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J.R. Raith 🍂
@jrronimo.bsky.social

Giant nerd, IT support for physicists.
Co-founder Slow Jam Studio.

https://hotdog.zone/

He/him.
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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. And to the beat 'em up fans, enjoy lots of floor meat today!
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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thinking about that live version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and the first guy who solos is probably thinking “yeah I did a really nice job there” and then Prince comes on and lays down the most epic guitar solo of all time
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
@brandon.insertcredit.com I'm not sure if you're into prog at all, but your recommendation for Rutger Hauer reminded me of the sci-fi prog album he was a narrator for by Arjen Lucassen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It's a fun listen!
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I will never look at a French dip sandwich the same way again.
maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Speaking as your best friend, I think it would be smart of you to watch the Power Stone anime ー free on YouTube! ー and then listen to me and @rdbaaa.space talk about it on the new episode of Draw Game: The Anime World of Video Games! Search for it today on your podcast application and God bless
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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February 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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earthbound lookin ass
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I liked video games too much as a kid...
...which led to playing games on computers
...which led to building computers
...which led to repairing computers

...and now I'm the manager of the Computing Group at a Nobel Prize-winning physics research joint institute.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Wow! So cool to see Shikhee's Android Lust in
@rollingstone.com !
Indie Unpacked: South Asian Goth Music That Should Be On Your Radar rollingstoneindia.com/south-asian-... >> @androidlust.com THE DIVIDING was released on @projekt.bsky.social back in the day.
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I've done quite a bit on additional logic for bosses, including intro & death sequences:

#vectrex #vyrzonii
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Juniper prefers that I play the walkies game instead thank you.
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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🏝️My little indie game #Castaway is like $3.99 now on Playstation and Switch! $3.99 ridiculous bucks that would help me fund my new game! please share!
💙PS: bit.ly/Castaway-Pla...
❤️Switch: bit.ly/Castaway-Swi...
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Internet Archive outage currently happening is a really zesty, sneaky one; due to a bunch of technical issues, it looks like a bunch of stuff "disappeared", but I assure you it has not and it's safe. Extremely non-technical metaphor: System goes "anyone got this?" and right now, things go "what?"
a man in a hat looks at the camera with a serious look on his face
ALT: a man in a hat looks at the camera with a serious look on his face
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Aww yeah let's go Demonschool!
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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I wrote an obituary of celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman for Ars Technica:

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman dies at age 62
The gaming community mourns a beloved mentor and LGBTQ+ advocate with a storied career.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...
PicoIDE
An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers
www.crowdsupply.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Ep. 415 - The Demonschool Episode

Go back to hell! Insert Credit celebrates the release of Demonschool by analyzing trends in indie releases, the best grids in games, and of course, woke.

insertcredit.com/show/415

Wishlist Demonschool! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/... Releases Wednesday!
The Demonschool Episode
Go back to hell! Insert Credit celebrates the release of Demonschool by analyzing trends in indie releases, the best grids in games, and of course, woke.
insertcredit.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
New life aspiration: Live a life so fucking rad that I'm half as universally praised at the end as @burgerbecky.bsky.social is.

RIP Becky. You were beyond awesome.
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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TWO DAYS until demonschool! Reviews are dropping tomorrow........... which we're all feeling normal about~

store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...

www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This is one of my favourite space photos.

It's Pluto, backlit by the Sun, imaged by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.

Look carefully and you can see the planet's irregular topography and the layering in its atmosphere.

Credit: NASA/JHU APL/SwRI
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Last year, I texted @turing.foo for their birthday:
J.R.: "Happy Birthday my friend! I hope you have a most wonderful day!"
Turing: "Thanks! Happy my birthday to you as well!"
Turing: "Or happy Hecate's Night"

And so I wish you all a Very Happy Turing's Birthday, despite their absence.
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM