Twenty-two assets off the Cloudflare FLUX lane (scripts/gen-art-batch.sh
— idempotent, fixed seed per character, ~5s each, barely a dent in the
10k daily neurons):
- Thirteen regulars on their tickets, clipped into the corner like a
loyalty card photo: Deidre's floral cardigan, Ray's flat cap, the
child on tiptoes with a fistful of coins, the bloke from two doors
down in his dressing gown, the delivery mid-yawn at 6am, the lunch
rush as three impatient torsos, the pavlova order in her pearls. The
inspector's ticket uses his own portrait; a name with no face made
simply shows no frame (onerror removes it).
- THE MOTHER's jar rendered in all three states on the title button:
bubbling over the rim, sulking under grey liquor, and dead with a
tiny white surrender flag planted in the crust.
- Six dish heroes on the scorecard beside the ask: the skewers, the
pan, the sliced rib eye, the whites bowl, the poached egg mid-drip,
the benedict.
Verified live: pavlova portrait on day 20's ticket, benedict table on
21's, jar_sulking at gap 3, hero_eggs on the eggs scorecard.
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Five moods generated on the Cloudflare Workers AI FLUX lane (10k free
neurons a day — scripts/cf-flux.py is the tap): a gaunt man in a black
three-piece suit, burgundy scarf, small round glasses, tiny notebook and
fountain pen, same claymation family as the judge and unmistakably not
him. Fixed seed, expression-only prompt deltas, so he is the same figure
across all five — the horrified one recoils mid-note, the impressed one
wears the small smile of a man betrayed by a good meal.
The grayscale filter is gone: the scorecard and the corner eye both
route by critic day (critic_* / judge_* prefix), demos and dailies stay
the judge's own. Also fixed 'the the count betrayed you' — his rows
already start with THE and he would never stammer in print.
Verified live: day 20 corner eye critic_neutral, scorecard
critic_impressed at 10.0 and critic_disappointed at 4.9 (C stamp, his
lines), day 21 back to the judge everywhere.
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After five days survived, a jar appears on the title shelf. She wants
feeding — one click — every new day you reach, and the stamps are maxDay
based so replaying old days for the S never starves her. Fed within a
day, toaster-days earn +0.2 and the line 'The starter is lively — the
crumb held. (She did that, not you.)'. Three days forgotten and the jar
sulks, and the crumb knows. Five and she goes still: the button becomes
a funeral, and one click begins THE MOTHER (second of her name) — she
forgives, mostly. The deaths counter never resets. Station days (grill,
pan, cold, steak, eggs, poach) are honestly out of her reach.
Also hardened loadSave against non-finite numbers: NaN and Infinity
stringify to null, and one bad number was enough to rot every derived
stat downstream. Every numeric field now refuses them on the way in.
Verified live: jar born fed at maxDay, starved to a funeral, resurrected
as second-of-her-name (deaths=1 persisted), lively bonus fired on a
bruschetta (9.6 -> 9.8 with the line), sulk line at gap 3, save numbers
intact after the full arc.
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A touch strip for devices with no wheel and no keyboard — which is most
of the phones the SHARE links land on. Each button IS its key: pointer
down dispatches the real keydown, pointer up the real keyup, so the
holds (crack charge, spoon drain) behave exactly like the physical key,
and the heat arrows synthesise real wheel ticks at the canvas. Drags
already worked — the input layer was pointer-events from birth.
Only appears on touch devices (desktop cooks keep a clean bench; __tp()
summons it for the curious), hides while the title is up, and the small-
screen pass folds the rest: the title stacks and stops overflowing, the
ledger fits, the judge's eye steps up out of the strip's way.
Verified at 375x812: no horizontal scroll, buttons drive the real input
path (heat arrows walked the poach knob 0 to 7 through the button
handlers), pad hidden at title / shown in service, day-21 pot playable.
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Once you have pulled a single S, the title offers THE INSPECTOR'S SHADOW:
arm it and the kitchen's words go dark for the whole run — no state
words, no wobble words, no browning gauge. The ticket still asks and the
controls hint survives, but the read is the face in the corner, the
sound of the pan, and the food itself. Every diegetic channel we built
was practice for playing without the subtitles.
