Crypto fires off a large gun in front of a burning city as a UFO picks someone up in the background with a tractor beam

Limes, dressed as Chris Redfield, and Ray dressed as Pierce play on a children’s playground in the middle of a zombie-ravaged city. Ray happily slides down a slide while Limes rides a rocking horse Panda

🌸 Destroy All Humans! Highlights
🌸 RE6 With Limes Part 2

January 2026

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Ray takes an oath on the medical journal as glasses bleeds out in the background

San and Kumi howl with laughter as HeavenlyFather tiredly rubs his eyes on San’s podcast set

The Lamb, with Ray’s beard and glasses, stands in the snow at the foot of the mountain as the old and deserted village of Woolhaven is seen in the background. The glowing stature of Yngya stands off to the right

Chibi, Ray, Nagzz and Matt stand around a cozy fire as the aurora borealis silhouettes the various structures of a Hytale ruin in the shadows of night

🌸 Lockdown Protocol
🌸 San’s Podcast Ep 1
🌸 Cult of the Lamb Woolhaven
🌸 Hytale Collab

January 2026

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Ray, dressed in bronze armor, holds a torch and a knife as he stands in front of his two tent base setup in Hytale

Layna, Arielle, Ray and Nagzz are all drawn in a drastically different and bizarre art styles with pills floating around in a not so sterile medical background

Ray, dressed as Helena and Limes, dressed as Leon Kennedy, swim through the sewers in the Leon/Helena campaign in RE6. Beneath them is the zombie shark

Chibi, dressed in convict orange, holds a photograph of Frog’s eye and studies it while Frog’s actual eye peers at her menacingly though the iron sub’s porthole

🌸 Hytale
🌸 Side Effects Collab
🌸 RE6 with Limes
🌸 Chibi’s Iron Lung

January 2026

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At a red-carpeted casino, Ray (ninja), Matt (pirate), Nagzz (jester) and Chibi (jester) stand around a race betting machine with horses in various stages of gambling.

Ray and Layna each hold a handful of Pokemon cards with a variety of packs in the background

San and Mika stand hand-in-hand dressed as the protagonists of Little Nightmares 3

Ray, as Wario, stands with his back against a wall as he is surrounded by Star-stealing spaces on the map. Strippin hides on the other wall with an evil look

🌸 Sugoroku Casino Party
🌸 Pokemon Unboxing with Layna
🌸 Sansin’s Little Nightmares 3
🌸 SMP Jamboree Minefield

January 2026

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In a collage of 3 different photos and hand-drawn notes on a cork board, the main protagonist of Life is Strange details her life in many different parts and places in time

Ray, as Hat Girl, reaches up to obtain a golden hourglass with Mustache girl and Definitely not Wario attempt to get him in the background

A phony zombie with a paper mask stands at quarantine security. In the back skipping past a metal detector is Patient 0 Gael wearing a Ray mask. Ray, dressed as an officer, looks at the removed outer skin of a zombie as it takes off “all loose articles” to pass through

Chibi gets manhandled by Springtrap, who holds her by the neck at arms’ length.

🌸 Life is Strange Highlights
🌸 A Hat in Time Highlights
🌸 Quarantine Zone 1.0 Release
🌸 Chibi’s FNAF 3

January 2026

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Chibi stands neck deep in brackish water in the dark, illuminated from behind by a single glowing yellow light. A single door leading to darkness is behind her. In the door is a fearsome face, which has shadowy arms stretching alongside either wall towards her

Chibi leans over one of many, many Windows XP popups that say “Agree?” She looks cheerfully exasperated

The LEGO-style Paar family runs stylishly into an action-style frame in a redo of the game box art

Ray as Max Payne does his famous double-gun dive, hitting two silhouetted targets. The background consists of all of Chapter 1 Comics from the Max Payne game

🌸 Chibi’s Water Backrooms
🌸 Chibi’s Agreee
🌸 The Incredibles LEGO Highlights
🌸 Max Payne Highlights

