iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I learned that wbg is pretty bad at #SVG #wallpapers, but #swaybg is perfect. Now I want to make more, with inspiration from simpledesktops.com #DesktopFriday

Widescreen desktop with a dark gray bar showing only the clock in the middle and the day in the top right corner. The wallpaper is the same dark gray color, with a slightly darker hue on the right indicating that it is actually a large circle that doesn’t fit. On top of that circle are eight smaller circles in the order and relative size of the planets in our solar system. They are all solid colors from the terminal palette: black Mercury, green Venus, blue Earth, red Mars, cyan Jupiter, yellow Saturn, purple Uranus and white Neptune. In the lower left corner is a small terminal window showing the SVG code of the wallpaper.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

What am I doing? I’m playing #quake2 with a #DualShock4 gyro for science. What? You don’t? That’s strange. #yquake2

This is the scene at the end of the first episode. A broken bridge sits between two castle-like, yet industrial, structures. Water flows beneath the bridge into a large drainpipe. The rubble of the bridge contains the corpse of a human soldier. Everything is gray and brown with a yellowish tint from the acidic sky.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Look at those chunky pixels! For some reason, the GOG version wouldn’t work in #DOSBoxPure. However, there is an obscure website – the name begins with an “a” and ends with “rchive-dot-org” – with an old DOS version of the game. Also, some time ago, I […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A screenshot of a game in 320×200-pixel resolution. It shows the beginning of the first level. There is a Dungeon Heart, a huge gem on a raised platform between four columns. Tunnels lead away from it in the four cardinal directions. On the left is the main UI panel, with a minimap and an almost empty grid of actions. Near the Dungeon Heart hovers a cursor in the shape of a hand holding a pile of gold.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I don’t plan on playing games on this machine. I was just testing my script for downloading AppImages. I swear! dusklight.org #DuskLight #TheLegendOfZelda #TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess #TwilightPrincess

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

That’s the biggest Fudge die I have ever seen! (Fudge dice – used in #FudgeRPG, #FateRPG / #FateCore, and, I assume, other tabletop roleplaying games – are six-sided dice with two empty sides, two minus sides, and two plus sides.)

A concrete cube with sides about half a meter long, and very rounded corners, almost spherical, sits on a sidewalk with a dirt path behind it. The cube is very weathered and has splotches of old paint, so some details are difficult to see. Of its three visible sides, the top has a floral motif, the left is flat, and the right has a groove resembling a minus sign.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Yay! The final achievement has been achieved: I won the game in 24 days! Achievements on Steam are meaningless (ask SAM), but, eh, still fun. It’s actually way easier than I thought once you understand what to do and, more importantly, what to ignore. (I can […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The pixel art from the game resembles old SNES games, but with effects that clearly weren’t possible on that old hardware. The scene is a field under a sky full of gray, heavy clouds. There are rocks in the hills in the background and fancy-looking water in the foreground that reflects everything. In the middle is a small figure of a queen on a dark horse. There is a large wooden plaque with a laurel wreath displaying the date “XXIV” above, and the text “The Crown is Safe.” below.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Let me solve some of nature’s mysteries for you. Yes, you can put #marshmallows into #chocolate flavored tea. Yes, there is chocolate-flavored tea. Yes, the capacitive touch on the joysticks of the #SteamDeck will still work if you use caps. At as long as […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

How good does your website look on Opera Mini v4 on a Nokia C3-00? #OperaMini #NokiaC300

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

That's too much coding for me…

A very long screenshot of a script with around 590 lines. It’s at one-fifth scale, so the code s unreadable.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

I finished #RuleOfRose on my phone with #BSPD9. There is an investigation that I need to do (it is about themes that are not my lane), but it is quite good. As you might have guessed, despite my better judgment, I’m continuing to play horror games. Unless […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Jennifer, a white woman with dirt-blonde hair and brown eyes, peeks out from behind a door, with a pitch-black room behind her.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

