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Allan

@allanshoe.bsky.social
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17 year QA game dev veteran. Interests in games of all kind and history. These interests often overlap :P

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h
Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 17h
Partially?
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Wawa SkittleTits @onesingleheck.bsky.social · 21h
Heeeeeere’s mine and sister’s gofundme. If we can just get the heartworm treatment for both dogs covered - I could relax a little in that regard. Zero pressure - I know things are hard for all of us right now.
gofund.me
Donate to Amber, Brooke, and the Wee Feline Detective, organized by Brooke Shank
Amber and Brooke’s GFM: Total: $12000 Thank you for looking at our Go… Brooke Shank needs your support for Amber, Brooke, and the Wee Feline Detective
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 20h
(so as to entice me to actually watch it lol)
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 20h
I'm always a bit leery to give Rogan's show a view. Curious if you're okay giving a brief summary of how you think it went?
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 21h
I always liked Jonathan Cheat. I'm sure he'd appreciate it being mandated by law even.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/10/2026
The rule is: If you have talent, you have to focus on that talent instead of offering opinions on politics. If you don’t have talent, opine away.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

kittydesade

Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

del3141

Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And done Wings of Theve. Interestingly I enjoy just letting credits play now after a rush of a game.
The beginning of the credits of Wings of Theve. A bunch of cast but wanted to call out

"Dedicated to Voice Director Chiharu Kamio" just out of respect.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Was a nice little surprise in Mission 28 how dare they fucking play with me like that!!!
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'd be okay with an impotent, out of power version of him seeing all this.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ugh. "What would I know I'm just a doctor"
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That's why you do what I do and just be a sicko homer and pick your own team players regardless of quality. (Unless your team was crap, like mine was for a long time - the Oilers lmao - and accept fantasy points as consolation prizes haha)
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The only issue with the ones I've been a part of is that I'd need to manage who was in "my roster" on any given day. Which was typically trivial unless there was a lot of games on a particular day. (Sometimes life gets busy and I miss a day. Probably the only time an AI would help!)
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I LOVE CATS! I just see them every day while sassing you is such a rare event now😔
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I guess the Nano would still need some level of iTunes on a computer to configure it wouldn't it? I'm curious what stuff is still on mine. 2000s Allan would have had a good bit of angsty grunge/alternative lol
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I found my old school iPod nano cleaning up last month haha
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was considering a poor score but making you incensed does up it to an okay 11/10
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This tracks.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Would probably be more productive of me to make an AI bot that would post so I would do other things... 🤔
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was wondering about wtf that "Malfoid" stuff was about.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
LMAO really!?!? hahahahaha
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
End of season I was like +1000 but that was the only stat I won. Which led to more fun about how my team would probably have won the cup if it was real :P
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drafts are also fun?? Like aside from maybe the small amount of time organizing that it may take for everyone to be available, doing just a smidge of prep work and trash talking friends is the entire reason for doing Fantasy Hockey.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good job Joanne!
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Started to take more of a "I'd rather 10 pirates play for free than 1 purchaser deal with a headache." I can't remember if he was ever able to play the game! Sucks to be super amp'd to play a game day 1 and then run into issues like that.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'd love to see the ROI on investment into assorted DRM measures and the amount of pirates that end up buying. Coupled with the costs of legit purchasers impacted. I remember during DA2 release helping out a guy who straight up was posting the inner ring serial number of the CD in his emails to me.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I actually am significantly less bothered by piracy now (after 17 years in the game industry) than I was before I started working on it. It's a complicated issue to unpack. But "hate pirating" something to stick it to a publisher will likely never send the message you think it does.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This applies to game piracy as well. There's data for how often a game gets pirated, which makes the bigger publishers recognize "this game is popular." (In games it also leads to increased investment in anti-piracy measures which I find typically aren't all that helpful and often harmful)
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Emmurder Killwell えま @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
if you're a woman in games/a writer who follows me please sound off, i need to follow y'all back
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also while there was one person that seemed to think that under no circumstances can you ever be critical of Democrats lest you "help the opponents win," most people in the replies seem to echo that yeah, this type of line in the sand is in fact important and valuable.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Props to Arienne for calling this out. We absolutely cannot abandon each other in the hopes that it will get us votes. Not only will it not, it just seems to encourage conceding even more.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
She blocked you after you made this post: bsky.app/profile/cris... Which is ironic because this would *also* mean that you're not fighting for your community either... Her response to you was, in this case, that your goal seems to be that she keep silent (while accusing her of "helping" Vivek).
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just finished Mission 26 and I think that's enough for me tonight!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is what women on the right say about another woman who was gang raped. These are the same people our current Dem leadership thinks should be allowed to participate in normal society after we wrest control from the psychos.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh wow I have not seen this in a long long LONG time. The only scene I can vaguely remember was Tom Cruise walking away from a severely hooked shot that was pretty much impossible?
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
bobcat in a box
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Canada still has some slight benefits while we are independent (for now) with out October weather at least.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Certainly gives some different context to why Jack feels so "targeted" by Pierre's act. Also really flips the perspective of Renee who comes across as compassionate but is really just trying to absolve her husband of any actual responsibility he had in contributing to Pierre's devastation.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Waiting in the sun for the sugar-laden mini-donuts is like 80% of the reason to go to one of these.
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Boolair Thorboorn @oiblair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's that time again #DragonAge
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was gonna say that it's fucked up that so many deliberately WANT this. I've straight up seen some takes that support climate change because of it.
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And be wrong about the claims that he was a Lifelong Democrat until 2024 (his social media has posts supporting Trump for the past decade, including the Jan 6th insurrection).
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ON PRINCIPLE!!! haha. There's always an SU-57 if I want Cruise Missiles :P (I am no where near the points for either yet, but wouldn't surprise me. The F-22 was so nice that a single missile took out most planes so I just cycled through targets so quickly on Mission 21)
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just finished mission 22. I really like the F-22 as well. I will probably avoid the F-35 on principle XD
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Allan @allanshoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wonder if anyone said Yes lol
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