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Pat Ashe

@patrickashe.bsky.social
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Production & curation stuff with those pesky videogames at places like Hollow Ponds, Honeyslug, Wild Rumpus, Beta Public. Grampians Champion.

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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 11h
I try not to be too much of a smug middle class prick in terms of talking about my parenting but I honestly don’t understand how people who have the financial means to do so aren’t using reusables nappies and wipes. They are so much better than disposables on every front.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 11h
Would you like to just smear shite around your baby’s arse rather than removing it? Why not try wet wipes!
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 11h
Been away this weekend with the baby without our box of reusable wipes and my god how do other parents cope just using wet wipes.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Imagine right, a work of art doesn’t need remaking for modern times, you could just meet it on its own terms and context.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I do love the gamer sickness of “I love this game, so peak, they should remake it”.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is run by the same one as the big one in Sheffield and they recently switched it all over to this shite, all these places just had normal photos like 6 months ago.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's amazing how quickly my eyes glaze over upon seeing 3 upgrades in a game trailer these days.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Man on the bus having a very heated conversation on the phone about Sailor Moon.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dreamt I was watching a trailer for a new Luigi’s Mansion game but Luigi wasn’t in it.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Like the reason things like Aerith's death in FF7 was so shocking to a bunch of people was that she was just a totally normal party member. If you literally don't add the character to the party menu then I know that character ain't making it to the credits.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Playing a recent JRPG at the moment and it did a big shocking character death about ten hours in and it might've had more impact if the character had been on the box art and maybe been a character I could control rather than just standing at the side of fights being like "yeah, go for it!".
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So if anyone wants a free copy of Ken Russell’s Mike & Gaby’s Space Gospel please make yourself known.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The person sending you two copies so you can “pass one on to a friend who might also like it”.
Two copies of Mike & Gaby’s Space Gospel by Ken Russell on my colourful bedspread.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What could be better than one copy of Ken Russell’s most likely bad debut novel you impulse bought?
A copy of Mike & Gaby’s Space Gospel by Ken Russell on my colourful bedspread.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The people of Sheffield (me) want to see Juliette Lewis be a chair god damn it!
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New hobby - pestering my local cinema to screen films that only like 5 people will want to see.
Me in the Instagram comments of a post about Amanda Kramer’s new film By Design asking my local cinema to screen it.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just can't imagine getting het up about someone flogging something that will other wise go in the bin or sit in an attic. "This is totally unacceptable!" - food shops are like triple what they used to cost a few years back, flog whatever you want if you can make cash off it.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I do feel like if you don't want journalists and influencers flogging the promo tat you send them that fans will obviously buy then don't send out promo tat that fans will obviously buy.
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's the LAST DAY to apply for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant! Applications close today at 23:59 PST! This is a fantastic opportunity for puzzle game developers from traditionally underrepresented groups and backgrounds! You can apply here: grants.draknek.org
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Went to the local produce fair, saw a pig made of vegetables.
A pig made out of various vegetables next to a certificate ranking it first.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Think he's just there as a punter with a tote bag of zines.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ah, my pal @edclef.bsky.social is there today as well, he has a very nice zine for sale/trade if you find him.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“It used to be aiming down sights now it’s worrying about your eyesight”
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Back then it was cheat codes and now it’s just mortgage rates”
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My current social media obsession is a guy who does engagement farming about being an “older gamer” so he posts things like “when you were a younger gamer all that mattered was high scores but now the real boss fight is back pain”.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I assume you’ve been documenting horrible AI posters to plaster all around the levels.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23/09/2026
vibes
a sign that says THIS IS A (burned triangle) AREA. Who knows what it used to say. it's been burned with acid and fire or maybe magic
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Their second album Come Down With Me's remix album being called Celebrity Come Down With Me is still one of my favourite titles of all time.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Randomly put on Errors' first ep and god I'd love a new album from them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z3U...
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errors - mr milk
YouTube video by RockActionRecords
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Listening to that new Bloc Party album everyone says is shit.
static.klipy.com
Arrested Development: Michael Bluth's Dead Dove
Alt: Arrested Development: Michael Bluth's Dead Dove
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do love how often Docusign emails me like "Docusign does so much more than just signing documents!!!!" and no, no you don't, you are for signing documents, stop it.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(Seriously though, he has done so much more than just The Devils and people should dig into his filmography, there is some proper gold in there and some utterly bizarre nonsense unlike anything else you'll see)
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do hope the rerelease of The Devils leads people to looking at the rest of Ken Russell's filmography like his masterwork Mindbender, the film based on the life of Uri Geller.
A film poster for Mindbender, a film by Ken Russell that tells the life story of Uri Geller.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And proud of it in this case
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m with Gelato here
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Like what do you mean you are just relying on a Google Drive link to watch something on a long term basis, get yourself some torrents and hard drive space my friends.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hate being all young people need to learn to pirate properly but young people need to learn to pirate properly.
went to go rewatch twin peaks to make myself feel better about being sick and my google drive link has expired
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you've not seen the Brass Eye sketch it's from, it's well worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJmT... We use the brass moustache all the time at work, often to talk about all the nonsense hoops you have to jump through on platform backends etc.
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Brass Eye - Young Offenders
YouTube video by fooltech
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“You just had to polish the brass moustache! It’s so obvious!”
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I do think a surprising amount of people have flase memories of beating games without walkthroughs or prior knowledge of puzzles/secrets in stuff they played when younger.
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Bachelor Soft @bachelorsoft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Most of the time I am like Torneko here…but sometimes I find a nice snack and feel like the monsters…
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Love to see a game really determined to hit every currently popular genre going. Hopefully you get to pick from 3 upgrades at regular points throughout the game.
Junji Ito-inspired cozy paranormal cleaning game Dust till Dawn announced for PC
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A horror game set in a city next to an absolutely huge quarry where the city is entirely made of the stone mined from that quarry is a killer set up. Also the health pick ups would be butterys.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I do love my amazing and wonderful daughter so much but honestly the teeth grinding phase she is in is utterly hateful to listen to so I will soon be leaving her in the woods.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I often remember that first Devoted & Disgruntled I went to in like 2011 being themed around “singing in the dark times”, would be nice for the dark times to end soon or even just ebb for a bit.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Firing up the torrents as we speak:
Screengrab frpm Letterboxd showing the synopsis of a film. The text reads:

I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
Zabil jsem Einsteina, pánové...

1970 DIRECTED BY
Oldřich Lipský
95 mins
Synopsis
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician’s research there will be no atomic bombs.
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 19/09/2026
peterson's rock garden, redmond, oregon, 1987
peterson's rock garden, redmond, oregon, 1987
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
She couldn’t understand why I was excitedly taking photos of a car park, an experience she was soon to live through several times that holiday.
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Pat Ashe @patrickashe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Talking to my partner about the possibility of going back to Japan one day, remembering the excitement of that first night on our trip there of stumbling across the car park from the Yakuza games.
A car park in Tokyo covered in adverts for host clubs.
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Dziff @dziff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some news! Turning a page and opening a new one 🌱 This summer, I left Nerial 🥲 Thanks to the whole team for all the cool projects, and kindness 🙏 ✨~ So here I am, available again as a freelancer in art direction and game art, 2D/3D ~✨ You can check my work at www.dziff.com and my dms are open ~
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