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The Troys Are Back In Town

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the kind of expendable and invulnerable that makes the perfect henchmen

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · Apr 28

I think that "feeling cozy" should be its own hobby. Like you curate an ever growing collection of robes and nightgowns, rotated by season. An assortment of warm beverages and herbal teas. No less than three pairs of slippers. Pillows across the spectrum of textures, with preferred pairings.

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 1h

oh my god, Victor Conte died? Memo Heridia must be popping his finest bottles of HGH and EPO in celebration.

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 2h

Starting a conspiracy theory that the UFC does events at the Apex intentionally so nobody will watch. You can't prove a fight was fixed when only like 4 people see it, and the guys with no future making shit money are easily incentivized.

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 4h

I don't have a lot of moral high ground to accuse someone of having too many guitars, but man, that dude has made some choices about the space in his home.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 4h

I may have just had the dumbest professional negotiation of my entire life, and I negotiated contracts in MMA for like five years.

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 5h

The thing I'd add here is that the most likely practical function of Grokipedia is to get crawled by other AI/LLMs desperate for more training data, and seeding reactionary right wing lies into those tools as well. www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

By contrast, Grokipedia — which falsely touts itself as an “open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge” — has no Charlie the goat entry. It has no “Special: Random” function that allows you to shuffle through tidbits you’d never think to seek out on your own. It has no real purpose other than to strategically plant lies into a reference manual. This renders it not only a malevolent product, but a lousy one. But hey, maybe Elon didn’t mean for his baby to be such a piece of s—t. Maybe it was just the unintended outcome of bureaucratic radicalization and wartime improvisation.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 1d

I actually met Batio when he did a seminar at the Guitar Center I was working at. He's genuinely a good hang!

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 1d

Do not bring up the MI:2 song, the only good metal song/movie tie in of the 2000's was running Killswitch Engage over the credits of the third best Resident Evil movie, and even then they used a cowardly radio edit. I'm always saying this.

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to break this to you but a Youtube Creator Gold plaque doesn't justify a 1000% markup on bass instruction over a digitized Stu Hamm VHS.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 1d

So many youtube musicians are charging hundreds of dollars or making you subscribe for $10-20 a month just for access to prerecorded lessons, when you can buy a digital copy of a DVD that a much more serious professional recorded 15 years ago that's better and like $12.50 total.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 1d

This is a sport for perverts

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 1d

hope they do more

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 2d

Anyways, my best baseball memory is not the time I spent playing it or comped seats in a luxury box, but when 12 year old me who had never heard of gritty Joker reinvented it from first principles.

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 2d

One of the funniest things I've ever done was learn the parental controls when my parents upgraded then cutting edge digital cable. The next time my dad beat my ass I password protected every baseball game. What could he do about it, hit me again? I never undid it.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 2d

This isn't going to turn me into a fan of the low stakes game by game regular season MLB but I have learned to enjoy playoff baseball as a slow burn horror.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 2d

What's the highest profile fight that you think was actually fixed or worked? Don't answer with stuff that's widely understood in those terms, give me stuff like Tito Ortiz vs Alexander Shlemenko.

Trent Reinsmith @trentreinsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Word is a lot of bets came in late for a first round finish in this fight, which was the outcome…

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 2d

I don't care what sport, this is correct. You need someone with absolutely no interest in Hold Me Back Bro Theater. I'm a lifelong Isaiah Stewart fan just because of that time he would not stop trying to fight LeBron.

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d

There should be a guy one each team whose only job is to fight. Like when the queen chooses a knight to fight in her name.

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 2d

How would a teacher have graded it if they said the word? I mean, objectively, the kid would have done a good job at the assignment.

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 2d

playing a real dangerous game assigning Nixon, Wilson, Jackson, etc.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 2d

Just took a walk around the block and all four bars are absolutely humming with Dodgers hate, seems like people are having fun now.

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 2d

I missed the first inning and a half, did anything happen to make everyone miserable or insane?

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 3d

me when I move back to the midwest

The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 3d

"What are your personal and professional goals for the next five years?"

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 3d

I love how the two things we learn about MacReady in his intro is he's drunk and willing to destroy computers that cost over $5000 in today's dollars if he loses a single game. Imagine he'd pour scotch into the vents of Steam Deck every time a Balatro run went south, like, ten times in a row.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 3d

It's just about sundown, time for my annual Halloween tradition; turning off all the lights, watching The Thing, and trying to experience MacReady's perspective by getting just as drunk as he is.

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The Troys Are Back In Town @troyponce.bsky.social · 3d

god, what a cool era