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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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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 · 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 · 19/03/2026

I love claw machines, adding them to games is delightful.

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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 · 12/06/2025

Have you been afflicted with the disease of ambidexterity? I wonder what the cure is, not paying back your bookie on time?

A list of diseases to fill out your disease history. For some reason ambidexterity is on the list.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 10/05/2025

I wonder what would happen if I tried to rerelease the old Pac-Guy games on steam, even for free. I can't guarantee all the assets used were... Ours. Maybe I shouldn't say that here ..

Title screen off Pac-Guy with a piano player's head lopped off with an arrow.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 10/05/2025

I think this was the first video game I ever made, back when I was a teen.

Picture of a Demolition Derby game made in Clickteam Fusion decades ago

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 28/04/2025

That feeling when you pop open your TV remote because it isn't holding a charge and find out it runs on super capacitors that are more expensive than a new remote to replace.

Inside of a Samsung TV remote powered by super capacitors.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 30/11/2024

This cat is so fluffy! It helps that he sits directly over heat vents to get blowouts whenever he wants. SO FLUFFY AND SOFT.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 22/11/2024

Elon Musk confirms what a lot of people think. CEOs are assholes.

Elon Musk saying RTO is meant to get people to quit. He's an asshole.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 12/11/2024

Here is the original child's toy.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 12/11/2024

Trying this again! I found this gif (now video) demoing a touchscreen app I made in flash decades ago to emulate the 'Wooly Willy' child's toy. I just played with it and I'm genuinely impressed with myself with how accurate it feels to the aesthetic and frustration of the actual toy!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 12/11/2024

Just found this gif demoing a touchscreen app I made in flash decades ago to emulate the 'Wooly Willy' child's toy. I just played with it and I'm genuinely impressed with myself with how accurate it feels to the aesthetic and frustration of the actual toy!

Animation of an app emulating the Wooly Willy children's toy.

A picture of the children's toy Wooly Willy.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 10/11/2024

Hahaha fix is working great so far!

Cool guy wearing a repaired set of headphones.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 10/11/2024

Wish I'd gotten a pic of the inside, but here it is with the rubber and other button back on. This switch worked well because it had legs long enough to go through the button hole, then I used small lengths of silicone wire so they were flexible and squishy enough to fit inside.

Finished fix of my conductive headphones where a small switch replaced a broken tiny button

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 09/11/2024

Headphones power / volume up button broke. This is my, er, fix! Yeah I know it's a toggle switch, but I didn't have any tiny momentary switches on hand. Fingers crossed it still works after the glue dries!

A switch glued on broken headphones to fix the power button.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 03/11/2024

First Halloween upright, I think next year we'll try trick or treating!

The cutest little boy wearing a shark hoodie for Halloween while gripping his emotional support cracker.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 26/08/2024

Where the extra stuff goes I guess.

A space between two buildings with lots of junk in it.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 18/08/2024

This soapbox car made me very very hungry. Baked potatooooooo!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 22/04/2024

This cat should be famous. Spokescat for a scotch or something.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 06/04/2024

I LOVE THESE CATS - so handsome and fluffy and better than Xanax

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 27/01/2024

I really do have the best cats. That is all.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 19/12/2023

This upsets me more than I can even understand. 🪰

Why can a fly twist off it's head and play?

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 05/12/2023

I just can't even with these two! IT'S TOO CUTE

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 05/11/2023

I was repairing my electric toothbrush and am getting some real sonic screwdriver vibes from the inside.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 29/10/2023

Went to a Halloween party with my costume, "Guy afraid of spiders wondering 'Is there something on my face?'". Forgot to take a picture last night but this is the crux of it.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 26/10/2023

Wow the input shaping on the new alpha firmware for the Prusa Mini is incredible. This spider normally would've taken around 5 hours, now took not much more than 2! Really speeding up my Halloween decorations!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 22/10/2023

I like this article a lot more with JavaScript off.

Large white space with only the words "cocktail" and "bourbon".

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 18/10/2023

Got some spooky donuts from some lovely friends!

Spooky donut! Brown filled with dirt a worm!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 11/10/2023

I love this weird Muppet of a cat. He gets free massages for life, doesn't even need to make appointments.

Razz the black cat with a white mustache on his hind legs up like a weasel.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 10/10/2023

I hate everything about this article heading. 14?? It's scrambled eggs there aren't that many tips! Oh I'm sorry, "hacks". At least every single of the 14 hacks will CHANGE MY LIFE. Sorry article, my scrambled egg game is better than your empty promises. 🥚🐣🍳

14 scrambled egg hacks that will change your life.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 06/10/2023

Frankie you cast a spell on me.

Frankie the cat with a come hither look in a sunbeam.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 03/10/2023

Got a label maker for my birthday and I am so fucking ready.

A sparkly gold length with the text "MASON JARS" and subtext "PLUS OTHER SHIT".

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 30/09/2023

For my birthday I took the day off and scooted around Portland all day. Started with Pips for donuts and chai, checked out a new bocce court, got some seafood boil, then a whiskey tasting. Home to read to Little Boy and put him to bed. Dinner w/ wife and watched "No One Will Dave You". Great day!

Twelve tiny donuts and a smokey chai tea.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 28/09/2023

Was making dinner and... just something about this cute little peapod. I wanted them to talk.

A cute peapod in a pile of chicken fried rice.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 20/09/2023

How about this for a tattoo.

Two happy skeletons just hanging out because they are great friends. They were friends even when they were alive. Sure there were bad times, but they always forgave each other because life is too short.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 19/09/2023

My day would be so off Razz didn't come to me in the mornings for his belly rubs.

Razz a fuzzy boy cat on his back getting belly rubs in bed. Oh and his front paws are folded over my hand I'm dying.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 18/09/2023

I went to the Enchanted Forest this weekend with my kid. Some wild stuff!

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 13/09/2023

I love me some Fish'n'foil dinner! Been a long time but since I live on a coast I should really figure out good sources of fish. In MN it was either frozen or it was wrapped in newspaper as a threat.

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Jerry Belich @jerrytron.com · 10/09/2023

I'd almost forgotten about the interview I did a while back about David Lynch's Dune! I miss doing goofy little projects like making film Swedes. 🎬🎥

A picture of Jerry Belich and friends in garbage bags to act as stillsuits for their Dune Swede.

A book about David Lynch's Dune film called "A Masterpiece in Disarray" by Max Evry.

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