Mike Parilla

@readyedgemont.com

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Producer @ravensoftware.com, creator of hockey threads, Fallohide, Hockey Bender, Ketchup-On-Eggs Apologist readyedgemont.com

My Chicago Blackhwaks Hall of Fame ballot, heritage ballot vote is for Steve Larmer, modern ballot is for Niklas Hjalmarsson
A man in blue warpaint holds his right arm up with a group of other warriors behind him, from the movie Braveheart
An image of a interior brick wall, heavily graffitied with names of people
Against cultural norms, a pumpkin pie with a slice poorly cut out of the center
A picture of Batman, Super Girl and Superman on the cover for Injustice 2 Mobile
Greenman, a large swamp tree from Nate Purkeypile’s indie video game, the Axis Unseen
During MW3’s Season 4, I was producer for Mutations, Mutation Resurgence Quads, and Mutation Buy Back Quads for Warzone
Pokémon Blue
I’m mage showing that I was the 311,576 user to have joined BlueSky
Picture of a 2013 Razer Black Widow mechanical keyboard
Showing the Hockey+ feed with included keywords
My 2023 year in review for Xbox. Total time, 1,325 hours, 47 games, 206 achievements, 3,885 additional gamerscore, 4,947+ reward points and Top Played Game Month was October. Of my games, 47% were sports games, 38% RPGs, 10% Action & Adventures, 3% Sim, 2% other. Stacked up against other players, I’m in the top 5% for hours played, gamerscore and achievements
Merry Ann’s Diner in Champaign, Illinois
The Black Keys, El Camino
Cover art featuring the Brickster (left, on motorcycle) and Pepper Roni (right, on skateboard)
Connor Bedard’s NHL debut stat line: 21:29 ice time 11 shot attempts 5 shots on goal 1 assist 63.3% xG ratio, best on the team
Sisyphus pushing rocks, “How it started” and “how it’s going”
Mario pointing to a sign that says “NO”
Chicago Blackhawks’ star forward, Connor Bedard
Is that your final answer?
Soren Johnson and Sid Meier, the designers behind the Civilization series, are also famous for a pair of quotes: “Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game”; therefore, “One of the responsibilities of designers is to protect the player from themselves.”
A level from the 1993 game “Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets”
Starfish from Finding Nemo saying “Today’s the daaaaaaaay!”
Picture of the restaurant “Superdawg” on the northwest side of Chicago. There are two hotdogs atop the restaurant in Flintstone-esque Stone Age clothing
Starfield “movie” like poster with various characters from the game in contemplative profile looking up or out to the stars
A picture of me standing near the fresco of Lorenzo the Magnificent in the Medici’s Chapel of the Magi