January 2026

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Ray, in the cell-shaded style of happy wheels, kickflips a segue

Ray, in the cel-shaded style of Happy Wheels, rides terrified on a segue over sharp spears

Sitting at an “EKANS” machine in a game arcade, the red-haired archaeologist, now dressed in aqua and orange streetwear, cheers as she wins at the game. Her own Arbok looks on in awe

Ray, Chibi, Nagzz and Matt sit in a cozy living room with various paraphernalia of party games surrounding them

🌸 Happy Wheels (unused)
🌸 Happy WHeels
🌸 Pokemon Lazarus Pt 2
🌸 Party Games Collab

January 2026

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Ray, Datto, Mr Fruit and Strippin all stand around a decrepit capsule in the cel-shaded, lineless Risk of Rain 2 style as various class types

A young orange-haired girl in an archaeologists’ outfit stands above a circular relic puzzle featuring an Omanyte. She looks very confused as she holds up one of the pieces to the light. Beside her, a Fennekin holds a piece in its mouth and paw, and looks exasperated as its trainer cannot figure out a puzzle meant for children

In front of Princess Peach’s castle in the classic 3D Mario platformer, Matt (Baby Bowser), Ray (Wario), Chibi (Hatsune Miku) and Nagzz (Chuck the Plumber) stand side by side on the outside bridge

Linkle, waving the Wind Waker summoning music notes, rides on the back of Ray as the King of Red Lions as it crests over the stylized ocean waves

Between missing the hockeys for two weeks cause I don’t have Peacock and last night’s Super Bowl victory, I owe you all a drop - January 2026!

🌸 Risk of Rain 2
🌸 Pokemon Lazarus Pt 1
🌸 Super Mario 64 Collab
🌸 LoZ Windwaker HD

January 2026

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Strippin (Luigi) and Ray (Wario), like a mad married couple who won’t pull over to ask for directions, sit in the front seat of a bright purple-pink ombré race car. In the back, the “kids” of Monty-mole Arielle and Boo Henya cheer and make a ruckus

Tiny Knack Ray on the left grabs various relics and shapes to create giant Knack Ray who looms over the Knack title on the right

Chibi, roaring and wielding a sword-wielding rubber chicken, leaps at a bald half-sword knight

Na’vi-fied Limes sits atop a screaming Banshee as it flies through a smoky, orange-tinted sky

🌸 Mario Party Jamboree Are We There Yet
🌸 KNACK
🌸 Chibi’s Half Sword
🌸 Limes’ Frontiers of Pandora

December 2025

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A simple but colorful thumb of the Yooka-Laylee protagonists, with the lizard sporting a glasses-pattern for Ray. Behind them through the greenery of the environment is the antagonist, Bee Eggman Gru

A fever dream of a thumbnail, Ray in oversaturated colors and a very pre-Kingdom Hearts getup, complete with a giant crystal crown-and-glasses, stands in front of a brick wall. Graffiti of a shiba head is spray painted onto the brick

Standing in color in front of the desaturated grays of a rainy tropical jungle, Ray pulls back a traditional bow and arrow and points it just off center of the camera

Reminiscent of a teenager’s “junk journal” filled with ripped paper, art, post-its, stickers and Polaroids, Claire’s profile portrait is created by two different mediums taped onto the same page.

🌸 Yooka-Laylee Series HL
🌸 The Bouncer
🌸 Tomb Raider Definitive Edition
🌸 Life is Strange Before the Storm HL

December 2025

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The two protag (antags?) of the Prototype series stand back-to-back, their bladed arms and red sinew morphing back and forth into one another in tandem.

Chibi hides behind the outside wall of Granny’s house, her hair and granny’s hunched body in the background lit by moonlight. Granny’s white void eyes are trained on Chibi’s hiding spot.

