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Alexander Teeple (but Spooky)

@canopenerdude.bsky.social

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Former Challenger LoL Coach, Former IT Director, now Game Design Student. Non-Binary. They/Them. Running for something, PA. I collate data sometimes, and occasionally post about games. Trans Rights are Human Rights https://ajteeple1.myportfolio.com/

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Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · Jun 29

Pokemon is well-known for false choices in their dialogue- but in Scarlet/Violet a character asks you if you want to be "Rivals for life" and if you keep saying "No" she keeps asking more and more aggressively until she's just yelling "YOU. ME. RIVALS. YES?". It always gets me for some reason.

Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · Jun 29

Ok team — funniest -interactive- moments and jokes in games? Not cutscene based, prompted either by gameplay interaction or a choice

Examples:
- Portal 2’s asking you to press space to speak to confirm you don’t have brain damage, and jumping instead
- Baldur’s Gate 3 Volo Eye extraction

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Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · 1h

What I love most about Sun Tzu is that it wasn't even about being a "brilliant tactician"- it was that literally every other commander in his period was a nepotism hire, so he HAD to write these kind of lines in order to make sure the entire army didn't die on the march of malnutrition.

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 1d

do not forget to feed your troops

Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · 1h

Genghis Khan in the background: THIS ISN'T THAT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YALL

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3h

this platform is silencing me instead of exchanging ideas, by which I meant exchanging their good ideas for my bad ideas and not criticizing me for them in any way

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 2h

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care.

Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park.

His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...

Family of Chicago-area man killed by ICE seeks to reunite with his children who are now in foster care in Idaho

The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

“I’m a cop. I am not supposed to feel dread. He’s a brown person. HE’S supposed to feel dread!”

Bari nods sympathetically.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 4h

Tobey Maguire era spiderman talking to James Franco, James says if zohran wins a mass number of cops will leave nyc!, spiderman not in costume replies with smug expression I already like zohran, harry. You don't need to sell him to me.

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Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · 4h

Why are all 32-year-olds in news like this. Please let me escape this age.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 15h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · 4h

I do like them a lot! Unfortunately there's a couple specific features that they (understandably) disable for privacy reasons that I need enabled to do my project work, so for the moment I have to stick with Chrome. Once I've worked around those problems though, I will definitely switch.

Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · 4h

forums.macrumors.com/threads/fire...

Firefox new terms of use. They sell your data now

So what does everyone think of the newly created Firefox “Terms of use”? Basically they now say they own all data that you send and receive through their browser and can share it with anyone. My best...

forums.macrumors.com

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 11h

the use of "sickening" and "disgusting" as a synonym for "immoral" suggests that the primary dictator of morals to humanity is not religion but the gag reflex

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 10h

Annoyingly put-together guy getting way too chatty with the busy baristas at the coffeeshop this morning: "Billy Joel is like the perfect music for this morning."
Barista, slammed, in the midst of making tons of drinks, incredibly flat affect: "This is Bob Dylan."

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Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · 11h

Firefox is scraping user data for AI with no way to opt out. I'll stick to using adblock.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

Chicago

sevedge @sevedge.bsky.social · 1d

photo of a Do Not Enter traffic sign on a Chicago street, but someone has altered it to say Do Not -Let ICE- Enter

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 18h

Your charitable donations are going to feed pizza to someone with a $120,000 salary.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · 11h

It's going to keep getting worse.

Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 18h

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

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Leah Miller @leahmiller.bsky.social · 16h

Sometimes tiktok has it

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Spice8Rack (Marxist) @spice8rack.bsky.social · 15h

Hey all 👋 my living situation has dramatically changed. I should be fine for a few months, but if you'd like to help me make - significantly increased - rent, then any change would be greatly appreciated.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 12h

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

docseuss.medium.com

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Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · 11h

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_A...

Bonus Army - Wikipedia

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Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · 22h

Doc I am not nearly high enough for this right now!

Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · 22h

Well now I'm just extra confused.

The timecode of Doc's reply, showing that it was posted at 6:59 PM.

Alexander Teeple (but Spooky) @canopenerdude.bsky.social · 22h

It is going to be SO EASY to basically remake the country once we take control. Congress has abdicated its authority and the Presidency is illegitimate, plus the SCOTUS has proven to be completely without any independence from the Presidency. There essentially is no legitimate Federal Govt rn

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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