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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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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 12h

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 · 18h

I need to watch The Wire again. Impeccable television.

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 19h

Haha! This is amazing.

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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 23h

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 · 1d

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

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 · 1d

"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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Richard Troupe @richardtroupe.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes... Antifa is famously an organisation and not an ideology that has existed for the longest time amongst left wing people.

It was famously only just founded.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 2d

github.com/emoose/OutRu... reminder that the PC port of Outrun 2 has a beautiful fan patch that makes it pretty much the best and most convenient way to play one of the greatest games of all time in the year of our lord 2025 anno domini common era