There exists in the San Francisco office of Giant Bomb an enigma... its name is "Dan Ryckert". Throughout time many have attempted to understand this creature, few have succeeded. Is this the best of Dan Ryckert? Is this the worst of Dan Ryckert? No, rather... this is the Blurst of Dan Ryckert.

Dan Ryckert is a treasure.

One of a kind!... thank god.

Wonderful.

and this includes only a slice of Dan's..ahum, personality. I'm sure 2016 will bring forth some great new memories.

Dan will be the cause of the apocalypse.

This is fantastic. Excellent work duder!

This video confirms that I woke up on the right side of the bed.

Great video! One small criticism: The music is a bit too loud. It's sometimes difficult to hear what they are saying.

The Blurst is right. Thanks for this video, it is great which is a whole grade of quality above Barq's.

My favorite Dan moment:

This made my day.

I'm just really curious what's going on in the bottom right of the screen at 0:26.

@drewbert@unastrike, I'm genuinely super curious for an explanation about this little irrelevant thing.

@ampatent: i love that music. the morning show of my home town radio station uses that when they talk about random news right before the show ends. brings back good memories!

I love Dan. He may be absurd sometimes, but his earnestness never fails to put a smile on my face.

Dan is the best. Vinny and Drew are also the best

dat 5.9inch pale chub

@hypnotoadbrwowrowrow: Drew had queued up an overlay of Dan's face that was about to come on screen. You can see it at 1:03:30 on the video from UPF 07/24/2015.

That music is perfect. Dan is a terrible person. I love Dan.

@ampatent: Aha! Thank you sir!

Awesome. I'm so confused.

Also works as a video of long suffering Brad :D

the way jason gives him shit is adorbs

All of these moments as they happened I was like "Man, FUCK Dan Ryckert"

But watching a highlight reel I'm like "Awww, Dan Ryckert"

I forgot how much I love that Pogs bit.

The Ash Ketchum moment might be my favourite livestream moment this year. The Brad and Nina reactions are so perfect.

Oh man, I needed this today.

I love the antagonistic relationship between Dan and Jason. Dan vs Brad is becoming a serious contender though.

I made the same mistake as Dan with Sriracha the first time I bought a bottle, so I can't really be too high and mighty about it.

@dudeglove: Someone really should as I tend to miss a lot of them myself.

Oh man, that's fantastic. Haven't looked at QLCrew in a while, didn't know they had a highlights bit.

And sick burn, Drew.

I like to take self-righteous pleasure in complaining about Dan, but he's pretty great, and I sat in bed the other night, literally sucking on a bottle of Sriracha like a delicious garlicky teet. So, who am I to judge? Peace to one and all over the holiday period!

This is a great video - Dan is truly the blurst!

WOW on the POGs there, @jeff. Foul play.

@jakob187: I do not speak pog. Can someone explain what happened there?

That was magical and that whole pogs segment was amazing if you haven't seen it.

Dan, you are...