iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The 41st Precinct @the41stprecinct.bsky.social · 7h

"You fight fires to solve the mystery of the world, you set fires to solve the mystery of the self" Solve The Mysteries Of Summer Eternal & Red Rooster. Anthology Documentary Live Now. youtu.be/J53xGTZO_Ng

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Summer Eternal Anthology Vol.1: A Documentary

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Alex Rakitsky @alexrakitsky.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Stoicism AI slop on YouTube is hilarious. It has almost no actual stoic philosophy, lots and lots of effing Jung, and has a non-stop rotation of 6 fingered, 10 packed, hard nippled marbled statues as the background. Let's just say, after today's 2 hour walk I haven't reached enlightenment.

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SUMMER ETERNAL @summereternal.com · 14/10/2026

Welcome to the new chapter. SUMMER ETERNAL ANTHOLOGY • OUT NOW WORLDWIDE

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Alex Rakitsky @alexrakitsky.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Many mornings begin in a 24/7 French bakery, where I try to squeeze a couple of hours developing games before the lectures start

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GLASSHOUSE - Lockdown CRPG @glasshousecrpg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

What happens when a voice actress meets her own character? TODAY, Stefanie Joosten, the voice of Lia in GLASSHOUSE, plays our RPG demo for the very first time! ⏰ 6 PM CEST 🔴 LIVE on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/stefaniejoos... #indiegames #pcgaming #gamedev #gaming #RPG

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Alex Rakitsky @alexrakitsky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1.5 hours of regression analysis to end the day 🫠. Toasting with pomegranate juice, here's to psychology!

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GLASSHOUSE - Lockdown CRPG @glasshousecrpg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No mocap. No AI. No shortcuts. Just every single frame animated by hand. Here’s how one of our animations for our RPG goes from blocking to final.

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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026

im very busy

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Celes🏳️‍⚧️⬇️↘️➡️👊 @rowletgameing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I Got Reincarnated Into A Retro Tactics RPG And I'm Trying To Get An A Rank Bond With The Unit I Have A Thing For But People In Another World Keep Editing My Dialogue To Where I'm Talking About Class Consciousness And Universal Healthcare

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Rubeki Games 🛩️The Hollowing Demo Live!🛩️ @rubeki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

✈️Just announced in the PC Gaming Show✈️ The Hollowing is an atmospheric first-person horror flight sim Your job is to maintain communications towers at various airports and outposts in the Megastructure FREE DEMO OUT NOW!! link below 👇

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Alex Rakitsky @alexrakitsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also, the specs for AC8 are dreadful. I sure hope my RX570 is ready for one last ride into the AAA scene, because it looks like it's gonna be another UE5 performance disaster.

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Alex Rakitsky @alexrakitsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't dig AC8 waifu bait's design at all. Good choice on the last name though.

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SUMMER ETERNAL @summereternal.com · 16/09/2026

We promised you a worker *and* player owned studio. Today, we're honored to announce we're making good on that promise with the launch of the Summer Eternal Players Non-Profit.🔥🏚️ Whenever you buy Summer Eternal's works, you are also entitled to co-own the studio with us! summereternal.com/players

We want YOU to own Summer Eternal with us!

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/09/2026

Aerospace Flowchart xkcd.com/3298/

Comic: Aerospace Engineer Problem-Solving Flowchart. [Start→Could we solve this problem by building giant airships again?→(No)→Try other solutions→(four arrows leading off-panel)]

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Sani @sanikkat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Finally fixed my render distance issues and updated my volumetric clouds to be even better. It's not perfect, But I think this looks better than before. In particular i really like the shot from where I'm descending and I switch to the over wing cinematic view. It's the best my game has looked.

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Alex Rakitsky @alexrakitsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Finally deleted my Twitter account. There'll never be a reason for me to come back to that hellhole ever again. If I want to build an audience worth anything, the Nazi website is of no use to me.

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Sani @sanikkat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

redoing clouds

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Alex Rakitsky @alexrakitsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just want to go on record and say that Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit and the world lost absolutely nothing of value with his death. In another life, he would've had time to change, but in this one: good riddance.

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Alex Rakitsky @alexrakitsky.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Alright, I sorted out the psychology stuff and *finally*, after 3 whole years of preparation, I'm beginning the journey of getting a master's degree (for free btw!). And now, it's time to get back into the game and change the world. 🪐🫂✈️

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Why485 @why485.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Please read the entire thread. Excellently puts into words the general malaise I've been feeling about not just game development, but programming in general.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

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GLASSHOUSE - Lockdown CRPG @glasshousecrpg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Our concept artists are fucking good. You have no idea how much material, prop design and architecture we’ve conceptualized entirely in-house for GLASSHOUSE. #indiegame #conceptart #pcgaming #gamedev

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SUMMER ETERNAL @summereternal.com · 12/08/2026

S O O N !

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SUMMER ETERNAL @summereternal.com · 09/07/2026

Some of our first Anthology printing proofs, hot off the press on Munken Pure Rough paper for exquisite handfeel. Designed by the paper perverts at @peregrinecoast.press. ❤️‍🔥

A page from the Summer Eternal Anthology featuring the portrait of Professor Richard Wolff.

Two test spreads from the Summer Eternal Anthology, one featuring a painted wildfire by Anastasiia Ivanova, and the other featuring Hegel and an excerpt from the Prof. Wolff Interview.

A sample printed page from the Summer Eternal Anthology, with an excerpt from the Manifesto.

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Adrian Campos @friendadev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The game industry is so fucking back

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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 01/07/2026

The Overton window keeps sliding.

Edit of the "i want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and i'm not kidding" tweet, now simply reading "i want games made by people who are paid to work"

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 30/06/2026

Good to see @godotengine.org coming out and clarifying their statement As I mentioned you need to give orgs a minute… corporations are pr’ing the future they want orgs are reacting Also the biggest reaction to earlier statements was from an alternative engine… huh www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it'

At risk of drowning in AI slop code, Godot is firming up its contribution requirements.

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Alex Rakitsky @alexrakitsky.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

You know what? Let's do this. Let's live a life worth living. More updates to follow.

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Sani @sanikkat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Absolutely fucking ridiculous experiments being done with my (heavily WIP) city generation tool. The final game probably won't feature any urban environments like this, for starters I think evil wizard towers new york looks quite ugly. but it's pretty fun to see what I can make.

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Monthly ebook releases on Amazon were basically flat before the release of ChatGPT and other LLMs. Now around 2/3 of all ebooks released on Amazon are fake.

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Alex Rakitsky @alexrakitsky.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I tell you what, taking weekly baths while singing my heart out to 2000s teenage pop does wonders to my mental health. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGR6...

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Avril Lavigne - I'm With You (Official Video)

YouTube video by AvrilLavigneVEVO

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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Game $200 Employees $150 Snacks $800 Game t-shirts to wear so everyone knows I'm a gamer $6,000,000,000 Hair products $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my company is dying

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

thanks to AI our slow and humiliating national suicide will be punctuated by visual media that is so good even a dog could jack off to it

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 16/03/2026

Hearing reports that DLSS 6 is going to make every character in every game look like a naked 14-year-old girl but don't worry, it's actually turning them all into ageless demons who have existed forever but _choose_ to look like naked 14-year-old girls.

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

OpenAI and…the United States Military…are teaming up to notify YOU that your son has been KILLED IN ACTION. Click here to speak with your son via AI one last time

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