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Charles R. Mousseau

@alphalackey.bsky.social

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Gambling-industry polymath, NHL hockey fan (Go Jets Go!); poker, chess, pro wrestling; massive Gunther mark (#GuntherStruck); dipsomaniac; anti-racialist; he/him.

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · Dec 27

We all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 10h

"People forget China,
and your War on Cancer.
Yeah, they all betrayed you,
yeah, and your country too"

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Manic Street Preachers - The Love of Richard Nixon (Official Video)

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, he created the Southern Strategy. He also created race-based and sex-based DEI. To say the man had a complicated legacy would be an understatement :)

But yes, in the grand scheme of things, I'd put the Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs as FAR darker stains on his legacy than Watergate.

Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 2d

Humour is a completely normal human reaction in the face of an atrocity. When our brains struggle to process something, “cracking wise” is a coping mechanism. I cracked a joke at my grandfather’s funeral. And whatever you say about it, the roar of laughter I got told me I wasn’t alone.

Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 2d

It really is beautiful. It works so much better for me with one mournful voice than (say) some country ‘Family’ band singing it in harmony.

Modern video games put as much effort into using song and music to tell the story as any movie.

Related: this version of “O, Death”

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Until Dawn - O' Death [Lyrics] (Original Soundtrack)

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 3d

There wasn’t a single line in the sequel even half as imaginative as “of course I believe in the Users; if I don’t have a User, then who wrote me?”, to say nothing of the repeated use of religious metaphor throughout.

Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 3d

“The secret world inside the computer” has always been great to stoke the imagination, but in the end, the sequels betrayed this and gave us iPad skinned Temu-brand Blade Runner.

Wreck-It-Ralph 2 is a truer sequel to TRON than either of the last two movies.

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 3d

The original was an extremely imaginative movie that had a deepness to it relatable to anyone who had ever programmed a computer at the time, either at home or at work.

Generational change in tech absolutely invited a revisit to “what does the computer word look like”, but we got none of that.

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 3d

There was a video game (Bioshock Infinite) set in the early 1900s, and in one vignette, one of the main characters sings what is simply the most beautiful version of that song ever. Even used the original lyrics.

Beautiful enough that I had it played at my mom’s funeral.

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Bioshock Infinite OST - Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Full)

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 3d

That was absolutely the best random encounter in that game, bar none. You wanna light some crosses on fire? Fine, I wanna light some robes on fire. With dynamite.

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 3d

I'm rapidly developing the Old Man mentality that, if a game is too ambitious to release without bugs, it's too ambitious. Obvious exceptions for Early Access where I know what I'm going to get :P

Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 3d

Okay, that's fair to say. I'm a bit surprised you didn't bring up how BL4 was buggier -- is it buggier? Sure AF seems like it to me. Like I have that "exclam icon" above my quests but it just won't go away. Apparently there's some hidden quest that it just won't let me view, or..?

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 3d

Before you had even responded, I could already hear the fingers snapping in my head :)

I do love how he devotes a verse of the song to talk about the men he's beaten to death with his bare hands. Like okay, good to know!

Anyways, in case it's in your head now too:

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Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons

YouTube video by Brandon DeCamp

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 3d

If "Tennessee" Ernie Ford counts, then you're looking at one of the greatest working-class anthems ever in "Sixteen Tons"

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

Really?

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

They're lying to him one way or another; either through word or through pictures. But clearly he's being fed a story about an alternate reality in Portland that simply doesn't exist.

Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

If that short circuit looks like it's REALLY gonna disconnect, you know you can reach out. But you're right. Everything really is too goddamn stupid right now.

Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

Textbook example of 1st Amendment "peaceably assemble", never mind that that's a man of the cloth calling for humanity that they just, you know, shot in the head.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Reverend David Black, other faith leaders, journalists, and protestors have joined a class action lawsuit alleging ICE violated their First Amendment rights during protests outside a detention center.

The brutality of this regime is on full display.

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

If I thought two wrongs made a right, I'd be right there with you; but having said that, if you DO do that, make sure you post a PayPal link or a GoFundMe when it's time to pay that fine ;)

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

If it's not the best, it's not by much.

Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

You know what it sounds like, you don't need to click it; click it anyways :)

Grats on the level up!

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FF1 NES Music - Victory!

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

A year of house arrest has a beautifully ironic quality, given the nature of their bone-headed "protests".

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

I reckon, sir, that the Grim Reaper will need to go through about eight billion souls to get to Dolly. We won't make it easy on him.

Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

Because that's an extremely common reaction to 'shock humor', or any time there's any dissonance between "I can't believe they went there" and "how crass!"

Laughter, especially at a joke, should never automatically be parsed as being "okay" with the matter being joked about.

Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

... and now for some reason, stuck in my head is Nathan Lane trying to fool the cops with his Irish accent in "The Producers"

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'And now I'll be on me way, before me voice gets any higher! As we say in the old...' - The Producers

Max Bialystock: [with a very high Irish accent] And now I'll be on me way, before me voice gets any higher! As we say in the old country... [normal voice] Max Bialystock: Taxi!

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Charles R. Mousseau @alphalackey.bsky.social · 4d

When you run some schmuck headlong into the rails, of course you'll be "sending an Angie O'Gram". The material writes itself!

But seriously.. maybe the card game club suggestion is better.

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