Take an S with the words off and the ledger chip earns a star (S★), the
save remembers it (shadowed, per day, survives loadSave's corruption
filter — which was quietly dropping unknown fields; fixed), and he gives
you the only compliment he has: 'In the silence, too. I have nothing
left to teach you. ★'
Verified live: toggle arms, body.shadow hides the words (computed
visibility checked), S-in-silence writes shadowed.day20, star renders on
the chip after reload.
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A small portrait in the corner of every service — not a meter, a FACE,
which is the oldest diegetic read there is. He drifts neutral, and the
kitchen pokes him at the moments that matter: a flip earns an intrigued
lean-in, burnt butter a flat disappointment, the smoke alarm and the
rotten egg get the full horrified stare (held four seconds for the egg —
he heard that), a clean separation impresses him, a flare-up on the
coals gets the little fire he pretends not to enjoy, and an egg left in
rolling boil is watched with open disappointment until you fix it. He
hides for the title (he doesn't watch you read the menu) and hands over
to the full portrait on the scorecard.
One widget (src/ui/eye.ts), fed one-liners from four scenes; moods decay
back to neutral on their own, same starvation doctrine as the foley beds.
Verified live: neutral through service, intrigued on flip, hidden at
title and scorecard, portrait swap confirmed in the real click-through.
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Continuous beds join the one-shot synths: a bed is a looping noise voice a
scene FEEDS every frame, and it starves to silence on its own when the
feeding stops — no scene has to remember to turn sound off. The pan's
sizzle follows butter and heat (burnt butter dulls the voice, 5600Hz down
to 2400); the grill's follows the heat actually UNDER the meat, so the
cool side goes quiet; the pot rumbles up with the water and throws
bubbles — 0.15/s cold, 3/s in the shiver, 13/s at a rolling boil, each
one a little upward chirp because that is what a collapsing bubble does.
The sound IS the thermometer, same doctrine as the words.
And R, anywhere: the bench radio. 84 BPM, Am-F-C-G through a bandpass
shaped like a three-inch speaker, tape wow on every note, a hash-picked
pentatonic melody that never changes — the same tune every service, the
way a real kitchen radio only knows one station. Hiss included.
Verified: radio toggles with the word, pan/grill/poach days run clean
through the live bed paths with the context awake.
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THE DAILY — a button on the title deals one shared order per real date:
the seed IS the date (FNV hash), so everyone on Earth gets the same deal
today, station and all. Scored into save.daily[date] (best-of), the
campaign day counter untouched — NEXT after a daily returns you to your
regular day. The title button becomes 'THE DAILY ✓ 9.9' once played.
Judge closes with 'The Daily. Same deal for everyone today — come back
tomorrow.'
SHARE — a button on every verdict copies a one-line result to the
clipboard: 'TOASTSIM daily 2026-07-20 — 🥚 S 9.9/10 · partly.party/
toastsim' (station emoji per order; campaign days read 'day N'). The
wordle-paste for toast.
Verified live: daily deals deterministically (same date → same order,
today's is a poach), played to S 9.9, best saved, share text exact,
NEXT preserved campaign day 20, title shows the checkmark.
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1) Station-mix procedural days: past day 19 the kitchen deals from every
station it taught — toast ~34%, then prep cuts (technique onion dice past
21), juice (better reamers + more pips later), the grill (4 pieces past
24), the pan (electric arrives 22, induction 26), the rib eye (random
grain, electric past 23), and the fridge delivery. Each with its own
ticket voice. Deals are seeded BY DAY: a reload re-deals the identical
order (no reroll-scumming) and the harness can reproduce any day.
2) THE LEDGER on the title: one chip per reached day with your best grade
stamped on it (S green through F red), click to replay. save.maxDay
tracks furthest-ever progress so replaying day 5 for the S never locks
day 19 away; old saves migrate (maxDay defaults to day).
Verified live: 26-day sweep deals all 7 stations, deterministic re-deals;
chip click starts day 5; procedural day-26 steak (electric fuel ramp)
played end-to-end: rested, cut across a random grain, 9.1/10.
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Absolute '/assets/...' paths 404 under the /toastsim/ subpath (and the
root /assets/ URL is another game's — returns 200 with wrong content,
the classic partly.party trap). assetUrl() prefixes BASE_URL inside
loadProp + the four direct loads (bench/backdrop textures, title art,
judge portraits). Verified live: JS application/javascript, toaster.glb
4.5MB binary, title_art image/png, title screen renders.