I’m not going to point any fingers, but one of the people I follow boosted an image a while back that boils down to “haha, you have to walk a dog in bad weather, haha.” The joke’s on them because I actually prefer bad weather because there’s no one around! […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Selfie. I’m wearing all black and completely covered. My face is hidden behind a net-fiber mask with a couple of valves. The top of my head is covered by a wool hat with a wide brim that is flipped over, that transforms it into old-timey looking black tinted pilot goggles. There is snow everywhere, especially on the hat, which is almost completely white. The way the brim of the hat is flipped makes it look like I have a huge mustache, like something out of a Studio Ghibli film. There is also a snow-covered fir tree behind me, and some are visible in the reflection of the goggles.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

The actual companion cube! It has already helped me play a couple of games by propping up a gaming handheld. And it looks neat :blobcataww:

A pillow shaped like a parallelepiped, or roughly half a cube squished vertically. It’s a cartoonish cat with light orange fur, a white belly, black and yellow eyes, small ears, and paws.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

I know numbers are just numbers and they increase, but I find it obscene that my phone can run a #PS2 game at three times the resolution. Who needs #SmogPorch! #NetherSX2 #RuleOfRose

Jennifer, a white woman, stands in front of large windows in a dimly lit room with wooden panels, a carpet, and furniture such as a couch, coffee table, and gramophone. She has dark blonde hair in a bun and is wearing a plain gray wool dress, knee-high black socks, and brown shoes.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

Since it’s pretty cheap, I decided to modify it a bit. I removed the vibration motors, which made it lighter. I also put a couple of layers of electrical tape under the face buttons to make them more responsive. I also replaced the sticks with the ones in the […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The gamepad’s stick has a “skirt” and a “cap” that are separate, so you can adjust the height by swapping the caps. There are three caps: one short, like a regular gamepad; one double height; and one triple height.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

As I said, this autumn was… meh. But since it’s winter now, I’ve already finished a game. Interestingly, I used #BSPD9 #TelescopicGamepad on Switch. I’m not sure if I’ll ever write a full review, but it’s surprisingly good. Since it’s basically a DualSense […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A black-and-white gamepad resembling the PlayStation 5 DualSense with a stretchy middle where you can put a phone, tablet, or Nintendo Switch. Interestingly, the face buttons have both PlayStation and Xbox symbols.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

The reason to get 4K/2160p monitor? #PixelPerfect #IntegerScaling of older systems, of course!

The spreadsheet shows the screen sizes of older consoles and PC games ranging from Pico-8’s 128×128 to 1080p. The screen sizes are compared to those of 1080p, 1440p, and 2160p monitors. The integer-scaled sizes that take up 90% or more are highlighted.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

I don’t think I need to explain how rare it is to see the stars in the sky over a megapolis. Actually, I’m 99% sure that the bright one is a planet.

A clear, dark blue night sky with, if I’m not mistaken, Jupiter in the middle, and a couple of stars from Gemini above it and a couple from Canis Minor below.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

⌨️ There is no escape. 🐾 I heard that if you don’t replace at least one of your keycaps with something silly, people will point and laugh at you. Hey, I’m not making the rules! #MechanicalKeyboard #Keycaps

A photo of the top left corner of a keyboard. Instead of an Esc key, there is an orange key with a pink paw print.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

I have fallen down another rabbit hole. It’s part of the configuration for an app called Kanata. It allows you to customize your #keyboard in many neat ways. And should be universal, no matter the hardware or operating system […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

This is part of a configuration file showing a schematic representation of three keyboard layers. Some keys are “transparent”, some are turned off, and some have aliases with names such as “@div”, “@elp”, “@td2”, and “@aaf”.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

I’ve been playing that game since smartphones had buttons. Finally finished it on an old Android because it doesn’t work on new ones. Besides, it disappeared from the Play Store again anyway. Curious if anyone even knows it :) It’s tempting to dig through […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A cartoon portrait of a smiling white woman with a red ponytail and green eyes. She is wearing a blue shirt with rolled-up sleeves and a large canvas backpack. In a speech bubble, she says, “I don’t want to spend too much time here since it’s such a small area. Let’s see what’s down there.” Behind her, you can see a level with a grassy surface, stone blocks underneath it, and a small amount of dirt blocks containing varying amounts of rocks.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

Oh, no! What am I going to play now?! 😱 Thanks for the neat #nonogram project, @joelr! pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram

The congratulatory message. It reads, “We did it! We solved all 24,976,511 solvable 5×5 nonograms! You solved 38,338 nonograms. We couldn’t have done it without you!”

