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Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan

@patbren.bsky.social

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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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Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan @patbren.bsky.social · Nov 23

I am Pat Bren ("Pat Bren"), a writer for cool indie game Project Zomboid. I used to be the Ireland's Own's James Bond correspondent. Thanks

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The Indie Stone @theindiestone.bsky.social · 5h

The latest collaboration between #ProjectZomboid and Makeship is here! All of The Indie Stone's proceeds will go to supporting the work of the charity Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders!
www.makeship.com/shop/creator...

The Indie Stone

Shop official products from The Indie Stone exclusively on Makeship

www.makeship.com

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Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan @patbren.bsky.social · 6h

New Vegas

old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 8h

praying mantis statue at second time around, route 30, boswell, pennsylvania, 1984

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The Indie Stone @theindiestone.bsky.social · 6h

... what's this, now? (or rather, imminently)

www.makeship.com/shop/creator...

The Indie Stone

Shop official products from The Indie Stone exclusively on Makeship

www.makeship.com

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ca-dmv-bot @ca-dmv-bot.bsky.social · 15d

Customer: (not on record)
DMV: ?

Verdict: ACCEPTED

California license plate with text "GAY".

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 4d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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TerrorBrain: The Frightful Mentality @itsphetz.bsky.social · 1d

In “Stand By Your Man” when Tammy Wynette said “You'll have bad times, and he'll have good times
Doin' things that you don't understand”
she was talking about gaming

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 22h

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Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan @patbren.bsky.social · 1d

Youtuber

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 1d

everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 1d

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Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan @patbren.bsky.social · 1d

Yes

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matte jones @pillowfort.bsky.social · 1d

imagine they went to this effort but it only had one page about roulette which says "it's mid"

Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 1d

Videogamer's new logo a screaming exclamation mark on the 'support independent games media' argument. Legitimately thought this was someone taking the piss when it was first posted in a discord, but no, it's on the site. You have to laugh (or else you'll cry)

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Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan @patbren.bsky.social · 1d

I only spoke to a baby like a year ago (except when I was one(, it happens, babies and gamers don't have a lot of overlap

Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan @patbren.bsky.social · 1d

And 007 Nightfire

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Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan @patbren.bsky.social · 1d

The only thing I use a tabletop for is eating beans

conputer same's @samecomputer.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes yeah i feel like its a very standard affair of
- existing game to transpose way easier
- existing audience to entice way kore easily since they do probably all play or played games

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 2d

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

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Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan @patbren.bsky.social · 1d

My most dangerous take is that any video game which takes tabletop gaming as an inspiration is weak and unimaginative

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 2d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan @patbren.bsky.social · 1d

These people should be making a reboot of The Getaway

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 1d

incredible

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan @patbren.bsky.social · 1d

I don't experience that. That is an alien feeling to me.

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Ed "Gein" Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 1d

The @bulletpointsvg.bsky.social podcast specials on Splinter Cell have renewed demand for the series sufficient that Ubisoft has released Pandora Tomorrow on Steam.

You can subscribe and listen here: www.patreon.com/c/bulletpoin...