Ron Fortier

Classic video game programmer of Zaxxon, Bruce Lee & Conan. Helping 800 dentists, doctors & local businesses as Director of SEO and Product @DoctorGeniusCA

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Good to see you @KentFrench on Angels pregame. Missing you and @guy_hebert for Ducks pre, intermission, and post game. Hopefully the renovations will be done soon and they bring you guys back

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Somewhere out there Tank Man lives knowing he was the one

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

June 4th, 1989, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China.

Protesters and workers demand democracy as dictatorships fall one after another in South America, Eastern Europe and East Asia.

The Chinese Communist Party responds by murdering more than 1000 of them.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

It’s June 4th in Hong Kong. 🕯️

[Montreal Hockey Now @MTLhockeynow]

#GoHabsGo

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Is Ukko-Pekka the Finnish equivalent of Jean-Pierre? @CanadiensMTL

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I almost spit out my drink I laughed so hard

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Happy Mother's Day

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@niccruzpatane Metallic mint green? I've heard that before

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@oldyzach No Stunt Island? Where else could you fly a Jenny, B2, A-10, 747, MiG-29, and a U-2?

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@SimonaXhekaj It must be special, as a parent, to know that there are so many people out there who truly root for your child, and passionately hope for his success

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Hey @Sunrun how do I get your salespeople to stop knocking on my door every other day? Your products must be total crap to employ that many high-pressure sales people. I get less car warranty spam calls than I get of your door to door sales people.

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In defense of EPSN+, I absolutely love being able to watch almost all @CanadiensMTL games here in Orange County, CA. I get the TSN games (@BryanMudryk is the best!) and the national games. I love @hockeynight and ask my daughters every Saturday “what night is it?” If you’re a sports lover, it is impossible not to have ESPN+ as a subscription.

[Shivon Zilis @shivon]

If you’d like to refill your heart meter, watch this video we made about our recent progress with voice. I promise it’s worth it ❤️

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RIP: The legendary Chuck Norris passed away on March 19, 2026, at the age of 86.

The greatest Chuck Norris Commodore 64 game would have to be...Bruce Lee II, an unofficial sequel to the classic 1984 Datasoft game Bruce Lee.

Ported to real Commodore 64 hardware in 2015 by Jonas Hultén, and the result is as good or even better than the original! What an amazing game!

This game reminds me of the first movie I ever watched as a kid with Chuck Norris, The Way of the Dragon.

I was a mega Bruce Lee fan as a kid and I watched each of his movies a dozen times at least, and other than the Bruce Lee vs Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Game of Death, Chuck Norris's legendary Colosseum fight scene, in the movie blew me away.

Norris played the unbeatable Colt—in the game the Chuck Norris-like enemy (it wasn't official... but we can all tell who it is) in the game dominates with devastating kicks if you get close.

This game would be not only the best in the Commodore 64 series but also be far the hardest. The enemies include not only the legend that is Chuck but also Hakim (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).

Some of the screens are insanely hard and if it wasn't for infinite lives, I don't know how anyone could complete it.

Have you completed the game without cheating?

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@elonmusk @sdf_pubnix @testerlabor Did you ever play Bruce Lee on the C64?

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It wouldn’t be Saint Patrick’s Day without a black and tan Sláinte

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1-1 going into the 2nd #GoHabsGo

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What a tournament @KennyAlbert men’s and women’s. You are a machine calling so many games. Thanks for the amazing calls

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@DennisTFP How likely is a trade for Patrik Laine?

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It was a very different time back then. Today you have long descriptive variable names - player_1_xpos for example. The assembler didn't work a line at a time, but loaded the whole source code into 48k of memory. Your source code and the object code produced both had to exist in that memory - no caching. That meant that my variable names were a1, a2, etc. The text of descriptive variable names simply ate up too much memory so the assembler would die.