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Gerritt “Murder Ballad” McThrill

@mcthrill

He/him. Freelance animator, artist, illustrator and amateur clawhammer banjo enthusiast. Very tired most of the time.

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A cool thing about being a human being is that sometimes, you’ll just suddenly be really really bad at something you’ve done thousands of times over the last couple decades. My face looks like a cat fought it after shaving today.

12.03.2026 12:31 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

if you hot swap the cartridges one after another within 30 seconds you get to play Quest 192.

12.03.2026 11:44 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Love this new stage of capitalism where the thing I buy increases in price between when I click „put in shopping cart“ and „purchase item“ and then the company also delists the thing a day after I bought it and I can no longer play it.

10.03.2026 11:25 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1

Very sad to see continued erasure of his best role though - not a single mention of „poetry man“ from the iconic sci-fi masterpiece that is Lexx.

10.03.2026 07:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They wrote a song about him called "John Brown's Body." It contains those famous lyrics, "John brown's body is standing in line to vote, he's patiently waiting so he doesn't rock the boat"

09.03.2026 15:10 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A children’s drawing of Gandalf and Beorn from The Hobbit done in markers. Gandalf is small and surrounded by multicolored smoke rings and is wearing a grey coat, red pants, and a blue hat. Beorn is barefoot and wearing a brown jerkin. Both characters have very long wavy beards.

A children’s drawing of Gandalf and Beorn from The Hobbit done in markers. Gandalf is small and surrounded by multicolored smoke rings and is wearing a grey coat, red pants, and a blue hat. Beorn is barefoot and wearing a brown jerkin. Both characters have very long wavy beards.

Ahh neat another excuse to post my kid’s drawing of Gandalf and Beorn!

09.03.2026 11:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly my biggest complaint about the Albuquerque International Sunport is that there are no international flights in or out of it, service is domestic only.

08.03.2026 23:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There are two kinds of tattoo shops, ones who will do nazi symbols and ones who won’t. There’s generally no confusion about which kind you’re in.

07.03.2026 07:09 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was just a quick one-off tweet but it lived in my head for over a year until it ultimately convinced me to put money down for the game.

06.03.2026 14:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I decided to buy Qud because I suddenly remembered a tweet I saw years earlier from Brian Bucklew talking about problems with randomly generating quests, exemplified by a village asking the player to recover their stolen solid titanium security door that weighed 10,000 pounds.

06.03.2026 14:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What if... even if you don't know what the item is, it *still* sounds cool as hell.

06.03.2026 09:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fog city *and* nightmare city? In this economy?

27.02.2026 15:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am the fresh salty smell of the sea breeze.

27.02.2026 15:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am the ocean, and all that it encompasses.

27.02.2026 15:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Whoa I'm seeing double, four Krusties!" I don't have a reason why, it's just the funniest thing in the whole show to me.

24.02.2026 15:39 👍 67 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

I have a friend who met Harris in a bookstore a few years before Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog came out and introduced himself by asking "Hey aren't you Doogie Howser?" He said that Harris looked really annoyed by that.

21.02.2026 16:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

since I took up banjo and started playing songs that are almost exclusively 100 years old or older, one thing that's stood out to me over and over is that no matter what I'm worried about someone 100 years ago wrote a song that perfectly sums up how I'm feeling.

18.02.2026 22:15 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

If it sounds muted, like my phone was stuffed between two couch cushions to film this, that's because my phone was stuffed between two couch cushions to film this.

18.02.2026 19:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cherokee Shuffle, my latest song obsession. It’s so good! I love the dip into f#m. The light show in the background is courtesy of my kid who was building something at the time. #clawhammer #banjofeed #banjo #oldtime

18.02.2026 19:01 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Nice! What style?

17.02.2026 13:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not sure if you want horror included in this, if you do I really enjoyed „The Vourdalak.“ Also uses a lot of practical puppetry effects too!

17.02.2026 06:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s so good!

15.02.2026 15:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I saw a doom metal band called „glitter wizard“ play in SF and I bought a sticker from them, and it was only afterwards that I realized the wizards on it weren’t just casting spells at each other but at each other’s dicks.

13.02.2026 18:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I had German Mexican food once and the burrito came with mozzarella cheese. Not outstandingly gross but also definitely not what I would have chosen.

11.02.2026 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

„Splurging“ on a sub-$10 item that can famously and easily be made into a series of meals over the course of a week.

11.02.2026 07:02 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

There were about 3k there, I think, so even if they did remove 700 it wouldnt make much of a difference.

08.02.2026 21:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dude I have no idea what they did behind the scenes but the autocorrect is just beyond useless now.

06.02.2026 12:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wind Waker, Darkest Dungeon, Cuphead, Hollow Knight. Those are the ones that immediately come to mind.

03.02.2026 06:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So much of my early career is based in Flash and there isn’t even another program that can open the files!

03.02.2026 06:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’d love to see your top 10 snails being attacked by knights or something similar.

01.02.2026 22:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0