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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea

@aesonique.itch.io

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Author of #litrpg series The Age of Steam and Sorcery, snowboarder, coffee lover. https://linktr.ee/patrickcharltonoshea Book One: Death Becomes Him out now!

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · Aug 15

Good morning Bluesky!
I'm Patrick, the author of the series The Age of Steam and Sorcery. My first book is published here:
aesonique.itch.io/death-become...

ko-fi.com/s/dedefa2e72

amzn.asia/d/eYGjxG4

www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/...

And pre-release versions of my books are on Royal Road for free.

Death Becomes Him by Patrick Charlton-O'Shea

What do you do when your life is falling apart? Play games of course!

aesonique.itch.io

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 1h

Remember:

Always wear plate mail to bed to ensure you get a proper knight's sleep.

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 3h

I have a new concept: a pugilist and a stealth archer team up, I'm calling it Smack and Cheese.

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 4h

I wanted to like it. It had a lot of elements that were right up my alley.

Maybe if I'd gotten it on console instead I wouldn't have had so many issues.

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 4h

Thanks. I still have the limited edition box somewhere here, but every time I look at it I want to set it on fire.

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 6h

Alone In The Dark 4.

It was so bad that they let you play the chapters in any order.

You weren't alone, it was rarely dark.

And the bugs! I finished the "drive the car into the park" mission thru sheer spite after fifty goes. You could play perfectly and it would still glitch out and fail.

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 11h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 9h

I love the concept of augmented reality glasses.

Just, maybe make them without cameras? And without microphones?

We can have wearable tech without it being creeper tech.

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 10h

I think I need to add more coffee, both to my books and to my face.

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“Rachel” - Whimsician @nycteris.bsky.social · 10h

Espresso is #steampunk

An espresso machine.
It is steampunk as heck.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 11h

Ever wish you woke up as a sentient lighthouse imbued with a mysterious sense of purpose, that befriends a green seabird named Twig? We've got just game for you!

Keeper — A Heartening Journey of Unlikely Companionship. Wishlist Today on @Xbox.com and @Steampowered.com!

doublefine.com/games/keeper

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 11h

I love Tekken!

My style that I used to teach was Hwa Rang Tae Kwon Do, it was awesome seeing representation in a game.

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 11h

Annikin and Padme meme:

So, Visa and MasterCard are going to block them now that they're officially producing NSFW content, right?

Right?

The Verge @theverge.com · 17h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 12h

RIP nostradamus, you would have loved predictive text

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 1d

Novels are just comics consisting of one picture and an overwritten caption.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 1d

Is he going to turn into a zombie? Is this how necromancers propagate?

A TV news article. It's titled "Quote from man stabbed"

The quote is "What are you gonna do, stab me?"

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 1d

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of 📺

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Christopher R. Rice - The Raven Maniac @ravensnpennies.com · 1d

Your job as a reviewer, reader, and/or fellow author is to try and make space for the new. It's not zero sum - those who read for pleasure always need to new books and you won't be able to keep up with a reader's demand. Sharing the spotlight makes your time in it all the brighter.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 1d

Bring back the Dunkin' Spiked!

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 1d

I'd say thank you.

I'm happily cis, but I'd appreciate the compliment. My wife already says I have nice lashes.

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 1d

I love the transition from pulp to literature that Sherlock Holmes managed.

Doyle even came to hate the character and killed him off, but was convinced to bring him back.

What's "pulp" now may be classic in a decade or two.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Mar 10

So: the medium is the message, and the message of every genai thing is: the person who made this is an enormous asshole whose inevitable scandal will not surprise you in the least

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 1d

I know many people love having their partner run their fingers through their hair. It a staple of the romance genre, common for men to do to women, and interesting for men's reactions when it happens to them.

Don't do it to me though. It makes a noise like a basketball getting sanded in my head.

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 1d

Or, as we say in Oz, bottom's up!

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 1d

People who pronounce the g in gnosis are bad gnus.

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 1d

"You've got red on you."

Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 1d

Pro plagiarism machine bros preemptively blocking you is just the trash taking itself out.

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