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Richard Troupe

@richardtroupe.bsky.social

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Firefighter and teacher. Retro gaming, old computers, reading and weightlifting. Does console and computer stuff for Base Arcade. Belfast, Ireland. He/him.

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · Oct 22

Intro!

Hi, I'm Richard. 👋

I'm a firefighter who has a serious interest in gaming, particularly from 1980s and 1990s.

Things I love include...
- Commodore
- early Apple
- Nintendo
- Sega
- Atari
- Arcades
- obscure Japanese systems

I also do console and computer things for Base Arcade in Belfast.

Me standing in the middle of Base Arcade in Belfast wearing a Base Arcade t-shirt.

Part of my game room showing dozens of consoles and multiple CRT TVs. There is a mix of blue and red LED lighting giving a cyberpunk feel.

Part of my game room showing lots of old computer systems (including Commodore, Apple, PC, MSX, BBC, and Spectrum) and monitors. There is a desk lamp and a mix of blue and red LED lighting giving a cyberpunk feel.

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 2h

That riff.

crazy ass moments in nu metal history @numetalmoment.bsky.social · 5h

Hum performing "Stars" on Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1995)

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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 14h

Apparently today is the 88th anniversary of Oswald Mosley (leader of the British Union of Fascists) having a brick lobbed at his head and KO'd him after throwing a nazi salute at a rally.

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 11h

I know how you feel. I'm in bed already... Although I have to leave for work before 6am tomorrow.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 1d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 12h

Are you sure it isn't Mappy?

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johngirvin.bsky.social @johngirvin.bsky.social · 12h

From the Trenches: The Great Software Quality Collapse.

techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 13h

In a similar vein, I highly recommend reading The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear. It goes into detail of the PLATO system and its many industry firsts - often decades before wider adoption.

It's also a fascinating cultural study of people using it.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545610...

The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear: 9781101973639 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 13h

This is a fascinating article on early software preservation.

Stories of games running on old mainframes always amaze me - the nascent computer scene is very interesting to study and full of hypothetical possibilities.

Games That Weren't @gamesthatwerent.com · 14h

Fellow preservationist Robert Robichaud got in touch to share that he was recently involved in a game preservation project regarding Norway's first adventure games. A great article worth checking out:
spillhistorie.no/2025/09/11/n...

Norway's first adventure games, part 2 - Spillhistorie.no

For years, Ringen was considered lost and not much was known about it. Here's the full story of the game, and how it was saved.

spillhistorie.no

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 14h

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 1d

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 1d

I need to watch The Wire again. Impeccable television.

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 1d

Haha! This is amazing.

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 1d

Smooth like a Stringer Bell sex scene.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 6d

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.

#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

I HATE COLLINGWOOD Wolfenstein 3D mod on floppy disk. This version doesn't work. :(

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 1d

I've only ever accessed it via VPN, so I guess that's why I've never been asked.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d

An image of three cool tories under the header "Meet the Young Tories deaming of a bright blue future" but I've replaced their portraits with images of Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog from Bottom

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 1d

When we sold our first house about 6 years or so ago, we were explicit with the estate agent in not wanting to sell to a property developer or landlord.

We fought off a property developer when we bought it and restored it - we didn't want to see people priced out of the market when selling.

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 1d

My exact thoughts! 😂

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 2d

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 2d

Still think Antifa isn't violent? Here's bodycam footage of Antifa founder B.J. Blazkowicz shooting a heroic member of ICE who was just trying to protect this great nation. Thank God we have Blazkowicz's girlfriend in custody.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"Before we were Antifa we were the Originals, but we had to change our name because someone was already using that name. It was the Regulars, then they changed their name back to The Regulars and we thought, well, we could go back to The Originals but what's the point?"

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