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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 08/09/2026

The crime. The criminals.

A lasagna eaten in places that any normal person would not eat a lasagna.

Two extremely guilty looking cats stood very close to each other looking at the camera.

Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 08/09/2026

Humans have seen mythic figures in bread since we first baked it. There is a whole design language where the front of every consumer vehicle is built around looking like a face with emotion. It’s thing so established it was a background joke in Monsters Inc. AI bros are hoping you fall for this.

A still from the animated show Monsters Inc. the lead character Skully with his companion is stood next to a car that has a front grill and headlamp setup designed to invoke a scary monster.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 24/08/2026

Won some random Nvidia trading cards from a Reddit comment giveaway. Didn’t expect them to spent the money to send a large box containing an envelope containing a single ten card booster pack. All the way to the UK from San Jose, CA. The envelope would have done.

A small card booster pack roughly the size of a Pokémon booster pack pinned against an A5 envelope pinned against a medium sized FedEx box.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 12/08/2026

Had a partial eclipse today so SPAAAAAAAAAACE (Kerbal Space Program) twitch.tv/MooseAndTato

Text above an image of a black cat being moved in front of an orange cat. The text reads "If you missed the solar eclipse, here is what it looked like."

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 06/08/2026

I’ve been really struggling to sleep with all the brain worms. Catching what kip I can when I feel I can. So it’s at 1:30am when I walk into the bathroom to find that @thepotatocat.bsky.social turned the sink into a makeshift bed for Leon, as the boy is upset over the dog and keeps sleeping in it.

A bathroom sink. Within it a towel has been placed to fill the whole basin, such that you could describe it as a crib blanket.

Leon the cat, curled up in the sink as he does. He’s a Maine Coon, and despite being only 9 months old he already fills the whole space of what is not a particularly small basin.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 30/07/2026

Look at this absolute unit.

Leon, a 9 month old Maine Coon, absolutely dominating the bathroom sink with his Big Chungus energy.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 25/07/2026

Does space insurance cover rust? (Unkerballed Start) twitch.tv/MooseAndTato

A quad drone sat on an alien planetary surface. Screenshot from Kerbal Space Program

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 19/07/2026

I admit when playing Warframe I didn't expect to see Liz England's door example of game design just outright stated. 10/10 no notes. (No not tagging Liz, this release has been out for a couple years and she's likely already more than aware).

A message in an instant messaging program in the game Waframe. No that the grammar in the message I am about to quote is accurate to that message, the character is one who doesn't care if their sentences run on.

The message states the following:

"okay so how do I communicate what doors are decorative and which ones are just locked and what do i do if one player has a key and the other one doesn't and what do i do if one player goes through a door and the other one doesn't do i like teleport that other player?!?!"

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 16/07/2026

Nothing quite like dropping a grand and a half on burying your dog. Gonna miss her.

Ada, a black and grey spaniel, looking up at the camera in a curious way. Her head is in focus while her body is softly blurred.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 03/07/2026

Space mint ice ball twitch.tv/MooseAndTato

A screenshot of Kerbal Space Program showing the main planet Kerbin and its first Moon.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 20/05/2026

I made the reaper my bitch.

Me, a pale white man with a full mouth goatee, lying in a hospital bed with a bandage around my head. This was a few hours ago not long after surgery as taken by my wife. I’m paler than I usually am in a sickly way, and can barely keep my eyes open.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 04/05/2026

Surgery soon, so had to visit the mirror universe.

It’s a picture of me! A white man in his late 30s. My greying beard has been shaved into a goatee beard similar to the evil humans from Trek. Or Klingons. Whichever works.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 27/04/2026

I’m reasonably new to dog partnership and now I’m just really glad our dog isn’t the only veggie fiend!

Ada is a grey and black spaniel. Here is Ada being held by a woman while holding a tomato the size of her head in her mouth. She looks like a clown got confused as to where the nose should go.

