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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 24/09/2026

Ordered the first set of new Choosatron boards, fully populated! Really hope they work. 😬 #choosatron

A bunch of thermal paper with Choosatron test stories printed on it.

Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 17/09/2026

The feature set I'm most excited about, much more than multiplayer, is localization and translation! Still a few things to work out but really close on this. Not just stories but Choosatron local interface and the web interface.

Thermal paper with part of a translated Choosatron story.

Two strips of thermal paper, one with a failed foreign language print, the other with it translated.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 15/09/2026

Really excited to have a lot of fixes for handling ASCII art! #choosatron

Thermal paper with an ASCII art maze on it.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 15/09/2026

Choosatron officially supports multiplayer. #choosatron

Two strips of thermal paper with an example multiplayer Choosatron story printed on them.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 13/09/2026

Choosatron development be like...

A couple of thermal printers that have printed a snow drift of paper. Two four button inputs are also visible. These are prototype Choosatrons.

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 27/08/2026

Writing software we test test test test test. A contractor comes into your home, destroys part of it, slaps something new together and leaves. You immediately find that the most basic things don't work, couldn't have been tested even once! (Apologies to competent contractors but like where are you?)

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 24/08/2026

Question: if every child says "animal" before saying "animal", maybe they're right? Why are we forcing this issue? #teamaminal

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/07/2026

The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 13/07/2026

I'm definitely NOT celebrating that someone is alive. That's ok right? It's Mitch McConnell.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 12/07/2026

I don't celebrate their death, I'm just glad they can't continue making the world worse. I guess I'll just keep posting this message as they fall. (But also, 🎉)

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 25/06/2026

It must be hard to be an executive, having to live up to unsustainable infinite growth which turns into a cycle of copy pasted "hundreds of you are going to be real sad when you read this". Between the shareholder boot licking & having to make sure to change the project or studio name in the memo...

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 20/06/2026

If I had a superpower it would be knowing the story behind arbitrary objects. Like why was there a new set of windshield wipers sitting on top a garbage by the tram station? Or an unopened banana sitting on top a perfectly trimmed hedge? I need to know!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 15/05/2026

Happy to see the Cosmo installation I worked on like 16 years ago is still going strong!

Jerry in the Cosmo casino lobby in front of the video columns.

One of the video columns at the Cosmo Casino with mushrooms displayed.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 15/05/2026

That horrifying moment when traveling and you realize it's the first time you've pooped outside your house in like six months because the uncivilized world outside doesn't have a bidet on the toilet!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 23/04/2026

Been a whiiiiile since I've put together a slide deck. I hate making slides, but it was nice remembering I used to have a process and it actually works. Still wish I had more time to practice but cheats should get me through the pitch! Back in the saddle!

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 21/04/2026

we all know I have no life, so:

WHAT IF COLUMBO COULD REGENERATE LIKE THE DOCTOR?

1st Columbo: Groucho Marx
2nd Columbo: Danny Kaye
3rd Columbo: Sid Caesar
4th Columbo: Peter Falk (obviously he's the fourth, I mean come on, both in terms of iconicism and timing)
5th Columbo: Jamie Farr
6th Columbo: Judd Hirsch
7th Columbo: Howard Hesseman
8th Columbo: Mandy Patinkin
9th Columbo: Eugene Levy
10th Columbo: Mark Ruffalo
11th Columbo: Adam Brody
12th Columbo: Jason Alexander
13th Columbo: Natasha Lyonne
14th Columbo: Mark Ruffalo again
15th Columbo: Omar Epps

NOT PICTURED: Alan Arkin ("War Columbo"), Whoopi Goldberg ("Fugitive Columbo"), Laura Linney (possible 16th Columbo), Don Adams/Warren Christopher (played first and second Columbos, respectively, in "The Five Columbos" TV special)

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 21/04/2026

It's been pointed out to me that a lot of my game design is very hostile towards the players. Ghost Dentist (self dentistry VR), escape room in HoL 2 (trapping & misleading), even my actual escape room Utopia (normal ending is a loss, plus you can burn alive). To that I say, have you met players?

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 19/04/2026

I find a lot of YouTube videos exhausting because evidently editing style over the years has 'evolved' into any pauses being unacceptable. If there's a pause, you cut! And of course the awful 'cheeky' cut zoom often multiple times like the YouTuber is giving you an aside.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 29/03/2026

A still from an old home movie at least 45+ years ago I was watching. I believe this means I die in seven days, no?

