Ryan Bloom

Strange Encounters: Part One (Podcast)

As I often say: this was a long time coming. And this time, it's a little bit different.

If you listen to the podcast in question, a lot of it is self explanatory, but this is a one-off (tech...

The Video That Never Was: "Sonic & The Fear of Speed"

If it sucks, hit the bricks.

That's the mantra behind the PDF I'm releasing here. My origin...

BLTN Podcast: Listening for the Voices of the Void

About This Podcast

Among a subset of streamers, the indie horror game "Voices of the Void" provides nearly endless entertainment. But is there anything substantial to sink your teeth into, ...

What am I streaming tomorrow? 4/17/2025

As always I have some choice paralysis. I come to you with seven options. Choose wisely. Or don't choose wisely. But do at least choose something, please.

EARLY ACCESS: So It's Your First Time Playing Sonic Unleashed... (Recompiled)

Formerly known as "10 Tips for Unleashed Recompiled." Never played Sonic Unleashed before? Playing it for the first time thanks to the Recompile for PC? Here's things that will make the game play a...

Very Early Access: 10 Tips for Sonic Unleashed Recompiled

So like I say in the intro, I'm trying to strike while the iron is hot for this one, but with the way my situation is right now, that's a little easier said than done. I'm trying to get this out as...

What am I streaming on 3/5/2025?

So I'm streaming tomorrow and several options are laid before me. I've started Crash Bandicoot 4 and do intend to finish that game on stream. We could go back to that.

A friend has requested...

Very Early Access: Is Shadow Generations the Best 3D Sonic?

So rather than slowly chip away at getting the SA2 Part 2 video up, I decided to act on getting this written while my feelings were still fresh. Most of what I want to say to set this up is include...

Weird Patreon Shop Thing

Some of you may have gotten a second notification about getting access to the Mother 3 podcast twice. T...

BLTN Podcast: I Have Complicated Thoughts About Mother 3

About This Podcast Follow me on a three-year journey to unpack why I didn't really vibe with a lot of Mother 3. Is the game cynical? Am I viewing it from the wrong perspective? Have I run out of time ...

BLTN Podcast: I Have Complicated Thoughts About Mother 3

About This Podcast

Follow me on a three-year journey to unpack why I didn't really vibe with a lot of Mother 3. Is the game cynical? Am I viewing it from the wrong perspective? Have I run o...

Early Access: Gut Check: Sonic x Shadow Generations

Well, I didn't think I'd have an early access video for this one. I'm in a hurry to get this out fast, so before turning in for the night, I set this to do the final render first thing... which was...

Very Early Access: This Painkiller Video Was Dead On Arrival

So nobody really seemed to be clamoring for this based on the last post, but it's also hard to tell what people do and don't want on the internet, given only maybe 10% of an audience actually engag...

Very Early Access: The Myth of Parappa the Rapper

Digging through my Google Docs, here's another first draft I wrote. This particular draft is from May 2021, which I think was the same month my Mom started getting sick. However, this is one of tho...

Very Early Access: Shenmue Redux

Here's the other "script I've been sitting on for a long time for one reason or another." This one has a bit of a story behind it.

Why this got written

Many years ago, friend and patr...

Very Early Access Version 2.0: The NiGHTS Documentary

So talking about it with a friend, he mentioned that the screen reader TTS in Microsoft Edge is supposed to be "extremely good." Microsoft is currently burning the candle at both ends trying to est...

Let's Try Something New: Very Early Access

Something I like to do during my writing process now is once I get to a certain point in a script, I have a text-to-speech plugin for my browser called 2024-04-03 07:02:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Let's Talk

Where Have I Been?

So the patreon's been quiet, the channel's been quiet, and so on.

Long time supporters know that sometimes happens after the holidays. I've wrestled with a work/lif...

Early Askcess: It's Been a While

Haven't done one of these in a minute. That's down to a lot of factors. Holidays mean less energy to queue tons of posts, and I don't like making too many of these posts when all I've queued is one...

Early Askcess: Getting Back To It

Wow, it's almost been a whole month since I wrote one of these? The issue at hand is that I want to have enough posts to make one of these worth while, but I kind of got trapped in a cycle of only ...

Gut Check Sonic Superstars Art

Featuring:

• A clean version of the "One Fear" thumbnail artwork
• The original (much worse) thumbnail before I got the "One Fear" idea
• Don't Let The Sun Laugh At You
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Early Access: Gut Check Quickie: Sonic Superstars

Since we're so close to release I figured I'd just shelve the Gut Check I started a couple months ago, but somebody was asking about it on Youtube. It put a bug in my ear and I wondered if I could ...

One Whole Year?

I know we all like to joke about Pandemic Time Compression and how something that feels like "only yest...

Let me ask you something

So over a year ago now when I decided to try focusing more on Youtube, one of the things I was weighing was revamping my old "Every Sonic Game Rated" list from Giantbomb. Since then, Tier videos ha...

Early Askcess: The Final Horizon Is Coming

Lot of questions are starting to mount about the upcoming Frontiers DLC. I actually have another one I did not answer in this batch because it literally just came in ten minutes ago and it's 4:30am...

Early Askcess: Been a Minute

Hey! I kind of stopped posting these here when I really kicked in to high gear trying to finish the pair of Sonic Frontiers videos I put out last week. But I'm back for now. 

Oh hey, che...

Sonic Frontiers Art

Oh yeah, I figured I'd post these up -- here's the art pieces I made/used in the Sonic Frontiers video.

Early Access: A Better Late Than Never Criticism of Sonic Frontiers

What a march this has been. I've worked on some videos that felt like they took forever, but nothing like this. This felt like the project that would never end. Some of that's because, after pushin...

Early Askcess: Comic Talk

Got a bunch of talk centered around Sonic the Hedgehog writers; particularly Ian Flynn and his work. I write a lot of these as I think of it, like I'm giving a stream of consciousness monologue in ...

Early Askcess: Halloween Starts Early This Year

Is the queue empty already? Time flies. I guess. I wrote a couple of these last night and just threw three more in, so here you go. 

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