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Patrick "Pat_Bren" Brennan
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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).👽👻🛸🥔

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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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"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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An interesting example of how it's easy to get trapped in "doing things for the sake of doing them" in gamedev how this thread showcases complex game desgin being done to allow this sort of thing but little examination of how that possibility space affects the world and the player's psychology
Hive mind.. whats the general thoughts on allowing players to brick their games by letting them kill NPCs? Are folk ok with that? any smart examples where it is recoverable?
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Jesus Christ! In the 1990s this guy was one of the main villains responsible for the deregulation spree that caused the 2008 crash. Why are these guys indispensable! Any moron off the street can say "Duhh taxes and regulation are bad"
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The Five Bag Rating System explained.
October 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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this is so beautiful and also it makes you think (assuming you have a curious mind)
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I'm having a BIG HOLIDAY SALE FULL OF SAVINGS on my website. 11x14 prints on sale for $45! And NEW 8x10 prints of all my classic designs for just $20 EACH. All prices on original art SLASHED.

michaelkupperman.com/shop
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I'm Michelangelo's David
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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ITS REAL
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I find it hard to believe that the man who wrote those emails also invented the theory of relativity.
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs
December 21, 2023 at 10:09 PM
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke

history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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I guess this is about as close as it gets to good news these days (previous estimate was about 3.6C of heating)
Lot of people are already passing this around with the usual "WHY ISN'T ANYONE DOING ANYTHING" shrieks, while ignoring the fact that the article literally says that this is a *significant* decrease from the warming that we were on track for even a few years ago.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
He's on a mission from God
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:

saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3

and a worker tier whose emails are like:

Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Mere hours left to grab sweet #ProjectZomboid merch while also supporting Doctors Without Borders!
www.makeship.com/shop/creator...
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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All my followers are married to each other and live in the same big brutalist apartment complex
June 25, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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You are stupid, so I'll make myself clear... you are stupid. Go away. I don't want your blood and puke all over me.
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Horror in media is only effective when everything can be seen and is thoroughly explained.
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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important reference material
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM