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Writer for Project Zomboid. Pioneering aviatrix. Former Ireland's Own James Bond Correspondent. Tweets my own (they're still called tweets).👽👻🛸🥔 He/him/"that gobshite"
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Having a little laugh as I think about my followers' lives...

For the absolute last time: I *never* said I thought E.T. dressed in the wig and the dress was sexy, I said *I could see why people would think that*

Apparently the London "No Kings" rally was renamed to "No Tyrants" because the United Kingdom is not a country, but a punchline

new tactic for fucking weirdos

i don't know why i find the title so funny

fucking obliterated from orbit by this guy on okcupid

Left & Right 'Gran Turismo' PlayStation

an underappreciated skill in game design is "lying to players." games only exist in a player's mind!! you can change the nature of the game without changing its core logic by just telling players that the logic is something different!!

A sign sighted at a Rhode Island #nokings rally. I definitely can get behind this.

This would be a summer blockbuster on par with Barbie

these are our brothers and we should be building a better world together

I THINK YOU'RE A BIG PIECE OF CHEESE!

No one said I was looking hench. That's fine.

Daily bunny no.2980 needs another way across

Enjoying Caturday

Everything is going fine.

AI feels like an infection trying to work its way into our consciousness, warping everything. I know Google Search isn't exactly objective reality, but it's so awful for it to "summarise" things. And Microsoft Word popping up AI when I'm writing a story is genuinely insulting, and deeply disgusting.

Love 2 see the Americans slowly realise that "US citizen" is not some super category of human that makes you above all that nasty US violence the rest of the world has to contend with.

They're doing Iceland before Ireland ffs

Thinking about going on the run for crimes I didn't commit, could be a laugh

thought this was really beautiful

A meaty newsletter, mostly about my great trip to Prague! patbren.com/2025/06/14/p...

If you ever wanted to see Pat_Bren fire a .44 Magnum, today's your lucky day

Telltale Games went from silly fun games like Sam and Max and Back To The Future to darker titles like The Walking Dead and Wolf Among Us back to fun games like Tales From The Borderlands and Guardians Of The Galaxy.

Tango Game Works

Thinking about that weird change where game studios start off making something with happy, upbeat vibes (Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Sly Raccoon) and devolve into misery (TLOU, Resistance, Infamous). Is there game studios who do the opposite, starting with misery and ending up with something upbeat?

Timesplitters Future Perfect. Good game. Cheers.

You have to in some way challenge people's assumptions, whether that's about some social issue, something more personal/emotional, or the nature of reality itself. Sadly most best-selling books do the opposite: provide a marshmallow comfort for people, pat them on the back, or preach to the choir.

Sligs 'Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey' PlayStation

Mine is stolen from Kafka. Stories have to take an axe to the frozen sea inside us.

i think in order to make good art you gotta be extremely opinionated about Something. could be the process, could be the tools, could be the results, but you need to have a thesis you're trying to prove *via* art

this user has correctly divined how a LLM works: you imagine that you are talking to a person but you are actually talking to an abstract representation of the collective efforts of everybody involved in moving the pointer

Had to laugh earlier when the big face disappeared and then came back and said "peekaboo" 😂

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election. And yet, if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.

why oh why was his kitchen glowing red? shouldn’t that borealis be outside instead?

Franz was reading me tweets