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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Oh and don’t forget, groove is in the heart and Deee-lite have been known to smoke, on stage that is.” - Bootsy Collins

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The rabid, seething frustration in the room at not being able to get “slut gnomes” in from any angle could have powered Belgium for a year, I guarantee.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I could offer a lot of thoughts on why MonHun wilds was disappointing vs World. But the most basic issue is that I didn’t get my house where I could put all my little pets and decorations. I’m probably getting Ascension on spec for a house because I am actually dumb (also the S&S augment system)

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I didn’t catch the odyssey in theaters (I know, bad movie fan) but god it was fun watching chuds try to argue that Lupita didn’t rate at the level of a Helen. She is like, astonishingly beautiful. I would probably try to raise an army if she needed me to fight for her. QED.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Would you be okay just playing online or do you want to buy physical cards? I am truly not sure if it makes a difference but the game exists to me as a physical thing and I don’t much care for the digital version. And I think in-person play is another defining feature so again, real cards for me.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If I didn’t need this medication, I’d be a titanium sphere orbiting the earth at the speed of light.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I will say my secondhand Apple Watch noticed my shitty sleep and I assumed it was just glitchy but I actually had extremely severe sleep apnea! I agree the data’s not very useful but it’s a decent shorthand for how well the CPAP is working.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yeah, new ghost in the shell was, unfortunately, made for me: the 40 year old white dude that wants to larp being a government-sanctioned operator and is also a hot lady.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’ve really been taken with The Bazaar lately but I do actually think the aesthetic adjacency to Hearthstone is prolly a net negative. I love the art and systems of the game but that means it might be fully unc-coded.

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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

SUPER MARIO BROS. NINTENDO 1985 NES

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Egg salad is great for when you want to eat over 100% of an egg per egg.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Trying to get caught up on severance and dang: does anyone that worked on this show care that it looks like absolute dogshit on streaming? Is a 4k version available anywhere?

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Had almost precisely this thought today, perhaps less charitably, as I was watching a multi-stream and one dude was doing a very unfunny bit and I wished I could just send him to the cornfield for a while until I could tell from the others’ reactions that he’d given it up.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Never saw the 2013 movie and so assumed I’d be getting a bit of Raimi goofery from Rise. Kind of fun getting 2/3 of the way and being like “oh this actually isn’t going to go well for *anyone*”

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

SAC belongs in the canon of all-time great cyberpunk stories. A procedural with a great season-long runner that never suffocates the narrative momentum with its lore.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I wish there were a hundred games in the Strange Horticulture/ Strange Antiquities mold. Obv, what makes those games is the bespoke details and storytelling but damn I wish someone would just give Bad Viking like 8 years of runway.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The dudes are a great example of “you have to know the rules in order to break them” and they came by it honest in the early aughts YouTube mines.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If you’re not watching the AP feed of the festivities, you’re missing out. The dinky little arch model is across from an unmoving Ferris wheel and it’s mostly trash and nothing in the foreground.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

God hates Donald Trump and literally wants to rain on his parade lmao.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Poob has aftermath for you. Just poob aftermath.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Their power cables are thick but they can be cut.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I may have said that poorly, I meant “what would his use of the term mean to his audience”. Lots of reactions are plausible but wondered if there was some “popular” meaning. Again, I’m seeing this as one Jewish person speaking against another Jewish person, trying to understand it in that context.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Look, I don’t stand on my southern heritage much but I am ten toes down that we perfected the foodstuff which earns the term “biscuits.” Biscuits are like dumplings. The sound fills the mouth the same way the food does. Biscuits are a base, not an end unto themselves, though they can stand alone.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is in complete good faith btw, I would happily learn whatever Hebrew term he used, or that it’s idiomatic in some way.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Sure, I mentioned it’s obviously diminutive but what is the meaning behind Magal employing the term? It’s the internecine part I’m missing.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Genuine question born from ignorance: what is the context with which to understand the term “jewboy” as used here? Obviously diminutive and invokes various qualia around identity but I’m unfamiliar with the internecine politics.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I think as a 40-something I’ll just go ahead and say that Lil Wayne is my favorite (I didn’t say best) rapper and I’ll check back in in a decade or two,

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I was amazed that my basic search seemed to default immediately to telemundo but that could be some ad block settings.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Marathon is a game that is good and fun. Marathon is also a game that is dumb and bad and sucks. It’s good that it’s all those things. I like all (most) of the things that it is.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hmmm, that doesn’t sound quite right. I’m pretty sure this is the branch of government based on historicity and conformity to precedent. (/s in case anyone needed it)

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

But kudos for actually throwing all this stuff out in a final update because 1) it all seemingly rules and 2) you deserve to get all this cool shit into players’ hands and watch them enjoy it @bungie.net

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Highlights the insane calculus of value you have to do with a live service game. Features fully developed but deployed or delayed to try to maximize value proposition per se and in relation to current environment. Seems like an actual interesting application for ML at scale as you test builds.2/3

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

No shade but it’s fascinating the volume of updates for Destiny 2 previewed in the last 3 articles. Stands to reason a lot of this was fully cooked for at least a while and held back in order to find a way to package it into a paid update.1/3

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

LMAO this is great and I’ve personally never even seen e13 but is this the same run from this morning or just working the same seed?

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Look I’m not gonna pretend I’m not comfortably middle class when I know that a ton of ppl in my age group are trying to do more with less, but I realized today that I’ve been unconsciously buying smaller packs of toilet paper and other essentials in hopes of sales lately.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This game’s gonna eat GTA’s lunch

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

As a Tennessean, can you stop with this and use your platform to get some organization happening? You’re just another partisan rag at this point and you could use your platform to get Tennesseeans organized and active but you keep baiting headlines. Get back to your roots and help us do the work.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

You gotta hand it to Villeneuve for Enemy>Sicario>Arrival>Blade Runner 2049. All time greatest limited color gamuts. Grand total of like 4 color temperatures (gray, gray-blue, pale yellow, “hard yellow (scary)”).

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I seem to recall you had a near miss on being in one of the tune and fairweather collections. Are you reading any of those or are there any you’ve read and recommend for either the art or crit? Looking forward to the stream!

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

There was some kid discourse recently and I think as a childless millennial with mostly childless friends, it’s easy to forget that kids are also people that like to make other people happy or land a great joke. They also have bad manners and are rude because they literally don’t know not to do that

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 08/05/2026

Repost this if you’ve gone to the doctor or you’ve seen a dog. I’m a teacher trying to show my students that it’s possible to repost stuff under certain circumstances like if a post asks you to and you’ve gone to something or seen something

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Sports betting is interesting to me b/c I thought I loved gambling but it turns out I actually love playing games with gambling mechanics. And weirdly, even though I’m kind of a stats guy, this has inoculated me against sports betting because lines and over/unders have never made sense to me.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This spring feels like a make-good from the ice storm. Mostly dry, sure, but I struggle to recall such an extended period of relatively moderate to cool temps in April.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Entering the emulation Sargasso where there’s one (1) specific game you’d like to emulate that was released on one (1) mainstream but commercially unsuccessful platform. Support is still remarkably good but resources are thin on the ground, esp as digital distribution becomes the norm.

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David of the Valley @willietrombone.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Yeah, I think it’s a brand thing but in the south that “L” sound in “all” ends up getting swallowed so you’re saying something that sounds closer to “Sawza” or “Zawza” and cis dudes are supposed to know tool names instinctively so I just tried not to refer to it lol.

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