yet I just go ahead and talk about a particularly great run of concerts as per the rules of "new thing on the wall this week."
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Did it take me a full year to make this Gameplay episode about the Burnout franchise or did it take me 21 years since the first game was released? Both can be true. Either way it will only take you about 15 minutes to take this particular (part 1) pass down memory lane... have fun!
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Ryan, Kandie, Evelyn... and Gray! are back and each have exactly one thing to tell you about Surfboards, Vans, Roadkill, and the new opening song for this podcast!
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When has blurting out some knee-jerk opinions ever come back to bite anyone? Especially when it comes to comic book things! Win/win!
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New podcast who dis? Dis is Ryan, Kandie, and Evelyn (and sometimes Gray) talking about whatever in the world, or trying to, and for this episode that happens to be volleyball, a buried treasure podcast, and... wet dumpster records.
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What do Taco Bell and Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace have in common? Repeated exposure over the years has probably damaged me in some way? Well, I've unearthed some artifacts from the 90s that prove Episode 1 was a masterpiece OR being promoted at Taco Bell at the time, come see which one makes the cut and stick around for the guitar of the week!
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A new patron-slash-family member! A new thing on the wall from a game called Recore that I didn't hate! A new layout for the makeshift garage-place where I record all these videos! A new... very old guitar to kick off a guitar-of-the-week type segment!
(and with that this new podcast feed is all up to date! See you soon with a new one!)
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Just a short check-in before I disappear into a pile of technology, but I do manage to eke out some thoughts about video production and how my new Sony a7S III, DJI RS3, DJI Mic, and Manfrotto tripod might help me do some more of it!
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Original 5/17/2022: Now in color! And a bunch of weird ones at that! Slightly less weird than some of the albums I listened to but your mileage may vary!
Update 9/22/2022: For any of you that have noticed I've been experimenting with the color grading on these videos (only sometimes successfully!), here's a video where I go into a little more detail about it since I feel like I've arrived at an okay spot with it (see: DaVinci Resolve). Then there's a little more inside baseball about the (now) old and new logos for Ryan Runs followed by a trip down music memory lane featuring the unassailable album choices that led up to the first punk rock record I ever heard: Pennywise's Unknown Road.
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Original 4/21/2022: Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years... AND that implies some sort of previous success to come back from
Update 9/22/2022: I know this video is only 5 months old but notice how I'm back to not explaining what I actually talk about in said video? Allow me to clarify that in this video I talk about 1) the functional (and psychological!) reasons for the infrequent nature of these videos lately, 2) how the Daily Drum series has helped with that, 3) there's a Rock Band customs scene??? and 4) stay tuned for a Ryan Runs Redesign courtesy the one and only Brandin of "this Patreon" fame!
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Original 1/21/2022: It's a good thing I do a bit of housekeeping up front otherwise I might've stepped on some of the LEGO talk from the second half of the video zip zingaroo thank you goodnight
Update 9/22/2022: So much housekeeping: Patreon changes, Let's Play explanations, and stream dreams, but eventually I start spilling my LEGO guts and would you believe it gets strangely philosophical? (welcome to Ryan Runs!) Luckily I do also talk about some of my favorite actual LEGO sets from over the years, and believe me when I very sincerely ask: what are yours?
Oh, and if you really want the unsatisfying inside scoop, the "mysterious shaving transition" came about because I didn't initially like how the video ended so I did something I've never done before or since for any of the Ryan Runs stuff: I re-recorded the conclusion later that night. Usually I just record everything all in one session, then I don't have to worry about forgetting and shaving my stubble off in between sessions ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Original 12/27/2021: Some history - personal and otherwise - behind Joe Jusko's Marvel Masterpieces!
Update 9/22/2022: And by "otherwise" I mean the actual history surrounding Joe Jusko and the cards he came to create, all of which was a whole bunch of fun to find out about, with maybe the best actual chase card of the bunch!
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Original 12/23/2021: It's the Holiday season so this week I've taken comfort in some classic music and spent a bunch of money on a thing - feel that Christmas spirit!
Update 9/22/2022: Of course by "classic music" I mean The Bouncing Souls (you know, "classic" like Christmas music. A Christmas music joke), so I go through a bit of my history with their music before launching into a big smiley sidebar about the new Roland TD-07KX V-Drum Kit that I had recently (finally) purchased using the universal excuse: "Costco had a sale!" 186 Daily Drum videos later and I'm a very weird and specific kind of "good" at the drums that any actual professional might not enjoy!
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Update 9/22/2022: It has been 9 months since I originally posted this trailer for a new series that was coming out "in a week or two." I have since written 4 episodes (I'm splitting the first into two) and captured a bunch of... gameplay, but the red sea that is my schedule hasn't quite parted enough for the rest to pass through (where's my Time Moses? Is this analogy working?). So for now I'll just say it's coming... SOON.
Like in a week or two.
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Original 11/16/21: It occurs to me that I might start using this description section to actually describe what the episodes are about! So here's a quick trip through some Aquabats moments from my life, they continue to be zippy dudes that make the world a better place :)
Update 9/22/2022: Oh boy I actually figured it out, descriptions that describe what the video is about, it's a brave new world from here on out.
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Original 10/31/2021: It was bound to happen.
Update 9/21/2022: An episode of Ryan_Runs_ where I talk about Tetris was "bound to happen," that is, so why not start with the time I met the original creator of Tetris Alexey Pajitnov (good guy) and he signed my poster of Tetris Ultimate (bad game). The "Factor" part comes from the... "fact" that I also spend half the ep talking about my read through the original X-Factor books (#1-12), which was eventually interrupted by a bunch of Eternals comics, which was also interrupted by my current Moon Knight binge. And you thought the Tetris bit was the nerdy part!
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Original 10/20/21: Welcome to 1992!
Update 9/20/2022: Again I wish I knew what my aversion to actually informative descriptions was at the time, but here's the 3rd of what will eventually be 6 episodes (and some change) of the series I created to take a look at some of the collectibles I've cornered over the years, starting with all those Marvel cards on the top shelf of my hall bookcase. Again it's part-personal part-product history, and it's a lot of fun looking back, but searching out the stories behind the sets themselves has definitely been the best part. Gotta love it when the excess of the 90s actually pays off sometimes ;)
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Original 10/11/2021: Here goes everything...
Update 9/20/2022: Obviously the hope with that cryptic-yet-wholly explanatory description was that people would go check out the Patreon where I do go on at length about the what and why of it all, but I can see how it might still be helpful to know that this was the beginning of me trying to create an entertaining and/or informative-if-not-educational channel about my life and likes with family and friends (as it now says on some of my social media). We're coming up on the year anniversary and I have this (Ryan_Runs_), Chasers, a couple Let's Plays, 184 Daily Drums, Gameplay (soon!), and our first livestream (just last week!) to show for it, which might not seem like much, but I'm hoping that's just because I always wish it was more. So hopefully you'll stick around while I work on just that: more!
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Original 10/1/2021: There was a time when skateboarding was about as nerdy as reading comics, for example: me.
Update 9/20/2022: So I branch out into talking about a bit of my past with skateboarding by way of that one time I attended the premiere of Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, followed up by my recent reading of the Daredevil storyline "Fall from Grace" (#319-325) and Avengers Forever (which I did eventually finish and enjoy to the end). It's about skateboarding being nerdy, by the way, it it wasn't just my particular brand of being nerdy, it was just still viewed as counter culture in a mostly "bad" way by the "in" crowd. Lots of qualifying quotes there, and all I experienced was the tail end of it in the 90s before the X Games exploded everything, but the rivalry was real.
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Original 9/18/2021: Time to talk about one of the best Marvel sequels of all time...
Update 9/19/2022: ...Series 2 of the Marvel Universe comic book trading cards. As always I've done my best to round up the history behind the cards and filled in all of the gaps with my own spotty experience!
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Original 9/16/2021: Which is more foreign, Idaho or Japan?
Update 9/19/2022: Don't ask questions you already know the answer to and enjoy some words on Katamari Damacy (Reroll, technically) and Asura's Wrath (I would also play the remaster), both of which continue to be at the top of their own categories that they invented out of thin air. I'm thinking sooner or later the Gameplay series is going to have to feature some episodes of me just talking about games again, like this, because not telling everyone about games like these especially seems like the worse way to go.
