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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 7h

On second playthrough of Zero Company, this time with a male Hawks based on the default face with some minor tweaks, and what sticks out is how inconsistent the quality of the facial animations is between alternate face options, like pick a different face and it goes from solid to very derpy.

Screenshot from Star Wars: Zero Company with a male Hawks with a beard and some gray hairs

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 9h

Getting women into military service via semantic loophole abuse, you say?

Fortunately, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels had a cun-
ning plan, possibly at the suggestion of his suffragist wife: finding a
semantic loophole in the law and shamelessly abusing it. The Naval
Act of 1916 that created the naval reserve force divided it into four
components, three of which were effectively restricted to men. How-
ever, for the Naval Coast Defense Reserve Force component, the
law only specified “all persons who may be capable of performing
special useful service.” There’s zero evidence Congress intended
for this wording to mean women could serve in the naval reserve,
or that the Navy thought that’s what it meant when it was passed.
Daniels, however, didn’t care what Congress meant for the law to
say, just what it actually did say, and he simply started acting like
that’s what it meant all along. On March 21, 1917, Loretta Walsh
became the first woman to enlist in the Navy, as what was called a
yeoman (F). Thousands more would follow.

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 14h

I'm a white guy who wrote a book about my white relatives in WWI, and simply *not lying by omission* required me to write about some things these jamkoes would censor, apparently.

I ASSUME IT'S PROPER FOR YOU TO COMMIT SEPPUKU AT ONCE

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 16h

"They sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind"

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 16h

Fuckin Rollo? At least he didn't name him "Charms" I guess.

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Some of the wording is unnaturally wonky, but also lol “Streep's final supply-count scene is a masterclass; Spielberg turns logistics into majesty.” Critic Review

A city starves. The sky answers.
Airlift
1948: Stalin seals Berlin, and the world has one month of food left inside it. A widowed American relief organizer (Meryl Streep) gambles everything on feeding two million people from the air, while a cocky transport pilot (Bradley Cooper) flies flour through a corridor the Soviets patrol live. A Berlin widow (Winona Ryder) trades ration cards for her children's escape, and a weary Soviet blockade officer (Stellan Skarsgård) begins quietly waving the planes through.

Meryl Streep · Bradley Cooper with Winona Ryder and Stellan Skarsgård
a Steven Spielberg film
PG-13
for thematic elements, wartime peril and brief strong language
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13
“Skarsgård just standing in the tower saying 'weather is bad over Berlin, go anyway' wrecked me.”
r/movies user
“Streep's final supply-count scene is a masterclass; Spielberg turns logistics into majesty.”
Critic Review
Domestic box office
$486M
Critic score
89/100

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I said I liked it. I didn't say it was good. Post yours!

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

QTP with your favourite Jedi! (wrong answers only)

Thundarr the Barbarian and his suspiciously lightsaber-y sword

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Share a fictional character you wouldn't want to fuck with. George Smiley.

George Smiley: "Control didn't believe in miracles, and he didn't believe in Witchcraft. But you were lazy, and you were greedy, and so you hounded him out of the Circus and you let Karla in."

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have never devised a good pitch for this book to be honest, but you can read the reviews at least.

D. Head
5 out of 5 starsA Fantastic Read
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2026
Format: Kindle
Verified Purchase
Sean Smith has written a fantastic, dare I say important, book about a little understood period in American History. Smith even talks a bit about why the Great War has somehow missed the kind of widespread scrutiny that WW2 gets from the popular consciousness. All of this happened a hundred years ago, and yet the problems we see from 1917 to 1919 are very much still with us.

Everything is timeless it seems, for better AND worse. More than anything, I think this is the lesson no one wants to learn.

This book is fantastically well-researched, engagingly well-written, and an incredible mix of personal and universal experiences. We spend very little time worrying about the BIG things, engaging instead with the everyday struggles of the men and woman at war on behalf of the United States and the cause of freedom. Even writing that sounds corny to the modern ear, and yet, how else can we treat plain fact?

Do yourself a favor and give this book a bit of your time. It's a quick, easy read about an engaging, human, uplifting, and yes, at times gruesome period in history. You don't know this story; you only think you do.

Also: that cover is money. I love it!

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every time more of you deviated preverts [laudatory] follow me, it triggers another round of me plugging my books. You only have yourselves to blame.

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh I feel that one, but it's for writing a chapter of a hypothetical future book about Operation Power Pack.

LBJ picture with the caption AFTER FURTHER CONSIDERATION, I HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE MY FOREIGN POLICY WORSE

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can God give Himself a hog so big He can't lift it?

Father Brown from the BBC detective series looking mischievous

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I haven't even been able to get a book banned in **Florida**, man, the hell am I even doing with my life?

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Zero Company has its head screwed on straight.

Hawks: "But it turns out that believing in nothing? That paves the way for people who believe in something worse."

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pros, continued: +Music, voice acting, sound effects all excellent +Star Wars vibes (laudatory) +No serious bugs Cons: -The base building, character progression and equipment progression systems are just sort of there. Levelling things up feels inconsequential; too much "number go up 1%" stuff.

"Numbers Fuckstein" but he's got Imperial rank and he just wants to fuck around with Bond XP and see what happens

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Finished Star Wars: Zero Company Let's call it 4/5 stars 40 hours to beat the campaign Pros: +Good XCOM-like turn based tactics gameplay with characters having a good variety of abilities to differentiate them. +More & better story and characters than I was expecting (think Mass Effect-lite).

Zero Company screenshot with Jae, Cly, Hawks, and Tel-Rea

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Writing crash-out threads long enough that they end up quoting your posting enemies' replies to your earlier posts in the thread does not actually win you a prize from the internet.

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hard to fault that pick But *embarrassed pause* I have a shameful irrational attraction to the functionless side scoops on the '69s

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