Ada the spaniel “smoking” a giant carrot.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 24/03/2026

Minor personal milestone: Achieving Lifetime Premium membership in Nexus Mods from mod downloads. Apparently I ticked over this in August but completely missed the notifications to enable it. Most of it is a small but important Fallout 4 mod, but I'm glad I've helped tune the games of others.

A screenshot showing "Your current plan: Lifetime, premium member forever". This is taken from the membership page on Nexus Mods.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 27/02/2026

Also my wife's vtuber is adorable

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 21/02/2026

You undersell this so hard.

Text in the publisher field of a steam game:

“It was a dark night after a storm and I had been torn apart from the despair of realizing I needed money to make video games. In my depression, I gazed upon a pristine pool of water on the sidewalk and a beautiful expression gazed back; every inch of his beauty encapsulated in the tiny portal to the realm blessed by his mortal presence.

He pulled out his phone with grace and I followed suit - logging onto my bank account and showing that I had money saved up. With his delicate finger he pointed at the number written on the savings account. "This is our budget for the game", his silk-like voice rang. And thus, through his sheer wisdom, the funding for the game was secured.

Despite never seeing that absolute sage of a man ever again, I still consider him and his insight into the solution for my troubles deeply integral to the development of this game, and thus, he, in spirit, is my publisher.”

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 20/02/2026

Both game are also somewhat less 16:9 friendly than the first - though obviously this isn't the fault of the team, why would they aim for a format that basically didn't exist at home in the 90s? The culling is much more aggressive and snips the sides off, especially in "heavy" terrain scenes.

A terrain heavy level from Colony Wars Vengeance showing how the geometry culling is removing geometry from the left side of the screen despite being in view.

On the right side of the screen is a large green graphical artefact which is also due to this culling.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 20/02/2026

Both Vengeance and Red Sun continue with the "extended cockpit geometry" view to allow some cockpit motion. Of note here is how the UI in Red Sun is not diegetic. While the UI in the in-ship view is firmly planted to the meshes, in RS it is a separate overlay layer that more or less lines up.

A slightly zoomed out shot of a cockpit from Red Sun, showing how the user interface for ship status, weapon selection and so on is in the same location on the screen despite no longer aligning with the base mesh of the cockpit.

A zoomed out shot of the cockpit view in Colony Wars Vengeance. The user interface for things such as ship status, weapon select and so on is attached to the geometry and thus is moved away from the camera as we zoom out.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 20/02/2026

Similar to the first game, the ships are handled in a geometry pass independent of the camera position. So as you can see in the first picture above (copied here for convenience) when you bring the camera out, they're not effected by the change in position and look giant compared to the skybox.

The space image from above, of note in this context is the seemingly giant ship to the right of the image, vastly larger than the skybox in this zoomed out perspective.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 20/02/2026

On a personal note I find the sequels worse than the original. This is just preference but I find the sound design and visual flare of the two lacking compared to the original. However they did pull a lot of tricks for both. For instance ground terrain and big set piece textures were both skyboxed!

A screenshot of Colony Wars Vengeance, with the camera zoomed far backwards beyond the normal bounds. Of note is the big planet texture of the mission being part of the skybox, as expected of the era.

A second shot zoomed out of colony wars vengence. This time around in an atmospheric mission, the skybox is directly rendering the false terrain of a planet as part of it, rather than said terrain being handled separately as a "real" object.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 14/02/2026

Duckstation also gives you some rudamentary freecam tools, which I am still working out, and they show that they really did extended the hud geometry further than you'd think for ship cockpits. We'll never get a remaster or remake, but this is nice to know about and play around with!

A screenshot of Colony Wars with the camera zoomed much further back than the player "eyes" typically would be. This shows the amount of unused cockpit geometry in the game, typically invisible from the player in regular play.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 14/02/2026

So I've been mucking around with Duckstation's 16:9 rendering mode and it turns out that Colony Wars, a classic PSX space shooter in the realm of Wing Commander, not only works really well in 16:9 but also has enough extra geometry in the interface that I'd believe you if you said it was intended.

