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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Checking the Amanita circle with one of the local semi-feral boys. These things keep coming!

Four photos of yellow orange fly amanitas, growing in a ring near some fallen oak logs. A tuxedo cat is exploring them, and I'm the ground is covered in moss.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So this is some kind of Mecha Vietnam, huh.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't know if it's the *best* place to properly start watching Gundam, but giving 08th MS Team a shot. I'm loving the parallax-scrolling orbital machine gore so far!

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Got a proper fairy ring of Yellow-Orange Fly Amanita growing in the yard. Apparently the kind of mushroom that gets you high, and gives you dysphoria? Nevertheless, choosing to take the ring as a blessing for my interview later this week.

Photo of a cluster of young yellow-orange fly amanita, with round eggy-orange caps with white flecks all over them.

Photo of a cluster of a half-ring of yellow-orange fly amanita, sprouting up near a pile of chopped logs. They're growing where the roots of the chopped tree used to be.

An excerpt from the wikipedia page from Amanita Muscaria Formosa (Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria_var._formosa). It reads:

Biochemistry:

As with other Amanita muscaria, the formosa variety contains ibotenic acid, and muscimol, two psychoactive constituents which can cause effects such as hallucinations, synaesthesia, euphoria, dysphoria and retrograde amnesia. The effects of muscimol and ibotenic acid most closely resemble that of a Z drug, like Ambien at high doses, and not a classical psychedelic, i.e. psilocybin.

Ibotenic acid is mostly broken down into the body to muscimol, but what remains of the ibotenic acid is believed to cause the majority of dysphoric effects of consuming A. muscaria mushrooms. Ibotenic acid is also a scientifically important neurotoxin used in lab research as a brain-lesioning agent in mice.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Taking a course on renewable energy has had the side effect of giving me a lot of neat ideas for letting players engineer modular power systems in Gremlin Game.

Screenshot of text from a project note-taking app. It reads:

"Energy Systems: Photovoltaic power is daytime and weather/season dependent. It generally wants to be paired with battery systems for storage. Light can be the most versatile, either directly providing heat or converting to electricity via photovoltaics. It requires more specialized materials and manufacturing capacity. Solar cooking, boiling, distillation, and even smelting is possible. ~20-40% efficient.

Hydroelectric power runs constantly, though it is affected seasonally by flow or freezes/drought. It gets its power from Flow (rate and volume of water moving through) and Head (how far it falls between intake to turbine). This makes it more dependent on conditions like location. Water is denser and yields higher energy production, and also requires relatively simple technology. ~50-75% efficient. Intake is the most maintenance-intensive (clogging, etc)

Wind power needs to be far above ground to avoid turbulence, and must be built to match the expected wind speed for good efficiency, but scales exponentially with wind speed and rotor size. It thrives in areas with inclement weather and harder-to-control conditions, so its equipment needs more maintenance.

Geothermal power is the best for capturing heat for direct use in industrial processes (from hot springs, thermal vents, etc). Can be used to boil water for steam generators. Ground source heat exchange can be used anywhere to stabilize temperatures (use ground as heatsink or heat source) as long as exchanger is buried below frost line for that climate.

Bioenergy extracts energy as part of the decomposition process of biomass. Can be processed into biofuel/biogas, natural gas can be captured from anaerobic decomposition, ethanol from plant matter, and burning agricultural waste (feces, chaff, etc)

Hydrogen Fuel Cells (and Natural Gas Fuel Cells) can synthesize combustible gas using a source of..."

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Newly able to drive again! I love how excited ID cards get about my eyes and hair, too.

Cropped photo of an ID card.

Eyes: BRO
Hair: BRO

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WARNING: A huge career pivot PHOTOVOLTAIC APPRENTICE is approaching fast

A confirmation message for a newly submitted job application, for a "Solar Installer - Electrical Apprentice" role.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wicked stressful morning, so I'm working through my audiobook backlog, and reinforcing a hole in some old jeans, to give my hands and brain something to do. Doing slow, methodical work feels so nice, sometimes.

A frayed hole in the knee of a pair of faded denim jeans, with hand-stitched white thread been sewn around it.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

PS1-era game magazine advertisement voice: "What'll it be, manlet? Are you?"