At bat, Ray in a black crown-and-glasses hat hits a baseball at home plate. Behind in the stands cheering are Twig, Spencer, Eno, Kevin, Bab, Gael, Glasses and Jaime (and Nagzz)

The main character here is Gulpin and the curry. Ray’s avatar sits at a cafe with a tea while Gulpin eats curry. Behind Gulpin is the new DLC character and Hoopa with donuts coming out of the Mega Dimension Portal

🌸 Protoype Series Highlights
🌸 Chibi’s Granny 3
🌸 Backyard Baseball ‘01
🌸 Pokemon Z-A Mega Dimension DLC

December 2025

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Ray is Lard Lad with a bright orange LETS PLAY sash as the pink Simpson family car careens through the flaming donut

It’s chaos as the Goomba Volcano erupts on the vacation Goomba island! Ray (Wario), Nagzz (Waluigi), Saiiren (Boo) and Haruka (Luigi) all run from the blast in varying stages of success.

Light’s avatar, with starry eyes and a pink/purple hair split, Deltarune-falls with Raichu into the mega dimension Z-A portal

FeFe, CyYu and Layna Lazar sit around a cozy trash can fire enjoying the heat (and pills) as Ray is taken off by the neck by a spitter

🌸 Simpsons Hit and Run HL
🌸 Mario Party Jamboree Volcano Run!
🌸 Light’s Z-A DLC
🌸 L4D2 Collab

December 2025

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In an adult-sized padded jungle gym with green and blue cushions, Ray sits on top of the second level with a bright red rubber dodge ball and an evil smile on his face. Chibi, in the ballpit below on the green level, looks awed. Nagzz is seen running next to her up a ramp, looking shocked over his shoulder. Matt is on the ground, his glasses broken (he was hit with the ball)

Sonic races down the famous California hill with the GUN semi truck not far behind causing a huge explosion as it hits into two parked cars.

Jowol, CyYu, Chibi, MAtt and Ray dressed in little Ludo-colored soft onesies to look like Ludo pieces all cheer LUDO, the resulting speech bubble becoming the title of the thumbnail. Between Matt and Chibi, Nagzz screams.

*Rawr* means I love you in Rayquazan! A cute Moemon girl with long green hair, downward-pointing yellow eyes and a cute toothy smile holds her red-manicured hands in tiny claws in front of her face. She wears a green lacy bonnet, long green robes and a white trim collar in Rayquaza’s colors

December was a less busy month for thumbs, but between travel & holidays it was still quite full of a month! Let’s wrap up 2025!

🌸 Goofy Gorillas
🌸 Sonic Adventure 2 HL
🌸 LUDO Collection
🌸 Pokemon Emerald Rando. Update

December 2025

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A speedpaint treat for today! #Pokemon ZA Donut Demand DLC for Ray, go watch the VOD!

I am the Gulpin when it comes to food, I wanna eat that curry

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At the combo Taco Bell Urgent Care, Ray and the Phoenix Team in various stages of distress chow down on tacos and burritos.

Paper Ray receives a kiss from Paper Peach Tina, with the first 4 partners of the classic Paper Mario series surrounding the Duo. Glasses is Goombario, Light is Kooper, Jaime is Bombette and Gael is Bow

Bonus Alternate of Bully Highlights — Schoolboy Ray walks away holding Pokemon Trading cards as two students grovel in the hallway behind him. Taken from a very deep pull from an AH Animated Story years ago

Bonus Unused Dispatch Episode 5-8: Ray stands with his fists up among a fiery city-scene, with his Mech behind him in the same pose. Ray looks beat-up but determined. The mech has the Crown and Glasses as its symbol across its chest.

🌸 Dispatch Episodes 5-8
🌸 Paper Mario Part 1
🌸 Bonus: Unused Bully Design
🌸 Bonus: Unused Dispatch Design

November 2025

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In the FNAF 2 Pizzeria, Toy Chica holds Chibidoki on her cupcake platter. Chibi looks nervous while Chica has a look of playfulness on her face.

