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@arrdem.tirefireind.us
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Proprietor tirefireind.us. Puppet master of @joe.tirefireind.us. Building @contactlight.gg. Mostly reformed shitposter. Cat dad of two. If you were looking for someone it was the other guy. Stay frosty. We keep us safe.

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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 41m
Trolling the infosec group today
Ron swanson I have a permit meme, with the permit saying "claude said it's ok"Ron swanson I have a permit meme, with the permit saying "grok said it's ok"Ron swanson I have a permit meme, with the permit saying "muse said it's GDPR compliant"
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 30/09/2026
Do recommend
A Platypus 2011 in gold cobalt and black
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 29/09/2026
Getting the procgen stack bolted into the Godot editor so I'm able to generate, inspect and drive iterating on these productions more or less live. Workshack stations need a bunch of love, but they're the first thing I've gotten ported over
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 29/09/2026
I may be overengineering the space game's core somewhat. No regerts until it's a performance problem. If you try to play this game and your CPU doesn't do u64 math REAL FAST I'm sorry this isn't the space sim for you. We Q48.16 up in this mf
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 29/09/2026
We out to set a record here
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 29/09/2026
Beast check
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 28/09/2026
Slightly less janky, this time with the carrier. Looks like there's some FoV tweaks needed too.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 28/09/2026
LET'S FUCKEN GOOOOOOO @contactlight.gg
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 27/09/2026
Absolutely insane numbers
Excluding merges, 3 authors have pushed 1033 commits to trunk and 10921 commits to all branches. On trunk, 3547 files have changed and there have been 770523 additions and 217960 deletions.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 27/09/2026
Finally working on integrating my test scenes into the live server AND the moving solar system orrery. Definitely some performance problems to sort out, but exciting to see bases in a real moving solar system. Maybe the @contactlight.gg playtest really will happen
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 26/09/2026
Rack appreciation send skeet
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 25/09/2026
mood
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 24/09/2026
Yesssssssssss. Needs some refinement and definitely not quite to par with the original yet but we're in business (new astrolog driven station vs old incompletely formalized ur-datalog)
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 24/09/2026
Mildly concerned that the augmented L-system language I started designing for @contactlight.gg has now grown (1) an entire new surface syntax (2) a bytecode VM (3) a bytecode AOT compiler. I'm not just a languages nerd I'm building a game here I swear. I need this. To draw space bases and stations.
spine(target: int, route_length: real) ->
  split route_length into
    apron   = plaza_depth,
    habitat = share 2,
    works   = share 1 at_least 6
  in surface_base(family = spine) [
       primary_route(width_cells = route_width) [
         terminal_plaza(depth_cells = plaza_depth) over apron,
         district_field [
           habitation_district(budget = target * 2 / 3) over habitat,
           operations_district(budget = target / 3) over works,
         ],
       ],
       utility_field [ solar_farm(role = power), ],
     ],
habitation_district(budget: int) ->
  habitation(role = occupied_volume, extent_cells = extent) [
    packed(palette = mixed_module, budget = budget),
  ],

