Ricown

Finally updated the website. It’s got all my current social links. A blog I posted to once in 2017... 😅and a start to some of my virtual photography. Hopefully I’ll be adding more to it soon! Ricown.com

Well, with the GameStop trade in, I decided to get the PS5 Pro. My local store had 4 units left, and with my base PS5 trade in and a $35 rewards credit, I got the Pro for $369. #PS5Pro #PS5 #PlayStation

Less than a week away from the launch of Resident Evil: Requiem. I’m so freaking excited to play this game! #ResidentEvilRequiem #ResidentEvil

I finally finished Expedition 33. What a freaking great game! Such a beautiful, cinematic, and captivating story, world, and characters. This is one of those games that showcases how video games are an art form. Definitely my game of the year. #ClairObscurExpedition33

I really like the designs of the maps in ARC Raiders. #ARCRaiders #XboxSeriesX #Xbox

For about the past five years I’ve had Horror Fest on the streams, with nothing but scary games for the month of October. This year’s batch of games are ready to go, and it should be a fun and spooky time! #TwitchStreamer #Twitch

34 days later the Burkathon comes to an end with a staggering 21,070 subs, never thought I would ever see that so a huge thank you to The Crew and also @Twitch for a wonderful Subtember.

@Vik_Karoff @SC_Proof @StarCitizenTrac @StarCitizen24 @rslashsc @squadron_42 @CloudImperium @greasykhaleesii It’s kind of growing on me. I like elements of it a lot and other parts seem strange.

The latest armor set on the pledge store is just... weird? Not sure if I like it or not, thoughts? #StarCitizen

@Galidrum An easy solution is to make it where players with bounties on them are not covered by any armistice zone. Unfortunately some players behaviors have made armistice zone necessary.

Hot take incoming 🚨: Armistice zones shouldn’t exist in grim hex or Pyro in any capacity. (In my perfect world they don’t exist at all) Armistice abusers have to be the worst type of gamers in #StarCitizen. That is the problem is it can be gamed too easily… it creates unnecessary and artificial blockades, it creates people who know how to work the system to just troll people and waste their times… its awful. Few things are worse than chasing a bounty all around Stanton and knowing that if he gets back to grim there simply is NOTHING you can do about it without pad ramming or charging into his hangar before he gets to the main lobby. It’s boring, stale, repetitive gameplay. It’s easily troll able, can be gamed by the experienced players too well. Not immersive at allllll! Persistent hangars are bad enough to create private zones for you. But armistice is simply the worst! I’m always a supporter of player generated content, so let players manage the security of locations like that! Artificial magical boundaries where for whatever reason I can use ship weapons but not FPS ones are incredibly dumb. I know all the industrial players won’t like this fake and that’s fine because yall want to be safe as much as possible. But it just sucks. People troll with them wayyyy too often.

This week I completed my first 10 years working at Cloud Imperium Games. I often joke that your job title is just where you begin at this place, as the path I've taken over the years has been more than I could ever have imagined. The public only gets to see the host, but I've filled my days and nights at various times (and often simultaneously) as community manager, creative lead, live events coordinator/technical director, platform specialist, web designer, video editor / producer / writer / shooter / director, public relations, subscriber program manager, facilities manager, actor/performer, developer and presently as Content Director, which sort of just sucks most of that up into one big whirlwind of never-ending (but enjoyable) chaos. I've struggled with how to explain my job over the years, but most simply: When you can see a developer's face, I'm usually the guy putting it together and making it happen, often in front, but far more times behind the scenes. 1,216 times so far. It's been a hell of a ride, and I'm excited to begin the next 10 years on Monday.

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I haven’t played #TheFirstDescendant in a few weeks, so I figured it’s time to jump back into the game and try and finish up the campaign tonight. Stream starting at 7:30pm CST! twitch.tv/gamersonarant #TwitchStreamer #Twitch #Xbox

If you follow Star Citizen, please RT. You can help me shout out a few people on this. So @willpricedop leads our ISC Gameplay Capture Team and dropped the first version of this scene in chat as a gag this week. It was a, "Haha, this is funny, too bad we can't do it" moment... But anyone who's ever worked alongside me will tell you that's usually the first and best reason I'll ever need to make something happen, and things started to move. Meanwhile our brilliant @Kattercakes was already working on a brand update for the show. I have a tendency to be very "xtra" and she was working to finally realize what I'd tried to do when I invented this branding way back in 2016, and everyone on the team was thrilled with the results. So, I finally had the logo I'd always wanted, and a kickass sequence that referenced the earliest days of the persistent universe (look up "Big Benny's Challenge" and @badnewsbaron if you don't know or remember) and my current life in the UK, what I needed now was a track to lay under it that could not only hold it all up, but elevate it beyond its combined parts. I spent hours searching the libraries we had. Nothing fit. Nothing vibed. In desperation, I pinged @pedrocamacho at 12:39am in the morning. Of course, he was working, too. I was only looking for guidance, but he knew exactly what was needed, and he didn't hesitate to offer to create something special for our milestone. We only had an evening to work. We'd need to extend the sequence to fit the idea. We had to create moments for the new title to reveal. This was the 1,171 video I've made for CIG, and 500th in a legacy begun by others and entrusted to me by @banditloaf that I take as seriously today as I did when he asked if I could do it in 2015 and I summoned up a lifetime of bullshit to tell him I could. 😜 But not one of those 1,171 was made by me alone. It's people like Will and Kat and Pedro and so, so many more that enable me to still love what I do, it's people like Ben and Sandi and Chris that take chances on weirdos like me, and folks who's names and faces you don't see nearly as often as mine who keep taking those chances with me week after week. It's 2:04am on another evening I can't sleep, and I just gave Twitter $4 so I could make this post. But my life doesn't get to be what it is without these people and others like David and Tom and David and Alex and Julian and Joe and Rena and Toby and Gemma and Vicki and Tyler and Elliott and more and more and I hope you'll forgive me taking this space on your timeline to say how much I love working with them. Ups and down and ups and downs, but always with love and appreciation for those who came before, those who are here now, and those that'll help make the next 500. 💖

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Shadow of the Erdtree expansion has been acquired. It’s been about two years since I last played Elden Ring, so I’m going to have to chip and brush off the rust before attempting it. This should go well. 🤣 #EldenRing #ShadowOfTheErdtree #Xbox

@gamersonarant Very exciting I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Since I leveled up another year today, I decided to treat myself to a new gaming device and got the Lenovo Legion Go. I’m planning to make a simple unboxing video of it, and anxious to test some games out on it! #LenovoLegionGo #VideoGames

I filmed this in one of the safest cities in America.... Smh 🤦‍♂️ #GilbertAZ

Here's my animated scifi pitch: A car drives down a small town street, tons of people on either side. A couple in the car wave at the crowd. We hear the sound of brisk running through tall grass. A white-haired man in tactical gear is sprinting towards the car.

@PeppermintGent I don’t know where this is going but I am in!

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@AbdiYohan @RobertsSpaceInd @starjumporg The scout really surprised me. I was not expecting to enjoy that ship but it’s a fantastic daily driver. The range is crazy and it’s pretty quick on the jumps as well!