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Mike Lamb

@Mlambm

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Ex video game dev. Ex poker player/dev. Current father

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Joined February 2011
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Mike Lamb
5 years
Look what top lad @MarkRJones1970 sent me. The first three games I wrote for the Spectrum! Takes me back to sitting on the edge of the bed squinting at code on the TV. Good times 😀
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@Watsonmrk @Cambridge_Uni She’s creating a hostile environment for white students
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@ByronYork Hillary paid a fine to the FEC for putting the Steele dossier under ‘legal services’
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@OwenJones84 Lots of grandads to feel bad for but not this one
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3 years
@mtracey I’m in favor of nuclear power but that doesn’t mean I liked Chernobyl
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2 years
@Sarahsux1 @darrengrimes_ That’s when they’ll spring into action - to arrest you!
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3 months
@mtracey You ever been married?
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2 years
@hblodget They had no business telling investors “we don’t invest your fund not even in treasuries” when they were lending the money to their own hedge fund
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@providenceluvr @C_M_B_B_ That’s my mental image for guy gynecologists ☹️
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3 years
@EliLake He was off the list almost right away. Do deals happen that quickly?
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2 years
@CorieWhalen @ScottAdamsSays Is this a good faith interpretation of the law or a hysterical overreaction designed to get attention? I don’t know but wouldn’t be surprised by either
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5 years
@piersmorgan @Lord_Sugar When are Arsenal on? Oh right Thursday night, channel 4
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4 years
@henryfraser0 @piersmorgan Sorry for what you are going through but I don’t see how locking everybody else up makes you any better off
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3 years
@akarlin88 @Steve_Sailer My most offensive secret belief is that you should be able to take your driving test drunk. If you pass you are licensed to drive at the same level of inebriation.
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@maggieNYT Washington based lawyer. He’s so modest!
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3 years
@piersmorgan @JoeBiden No, it’s on the Taliban. We’ve done enough in Afghanistan
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2 months
@asymmetricinfo He couldn’t do the closing statement. It was 2 minutes without a teleprompter and he took a week off to prepare
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2 years
@Keepitsolar1 @rfhirst Normans were descended from Viking settlers.
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3 years
@MrAndyNgo Where’s Kyle when you need him?
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3 years
@KFILE @daveweigel Me: racist tweet Mob: hey, that’s racist! Me: Oh I was just quoting Chris Rock Mob: Ok, our bad
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2 years
@Wake__Up__0 @NorvR @MrAndyNgo Getting a policeman in a headlock and trying to choke him out (he can't breath!), that's danger enough for me
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1 year
An interview I did about Amstrad CPC games. All good memories.
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1 year
RT RetromaniacMag: «Me encantó trabajar en Ocean. Adoraba levantarme cada mañana con cosas nuevas que probar». ¡¡Entrevistamos a Mike Lamb!!: #retro #retrodev #cpc @Mlambm cc @octopusjig
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@AlanMCole @MattZeitlin You can turn right on a red light. If you’re not doing that why shouldn’t someone pass you?
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3 years
@ByronYork Seems like it’d be cheaper to hire some of the people they are releasing
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5 years
@AnnieLowrey They need an industry wide returner list. Two returns in a year and you get a lifetime sleeping on the floor
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7 years
@DanielJHannan @timfarron More popular than you imagine I hope. His 1p on income tax for nhs was more honest than pretending it could come from bankers bonuses
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1 year
@FischerKing64 Flying was a lot more glamorous when poor people couldn’t afford it
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4 years
@IlvesToomas @felixsalmon There aren't many kids whose grandpa videoed their great-uncle having sex with a prostitute and sent the tape to great-auntie either
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4 months
@Shayor19 @cctvidiots How likely am I to be eaten vs how bad is my life going to be if I don’t help and she lives?