In the airport of PEAK, Limes slam dunks BingBong into a basketball hoop with a zombie defender. Behind her, Dooby does the GEDDAN while Saba chases after a turkey scout

With the red flame-streaked background, a pretty wedding-dress wearing Reshiram holds the hem of her dress and a bouquet.

Chibi runs atop pool floaties in a panic as the Squid Games doll gets ready for a lazer shot. Behind her, Emerome and APlatypuss scramble on the floaties. Vagetta777 has fallen into the pool after missing a jump

🌸 Chibi’s FNAF 2
🌸 Limes’ PEAK Update
🌸 Moemon White 2 Highlights
🌸 Chibi’s Squidcraft Part 1

November 2025

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Chibi dangles over a lava pit, clinging to a wall edge as a turbo spider and a dapper skeleton near collide on the checkered platform below her. The original rage face is lightly overlayed in the corner.

Sitting at the Dispatch desk, whose computer is on fire, Ray sits with a defeated, stoic look of despair on his face while tiny cartoon bubbles showing various Dispatch heroes in self-inflicted disastrous incidents around him.

Ray the Red Repo Robot finds and pets a tiny brown puppy in the dark environment of a REPO Map. Behind him, silhouetted by the glow of a wide open door, are two dog-shaped humanoid buff enemies with red eyes

Falling out of a pastel purple orange sunset sky, whose center is a black inky vortex, the protagonist of the game Constance falls upside down while holding her purple-paint paintbrush while her hair and cape transition into purple paint ink

🌸 Chibi’s Fever Meme
🌸 Dispatch Episodes 1-4
🌸 REPO Monsters Update
🌸 Constance

November 2025

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Chibi stands in a superhero outfit based on her Vtuber colors with hearts in her eyes, between two female superheros of Invisigal and Blonde Blazer, who are both giving a sultry, blushy look.

Similar to the 2025 graphical standard style for TGA 2025, Ray as the golden statue holds a paper and pencil in a triumphant manner.

In a repaint study of the Lost Judement box art, Ray separates rice paper screens with Lost Judgement characters in duo-tone ink on the red silk.

As the silly little bean devils of Cursed Companions, Ray takes a selfie in a striped propeller beaning and green googly eyes. Layna sits with a green stinky jumpsuit and toilet paper goggles. She is looking pensively at some outfits laid out on the hardwood floor. Beside her, Cotton, dressed as a shiba, and FeFe, dressed with a red squid covering her head, look at each other’s fits.

🌸 Chibi’s Dispatch
🌸 Voting in the Game Awards 2025
🌸 Lost Judgement Highlights
🌸 Cursed Companions

November 2025

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Standing in a red flannel shirt with heavy lawncare gloves and leaning against a rake, Ray stands watching autumn leaves fall into the yard in a colorful array of orange, green, red and yellow.

PorcelainMaid Jowol stands at bat on home plate holding one of his porcelain doll arms as a bunting bat. CyYu, dressed as a catcher, and Ray as the Umpire, stare in disbelief. On the pitcher’s mound Scarlet finishes her pitch. In the back behind home plate are Light, Jaime, Tina, Gael and Glasses enjoying the game (or not)

Running in a crumbling dark Bikini Bottom, Patrick nonchalantly, even gleefully, reaches up to grab a collectible Glove World Game Token as King Neptune and The Flying Dutchman square off head-to-head in the background. Ghost Ray, hit by the Curse of the Flying Dutchman, is seen worriedly flying behind oblivious Patrick.

