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Mira Mechtley
@biphenyl.bsky.social
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💁‍♀️ she/her
🔢 Dot Product Enthusiast
👾 Principal Engineer on Bounty Star
🔭 PhD Astrophysics
🎲 Pathfinder
🏳️‍🌈 Ace 🏳️‍⚧️ Mom
👩‍💻 MacOS
🕐 Formerly: Root, Eternal, Quasars, Blurst, a bluetooth PowerGlove
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One of my favorite parts of Bounty Star is when Clem receives the Revisitor from Teddy Cotton, which lets her perform inscrutable and frightening explorations of self (replay old missions)
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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That's one for the record books folks!
#Baseball #BountyStar #Videogames #IndieGames
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Happy Halloween, I'm Mira.
A photo of me, Mira, dressed as Mira from K-Pop Demon Hunters, wearing a "Won't Miss" T-shirt, yellow skirt with red norigae, pink hair, choker, and a 72 inch gok-do.
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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I linked to the Playstation version because 60% of its ratings are 5 stars so it must be the best version (the game is the same on all platforms). Not sure what's going on over on Steam and Xbox! (I have a pretty good guess of what's going on over on Steam and Xbox)
The user ratings breakdown for Bounty Star on Playstation. 96 users have rated it, with 57% 5-star ratings, 16% 4-star, 11% 3-star, 5% 2-star, and 10% 1-star. The user ratings breakdown for Bounty Star on Xbox. 283 users have rated it, with 27% 5-star ratings, 9% 4-star, 12% 3-star, 16% 2-star, and 36% 1-star. The Steam reviews line for Bounty Star. It says for all-time reviews: Mixed (61% of 81).
October 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Bounty Star is now out on PS5, Steam, Epic, and Xbox!
It is a game driven by its narrative that I still find highly affective even after working on it 5+ years and is even more relevant in 2025 than when we started it. Please leave a review if you enjoy it!
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
A screenshot of the videogame Bounty Star showing a woman with tattoos and a utility belt standing at a metal railing overlooking a large garage space. A humanoid mech dominates the left half surrounded by toolboxes and other maintenance equipment. Other equipment is visible throughout the space including a knee mill and a couple glowing displays. A dusty desert landscape is visible through the open bay doors.
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Sexy videogames why do people want shoulder swap
A screenshot of the top of my search history in Safari. The most recent search was "videogames why do people want shoulder swap"
October 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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This game has the most beautiful, reverential treatment of its environment of anything I've played since Horizon Forbidden West. #GhostOfYotei
A screenshot from Ghost of Yōtei, showing Atsu, a woman in a traditional Mino straw cape, looking out over an ocean bay. Fog clings to the water and shore below while craggy rocks jut up from the other side of the bay, crowned by a windswept tree. Snow-capped Mount Yōtei, a perfect specimen of a stratovolcano looms up in the background. A screenshot from Ghost of Yōtei, showing Atsu, a woman in a traditional Mino straw cape, looking up toward a Japanese castle perched on the top of a cliff. Gray clouds cover the sky, except to the left where clear skies over the sea allow sunlight to provide illumination. Several windswept junipers stand on the edge of a foreground cliff give the impression of bonsai, while the hills beyond are red with maple. A screenshot from Ghost of Yōtei, showing Atsu, a woman in a traditional Mino straw cape, standing next to a shrine in the foreground. An expansive vista opens before her, with a perfectly blue sky and a Japanese castle perched atop a hill covered in a sea of red maple trees. A screenshot from Ghost of Yōtei, showing Atsu, a woman in a traditional Mino straw cape, looking out over a valley. The light of golden hour gives everything a deep yellow hue, with the normally fire-red maple leaves appearing orange. Wisps of morning fog cling to forest dells at the foot of a mountain range in the background. A wisp of white smoke rises from a camp or house somewhere near the valley's bottom.
October 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Spent 3 days last week helping chaperone 80 4th graders on an overnight outdoor education field trip. Walked about 30 miles total. Possibly the most exhausting, chaotic 3 days of my life but I thrive in happy chaos and loved every minute. Pay teachers more. ✌️💙
A photograph of a mountain stream gurgling among stones, flanked by aspen, fir, and pine trees. An incredibly blue sky with wisps of white cloud peeks between the treetops in the distance
September 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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doctors I trust more than RFK Jr
A screenshot of the text-to-speech tech demo "DR SBAITSO" shipped with early Sound Blaster sound cards. A DOS window blue background with white text with an ascii art header reading Sound Blaster DR SBAITSO version 2.20 (c) Copyright Creative Labs, Inc 1992. all rights reserved The program is a rudimentary chatbot in the mod of Eliza that styles itself as a therapist or psychiatrist, but only responds with vague generalities. It speaks all its text using a very early (robotic) consumer speech synthesis model. The current text reads: Please enter your name ...Mira HELLO MIRA, MY NAME IS DOCTOR SBAITSO. I AM HERE TO HELP YOU. SAY WHATEVER IS IN YOUR MIND FREELY. OUR CONVERSATION WILL BE KEPT IN STRICT CONFIDENCE. MEMORY CONTENTS WILL BE WIPED OFF AFTER YOU LEAVE. SO, TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS. >_
September 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I got my hair recolored today and accidentally got ace pride hair! 💜🤍🩶🖤
A selfie of a woman with purple glasses and hair hair with purple and black ends and white / gray roots.