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025

I don’t know what magic is this, but when I have #GhostCommander installed, those Samba shares appear in the Files app. I can’t replicate this on other Android devices or in other file managers. Also, I added another Samba share, but it didn’t show up. It’s […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The bottom portion of the Files app’s sidebar shows a menu with six items. The phone itself, Satsuki; the SanDisk SD card with an eject icon; Bug Reports; two Samba shares, Chihiro and Hayao, with their IP addresses; and ReTerminal.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

Oof! #MetroidPrime2Echoes is done, so if Nintendo releases a remaster right now, it’s because of me. They live to annoy me. :)

Samus, wearing her classic red and gold spacesuit, waves her hand as she walks into a white void.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

While tinkering with a shiny new toy, I quickly realized that I still like and have plenty of games that I want to play on the #3DS. Some of them are actually for the #DS. Oh, where to find the time for all of that! #Nintendo3DS #NintendoDS #Luma3DS

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025

Since modern #RetroGamingHandhelds are essentially small #Linux machines, I can set #Mednafen to take screenshots and put them in a folder that gets synced to a big PC. Neat! Specifically, with #ROCKNIX on #RGCubeXX, I changed mednafen.cfg: ``` command […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The title screen of Zelda’s Adventure, a fan-made remake of a Philips CD-i game for Game Boy. A stone tower and starry night sky are visible behind the text.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Me: I shouldn’t buy new gamepads unless they are a clear and significant improvement over the ones I already own. For example, the only reason to upgrade the Apex 4 would be if they added more programmable buttons or put the back buttons in a vertical […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A human hand holds a white gamepad with gray rubber handles and blue, transparent triggers. Its shape resembles an Xbox, but it has four back buttons stacked vertically like those on Xbox Elite gamepads and two additional buttons near the bumpers like those on the Apex 2.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

Oh, no. After finishing remakes of #ResidentEvil2 and #ResidentEvil3, I decided to check the originals¹, just to compare, you know. Just to get a taste, you know. Just for a little bit, you know. Still playing… ¹ – Classic REbirth, to be specific, which is […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A dimly lit room with hard chairs, a vending machine, a couple of windows, and a door. Clair Redfield, a white woman with brown hair in a ponytail, waves at someone. She is wearing a red, sleeveless, denim jacket and shorts over a black short bodysuit, and knee-high brown boots. She holds a handgun and has a combat knife in a sheath on her shoulder. The background is a prerendered texture, while Claire is a polygonal model.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

I’d rather be gaming. A better game? Some would say so. Some would say. #HellgateLondon #Mythos

Screenshot of a game, with a classic Diablo-like interface – two orbs of health and mana, a hotbar for abilities, some quest goals, etc. – but from a first-person perspective, with a futuristic machine gun on the right. Our character looks at a wall in the Covent Garden tube (metro) station with a poster for another game. The poster shows a gnome-like person with blue spiky hair, very long ears, and pince-nez sunglasses. The gnome is wearing green and brown leather armor and holding a sword, and stands in a grass field.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

Has anyone ever seen #Doom3 and #Quake4 in the same room at the same time?

Only a small part of the narrow metal tunnel is visible in the beam of your flashlight, which is attached to a gun.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

[video game rodent] I don’t know what witch Verminia uses in her paints, but half of her rats are really high.

A rat lies on its back on a wooden table, its back paws in the air and its tail curled into a circle. Its head and front paws are turned to the side.

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Andrew @alsorew.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2025

I bought a silly thing so you don’t have to. Sometimes you just want to buy a silly thing so you don’t have to, you know? So I did so you don’t have to. I’m not sure what game I’m going to test it with, since most games work well with regular gamepads… when […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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