A glowing ring on a tv in a still from an old home movie.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 17/03/2026

Reading The Raw Shark Texts & it, like many other stores/media, brings up the "every 7 years all your cells have been replaced" trope which I've resisted looking up because I like being a Ship of Theseus... & assumed it was less than true. Sadly I caved & it is wildly inaccurate as I feared. :(

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 17/03/2026

The beginning of a month off. Organize a lot of digital life, and took a box of deprecated microcontroller and gave them new life with CircuitPython. Should be fun for some quick turnaround tinkering!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 22/02/2026

It's incredible how many people are using approximation functions as therapists. It's absolutely unsurprising how poorly this is turning out.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 14/02/2026

The game I've been working on for the last few years, released today!!! Please enjoy High on Life 2! Also, please enjoy the Frasier Crane Machine, my pride and joy. ♥️

A Frasier Crane Crane Machine in the game High on Life 2.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 24/01/2026

Fuck ICE and fuck Nazis. My heart is with the wonderful communities of Minnesota, especially those standing against fascism.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 26/12/2025

Baby Steps is my 2025 game of the year, no contest.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 23/12/2025

Are there smart watches for people that don't really care for exercise?

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 03/12/2025

STOP LETTING YOUR BABIES OR YOUNG KIDS WATCH YOUTUBE YOU PSYCHOS. If you allow this I am absolutely judging your parenting. You're probably better off leaving them in front of The Wire. STOP IT.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 30/11/2025

I'm so confused. Do we pardon drug traffickers or blow them up? What are the rules here??

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 28/11/2025

AI in games is great! It really helps me reduce my choice paralysis by providing an entire group of games I can just avoid entirely.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 11/11/2025

If the Democrats were as united as the fascist Republican regime, we might actually accomplish something.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 09/11/2025

The president is furious that the poor might get fed. Super cool.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 06/11/2025

Throwing a sandwich at a fascist should be the patriotic right of every American.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 01/11/2025

How do people have children and NOT become more empathetic people??

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm so proud of us 🥹 the city, the councilors, the community I believe very strongly that the answer to federal fascism is municipalism: safeguarding our local sovereignty and protecting our communities 👏🏾 Thank you to everyone who came to testify in support of PPI today — it passed unanimously! 💖

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Prof @wertle.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Played Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival tonight with friends! It was super fun (and I completed the Haunted Theater puzzle, even though it was scary!) The link is earlier in this thread if you want to play. Here's some screenshots of me, @msminotaur.bsky.social @flipluka.com and @jerrytron.com.

A group of ghosts in a 3D game, with cute faces, looking at the camera. One of the ghosts has a traffic cone on their head.

Two ghosts looking through a cutout with witches painted on them, so their faces are the witches' faces.

A group of ghosts on the back of a hayride tractor

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

So today's Halloween newsletter from @lauraehall.bsky.social features this Japanese pumpkin monster and two intruiging tidbits about it - it's the only known image of this creature and it's from a *board game*. So of course, I had to know more, which lead me down a really fun rabbit hole 1/x

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 11/09/2025

Lemme fix those headlines... "Fascist recruiting fascists killed in the line of duty."

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 09/09/2025

@crobertcargill.bsky.social Happy Birthday my friend. Miss you both, hope you had a great day with great folks!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 05/09/2025

I don't want to sleep because then tomorrow.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 01/09/2025

Every time I see an ad for XR glasses they say they give you a "200+ inch screen" and that seems like such an unbelievably useless piece of information. If I look at the sky is it a 2000 foot screen? If I look at my hand 2 inches? Is resolution not important???

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Colm Larkin @gambrinous.com · 27/08/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to the Lodge!! Eyes of Hellfire, our co-op gothic horror experience is now available on Steam Early Access! If you buy a copy, up to 4 of your friends can play free via the friends pass! 🖥️https://store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/Eyes_of_Hellfire/

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 26/08/2025

Just remember the ACTUAL quote is "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." That means your real family is made through your shared experiences and hardships, and being related by blood doesn't give anyone a free pass. tl;dr you find/make your true family, cherish them

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 24/08/2025

Takeaway #3 is accurate. Glad someone has just said it. youtu.be/Wm4wttT3v7M?... #takeaway3

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High on Life 2 - Hands-On Impressions

YouTube video by GameSpot

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