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4 months
@shagbark_hick Wouldn’t surprise me to find the mortgage cos want it that way. It must make home inspections a lot easier if everything is built to same code
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4 years
@JimWall84 @GrahamNeary That’s why I’m inclined to give politicians a break on the Corona response. They had to make tough calls with limited info. Everybody did their best but mistakes were inevitable
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3 months
@kelvmackenzie Bollocks. The cow was nuisance not a danger. Too much elf and safety. You’re usually better on this
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3 years
@Zigmanfreud There were two video clips. One they sang the National Anthem. The second they chanted ‘shame on you’. They need the FBI for that?
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5 years
@ReformedBroker Masks very good at stopping you touching your face though
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4 months
@ByronYork They should just ask why Trump wasn’t charged with a federal crime “Objection!” “Sustained” and then keep asking the same question a half dozen different ways
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3 years
@piersmorgan It makes Fergie flogging weight watchers look dignified
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@JohannKurtz People who have been incredibly fortunate show no gratitude if they expect their kids to do it on their own
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2 years
@asymmetricinfo Same reason Bezos bought the Post?
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5 years
I wrote CDS pool at university. My first wages came in 1987 from Ocean Software, but I’d have worked for nothing. It was a trip back then #MyFirstGamesJob
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2 years
@Delicious_Tacos $250k is the threshold. You can express your income as a fraction of a million
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3 years
@asymmetricinfo “After a long clinical career as a registered nurse…” Hate to be condescending but maybe not the sharpest knife
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4 months
@LadyofKyria @mrsdobbins_ I think the nurse deserves her share of the credit! It’s not easy to tell a doctor where to get off
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2 years
@mtracey Didn't they blame the other driver initially? Not 100% but I think they did
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6 years
@harryjames62 @maggieNYT "I've got important stuff to worry about"
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3 years
@cjsnowdon Any model that doesn’t include behavior changes before hitting a million cases a day is bullshit
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2 years
@eugyppius1 I’d trust a watch repairman who could clearly explain what he was doing over most academics
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2 years
David Ward realized a couple of years before everybody else how important licenses were. RIP genius
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2 years
I’m a legend! (Allegedly)
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2 years
AA PODCAST NEW RELEASE EP256 - Interview with @Mlambm . @Arcade_Adriano video chats with Mike about his epic career in gaming. Robocop, Batman, #TopGun , Renegade...Mike has either created or worked on them + many others! Listen everywhere now or watch here
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@ccmembersonly Last time I hired one I was selling a house. Fairly sure she wouldn’t have been able to sell it without my agreement
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2 years
@wajacobson Glad they’re getting the money but $6 million in attorney fees is ridiculous
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3 years
@ggreenwald Some jobs are too important for parental leave. If you need tome to be with your family, don’t take the job
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5 months
@VeloMontaigne @0x49fa98 I used to think it was weird how a fair number of the Reagan conservatives were ex radicals. I can see Klein and Yglesias going down the same road though
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7 years
@onthetrain @sdonnan @NewYorker @RyanLizza It must have been about Trump. There's no other way anything else topped what was on the record.
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10 months
@robinhanson How do you model something smarter than you? It’s a different category to climate change. I’m not a doomer but that doesn’t seem like a good critique
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5 years
@JoeNBC "Scarborough was one of the 228 members of the House who voted to impeach Bill Clinton in December 1998."
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7 months
@JMGreerWriter Nuclear power is over-regulated. That’s why it’s too expensive. It’s a choice we’ve made, not a law of physics
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3 years
@DogoKuno @afneil Someone's throwing 'pedo' accusations around, you gotta take the gloves off.
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4 years
@toadmeister @hardistymark Does Oxford really have a Professor of Evidence Based medicine? Like the others are witch doctors?
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2 years
@cruelty_pilled @kmele Doesn’t matter. Quotas are illegal
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6 years
@DPJHodges It’s a shame we’re seeing all this integrity AFTER they’ve been elected
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2 years
@IsabelOakeshott It’s the government for not getting a grip on the small boats
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2 years
@fmanjoo Maybe someone, like a journalist, could put in a FOIA request for all the stuff Trump declassified?
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2 years
@RichardHanania Can they do that for me except for everything I do?
