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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Beast Breaker is sooo close to 50 reviews 👀💦

Screenshot of Beast Breaker on Steam, currently at 49 Reviews, labeled "Positive"

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

rat controller rat controller rat controller www.twitch.tv/nikoheart

Screenshot of a twitch stream of a man playing Beast Breaker holding a stuffed rat

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

okay, now it's our turn! send in those lovely reviews <3

A screenshot of Beast Breaker on steam. The current review count is 24, noted to be "Positive"

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

flashing back to bolt.com, where I pretended to be a cool teenager when I was 8 years old: preview.redd.it/late-90s-ear...

Ancient screenshot of 1990s Bolt.com, featuring a prominent poll that says "Are you in love?"

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The latest Threes update has apparently caused a hang on older devices, so it's time to whip out the Small Guns

Photo of an iPhone Mini totally out of battery being charged

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

current high score (gold plunger)

A pixelated plunger. It says "high score: 15698" beneath.

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I've only managed to get the bronze plunger so far: ashervo.itch.io/plumbsum

Screenshot of the plumbsum start screen. Bronze plunger and a score of 21419.

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

No one asked for a new tetris-like in 2025, but here we are. This is my game Plumbsum, which is about organizing pipes. ashervo.itch.io/plumbsum

A screenshot of the start screen for a game called "Plumbsum" -- there is a conspicuous plunger.

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Here is a list of concrete actions you can take to protect yourself.

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How to change your behavior
The following is a non-exhaustive list of examples:

If you smell smoke or see ash on the ground or in the air, put on an N95 mask or better. “Your eyes and nose are the best detectors.”

If you see ash on the ground, treat it like toxic waste. Avoid it, or put on full protective gear to clean it up. (You can purchase cheap disposable Tyvek suits online.)

Do not put the ash back into the air with leaf blowers. There are very specific cleaning guides you should follow. Put the captured ash into bags, seal the bags, and dispose them.

Only use vacuums with HEPA filters.

Avoid tracking ash into houses or cars. Take off your shoes and/or wipe them down with baby wipes when entering interior spaces.

HVAC systems and air purifiers must use HEPA filters and the filters should be changed much more regularly right now, at least once a month.

Change your car air filters to carbon activated air filters.

If you have any cloth that smells like smoke, throw it out because many of these chemicals cannot be washed out and can be absorbed through your skin.

During the first few rains, stay away from storm drains, running water, and beaches. They will almost certainly be moving toxic ash.

Wipe off your pets’ paws when they come in from outside.

Do not send children to schools that don’t have upgraded HVAC systems. (At least MERV 13 filters or higher). Make sure the school replaces these filters regularly.

Do not send children to schools near burn sites.

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

If you take away anything from this doc, please understand this: the ash all over LA is toxic to breathe and to touch.

The ash from the fires is toxic to breathe and to touch. It contains lead, arsenic, asbestos, and other dangerous chemicals that can have serious long-term health complications, including death.

The motivation of this seminar was to help people avoid “the disaster after the disaster,” aka the public health crisis that can occur after a natural disaster when society rushes to return to normalcy.

People really want concrete answers right now, but the Coalition emphasized that this is a pretty unprecedented situation, so it’s hard to give exact guidelines about distances affected and timelines for resolution.

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Here's the mostly-final results! It's basically 10 headphone jacks attached to an arduino. It's missing an LED, but I'm waiting to see how I'm gonna mount that in the final project. Next step is to design and print an enclosure for this thing.

An electronics project on a green work mat. Ten headphone jacks on a prototype circuit board, attached by a rainbow ribbon cable to an upside-down Arudino.

The back view of an electronics project on a green work mat. Ten headphone jacks on a prototype circuit board, attached by a rainbow ribbon cable to an upside-down Arudino.

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

This has been a great learning project. I've tried a bunch of different connection types. Headers, ribbons, colored wires, stripped wires... I would definitely make different choices if I was making this again, but I'm glad I've tried all these different options.

An electronics setup, where a rainbow ribbon of cables is roughly soldered onto a prototype circuit board. It's all being held up with small clamps.

The bottom of a prototype circuit board being held up with clamps. Colorful wires follow right angles to their destination. A small group of male-to-male PCB headers is soldered orthogonally in the lower right.

A male PCB header being soldered onto the side of a prototype circuit board. All held up with clamps above a bright green work mat.

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

This is a relatively simple project/circuit, but the repetition has been extremely helpful as a way to practice soldering and wire stripping.

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Electronics project is a-go!! This has been an extremely fun few days and it's a welcome distraction from *gestures at everything*

Picture of a hand with chipped nail polish holding a small prototype circuit board with colorful wires. Messy desk with a soldering iron and plants in the background.

A circuit board with colorful wires and several headphone jacks on a project mat.

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

I never use this thing... what just happened

Screenshot of Bluesky notifications show me gaining hundreds of followers in the past 18 hours.

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

So a fun detail about Steam (as opposed to other stores), is that they don't automatically release the game for you on the specified date. I have to *press the button* at some point tonight.

Detailed steam backend screenshot, featuring a big green button that says "Release Right Now"

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Threes finally has a page on the Steam store. We'll be launching it on PC in honor of it's 10th birthday

A screenshot of the Threes store page on Steam. It has a planned release date of Feb 6, 2024.

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

Going for some kind of record vis-a-vis number of cracks in a single phone

IPhone Mini chock-a-block full of cracks

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Asher Vollmer @ashervo.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

I'm running a D&D one shot next week from a pre-made module, which I've never done before. (I've always homebrewed/free-styled in the past.) So I've gone and made a little program that feeds the module into ChatGPT, with the idea being that I can ask it questions about the module during play.

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