Steam page for Medieval Juice Crafter. The video autoplaying on the page shows a high fidelity realistic environment, with a man in a colorful outfit slinging a giant silver carafe over one shoulder, with the caption "Are you ready to become a juice crafter?"

The description for the game reads: "Craft your special recipe juices and sell them in medieval villages. Expand your business with new recipes, machines, properties, and workers. Play online with your friend or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your business."

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Went out with Psyché to explore the local brook, now dried into a sandy little path in the woods.

A photo of a calico cat in a teal harness, descending a slope covered in leaf litter and shrubs, toward a sandy path left behind by a now dried brook.

A photo of a calico cat, balanced on a large fallen branch, in a leafy and undergrowth-filled wooded area.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some people say this, when they walk into the same room as me.

Screenshot of TXT.WORLD.

It shows an ASCII based game, with a message that reads:

"The message reads: Amazing trap ahead" with a confirm prompt reading "Got it".

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've found inverse hulls can be pretty good for outlines, especially for retro low poly models, and when applied in screenpace terms so it's always a constant pixel width. My current favorite with round models/smooth normals, is a sharpened fresnel-based outline paired with soft cel shading.

Early screenshot of Dog Nightmare, with a duplicate mesh inverse hull, offset toward light to create a rim light.

A screenshot of Amber Isle, showing fesnel angle-of-incidence based rim outlines in light and dark, based on what direction is illuminated.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Car's still broke, and I don't want to uber or hike to the nearest laundromat, so I'm going washerwoman mode with the bathtub.

Photo of a white plastic washbasin, filled with soapy water, inside a bathtub. A teal sheet of patterned fabric is being washed by hand in it.

A series of jeans and tank tops, hanging from wooden stair railings in the sun, near the door to a house.

More colorful articles of clothing, draped on the corner of a wooden stairwell.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Added an expansion to my Root collection, and really excited to try 'em out tonight! The asymmetry of each new faction changes the tactical possibility space for any match up, and keeps it fresh. Brilliant and impressive feat of design! Kinda want to get the Riverfolk and Underworld sets now...

A photo of the board game Root, plus the hirelings box, Marauders, and Homeland expansions.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Got a visit from a very special guest.

A photo of a praying mantis, turning their head toward the camera.

Another photo of a praying mantis, looking to the right.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Took an evening walk down to the bay with The Entity.

Photo of a rock-lined bay at twilight. On the left is a blurry, translucent humanoid shape, through which house lights can be seen.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Little more work on job markers, particularly on flagging active and inactive jobs that can't be completed!

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Additional findings, in the form of treats for getting my errands done.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Important findings, on today's walk. The semi-feral tuxedo cat who always says hello when we cross paths, a tenacious little staghorn sumac sapling, and a scraggly mushroom of unknown providence.

A tuxedo cat with a bowtie collar, smiling with squinted eyes while he gets some scritches.

A single stem of staghorn sumac, growing in a crack between a paved street, and the curb.

A photo of a cluster of brown and white common mushrooms, with a scraggly cap

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Like, look at this extremely lush 2D and 3D pixel work. Every environment in Albion is it's own retro sci-fi painting for a book cover.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Offering my services, as a relatively butch and broad-built queer, to the other queers who want someone to walk or do errands or attend parties with, who makes them look more femme by comparison.

Selfie taken, while distracted and looking off to one side. A brick building and tree are visible in the background

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This might be a bit too energetic for standard moving speed, but I like the feel. #GameDev #PixelArt

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Alas, I was wrong twice. (Thanks! It's a funky little homebrew tileset I made, to make a 3D dual-grid that also plays nice with Marching Cubes!)

Blender screenshot showing curved and angular pieces of game terrain geometry.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Working on some poses and keyframes for my gremlins! It's still so fun, seeing what smooth upscaling does to 24x32 pixel sprites! Using thick high-contrast outlines and chunky solid-color blobs helps preserve the forms, and general sense of volume. #GameDev #PixelArt

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wanted to give the job markers a bit more juice, so I'm trying out some animation, plus an x-ray effect. Figure I might want to color-code job markers based on urgency, so the stripe colors are all configurable too! #GameDev #Godot

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Update: Little cube has agreed to behave. For now.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not exactly the output I was looking for, little cube, but good work nevertheless!

