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Thomas 'Retcon' Parrott @ParrottTom

Keeper of a tiny house panther. Living with MDD. Coping with the world through dark humor. Used to write books. Nazis, bigots, and bullies fuck off. He/him.

Joined November 2021
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Thomas 'Retcon' Parrott@ParrottTom
3 Aug 2023
I can be found at @parrotttom.bsky.social on Blue Sky, and my current plan is to migrate there completely at some point in the near future (likely once I feel like enough people have been able to that I'm not abandoning folks who have no choice).
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Alright, y'all, I think I'm done with Twitter. It's been real, it's been fun, but at times it hasn't been real fun. You can catch me at Bsky if you wish to catch me. I'll leave this up for like a day or two before I actually close out my account so peeps can see it. 🫡
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The great difficulty of cosmic horror is, how do you really capture the unknowable? How can something written by a human really portray something that exists outside of all human experience?
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Of course, offering no answers isn't necessarily better. Running on nothing but heady fumes will only get you so far. It is human nature to want to figure things out, to worry at a puzzle until it's solved.
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I think the best you can do is offer someone a nightmare they haven't had before. And that's hard! That's very difficult, especially in this age of absolute media saturation. And even then, it only works once. You can give somebody that thrill one time, but then it's defined.
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I just got called a young man, which so perplexed me that it took a few seconds for the rest of what the person had said to process
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I had bao for dinner and it was amazing, much fat, very happy.
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this account will officially be a hate account from now on, i will only be discussing things i hate for starters, i hate hate accounts, and expect this will make me miserable, but my god the interaction
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I just finished watching Requiem for Vengeance. Just all around really great IMO. I wish there was more stuff like it.
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SHINJI GET IN THE GODDAMN MECH
Kriegsfront Tactics - Prologue out NOW!
@kriegsfront
28 Oct 2024
Working on adding non-mech units into the game for helicopters, tanks, etc. Our programmer added this cosmic horror inter-dimensional being instead…👾 Feels kinda cute though, might delete later. What do you think? #indiegame #gamedev #KriegsfrontTactics #mechs
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Reading an article about Irrational back when they tried to work with the XCOM property (before XCOM:EU) and... what they did was immediately try to throw away the turn based part and make it a FPS. 😒
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Can't remember if I already shared this here, but it makes me laugh so I'm sharing it again.
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Lowkey my favorite joke in Quest for the Holy Grail is that one of the "Frenchmen" doesn't understand French and the others have to keep translating their comments into English for him.
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I have no idea why that's so funny to me, except that it's layered on top of so much other absurdity and no one ever calls attention to it.
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Person is named Lance Griffin, and like... how do you NOT be an knight errant with that name. What other choice do you even have.
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Transhumanist themes, but high fantasy. Golem and undead body mods. Magical self duplication. Not as obscure background stuff or villain fodder, but a major focus.
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Got my FEMA moneys, time to live large and kick up my heels. ...by which I mean nothing changes and I can pay bills I was struggling to meet because of lost wages.
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Whulp, the DLC campaign for @wildermyth pushed it from 'this was really good' to 'i will proselytize for this long term', and also put it on the short list of 'games I have cried about the endings of' The Omenroad DLC, a Walk in the Unlight, genuinely tied it all together.
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