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Ryan Thompson
Online Media | Greater New York City Area, US

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  • Sept 2011 - Present
    Video Director / Major League Gaming
  • Dec 2010 - Present
    Content Director / Gamestaq.com
    I create, manage and execute social media, content, and promotional strategies for Gamestaq.com, a new peer-to-peer gaming e-commerce site. At Gamestaq, you can sell your games for fair market value, and purchase games at lower prices than anywhere.

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December 02, 07:38 PM
Top 5 Albums of 2010
Though it's just not the same without lala :(

  1. The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time
  2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
  3. David Bazan - Live at Electrical Audio
  4. The Get Up Kids - Simple Science (EP)
  5. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks

December 01, 07:56 PM
Top 5 Reach Maps

Official Maps only :/


1. Reflection
2. Asylum
3.The Cage
4. Spire
5. Anchor 9

March 20, 12:00 PM
Railworks: Go Away

The amount of Railworks DLC that is regularly released on Steam always confuses me. On one hand, the game must be doing alright, else it wouldn't still be releasing DLC every few weeks. On the other hand, a vast majority of Steam users must hate the game, like me. Not because we played it; not because it's a game for pa-paw; but because it takes up valuable real estate on the "New Releases" section. It regularly takes up one or two slots.


Now if there were half as many PC games being released as other gaming platforms, this wouldn't be a problem. The new releases would cycle fast, and have enough crap to just ignore the whole thing. But since PC games are few and far between these days, it's important to check that list to buy more games and make sure that you can try to keep the dream alive as a PC Gamer. And by keep the dream alive I mean give up like the rest of us and buy an Xbox 360; and ignore the theory that Starcraft 2 can save PC gaming from becoming "WoW Gaming"; or that another Counter-Strike will ever exist. Promod will never come out either.

Yes, that's right. I just turned this Railworks Rant into a "oh no u din't" on PC Gaming. I'm sorry, friend. i was jk. Let's go play Global Agenda now.










Did you know? If you purchased Railworks and its 30 DLC (average price $15), it would cost you $486.18?
March 02, 02:22 PM
bungie.net fileshare

I went through and rendered all the clips in my fileshare. Open offer to anyone out there - make this a mini-tage.


Clowny-spin, this one is ninja:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=78856068

Standard lol-scope, use this one to transition to greatness:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=72330499

Open the tage w/ this one, skip to 03:00 for the goodness:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=440111

This one is Brick taking my sniper, and me taking it back, killing him again, then killing Joe too. Put this in the teamkill segment:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=8935112

Absolute destruction:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=52734308

Sick Jumps, to run out the time, one of the pro-est strats:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=52734327

Pros make kids quit, so I made some quit too, then destroyed a little bit:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=52734411

Use this one to show off how I don’t actually need to see the people to kill them:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=59881692

So this is leopardstealth getting clowned on when I met up w/ him in matchmaking:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=87956024

This is the ultimate ninja backwack:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=26168291

Gravlift spinny-clowns:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=51394083

More lolscopes, filler, but sick filler

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=26118944

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=26121254

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=26125305

Some misc clowning:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=26168211

March 01, 11:41 AM
28 Best Albums of the Decade

All this month, I tweeted an album a day, for the 28 Albums I loved most during the 2000s. See below for a recap of them all. Lots of hard choices, since most of the bands I listen to had multiple great albums this decade, and many of them had their best albums before 2000, but I kept to one album per artist, and the list filled out just about right.


Albums of the decade #1 - Pedro The Lion - Control - http://bit.ly/apMT0N
Albums of the decade #2 - The Appleseed Cast - Peregrine - http://bit.ly/aeLKG9
Albums of the decade #3 - Radiohead - Kid A - http://lala.com/ztu2Albums
Albums of the decade #4 - The Promise Ring - Wood/Water - http://bit.ly/cTbEFH or http://lala.com/zB1p (sorry, no good online link)
Albums of the Decade #5 - Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things - http://lala.com/z9GM
Albums of the Decade #6 - Midtown - Save the World, Lose the Girl - http://bit.ly/aunXdx
Albums of the Decade #7 - Brand New - Deja Entendu - http://bit.ly/dj8HFG
Albums of the Decade #8 - Superdrag - In the Valley of Dying Stars - http://bit.ly/d0DLz8
Albums of the Decade #9 - Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album - http://bit.ly/aE2Jj5
Albums of the Decade #10 - Thrice - The Illusion of Safety - http://lala.com/z1zUI
Albums of the Decade #11 - Bear vs Shark - Terrorhawk - http://lala.com/z3fyI
Albums of the Decade #12 - Ozma - Rock and Roll Part Three - http://lala.com/z5MsI
Albums of the Decade #13 - The Anniversary - Your Majesty - http://lala.com/zYtZ
Albums of the Decade #14 - Further Seems Forever - The Moon Is Down - http://lala.com/zlz3
Albums of the Decade #15 - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided - http://lala.com/zeUw
Albums of the Decade #16 - The Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder - http://lala.com/zy6II
Albums of the Decade #17 - mewWithoutYou - Catch Us For the Foxes - http://lala.com/zEc3
Albums of the Decade #18 - Gatsbys American Dream - Volcano - http://lala.com/zVI6I
Albums of the Decade #19 - Built to Spill - You in Reverse - http://lala.com/zV2nI
Albums of the Decade #20 - Saturday Looks Good To Me - All Your Summer Songs - http://lala.com/zVa8I
Albums of the Decade #21 - Bad Astronaut - Acrophobe - http://lala.com/zA2nI
Albums of the Decade #22 - The Postal Service - Give Up - http://lala.com/zm8YI
Albums of the Decade #23 - Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child - http://lala.com/zo9c
Albums of the Decade #24 - Bright Eyes - LIFTED or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground - http://lala.com/zZBh
Albums of the Decade #25 - At the Drive-In - Relationship Of Command - http://lala.com/z6si
Albums of the Decade #26 - The Arcade Fire - Funeral - http://lala.com/z4PV
Albums of the Decade #27 - Guided By Voices - Human Amusements at Hourly Rates - http://lala.com/znpSI
Albums of the Decade #28 - The Get Up Kids - On a Wire - http://lala.com/z6J9I
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