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Finally implementing some task designations, for telling your little guys what to do! They still don't really know how to do anything *about* them (that's next on the docket), but at least they're aware these tasks exist, so they can factor them into their movement and plan-making! #Godot #GameDev

A screenshot of a grid-based debug cave environment, with a series of shovel icons appearing on a wall, and a sickle icon appearing on one of the cave's mushrooms. A gremlin nearby is pathing toward the mushroom.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It helps protect against my malign influences.

A photo of a yellow and red truck that says "Dana Insulation" on the side.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Made an experimental olive oil based vegan chocolate shortbread, with some salted dark chocolate spread on top. So far, 3 reviews are placing it among my best baking, so I'm gonna have to iterate on this one!

A round chocolate shortbread cookie, with a dark fudge-like spread on top.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I brought too many projectiles to the too many projectiles fight, but I'm doing my best.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Enjoying the whole retro anime Hades + Vampire Survivor thing that Hell Maiden has going on.

A scene from the lead in to a boss fight with Minos, depicted as a snake-tailed, green-haired, pointy eared woman with a huge black hat with golden horns.

She says "Confess to me, Dante Alighieri!"

Virgil, a woman with pink hair and wearing a ribbon-and-drapey-fabric number, with roses in her hair, reacts with shock.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Popping the hood on this car has been overdue. Between the oil being low, and the battery not having been charged much in the last few months, i'm hoping a jump and some fresh oil is enough to get car starting again... Definitely cannot afford parts, if this is a fuel filter or pump issue. :V

Photo of a red Ford with the hood open, showing the engine

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This blog put words to why I don't label my work as "not made with AI", despite that I'll never use it. I have too much respect for myself, and the crafts I want to improve. I don't want to cede the position of what's assumed or normal to GenAI. As the ones doing harm, they should label themselves.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

She's been in a very "Sprint really fast then leap up into a tree" mood today. I only got a few pictures, but she literally jumped into 6 or so, on one walk.

Cat in a crook of an old tree, facing downward and preparing to jump.

Cat balanced on a shoulder-high fallen tree trunk, sniffing at the splintered part of the trunk, where the wood split 90 degrees.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Fair enough, quiz. Fair enough.

PERSEVERANCE

PURPLE SOUL · #D535D9

Despite the odds being stacked against me, I still moved forward.

*This was close. integrity finished 1.6 points behind. Slightly different answers may have yielded a different result

Your full spread
PER 80%
INT 78%
KND 75%
JUS 68%
BRV 66%
PAT 56%
DET 48%

50% is neutral. Above it you leaned toward that virtue, below it you leaned away.

What is perseverance?

Perseverance is about being willing to bend, but not to break. It's the push to keep moving forward even when the destination seems unreachable; and it's about accepting all the pain that comes along with doing so.

The shadow of one's soul

An unhealthy Perseverance is usually unwilling to let things end. It can be close-minded and insistent, often hurting everyone involved in the process: the Persevering are the most susceptible to the sunk cost fallacy.

It can also build up a quiet resentment toward those it's been enduring for, as an unhealthy Perseverance often doesn't say things until it's too late.

Your secondary virtue

Your second-strongest virtue is INTEGRITY, at 78%.

Thanks to INTEGRITY's wish to stay true to itself regardless of the circumstances, coupled with PERSEVERANCE's unwavering drive to keep going no matter how difficult things get, the integrous Persevering is the kind of person that will work towards their goals without ever betraying their ideals. Upright, trustworthy and strong-willed, they will always try to do what they think is right along the way, even if it means taking a detour.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Went to the co-op, and all the cheese was gay.

$A rainbow refracting onto a pile of shredded cheese.$

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've got plans for how to make clothes reusable across different sprites and body types. Lucky for me, the first step toward that is making more quick character doodles! #PixelArt #GameDev #Godot

A short animal character, a mid-height cat character, and a tall broad-built character with horns, stand in a neutral pose in different colored jumpsuits.

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Gadget Patch @gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

With some doing, I managed to snap a photo through the lenses. Just a little chunk missing here, across the Atlantic, but it's enough that the birds started the evening chorus hours early.

A photo of a partial eclipse through solar lenses, where a bite sized chunk is missing from the orange disk of the sun.

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