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4 years
@DPJHodges Ask BMW or an Irish farmer? Free trade is a benefit to both sides not a favour from the EU
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@joeteicher @perdricof If they were popular we’d have mosaic tile laying robots
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6 years
I've been trying to get the balls rolling realistically on the Spectrum Next. I'm not convinced it's going to work but we'll see...
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1 year
@MickWest It needs foreign tech that’s so advanced it could be mistaken for alien tech by somebody who has been judged competent enough to reverse engineer it. Ok maybe not fake moon landing level but getting there 😀
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2 years
@ianbremmer @ScottAdamsSays Looks like one of those deliberate mistakes to get traction. Everyone retweets “haha dumb Russians”. Meanwhile everyone’s learning about 71c gas
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Found an Ocean mug at the back of my mums cupboard!
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@RichardHanania Someone doesn’t remember how lame water pistols were 😅
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@mtracey Privately warning Ukraine and then telling the WaPo all about it 😀
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3 years
@FrankLuntz Except her killer never faced trial
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3 years
@William60378254 @martinbright @afneil Exactly. If MPs aren’t happy with lawyers using the law, they could always change it
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5 years
@theintercept @attackerman @natashalennard Thanks for covering the story but it would be better if you illustrated it with mugshots of the rapists, not the victim
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1 year
@woodruffbets Didn’t he perjure himself when he said he wasn’t a drug user?
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11 months
@AsaWinstanley @KitKlarenberg That’s awful but let’s not pretend Israeli civilians haven’t been targeted too
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@Lin12Am @travis4nh It came right after Ruby Ridge? No tv footage but what happened there was awful too.
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4 years
@gcochran99 @suvyboy @JayMan471 My 2nd grade teacher thought the sun went round the Earth
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2 years
@ByronYork Is that actually legal? Different consequences for a crime based on your immigration status
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@PettyLupone @JosephPino_ @Olivia_Beavers Just want him treated the same as J6ers who did the same thing
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2 years
@MrHarryCole I see why the EU wants a say on goods shipped to NI. Why would they care what they ship to GB?
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3 years
@FrKadel @realdumbrunner @mattyglesias That's true but it's not fault-finding to ask "What about the several thousand US citizens left to make their own way to the airport?" Surely they could have planned that better
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1 year
@cjsnowdon No leveling up funds for Kirklees please
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2 years
@mtracey Wanna bet they have the results in a few hours?
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4 years
@OwenJones84 Actual bullying (not fear of poor kids) is an underestimated factor driving parents to private schools
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1 year
@FraserNelson What do they do next time? And there will be a next time if they bring him back
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1 year
@Aella_Girl Sounds like a good way to get attention. Well done!
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@0xfbifemboy @Steve_Sailer Anyone can make a mistake but it’s embarrassing this got past her clerks
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4 years
@FrankLuntz What players do on their own time is up to them. When they’re getting paid however...
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1 year
@kstraith @JonathanTurley @BretBaier They're fighting to protect a rich kid who cheated on his taxes
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@mtracey There was a 911 call from Nicole “He’s OJ Simpson. You know his record”
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6 years
@robinhanson 'you and your employer together choose' is newspeak for you go where your boss wants you to
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6 years
@jeneps @IDFSpokesperson The amount of abuse (esp for women) that's permitted on Twitter is staggering
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2 years
@dpinsen @Outsideness If he pulls it off I can see other tech ceos being asked to justify their head counts
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5 years
@NeilDotObrien @rcolvile Cool. Now do 99 times 88
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4 years
@daveweigel Karen wants shredded cheese damnit
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2 months
@dylanmatt I guess if you're a mid programming mum you might quit to look after them. If you're a superstar, you'd find a way to make it work?
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1 year
@alexmassie @rcolvile Good one! It’s going to be tough to beat “where are the men?”
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4 years
@ReformedBroker The real sell event will be if they have to shut again
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@sailbikewrite @mattparlmer My possibly prejudiced question would be "All the opportunities in tech and you didn't want to jump in and start building?"
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