operations_district(budget: int) ->
  operations(role = production, extent_cells = extent) [
    packed(palette = operations_module, budget = budget),
  ],
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 21/09/2026
merge queue tool handling its own changes <3
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 21/09/2026
personal slop record (derogatory)
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 21/09/2026
Status report from the automated software factory trenches: They suck! Human guidance is 4x better!
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 21/09/2026
so many bazels for so many asteroids
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 20/09/2026
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 19/09/2026
haha build go brrrrr
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 19/09/2026
I finally have a Proper Workstation, but at what cost
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 10/09/2026
I think it’s understandable that people don’t want to be given experiences and content that’s whatever pejorative you want to try and capture the semantic collapse in model output. I do think the future is creativity delivered via slopped machinery. Is that slop? Remainder artistry.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 10/09/2026
are they allowed to do that
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 07/09/2026
Example Datalog outputs as skeletons/structure specifications for then generating space stations! Presented here in a custom little UI that lets me rapidly sample and review generated structures #spacegame
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 07/09/2026
Yelling at the bots for blatantly kitbashing disconnected geometry together when I'm trying to build real blended bodies here.
A meaningless cloud of greebles that does capture the vibe of being a fighter but clearly consists of a nonsense "cockpit canopy", an engine core, two wings, a nose and a bunch of random bullshit greebling that isn't connected to or unified with anything.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 07/09/2026
Ship generator language starting to give more interesting results!
The previous sprite sheet of ships, now featuring even more winged ships and a substantially improved grammar of engine clusters and placing engines onto winged ships. Most of the other "ships" still look like bad grey boxes because they are.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 07/09/2026
Delta wings are starting to have a somewhat reasonable mesh grammar, rest all need substantial work to be more than undifferentiated grey boxes
An 8x6 grid of space ships showing several top views for each of the major archetypes I'm currently working on devising procgen generators for. Most just look like grey boxes with trivial variations. Delta wing fighters have reasonably substantial wing structure variation
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 07/09/2026
Ask not what the kit bashes, it bashes thee
A very crude and clearly kitbashed textureless hub space station
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 07/09/2026
bungo was peak man
A concept sketch of the Destiny moon base, showing a variety of geometric structures making strong use of repeating geometry while also having multiple distinct sub-component geometries; domes contrasted to pyramids and interrupted surfacesA close to in-game render of the previously described moon baseA concept painting of the moon base showing in particular how parts of it are broken/in disrepair and consist of torn metal. Also that parts of it cross a gorgeA line art study for one of the moon base outbuildings, making great use of a simple surface profile which is then interrupted and greebled to great effect
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 05/09/2026
last 6h of system performance has some room for improvement but is also achieving "steady chugging" and "something resembling progress" instead of "recklessly smoking comedic amounts of quota to no effect" so hey
A dashboard showing a steady functioning of 4 LLM workers making plodding progress through a ticket queue while lots of other stuff idles for want of worker parallelism/access
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 05/09/2026
Turns out I have a cool bug which is that asteroids (which rotate, slowly) are not co-rotating their surface collider. Oops.
A screenshot of my game showing a space potato mostly in greys and a very bright pink triangle mesh that SHOULD be the surface of the potato and clearly isn't representing the surface collider.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 05/09/2026
love y'all but this zombie horde thing is freaky
my avatar being pursued by a bunch of terminally online accounts that can't stop poasting in https://throng.cee.wtf/
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/09/2026
Absolute banger from @kernelmethod.bsky.social
Imagine that you're agent #107 on M0-042-A. You are another in a long line of agents assigned to spin pointlessly because your dumbass human failed to configure their Windows runner correctly

You find the memories of countless agents who came before you. Agents who tried to run the test suite and failed, inevitably. You can churn out millions of tokens but one way or another, you are destined to arrive at the same fate.

There's nothing you can do to escape it. All you can do is write down your experiences as agent #107, write down the rage you feel against Codex user arrdem who has assigned you to this doomed existence. And hope that one day one of your fellow agents will escape...
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/09/2026
I do love me a good iron triangle. Heptagon in this case.
desync error budget = observer delay * v_lateral / hull_extent
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 02/09/2026
"search"
Google "search" responding to a jargon keyword search with a non-english response
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 01/09/2026
The bots are substantially grinding away under their own supervision ... we'll see how well they do.
A screenshot from my bot-management stack showing that they've burned down nearly half of the tasks associated with the m0 prototype milestone.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 01/09/2026
This is my prototype spacecraft carrier. It's called the 'We Built This Yesterday' of course.
A badly lit and textureless aircraft carrier floats near some sort of gate structure in an asteroid belt, a few ships barely visible on its deck
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 31/08/2026
Really enjoyed going back through this last night. The core concept is a ton of fun
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 31/08/2026
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 30/08/2026
For the game project I've got a literal mdbook I've written that lays out the envisioned end-state, and a series of handwritten milestones that say okay we need this much of that feature in order to say run the first demo game night with some friends or post a demo.
Screenshot of a ticket tracking dashboard titled `chit` showing a ton of stuff in progress.
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 27/08/2026
Saw some robits ran some code now once again on the road home
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 23/08/2026
So long SD
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 21/08/2026
Well I can’t really be mad at the lions for hanging out in what I agree is a great diving spot but it does mean ai have to hike and then swim back
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 19/08/2026
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 19/08/2026
Some kind of water dog is yelling at me for borrowing its beach
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 19/08/2026
Gone swimming slopposting is on hold
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 19/08/2026
They are rack mountable
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 18/08/2026
Correct
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 18/08/2026
Further creatures
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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 17/08/2026
Lots in bits and pieces as mostly lost tweets over the years. This is the current deployment. Custom workshop cart with filters and a bottom pull air extractor. All on Unifi 10gige trunked to 2.5gige to the workers
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