A lovely collection of Moemon ladies including Rayquaza, Azumaril, Gengar, Tangela, Charizard and Poliwrath pose in front of a stormy sky titular of the climate crisis theme of the Emerald series. Ray is dressed as Brandon in the corner

🌸 Leaf it Alone!
🌸 SMB3
🌸 SpongeBob SquarePants Titans of the Tide
🌸 Moemon Emerald Randomizer Highlights

November 2025

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Sitting at a back table behind the register of a TTG shop, Ray is seen carefully painting a primed miniature of Light, the Rogue unit of his army. On the table is seen a finished painted miniature of Glasses, the Tank. On top of the collector’s box, Jaime the Mage and Gael the Banner Unit are seen in various stages between prime and paint. Tina, the Commander unit, dries on the table beside Ray. Behind Ray, forming a long line at the till counter, are angry customers who are losing patience. Bricky is seen holding a tower of miniature boxes while giving Ray a death stare.

Repaint of the box art for Blops with Ray as the MC. The left side is tinted cool tones while the right is tinted hot reds. Ray holds a gun to his mouth, which is pretty explanatory about how I felt about this game as a whole.

Limes lays covered with a white sheet while hiding on the top bunk of a bunk bed unit. Two doors to the right and left of the bed are glowing green. Beneath her is the game’s “monster”, a glitchy particle-like shadow monster with long talon like fingers and a gaping hole for a mouth

Chibi, holding a tiny Lich ball, looks back over her shoulder at the Skeleton King boss of the first Ball x Pit level as it crawls towards her. On the ground in front of the King are the king’s single units in their boxy fortress style carts. Various Ball x Pit balls are bouncing around the environment

🌸 Table Top Game Shop Simulator
🌸 CoD Blops 7 (A choice)
🌸 Limes’ IRE
🌸 Chibi’s Ball x Pit

November 2025

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In front of the classic opening cel of the “haunted house” from the animated Scooby Doo animated series of the 70’s, Ray/Shaggy leaps into Scooby Doo’s arms as Charlie the Robot gives them a good classic spooky fright

Standing in the airport Photo Booth with various costumes and silly accessories, Lucia, Matara, Ray and Datto are joined by a mysterious fun guy — a mushroom-ridden zombie from the new Roots PEAK update

Balancing precariously off a waterfall cliff, Ray and Vtuber Spite sit in a paddle swan boat while attempting to paddle to safety using an electric guitar and a pickaxe.

Running in a cardboard replica of the Jurassic Park red/green Jeep, Matt runs into a collection of toy yap dogs while Ray, riding a toy dinosaur, runs behind him. Nagzz holds an intercom microphone while the stork maestro gives him a sharp slap on the head. Chibi is seen at the front of the scene sticking her tongue into a rotating fan.

🌸 Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights
🌸 PEAK Update
🌸 Paddle Paddle Paddle!
🌸 Mimesis

November 2025

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Nagzz, in a seething fury, tips a red-tableclothed table over with rage clear on his face. Beside him, Matt lays with his head on the table, a defeated tear shining on his cheek. Behind Matt is the glitch Pokemon MissingNo., looming over a pile of ash. Chibi sits at the foot of the table, a card wedged into her forehead. She has an unperturbed, goofy expression. Ray, near the edge of the table, holds up an edge of the red tablecloth, revealing a very surprised-looking David Blaine holding cards beneath the table.

Standing in full silver armor and holding a medieval-style helmet and sword, Tina stands amidst a blue swirl of “souls” and wisps. Two swirls make up a pattern of demonic horns on her forehead, pointing toward the game’s title and theme.

Chibi gets sheephooked by running into Foxy the Pirate’s hook in front of Pirate’s Cove Corner in the FNAF pizzeria.

In the style of the Bully loading screen comics, highschool freshman Ray sits with his head on his crossed arms at a school desk with a map of Europe in front of him. Standing on the side of the desk in the girls’ boarding school uniform and early 2000’s plastic green tween jewelry is high school Tina, who angrily points at the poor geography on the map.

The Soupening was a success and I am happily sitting on a tub of turkey veggie noodle delight for the future. So let’s get our November Bundle underway in celebration!

🌸 UNO No Mercy
🌸 Demon’s Souls
🌸 FNAF 1
🌸 Bully Highlights

November 2025

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And finishing up, last but not least for October, is a special little extra! A speed recording of the Pokemon Gaia thumbnail for your enjoyment. :D I love these Pokemon ones a lot!