August 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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It's Pride Month again and apparently this is where I was at mentally in my half-sleep this morning. I'm staying here. #PrideMonth #PrideIsPower
A screenshot of a discord message, by "gay as a box of rocks" (me). The text reads: that's a very nonstandard take on it but i think is pretty interesting. like transition for me was less "this is who i am and i will accept it and more "fuck who i am now even though it's relatively comfortable, i want to meet my potential and ascend to godhood and if i destroy myself in the process so what im already a slowly decaying husk." prolly it was framed slightly less dramatically in my mind, but same vibe
June 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I will never, ever be able to top this commit even if I'm doing gamedev from my grave for eternity.
A screenshot of a source control commit authored by me. The commit message reads "microtheros can both fertilize and lay and are capable of parthenogenesis
May 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Accidentally took a really great rainy day selfie showing another mom my Garbage umbrella.
A neon yellow umbrella with black leopard print and the black words "only happy when it rains" in the font used by the band Garage. The top half of a woman wearing glasses' face (mine) is visible in a narrow sliver under the umbrella.
May 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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But what I appreciate even more is that the video's story follows a certain format...
The Mr McMahon meme format, with 4 panels showing an increasingly excited man. The panels read: The story stars two women The women are in love They live in a fucked up world Their love perseveres nonetheless
April 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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A still frame from Arrested Development of Lucille Bluth saying "It's one banana Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?"
April 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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A gif from Mad Max Fury Road, showing the characters The Splendid Angharad and Capable leaning out the side of a vehicle. Angharad shouts "Then who killed the world?" Small, petty men are who killed the world, for nothing more lofty than their own pathetic, fragile egos.
April 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Take this energy into the next your entire life. ✊
A screenshot from the game Zenless Zone Zero. The player character stands in front of Hoshimi Miyabi, a fox girl, and Soukaku, a demon girl. A city harbor fills the background in golden hour lighting. Text at the bottom reads: Hoshimi Miyabi May you remain undefeated, indomitable, and feared by all that is evil.
March 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Some really excellent #clouds over Denver this morning
A photograph of a bank of high altitude clouds against a perfect blue sky. The clouds transition from wispy linear cirrus in the distance to dapples of almost low-density mammatus in the foreground.
March 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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This album is prolly more sustaining if you've seen Arcane season 2, which you should, because it passes the Mechtley Test.
The "Mr. McMahon" meme format, featuring a man with progressively more excited expressions, ending in one with glowing laser eyes. The panels read, in order: The story stars two women. The women are in love. They live in a fucked up world. Their love perseveres nonetheless.
March 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Castlevania Nocturne saying what we're all thinking
A still frame from the Castlevania Nocturne anime. Maria is invoking her power beyond its previous limits, bathed in pink light with her hair flying wildly and eyes veiled in black. The subtitle reads "Most of what's bad in the world is because of stupid old men!"
February 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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I cope by reading books 🤷‍♀️
A photo of the cover of a book: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
February 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Been playing Wolfenstein New Order (2014) for obvious reasons and, uh, yeah. This fictional newspaper article hits a little too close.
A screenshot of a fictional newspaper article from the game Wolfenstein New Order (2014). It reads: Creating the Perfect Mind Brüssel, October 10, 1960 - As one of the key figures in computational science, Dr. Ernst Brandt was the inventor of the first Al system to be used in one of General Strasse's war machines, the Panzerhund. Now, his gaze is fixed on the next challenge: the creation of the smartest non-human intelligence in existence. "There are many benefits for society if such an artificial being could be created," said the soft-spoken doctor to us when we met up with him last week in the Modern School of Computer Science in Brüssels. "Not least because it can help us automatize the process of determining who is a decent citizen and who is not." It is a tantalizing thought indeed, which is why General Strasse has granted Brandt an increased funding to his research project.
February 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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I have accomplished the most difficult feat in game development, linking font sizes of dynamic font size text boxes for localized text.
(note: garbage auto translations for testing only.)
(also note: technically simple if you want to write your own text layout components. I Do Not.)
February 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Seen in my neighborhood today
An apartment window with a hand-written sign on cardboard reading "Deny, DEFEND, DEPOSE"
February 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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You ever just chomp your flat iron like an alligator? Try it, it's extremely satisfying and cathartic.
February 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM