iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Thank you! 💕 It's still tough out here, but I've been doing okay and steadily recovering from burnout. Finally trying to pick up blender!

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sorry it’s just so funny that Epic spent so long trying to convince people to use their store only to do that.

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Emmurder Killwell えま @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"i think video games should be made by people" should not be a radical take but lol, lmfao

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

counterpoint: the god hand review should always be remembered and ridiculed

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

points at sign: THE GAMES INDUSTRY’S CUSTOMER IS THE STOCK MARKET, NOT THE GAMER Live service games are seen as ‘worth the risk’ because when one blows up (Roblox, Fortnite, GTA Online) it makes so much money that it covers all previous failures and more. What gamers say is irrelevant to this.

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Suriel Vazquez @suriel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Disheartened to hear about more video games happening in the layoff industry

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.

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Jackie 🍱🥮 🍳 @geekyfriedrice.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A game dev friend was physically assaulted at an airport bc the attacker (a player from a game she workED on *checks notes* hates her. If you find yourself wanting to harm someone because you don’t like them personally or the game they work on, get help. You are part of the problem in this industry.

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Another company had me interview four times over six+ months only to reject me. Very heartening

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Had an interview with a recruiter for a production company, and indicated I would be invited to a second round interview. Got completely ghosted. Didn't get a rejection notice until weeks later. Cmon.

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I remember hanging with a friend of mine, a writer from Obsidian. Reading news on my classic G1 Android phone. I read that Fallout New Vegas broke a major sales record. I ask my friend if that came with a bonus. He said he was quitting his job because it didn't pay enough to live in California.

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Mao Mao! @maotenno.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The irony is I don't think discs are that great of solution to preservation on the game side these days anyways. Patches and DLC basically made them a moot point in most cases. I hate to say but the best case for digital persvatuon is storing that shit on a hard drive somewhere.

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Ocho @ocho.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Road Trip Day 1: NJ to Durham, NC. Usual traffic around Baltimore and DC, stopped at a NASA science center, and met up with @andybenditt.bsky.social and @spynosaur.bsky.social for dinner!

Photo of the interior of the Goddard NASA Science Center in Maryland

Andy B, Ocho, and Spynosaur, all looking fantastic!

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Jim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Video games are good, they're so good man. It's very sad that a cabal of money idiots has ruined them for everyone

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 08/07/2026

bro they laid off the Doom 2016 developers. that's like if you laid off the studio that made arguably one of the best first-person shooters of all time, like Doom 2016

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

3200 people 😮‍💨🫩 Something's gotta give in this industry man

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

hey secret worlders, go watch Widow's Bay

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Miss y'all too. I'm still looking, just laying a lil low in the meantime

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Saw the Backrooms movie. Best Silent Hill adaptation to date!

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Alex M-O | Wishlist Rune Fencer Illyia! @amodev.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i created this meme like 4 years ago on twitter and it went super viral and i think i got like 20 death threats. that's how you know i was cooking with this one

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Pax 🌙 [they/them] @parallaxabn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

idonno man seeing every human post "please hire me for something im dying" meanwhile company and CEO post shit like "new record high profits" "i bought another destroy the environment machine" "thanks to our sponsers Actual Genocide" should maybe piss you off.

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

it still happening! it never stops!

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

happy two years of excessive harassment and stalking for just banning a guy from a discord server

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Tom Bloom @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

lancer, the role playing game

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Saw Exit 8 at the theater last night! Very cool adaptation although I could feel the ghost of Shinzo Abe breathing down my neck by the end 😥

Theatrical release poster for the horror film 'Exit 8' based on the game of the same name.

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Retrograde Minis @retrogrademinis.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Might touch up some details, but think this one is just about done

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

i should be a vtuber at this point

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

when you really think about it, the true value of video games is in laying off thousands of the people who make them at regular intervals in order to increase shareholder value 🥰

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

what are we even doing here man

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Counterpoint: it's good when dipshit assholes who make the world a worse place die. We should celebrate it more. We should do giant parades through the street with the guy's face on a big poster that says "RIP IN PISS" on it

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

He was xmas gift shopping with his wife and picked up a bunch of stuff including a Wii Fit, some xbox 360 games, and an extra controller. I remember him handing me his credit card and I gave him the stupidest grin. He smiled back. I screamed inside. 🙃

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mads 🐼 @smadseli.northsky.social · 12/02/2026

the cycle of “devs working for years to make a game > game launches (and it doesn’t matter how successful it is) > two week waiting period > most of the team laid off” is not only entirely unsustainable but genuinely horrifying

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it me andy b @andybenditt.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I once rang up Stephen Colbert at a Gamestop in NJ

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