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Ray, dressed as W33dG0d, brandishes a LEGO shovel. Behind him, the Joker, Catwoman, Evil Flash, Lex Luthor and Scarecrow strike various evil poses. The background is a series of purple, gold and pink brush strokes with heavy halftone comic pattern accents.

Ray’s Pokemon Avatar sits on the shoulder of Regigigas as it stomps through a golden hour autumn forest. Gold leaves drift gently around the pair.

🌸 LEGO DC Supervillain Highlights
🌸 Pokemon Gaia Version HL/Update

October 2025

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In the whirl of space, a bright green one-eyes alien approaches a space station made of LEGO. In the foreground, drifting around, are Ray (lego, dressed as “gamer”) reaching out for a golden brick, Amalee and San dressed as little old ladies, and Cy Yu as a ninja in his black, pink and blue colors.

Slenderman holds up a notebook page with his long pale fingers in a sort of confused but curious fashion. The notebook paper depicts a crude pencil drawing of slenderman giving chibi a big ol kiss on her forehead. Chibi herself is being strangled by one of Slenderman’s tentacles, her eyes bugging out of her head

Ray and Tina, dressed in blue and black and yellow rubber cleaning suits, reenact the Spiderman upside down rain kiss with a Powerwash nozzle and Tina on the rappel bench. A billboard for Framerate Merch is in the corner, freshly cleaned. In the background is the Volcano and the Beam, casting a beautiful rainbow misty sheen over the environment

Chibi sits at the wheel of an RV Winnebago, fire and ash reflected in her cheery blue eyes. Ray sits in the passengers’ seat, looking out of the window. Matt stands behind them both, his hands on the headrests. In front of the car, blurred from the camera angle, is Nagzz being run over.

🌸 LEGO Party Space Adventure!
🌸 Chibi Plays Slender the Arrival
🌸 Powerwash Simulator 2
🌸 RV There Yet with Chibi

October 2025

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Many unique monsters from skeletons to slimes to goblins and bugs stand around the kickflipping Calcium, a rad skeleton with aviators

In pixel style, Ray, dressed as a warrior, holds up a ticket that says “Ye Olde Extra Hour”. In front of him, the Itchy Finger, the Repetant and the Embedder sit inside of a slightly deflated modern-day ball pit on the farm. The ball pit resembles the one used at Dashcon.

Inside the Raccoon City police department, young Sherry holds an automatic pistol with a silencer as her bag, filled with random items, is seen open flying behind her. Behind her running with her, Regina from Dino Crisis looks panicked.

A little doughy and a little squashed, the Piss Bois resemble the lads of RV There Yet as they run in front of their Winnebago. Ray is seen playing “rock paper scissors”. Chibi is holding a brewski while being held up by Matt. Naggz, also holding a brewski and a cigarette, rides a very angry-looking bear.

🌸 MEGABONK
🌸 Ball X Pit
🌸 Resident Evil Randomizer Highlights
🌸 RV There Yet?

October 2025

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Ray with a Luchador’s mask from Guacamelee throws a punch at a skull, the force of which separates the lower and upper jaw in a silly, bone-splintery fashion.

Ray and Tina pose and laugh (very awkwardly) as Princess Zelda and King Harkinian in a famous animation still from the Zelda CDI game

Chibi struggles to find the T key on a typewriter to spell “cat” as her Final Sentence guardian looks on in intense frustration, holding their forehead in bewilderment and rage

Limes slides forward brandishing throwing knives in the style of Warframe’s battle mechanics. Her suit is a soft sage green with orange accents. She smiles through the glass of the helmet as an explosion created by her slide occurs behind her

🌸 Guacamelee 2 Highlights
🌸 Zelda CDI Series Highlights
🌸 Chibi Plays Final Sentence
🌸 Limes’ Warframe

October 2025

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After throwing his cup of coffee at Ray, dressed as Phoenix Wright, Godot spills some of his coffee on his vest :( On the defense stand, Maya looks horrified, angry, and confused as Ray just holds his head in his hands and looks on dreamily. Me too, Ray. Me too.

