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'El' Pascal Moser

@elpascalmods.bsky.social
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Stuttgart-based author and mod developer. History major. DE/EN/FR Released: The Living Desert (FNV mod); Venus Fly Trap (Novella). Currently working on: "Westside Noir" (A New Vegas quest mod). www.nexusmods.com/profile/ELPascal/…

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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 15h
Here I'm going for a mix of industrial and office kit pieces, drawing inspiration from Cyberpunk 2077 (see reference); this should show that this town is capable of restoring pre-war infrastructure, but in a somewhat limited & utilitarian manner compared to the more elegant restorations on the Strip
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 16h
Very early blockout for a large apartment complex I'm planning to wrap up sometime next week. It's going to be a central housing hub where NPC spend the night after a long day of sandboxing and questgiving all over town
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, fuck.
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
... for immediate results, when really, a good artist has to love and enjoy the process, arduous though it may be at times. There's no faking passion lest you're fine putting out soulless by-the-numbers pabulum.
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, creative writing is just a very elaborate excercise in problem solving and thus technological shortcuts based on statistical likelihoods will predictably lead ot trite and easy answers. IMO this is also emblematic of another common issue with slop producers; they want to bypass the process...
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's kind of funny how I can write hundreds of pages of prose and dialogues that may reach thousands of people without a second thought, yet anytime I need to write a 10-20 page academic paper that a lecturer will give a half-hearted lookover, I get paralyzed by writer's block from hell
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KiaraRedVA 🎧🎙 @kiararedva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A pleasure to have voiced her, thanks for entrusting me with bringing her to life! 😊
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For our next showcase, we have BlueSky's very own @kiararedva.bsky.social as Cpl. Josy Adesso, an NCR MP whom you encounter in one of the mod's side quests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC2S... #vo #voiceacting #modding #fallout #fnv
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KiaraRedVA is Cpl. Jody Adesso - Westside Noir
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Just occured to me I should probably put the va teasers / demo clips for my quest mod (Westside Story: A New Vegas Noir) in a thread to keep things organized, so here goes...
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well hey, a mixed bag of a day is still not a total loss, though I reckon that spending 6 hours on an app that won't cooperate is never that great of a time
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I did not see this thread going this deeply into crab biology, but I'm honestly all here for it
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A wormhole opens up and conveniently sucks your enemies into a pocket dimension before closing right back up. It also leaves all their loot out for you, inexplicably.
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Implementing a hostage negotiation segment for a side quest, kinda forgot I wrote this option lol
4a. [Luck 9] You may want to take a step back within the next 5 seconds.
[SUCCEEDED] {Dismissive}Oh yeah? And why is that, huh?
{Dialogue terminates; a small meteorite pierces the house's roof and strikes his head, killing him.}
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What I like to do when I'm battling that kind of indecisiveness on a day off is set a timer; if task A doesn't take by the time the hour's up, on to task B it is, etc. Worst case, I'll have made a little bit of progress on everything, best case something clicks and I'll keep working on it
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Lobster (2015). Good watch if you enjoy dry, dark humor and surrealism
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cool, thanks for sharing
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What, like lobsterization? They made a whole film about that!
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just like how animals are disproportionately prone to evolve into crabs, my writing has a tendency to turn into surreal metafiction unless I watch myself, which I always try to do. For the sequence I'm now working on, though, I'll indulge myself. It's nice to get weird and absurd sometimes.
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'Knife Dream' is deliciously chilling. That brass backing section is *haunting* and Joe Casey has never sounded more like a plaintive street preacher than he does on this album www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TTO...
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The Knife Dream
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey, happy birthday!
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New Protomartyr album's out, looks like seasonal depression is coming early this year 😎
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We wanted to go up on the stage for another round, but the DJ skipped over us because our previous performance was so good it scared him. This is what years of modding New Vegas can and will do for your charisma and social perception
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are people in the community who are more successful, prolific & skilled than I'll ever be, but it doesn't matter for I'll always be the first to have put on a spectacularly inebriated live karaoke rendition of Earth Wind and Fire's 'September' with lStewieAl Career-best achievement tbh
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It also makes me wonder how some creators can be fine cheapening their work with worthless AI slop. Doesn't matter how good the writing and level design is, it's the voicework that lends NPCs, their stories and the spaces they inhabit the human touch, makes them feel vivid and believable.
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Spent the afternoon implementing a generic NPC variant's voicelines, and while this process is always tedious, the effect of finally hearing characters speak after they've been walking around completely mute for years before truly can't be overstated.
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Been running around like a headless chicken all week, which left me little time and energy to work on the mod... so I guess I'll just have to make tonight count! Gonna import the lines for a generic NPC variant into the game and maybe splice some voice files. Every bit of progress is worth pursuing!