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M10 (code-complete, verification pending — see OPUS-BUILD-BRIEF-2.md §2):
- Brands with mechanical quality (WONDERSLICE 0.25 vs Crustworthy 0.8 etc.):
quality scales heat-map patchiness and crumb fragility. Bakery sourdough is
loaf-only.
- Slicing minigame: aim thickness, saw with vertical strokes; progress/wobble/
squash; wedge slices brown unevenly in the toaster (the bad cut follows you);
squash arrives as pre-existing damage.
- Bread Knife + THE BEST THING (heavy, soft-scalloped, saw eff 1.65) join the
drawer; on loaf days the drawer trip happens BEFORE toasting ("they are
waiting") and whatever you fish out is what you slice with.
- Day 9 handwritten (the inspector wants a doorstop with parallel faces),
procedural brands/loaf days from day 10, The Cut criterion (band + wedge +
squash, TBT signature bonus), cut line bank.
- Verified so far: day-9 ticket chips, knife-trip drawer with bread_knife AND
the_best_thing present, timer label, typecheck + build. Slicer end-to-end
play, tuning, and couplings assertions are itemised in the brief.
OPUS-BUILD-BRIEF-2.md — the prep bench: generalized ingredients + cutting
(slip, juice, piece-evenness CV), the judged mess field, oranges + ribbed
pyramid juicer (halve evenness caps yield, seeds by juicer tier, the
Juicernaut), the grater (zest/pith line, cheese needs cold, knuckles), onions
(sting that blurs REAL vision, the stop-short-of-the-stem criss-cross dice),
and bruschetta as the capstone (temperature planning, roast tomatoes on the
browning field, topping Clark-Evans, the sog clock vs doorstop slices).
Bakery asset batch partially failed (flux errors + one lost GLB) — regen
instructions with retries are in the brief §8.
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Sat down with it like someone who'd never seen it. Five findings, all
reproduced before fixing, all verified after:
1. The kitchen panel was a cheat console. BREAD/SPREAD/TOOL/BUTTER are the
order's facts, but the widgets stayed live — you could fetch a soup spoon
and then quietly re-select the butter knife. Locked during play; the
browning dial stays yours because it's a real control.
2. The drawer card printed the ANSWER under the silhouette. The entire
"similar but not identical" puzzle, solved by a caption. The name is gone;
after ten seconds of fumbling it fades in as a pity: "fine. it's the
butter knife."
3. Lifting anything above the rim committed it instantly — but fishing means
lifting blockers, so you could accidentally "choose" whatever you were
moving aside. Commit now needs 0.45s of continuous hold above the rim,
which doubles as a beat to compare what you're holding against the
silhouette. Verified: a wobbly lift takes ~0.95s because dipping below
the rim resets the clock, and that's correct.
4. Coverage scored 20% on a slice a player had visibly covered corner to
corner. Root cause: the "covered" floor scaled with the ASKED amount, so
Coverage and Amount both punished thinness — double jeopardy. Coverage now
asks its own question (are there bare patches? floor = 0.06 absolute) and
the same conscientious play scores 84%.
5. Nothing told you how much was on the toast until the verdict. New live
readout, computed by the judge's own functions: "on the toast: thin —
normal asked · 84% covered". Watching it, a played-well day 1 went
8.8 -> 9.0, and the missing 0.2 is named on the card (stripes), not hidden.
Also: the drawer holds 11 pieces dropped down a tighter column (a heap you
rummage in, not an exploded diagram — padded with extra teaspoons, like every
real drawer), it sits on a bench instead of floating in a void, Service is
sim-time rather than wall-clock, and the title mentions the drawer exists.
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Content (verified — same dial, same 18s, four breads that disagree):
bread 4s 9s 18s char
white 0.22 0.54 1.08 93%
multigrain 0.20 0.52 1.06 92%
raisin 0.30 0.76 1.14 99.8%
sourdough 0.11 0.33 0.74 14%
Sourdough stalls at half the rate then accelerates hardest (x3.0 vs white's
x2.45) as its water boils off; raisin browns 40% faster and is essentially
carbon by 18s. Seven handwritten days then procedural, day persisted.
Assets, all generated on-device and free, all reproducible from fixed seeds:
- the judge's five expressions (one seed, one description, only the expression
phrase varying — he stays the same man while his face falls)
- title art, wooden bench, blurred kitchen backdrop
- butter dish / peanut butter / MITEY jars as GLBs, normalised on load
(recentre, scale to fit, sit on y=0) rather than hand-fixed, so regenerating
them doesn't mean re-fixing them
The toaster stays procedural: the generated one is prettier but this one has a
lever we can drive and a dial that turns. Judgment call, per the brief.
Sound is synthesised, no samples: clatter is driven by real Rapier contact-force
events and scaled by force, which is the only way a drawer of cutlery can sound
like one. Plus lever clunk, knife scrape pitched by pressure, and the stamp.
Perf, measured (16.7ms is the 60fps budget):
kitchen 0.99ms/step · drawer 0.12ms · drawer while dragging 0.21ms
Production build: 2.87MB / 1.0MB gzipped, mostly Rapier's inlined wasm + three.
Textures carry colorSpace = SRGBColorSpace explicitly — same class of bug as the
albedo gamma fix in M3, and it washes them out silently if you forget.
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toast -> drawer -> spread. Eight pieces settle into a real tangle; find the one
on the card, drag it up and over the rim, and whatever you're holding is what
you're spreading with.
The link, verified end to end (day 4, butter softness 0.3):
4s in the drawer warmth 0.78 yield 0.343 needs angle 0.36 comfortable
50s in the drawer warmth 0.17 yield 0.565 needs angle 0.60 cliff is 0.62
Dawdling walks you to within two hundredths of the scrape cliff. On day 7
(fridge-hard butter) it tips over into genuinely unspreadable. The drawer isn't
a timer bolted on the side — it's the thing that makes the butter hard.
Physics choices that earn their keep:
- Compound boxes, never trimeshes. A trimesh fork tangled in a trimesh fork is
a solver nightmare and slow with it; the tine envelope is what matters anyway.
- Grab is a capped PD spring, not a fixed joint, so a snagged piece fights the
ones lying on it and loses instead of tunnelling through them.
- The solver is fixed-stepped so a frame hitch can't detonate the pile, and the
drawer settles offline so you open it on an existing mess.
- Clatter is synthesised from real contact-force events, velocity-scaled — a
drawer of cutlery is a noise, and the noise has to come from the collisions.
Three fixes:
- Quaternion.toArray() returns [x,y,z,w]; Rapier wants {x,y,z,w}. Every axis
read back undefined -> NaN in the solver -> wasm panic on the first step.
- The drag plane faced the camera, but the camera looks down into the drawer, so
dragging to the top of the screen couldn't physically lift anything over the
rim. It's a vertical plane now: up-screen means up.
- Cooling lived in kitchen.update(), which stops running the moment the drawer
opens — so the toast stayed hot no matter how long you rummaged, quietly
cancelling the entire mechanic. It's an app-level tick now.
The drawer was 4.6x3.4 and the pieces politely spread out flat. Tangling needs
crowding: 3.1x2.2, dropped down a narrow column so they land on each other.
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Playable: pick a bread, set the dial, drop the lever, watch it brown, pop it
onto the plate. No timer readout — you go by smell.
- toasting.ts: heat map from real toaster behaviour (element stripes, cool top
edge where the slice stands proud of the slot, edge falloff, per-run noise
bias). Moisture must boil off before the crust browns at full rate, so
sourdough stalls then catches up; sugar browns and burns early.
Rate is measured against the heat map's actual ~0.77 mean, not guessed:
power 6 -> golden 0.511 at 10s, verified in-browser.
- Props on a real scale (1 unit ~ 11cm, one slice wide) — the toaster is
meant to dwarf the bread.
- The pop solves a genuine ballistic arc from slot to plate.
Three bugs found by driving it rather than trusting the compile:
- valueNoise2D read one past its grid at x=w-1, so heatBias was NaN along an
edge, which poisoned mean browning to NaN — i.e. every judge score would
have been NaN. Clamped.
- erode() clamped at the field border, so border texels could never erode out
of the mask and kept those NaNs in scope. Off-grid now counts as outside.
- Timer.connect(document) zeroes dt whenever document.hidden is true, which
froze the sim solid in an embedded browser. Dropped; rAF already pauses for
hidden tabs. App.step(dt) is now exposed so the game can be driven
deterministically for verification.
Also: screen shake was mutating the camera permanently instead of offsetting
it per-render, and the plate's lathe profile touched the axis (degenerate
triangles -> starburst normals) — rebuilt from primitives.
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