An example screenshot of Colony Wars for the Playstation 1 in 4:3 standard aspect ratio.

The same screenshot as the first but rendered in 16:9 aspect ratio and resolution. Notably, there is considerable extra and detailed geometry visible that the player would never typically see on the original hardware.

A 4:3 screenshot of colony wars taken from the third person perspective of your space ship. On the left side is a pair of ships near the edge of the screen, whereas on the right is a space station.

The space station is cut off by the 4:3 ratio.

The same as the other third person screenshot, this time in 16:9 view (and slightly moved due to the nature of the game capture). The station on the right side has a lot more in view, whereas the left side now shows the main star of the skybox.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 14/02/2026

This advertisement pisses me off so much from a material science perspective, let alone actually being factually wrong. There is another one saying that the nibs never wear down which is such a lie that they supply spare nibs when you buy the damn thing.

A web advert for “everpen”, a pencil that they tout as not needing to be sharpened.

The text says “How does this never dull? It’s made from graphene, not graphite.”

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 10/02/2026

After everything, we may have to say goodbye to Douglas. We’re heartbroken, and the next few days are crucial. I’m not going to share anymore pictures of him as he is now unless he starts improving. Please think of him as he is here. Feeling fit, fed and happy.

A happy smiling silver tabby Maine Coon.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 06/02/2026

Been a long time since I streamed. But, it's my birthday. New stream branding, new stream intro, new stream chaos. Live over on twitch.tv/MooseAndTato right now with an absolutely legendary PSX game I've always wanted to play on stream! Come celebrate with me?

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 13/12/2025

I’m a pointless human being with no insight worth a damn. I’m a fraud with no history to speak of other than several chances I wasted and mistakes I’ve made. My only saving grace is that I’m trying my best, and I doubt I’m even doing that anymore. Douglas, my cat, doesn’t care about any of that.

Douglas is a grey Maine Coon. The picture shows him stretched out hugging his human on a bed.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 11/12/2025

“I have a frozen cum dice” - @thepotatocat.bsky.social upon opening this absolute belter of a D6 in their advent calendar.

D6 that should look like an ice cube but honestly looks like frozen water/cum mix.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 09/12/2025

I need to test my new encoding settings and Star Citizen is stable so my wonderful wife @thepotatocat.bsky.social and myself are going to do some bounty hunting together! Come watch us die (a lot) on twitch.tv/MooseAndTato

A screenshot from Star Citizen. "Hope is here" is written in giant letters on a rockface.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 05/12/2025

My wife got me the U.S.S Enterprise NCC-1701-D Lego set and I am astounded. So is Douglas, who took all of 10 seconds to find the packing box.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 26/11/2025

It’s 3am. I can’t sleep. My cat Douglas is trying his best to comfort me. He’s a solid 120cm long at stretch which means he’s currently kicking both my belly and my toes.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 09/11/2025

Game that I unironically really enjoyed as a child when I really shouldn’t have in hindsight.

The PAL box art for World’s Scariest Police Chases on PSX. It was a licensed title based on the TV series of the same name. The title font matches that of the show, and the box art is a mishmash of stylised police cars and a speeding sports car.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 08/11/2025

A duck waddled up to a lemonade stand, and said to the man, running the stand…

The cover art and box of a “Life” branded building bricks toy diorama of a Lemonade stand. The lemonade stand has rubber duck style branding, reminding me of the old internet meme song in the post.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 05/11/2025

It looked like this. The first version anyway - despite low sales they made a second version to try and fix the issues of the first! You had to hold the thin side (opposite the curved side) to your head to take calls so it looked like a banana. Silly design.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 30/10/2025

Been dirt poor or in hard debt all my life. The stars aligned this one paycheck and I get to be kind to the local kids. This Halloween we are THAT house.