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy birthday!
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Vault Boy Smiling and Pointing
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In whatever the opposite of today's news is, academic deadlines are the bane of my existence and I can't wait to be out of uni for good so I can earn enough money to get by & focus on making cool shit in my free time
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another day, another level done #leveldesign #modding #fallout
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Okay, this was the best thing to ever happen to the mod - I've fully wrapped up a side quest & two levels since then, all of which had been gathering dust for months previously. Turns out that introducing a minimum of organizational structure into your workflow is actually... useful?!!
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Westside Noir always strives to provide the player an immersive power fantasy
[Strength] <Try to crack your knuckles> I wouldn’t tell me no if I were y... ouch, owie, my fingers!
[FAILED] Are you trying to make me laugh or shudder with embarrassment, Profligate? Either way, you’re succeeding.[Strength < 7] <Pick up spoon> You see this? <You try to bend it> That... uh... <it won’t budge> that could... <you smash it against the counter, accidentally dropping it in the process> that could happen to you if you don’t talk!
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Set some time aside this week to go against my disorganized, ADHD-addled modder instincts and build a task tracker in excel. The goal is to list, prioritize and eventually check off every task remaining on the road towards the mod's completion (excepting writing-related tasks)
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's simultaneously also P.T., and the Kellog memory sequence from Fallout 4, underfed by a hefty helping of Max Payne levels of world-weary private eye narration. I wasn't necessarily planning on having it pan out that way, but hey, here we are
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Following some revision passes, it turns out I'm doing a House of Leaves. Kinda, sorta fell into it. No regerts
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I also have an install of TW3 that used to wait patiently for me to play it for well over a year, and has been patiently waiting for me to pick it back up since June. Sorry Geralt, but it's such a big time commitment 😔
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Well, yeah? Hence everything I said above. There is no good reason for them to maintain their claim to the property anymore
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm not gonna go all copyright abolitionist here, but shit like this, basic concerns of media preservation, are why any rights holders' claims to media should expire WAY sooner than currently the case. How much money could Warner Bros possibly be making off 'Murder, My Sweet's (1944) still?
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's always fun when you want to watch a classic film for research purposes, but it's not streaming anywhere that won't give your computer the clap & the last few used BluRays are 50 bucks a piece. Why enforce copyright on your 80 year old film if you're not going to offer it legally?
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Never heard of it, appreciate the recommendation!
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
PSA: the first act of Venus Fly Trap, the novella I wrote together with @cwgoode.bsky.social is now available FOR FREE on Quibble for those of you who prefer to sample the wares before going all-in: app.goquibble.com/books/venus-... #booksky #quibble #selfpublishing #indiebooks #indieauthors
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And so has the process of writing the dream sequences in Venus Fly Trap - A Novella, which YOU SHOULD BUY RIGHT NOW
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Hypnotic Concentric Rings Illusion
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Trying to nail down the script for Westside Noir's drugged-up dream sequence rn. It's pretty difficult to write something this abstract, but years of watching David Lynch and the Sopranos have prepared me for this
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Twin Peaks Twin Peaks Cinematography
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Connor W. Goode / Author @cwgoode.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
‘Gazing upon his waxen face up close…she found herself a witness to a nightmare of grotesquery cast into flesh; the tangy pores…the dye oozing out of his failing hair transplant and down the sides of his surgically tautened scalp, his unnatural white smile…it was too much to take.’ — Venus Fly Trap
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Connor W. Goode / Author @cwgoode.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I think one of the sad things about publishing in this environment is the countless books with obvious ai covers. A lot of time and money goes into trying to at least give your book a professional look but then it sits along side these low effort ai slop and they’re innumerable.
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I will say that actually playing and getting enjoyment out of the game every once in a while is kinda vital if you don't want to burn out from modding it. The process can be a bit of a slog to go through, and there will be a point where you'll need to justify the effort expended to yourself
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I could not LOCK IN sufficiently, so some roles will have to wait till next week. Will still try to cast 1 or 2 more tonight
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The plan is also to have assigned all currently available roles on the casting call until then, the success of which will hinge largely on whether I can LOCK IN tomorrow
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'El' Pascal Moser @elpascalmods.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Going to Berlin this weekend! Gonna get catastrophically drunk on craft beer & visit dingy back alley venues to watch obscure stand-up comics who couldn't make it in New York! Might also take a river cruise on an overpriced tour boat and overindulge on street food! The possibilities are endless!
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Wabi Sabi For Costco Frankenstein Heads @wabisabi4robots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Werner Herzog with a word balloon
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