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Hello future me says we're about halfway through the upload process, unless you consider that once we're current this will still go on for years and years and years... in the which case we're just getting started!
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Original 9/1/2021: Let's begin at the beginning.
Update 9/17/2022: ...by the which I mean "the beginning" of the 1990s comic book cards craze, but Chasers is also the beginning of me producing something a little more crafted than usual. It's still down the middle, you'll get me and my experiences mixed in with all the research and sources, but it's all a bit more focused than Ryan_Rambling_ on about some games for 30 minutes. Not by much, but still!
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Original 8/26/2021: A third-person paranormal crossword puzzle game doesn't exist, but we make do.
Update 9/17/2022: I agree with myself, Control is a very good video game, and the New York Times crossword puzzle app continues to be the New York Times crossword puzzle app... now with Wordle! (and yes my little family also plays Wordle every day) Looking back this ep marks the beginning of a shift for the Ryan Runs channel – the first episode of Chasers is about to come out and by Ryan_Runs_14 you'll notice an even steeper decline in the amount of games talk overall. The Gameplay series will mostly "fix" that (out soon!), but it's pushed these mainline episodes into more interesting and inventive areas (hopefully), so buckle up?
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Original 8/23/2021: I've been collecting for decades, wouldn't it be weird if I did something with it?
Update 9/17/2022: I didn't originally post this trailer in the podcast feed, but I also didn't originally set out to make a trailer at all – I just figured I'd talk about some "Marvel Cards" for a minute and call it a day. 1 year later and Season 1 is still ongoing (I probably should've waited until it wrapped before I started writing episodes for season 1 of Gameplay), but I can already say it's been one of funnest things to put together for the channel. Also, now that "work" has slowed the last 2 eps of the season should be out within the next month or so!
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Original 8/19/2021: Let's dip into the toilet [games genre].
Update 9/17/2021: Calling something a "toilet game" probably isn't very nice, but I'm referring to those games that don't occupy all of our attention in the moment, games that maybe aren't the first thing we're doing but the second, so let's call them "Number Two Games" instead. I'm about to overthink overthinking it but it's because these games exist at the very border of "should I take a break or find an even smaller way to keep my brain going right now" followed immediately by "is it actually keeping my brain going or is it so rote as to be worse than nothing now." At least in this case I feel like thinking about it is a saving grace, otherwise I'm just the Candy Crusher, the Farm Villager, the DC Legend himself.
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Original 8/15/2021: I can take up space with the best of them.
Update 9/17/2022: The other thing you can do if your descriptions are unnecessarily vague is just make the media itself full of nonsense information and bingo problem solved! By the way if you are viewing the video versions of these you can tell I was experimenting with shooting in s-log and applying LUTs and color correction after the fact, and you can tell because some of these look real bad. Sometimes if you stare at something long enough it starts to look normal, which normally works to my advantage but this time it just looks like the colors are all washed out. I did slowly get better at it until finally I switched to doing everything in Davinci Resolve, and let's just say it... resolved 90% of my issues wink wink wink wink wink
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Original 8/5/2021: Spec Ops is short for "Special Oops," spread the word.
Update 9/16/2022: Hey that might be the most helpful description I ever gave back then! It doesn't exactly communicate that this is maybe the deepest dive I've ever done on any game, but it's a start. The video itself isn't exhaustive or alone in its analysis (again I'm shooting for something of a middle-ground with most of my work), but looking back at it I think it's one of my better examples of explaining what can make a game rise above the sum of its parts, and why that kind of craziness is interesting to me. Or, like I said originally, "Special Oops."
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Original 7/1/2021: Let's get the word out about Call of Duty, but just the ones nobody cares about anymore!
Update 9/16/2022: You know, when I originally made this video I had forgotten just how hated Infinite Warfare was by some people (the reveal trailer was the second most disliked video on all of YouTube within two weeks of being released, and got up to 3.99 million dislikes total before YouTube stopped surfacing that number altogether), not that it changes my opinion in the slightest, but it was probably worth a mention! This video also marks the first time I used the current intro song "Here's to Us" from The Bouncing Souls, my continuing and profuse thanks to them for not sending me a takedown or copyright strike just yet.
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Original 6/16/2021: 4 more games, 4 more chances to say I love you.
Update 9/16/2022: LEGO Jurassic World, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Outriders, and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game Complete Edition are the games in question, although Sayonara is the only one I'd profess my love to. The others I just kinda, you know, LIKE like at best.
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Original 3/11/2021: It's not your fault, I've played four more games.
Update 9/15/2022: ...four more games by the name of Phogs, Overcooked All You Can Eat, Spiritfarer, and Donut County! So yes, it's obvious by now that my gaming habits are changing, not that I didn't play similar games before, but it's becoming most of what I play. Blame it on COVID, blame my daughter for getting older, hey blame ME for getting older, but I've always been pretty purposeful about what I play. Doesn't mean it hasn't been the wrong purpose here and there, but nowadays I'm feeling better about it than ever.
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Original 3/3/2021: More games, more words!
Update 9/15/2022: My gosh it's like I'm using LESS words to describe things as time goes on. Still talking about games, this time it's Death Squared, Tetris Effect, Hotshot Racing, JoyRide Turbo, and D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, and obviously I was really beginning to like trying to add one word from every game into the podcast title. Sure, adding that apostrophe S was a real failure but what can I say, I'm a slave to syntax.
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Original 2/23/2021: Is it that I won't stop playing or that I won't stop talking? Yes!
Update 9/15/2022: In the which I talk about playing the games Human Fall Flat, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, and Star Trek (Xbox 360). Was that so hard? Not as hard as finding a soundalike for Minor Threat which, as you can see, I did not. The YouTube version still has the original song I used but doing that earned it a copyright strike, so enjoy this much more legal version wherein I use some generic punk song from Artlist – I'm goin' legit this time around!
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Original 10/3/2020: By the time I figured out what was happening it was too late and I had played enough games to record one of these things.
Update 9/12/2022: I have nothing to lose by letting you know this episode is about Yoku's Island Express, Overcooked 1 and 2, Moving Out, Worms, and Golf with your Friends... all by way of Team17 game publishing, which somewhat unsurprisingly also had a story to tell. Evelyn and I just played some more Moving Out last week actually, and Overcooked All You Can Eat just had an 8 gig update I have yet to check out, so I guess I do still play some games after all...
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Original 8/20/2020: Let's figure this out together!
Update 9/12/2022: Again not sure why I went with that completely uninformative description rather than mention that I was playing all of the Streets of Rage games for the first time with my daughter Evelyn (and what exactly were we going to figure out together?), but it remains clear that I was still very interested in talking about games. BUT, this time I was also having a lot of fun researching and talking about the history behind the games as well, and this has basically been where I've landed ever since. There are so many articles and videos about everything already, from shallow spiels to the very deepest of dives, so I've found my spot somewhere in between with mid-level overviews that are mixed with my own personal experience. Hopefully it works out!
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Original 7/30/2020: This continues to happen!
Update 9/10/2022: I didn't write very helpful descriptions back then did I? I guess the title explains a lot, but these ended up being some easy games for Evelyn and I to have fun with, and I even remembered a couple from the arcade proper so it was twice as fun trying to explain to her what that was like a million years ago. "You see, back then you had to leave your house if you wanted to play the fanciest of video games, there simply wasn't a home computer powerful enough to run behemoth games like Captain Commando and Knights of the Round." Still a great collection btw, and I had a ton of fun reading up on all of them.
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Original 7/13/2020: Hello, Ryan here, I have returned to inform the world that Apple Arcade is a thing that involves other things, some of them are games, and that's about as timely as the takes get around here!
Update 9/9/2022: Coming from 0HITPOINTS I definitely thought this was going to be mostly about games, and that was more-or-less true for about 13 episodes, but it's also probably the biggest change as of late: I don't play many games now. When I do it's with my family (Evelyn and I just wrapped up LEGO Harry Potter) or it's for a project (episode 1 of Gameplay incoming!), but other than that I've had to cut back to focus on, well, THIS. Don't worry, I still think way to much and deeply about the games I do play, so there won't be any shortage of that weirdness around here, and that might as well be the tagline for the entire project!
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If you like migratory experiences then you're going to love how I slowly but surely move all of the Ryan_Runs_ podcast episodes into this shiny new feed, and with any luck I'll throw in some updates and retrospectives along the way that will bring the entire project into better focus!
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