Layna, Cotton and Heavenly stand above a harvest-festival stage dressed as Kuromi, a mummy, and a woolly tarantula (respectively). Layna holds a microphone while Heavenly has a clipboard and pencil topped with a goofy Halloween spider eraser. On the stage are a gaggle of characters in Halloween and pop culture costumes — ghostface as a mad, Charlie from Smiling friends, XRay and Gael herself as Jessica Rabbit. The bride of Frankenstein and a painted skeleton man also show off their costumes in a fun fall fashion

Standing on the top of a Lumiose City building looking out towards the Tower, Ray (dressed as his female avatar) and Thiccorita (the chunky Chikorita) observe a Z/A Battle on the roof the next building over. Zygarde in Dog form leaps from a building. Mega Dragonite basks in the city glow. Pidgey and Fletchling fly overhead.

Light books it away from the Lumiose City tower as Mega Hawlucha rises up behind and looks VERY menacing.

🌸 Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations Highlights
🌸 Cotton and CO’s Halloween Costume Contest!
🌸 Legends Pokemon: Z/A
🌸 Legends Pokemon: Z/A with Light

October 2025

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Ray, dressed as Karl the dwarf, brandishes iron knuckles in a ferocious fashion. The art is tinted blue with a strong red highlight. Behind him in the negative space of the thumbnail, red smoke makes up the face of the main antagonist

Ray, uncanny valley style as Barry B. Benson, protagonist of the Bee Movie, strikes a famous Dreamworks pose. Behind him is the bee movie script slowly fading into white.

On the golf tilt mini-game (I really like this game y’all), Ray, Matt, Spencer and Gamekxnd have a screenshotted in-game facecam image acting as the head of their characters. Ray as Wario, Matt as Baby Bowser, Spencer as Yoshi and Gamekxnd as Luigi.

Looking absolutely disgusted (and rightfully so) at the clown Moe Curls, Franziska von Karma and Ray, dressed as Phoenix Wright and striking one of Phoenix’s awkward poses, stand on either side of the frame as Moe just laughs. And laughs.

🌸 Absolum
🌸 Bee Movie Game Highlights*
🌸 Mario Party Jamboree Switch 2 with FaceCam!
🌸 Ace Attorney Justice for All Highlights*

*Sometimes Ray has me rework old thumbs, so it’s always good to look back at the catalogue once in awhile! ;)

October 2025

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In a deep pit in the ground, a blue pickup truck hangs with its headlights on shining bright on the bottom of the pit. Bones, roots, and gems can be seen lining the walls. In the center are three monkey versions of Matt (far left), Nagzz (center) and Ray (far right) in various stages of shrieking and generally monkeying around in an incredibly exaggerated fashion. Above them, holding onto one of the trucks’ headlights is a very cute monkey chibi, who winks at the viewer POV

Ray, dressed in the bright yellow raincoat of the Little Nightmares protagonist 6, runs down a gigantic hallway while the face of the Janitor can be seen at the end of the hall. His long, twisted arm is reaching out towards Ray. Tiny gnomes run away behind him

Layna, dressed in Alone’s green boiler suit and aviator helmet/mask, holds a large wrench and stands back-to-back with Ray, dressed in teh bird mask and cape of Low, who holds a bow. Behind them is the eerie gold environment showing a dilapidated Ferris wheel, a shack, a broken mobile, and cages.

Chibidoki achieves her final form as she dual-wields a gun and long sword as her blue aura activates around her, sending four goblins blasting away.

🌸 Keep Digging
🌸 Little Nightmares Highlights
🌸 Little Nightmares with Layna
🌸 Chibi Plays MEGABONK

October 2025

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