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1. Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 20:54:26 JST Adam Leventhal

   Like all lazy people in 2024, I turned to Chat GPT for help. This didn't work out well. (Have I mentioned that I'm bad at Chat GPT?)

   • Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 20:54:23 JST Adam Leventhal

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     Then I threw the lines into Photoshop, applied the bucket tool, and ... good enough!

   • Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 20:54:24 JST Adam Leventhal

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     I threw it on the iPad that I "borrowed" from my older son and traced it in Procreate with his Apple Pencil. 100% it could have been better, but I already felt like a crazy person and wasn't sure it was going to work out

     Kuba Orlik repeated this.
   • Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 20:54:25 JST Adam Leventhal

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     And simulated...

   • Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 20:54:25 JST Adam Leventhal

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     Until I got to something that was suitably calamitous:

   • Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 20:54:26 JST Adam Leventhal

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     I should mention that we don't put a ton of time into Oxide and Friends (sorry!) so I try to bound these side-quests at least somewhat. Somewhat. I decided to find a physics simulator (like a lunatic) and SimPHY was the first one I stumbled onto that worked well enough. I roughed out the structure from the xkcd comic:

   • Adam Leventhal (ahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 20:54:26 JST Adam Leventhal

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     Then removed the linchpin: