I mostly write about fighting games on the Internet these days, but I've written a bunch of other stuff too, so here's a thread for some of that! First: "What I talk about when I talk about burgers", an essay on why In-n-Out is beloved of Californians. pattheflip.medium.com/what-i-talk-... - ThreadSky

pattheflip.bsky.social • 112 days ago

I mostly write about fighting games on the Internet these days, but I've written a bunch of other stuff too, so here's a thread for some of that!

First: "What I talk about when I talk about burgers", an essay on why In-n-Out is beloved of Californians.

https://pattheflip.medium.com/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-burgers-5d581c8ed41

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pattheflip.bsky.social•112 days ago

Six years later, I wrote "What I talk about when I talk about burgers 2", which is a story about why Burger King sucks and how loving women often means eating McDonald's (the double QPC is really good!).

https://pattheflip.medium.com/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-burgers-2-5c15300254bc

pattheflip.bsky.social•112 days ago

I've also done a little bit of fiction writing here and there; my first story, MVP, is about people making games for bots making games for people. (In 2015 this was science fiction; now it's basically just another AI headline.)

https://pattheflip.medium.com/mvp-a-game-dev-short-story-f58634073f81

pattheflip.bsky.social•112 days ago

Re: Member is a story about the retail experience of getting your dick upgraded. Possibly the best thing I've ever written. As a former consumer tech writer, doing the copywriting on the dick upgrades was my favorite part.

https://pattheflip.medium.com/re-member-35c42657603b

pattheflip.bsky.social•112 days ago

In Your Words is a creepy-tech story that I wrote about hijacking someone's internal monologue. People told me later that it felt like an SCP-ish cognitohazard. I got my cousin to do the art for it too :D

https://pattheflip.medium.com/in-your-words-7507a6ef9f2b

pattheflip.bsky.social•112 days ago

The Runback is a short fanfic about Ryu and Chun-Li from Street Fighter, if they were Asian American Millennial college buddies. A very sweet vignette with some lovely art by @koh.money 💖

https://pattheflip.medium.com/the-runback-bd18d6515211

pattheflip.bsky.social•112 days ago

One of my oldest stories, and my first collaboration with Irene, was a short story done in Twine (albeit with no real branching) called Bruce Lee Is Your Roommate. Bruce Lee's dialogue is entirely sourced from his writing and interviews.

https://patrickmiller.itch.io/bruce-lee-is-your-roommate

arlieth.com•112 days ago

I still have Irene's shirt of the double double in that article LMAO

pattheflip.bsky.social•112 days ago

It's so good!!!

sbrthalx.bsky.social•112 days ago

Reading the part about the Hegenberger In N Out is sad nowadays. RIP.

pattheflip.bsky.social•112 days ago

YEAH!!! the alameda one is way more of a pain for me to get to now too

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