Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan
@patbren.bsky.social
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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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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(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee
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my only three dialogue options when you talk to me
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
my only three dialogue options when you talk to me
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dreamed i won a salad making competition by googling "hitler's favorite salads" finding a listicle of hitler's 20 favorite salads and letting the judges know my opponent had made hitler's 17th favorite salad
December 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
dreamed i won a salad making competition by googling "hitler's favorite salads" finding a listicle of hitler's 20 favorite salads and letting the judges know my opponent had made hitler's 17th favorite salad
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Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
If Barack Obama (or some similarly powerful person) said he liked my book I would simply remove it from circulation and have it pulped like Alan Partridge
December 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If Barack Obama (or some similarly powerful person) said he liked my book I would simply remove it from circulation and have it pulped like Alan Partridge
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and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,
December 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,
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I'm wistful today.
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I'm wistful today.
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Can I please have the Hitler Estrogen that changes your voice
“The founder of the CIA wanted to force-fem Hitler” might be an all-time “none of these words are in the Bible”
December 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Can I please have the Hitler Estrogen that changes your voice
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"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
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it's gay to like anything
December 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
it's gay to like anything
Burnout Crash Mode traffic when they see you 1/2 mile away
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Burnout Crash Mode traffic when they see you 1/2 mile away
The early Tomb Raider games had the most fascinatingly shite vehicles
December 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The early Tomb Raider games had the most fascinatingly shite vehicles
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this is to me the same issue in terms of why I was upset about Larian: a pattern of behaving badly towards the labor that makes a game possible
NEW: For the last seven weeks, Naughty Dog has enacted mandatory overtime for staff to finish an internal demo of their next game, Intergalactic. The game won't be out until 2027, leaving some staff wondering: If they're crunching now, what will next year be like? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime for ‘Intergalactic’
The Sony-owned gamemakers have been racing to hit a December deadline
www.bloomberg.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
this is to me the same issue in terms of why I was upset about Larian: a pattern of behaving badly towards the labor that makes a game possible
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the first good poem written by AI
Cracking up since a robotext earlier couldn't make up it's mind on what to text, so it just sent EVERYTHING AT ONCE
December 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
the first good poem written by AI
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this bit from the new jimmy stewart biopic trailer is straight out of 30 rock lmaoooo
December 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this bit from the new jimmy stewart biopic trailer is straight out of 30 rock lmaoooo
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An under-discussed aspect of the State of Games Narrative is that a lot of AAA game dialog has a stilted, disjoint sort of feel to it because it was *structured* by a narrative designer/scripter first, and then a writer took a pass to write the actual lines without being able to rearrange anything.
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
An under-discussed aspect of the State of Games Narrative is that a lot of AAA game dialog has a stilted, disjoint sort of feel to it because it was *structured* by a narrative designer/scripter first, and then a writer took a pass to write the actual lines without being able to rearrange anything.
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current news has me thinking about the Lake House Alan Wake 2 DLC where a bunch of out-of-touch scientists can't figure out why a bad writer like Alan Wake can evoke emotion from people but their gigantic room filled with automatic typewriters only creates slop that kills you
December 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
current news has me thinking about the Lake House Alan Wake 2 DLC where a bunch of out-of-touch scientists can't figure out why a bad writer like Alan Wake can evoke emotion from people but their gigantic room filled with automatic typewriters only creates slop that kills you
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America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
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New this week on the site, @theautumnwright.bsky.social on Battlefield 6. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/12/17/i...
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New this week on the site, @theautumnwright.bsky.social on Battlefield 6. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/12/17/i...
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God tier bathroom graffiti I just found
December 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
God tier bathroom graffiti I just found
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oh wow that's surprising I thought the bullshit hallucination machine would have an infallible understanding of an ancient society based on screenshots of Total War and horseshit reddit posts about the downfall of western values
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
oh wow that's surprising I thought the bullshit hallucination machine would have an infallible understanding of an ancient society based on screenshots of Total War and horseshit reddit posts about the downfall of western values
Zomboid and KCD2 GOTYs s.team/y25/cqgmfpb?...
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s.team
December 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Zomboid and KCD2 GOTYs s.team/y25/cqgmfpb?...
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i would like to congratulate project zomboid for bringing to my attention the most unpleasant combination of words I've seen in a long time: "cockroach (uncooked)"
December 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
i would like to congratulate project zomboid for bringing to my attention the most unpleasant combination of words I've seen in a long time: "cockroach (uncooked)"