A collection of full sized chocolate bars and other sweets piled high.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 04/10/2025

This mound is an eight kilo (17.6lb) cat and he’s absolutely crushing my legs. I can’t feel my damn feet.

Douglas, a big grey Maine Coon, curled in a tight ball. The point of view is from the angle of someone lying in bed looking down at their feet, with the cat squarely in the middle of the frame.

To the right is another, ginger cat also curled up half asleep.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 24/09/2025

Silent Hill F is an odd Zootopia sequel. I will be taking no questions at this time.

Two characters from Silent Hill F, one in a bunny outfit and another dressed as a fox, with the subtitle "Come." The screenshot is from a MooseAndTato stream and shows the stream overlay including chat.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 20/09/2025

Cat being ravaged by a shark.

Douglas, a grey Maine Coon, happily lying under a Blåhaj IKEA shark.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 17/09/2025

Incredible to me that some modders managed to get The Crew back online in spite of Ubisoft. Huge W for preservation.

Screenshot from my personal copy of The Crew

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 14/09/2025

Testing the new stream community minecraft server and of course, within minutes of @thepotatocat.bsky.social discovering I put on a mod that allows painting your own portraits, a dickbutt appears.

In minecraft, a character stands holding a paint pallet looking an an easel. A skin coloured dickbutt is present on the canvas,

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 11/09/2025

I’m now filming a video about Outer Wilds.

A vinyl player holding a copy of the first disc of the Outer Wilds soundtrack vinyl. The disc is on side B. To the right of it is the inner sleeve of that vinyl, showing “Learn to Play Rieback’s Theme”, giving the instrument, tuning, and sheet music.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 03/09/2025

I may have decided to start prepping for a video about Outer Wilds.

A screenshot of an Ebay page showing a successful purchase of Signals from the Outer Wilds, a special edition vinyl copy of the Outer Wilds original soundtrack.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 03/09/2025

Douglas is an 8KG Maine Coon that is physically larger than our 9 year old cocker spaniel. Douglas likes to sleep in the garden. Douglas has a habit of waking up after being in the rain for a long time, as it takes that long for the wet to hit the skin. Douglas just jumped on my sleeping head.

Douglas is a grey Maine Coon tabby. This picture shows him notably wet, cleaning himself while lying on a bed.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 21/08/2025

So I love Max Mad, the licensed videogame tie in to Fury Road that was very much its own standalone thing. Did you know it has a hidden Black and Chrome mode? This isn't a mod, it's a trick of the incredible video tools built into the game.

A screenshot of Mad Max (2015) on PC in a strong Black and White visual style.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 13/08/2025

Some rough first/try attempts at long exposure sky photography off my phone. Did you know the iPhone has a 30 second exposure option, but you have to basically put it on a table for it to appear? Anyway, not bad tbh. Hopefully BSky compression doesn’t kill them.

A long exposure of a star field from the “selfie” camera on an iPhone.

A long exposure of a star field from an iPhone’s main camera at 2x zoom.

A long exposure of a star field from an iPhone’s main camera at 5x zoom. Being digital at this zoom level means the white balance is extremely off.

A star field long exposure from the iPhone main camera at 1x zoom. It is not as clear as the 2x zoom on detail, but has a wider angle. A faint shooting star streaks near the center of the frame.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 19/07/2025

My mental health may still be absolutely shot but my physical health (at least fitness) has definitely recovered. I just moved a metric ton (quite literally) of rocks 30 meters, 20kg at a time, by hand. Before my surgery, I was feeling so weak I was struggling to get out of bed some days…

A pile of white garden stones in 20kg bags.

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Jon Tetrino @tetrino.com · 19/07/2025

It’s pissing it down with rain and I need to do some work outside. So I asked my wife for a coat…

A glass of coke placed on a wet wall.

Actually… I think it’s Pepsi.

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