iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Starting to develop a suspicion that Marathon (2026) is the games industry’s equivalent to Sorcerer (1977), a brilliant, intelligent, staggering work of passion and craft that is releasing in a moment not at all equipped to receive it properly

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

that's right, Bruce Campbell www.mensjournal.com/entertainmen...

When asked how it’s been for him to see the series transform since its indie beginnings way back in 1981 with director Sam Raimi, Campbell revealed his one issue with the recent installments.

“I’d like more humor back in. The three features have been mostly humorless, and I personally have a problem with that,” he said, echoing a sentiment shared among some of the franchise’s fans. “There’s no point for these to get too grim. You can be scary without being grim.”

“A little more humor wouldn’t kill you,” he added. “And one hero that you really can root for. Ash is an idiot, but you want him to survive.”

“Modern filmmakers love to color their movies like a David Fincher movie, like a hospital room, you know?” Campbell continued. “Gray-green, like a garage. Garage lighting. And so, okay, it’s a choice. It’s not mine. I think even a horror movie can look pretty. Why not throw them off? Make it all look pretty and wonderful, and then let them have it.”

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 26/07/2026

Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is officially a Kasukabe fan account. We love and support a 64 year old guy who looks like a gay guy in a punk squat because of magic.

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 28/06/2026

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

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Introducing Warp Point, a Web 1.0 gaming blog directory built for 2026

It's a webring! And a website!

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

never going to be able to convince me that this game isn't the coolest thing ever

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

tbh i already feel like i can spot the beginning of. . . something going on with the narrative but am hoping i’m just reading into it too much. shuddering at the thought of his take on what void stranger is doing lol

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

surely there won’t also be some pretentious metanarrative nonsense that sours me on the whole experience 🙃

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

played several hours of the demo this week and there’s one section in there that has some of the most engaging puzzle design i’ve seen in a long time

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

kinda hate to admit it, but i think the new jonathan blow game might be really good

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

played a demo for this years ago and really liked it, can’t wait for the full release

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XEECEE @xeecee.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

how it feels to exfil with zero runner kills one blue weapon mod and an unstable gunmetal

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I wrote about OBSESSION for my horror movie column. I'm mixed on the film & I think we have to start asking more of cinematography in mainstream horror and the redundant way it is integrated into character & theme. www.patreon.com/posts/159301...

Obsession is the horror movie of the moment, and there’s nothing to look at in it. Curry Barker and cinematographer Taylor Clemons have two visual ideas that they repeatedly opt for in telling this monkey’s paw story about a manic pixie demonic girlfriend. The first of which is to frame Nikki in heavy shadows or silhouette, and the other is the almost constant usage of underlit shallow-depth of field close-ups and medium shots foregrounding Bear to suggest that he is self-centered and single-minded in his actions. These two visual ideas are coherent within the tableaux of this story about Nikki’s loss of agency and Bear’s insecure manhood, but just because it is logical does not mean that it is exciting or worthwhile to watch. In addition to those two thematic choices of form, the framing is primarily symmetrical, and feels somewhat endemic to a generation of filmmakers who have grown up watching film clips on their phones, or horror movies of the 2010s that were inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s balanced symmetrical framing. When combined with the above techniques, Obsession feels ready made to be scraped for algorithmic scrolling on the apps without losing any visual information, because there is not much to lose in the first place. In theory, this pan and scan approach could make the physical embodiment of the picture suffocating, as Bear has to collapse within the circumstances of his decision, and live with the fallout of what he has done wrong, while Nikki is trapped in her body on autopilot, but it doesn’t evoke as much discomfort as it should. It merely seems like these filmmakers do not have the imagination to consider any other way of moving from shot to shot.

a sample image from OBSESSION of lead character Bear wearing a hoodie and stained in blood. His eyes are dilated, and he is in a bathroom

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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Marathon is free June 2-June 9 JOIN US ON TAU CETI 🪐🐛🫡

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Feel like it would be deeply satisfying to kick that yoda like a football

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🐰harsh noise hotot🐰 @merzbun.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

new resident evil movie? looks good? that’s awesome! another movie to add to the pile of seven good movies

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

william gibson's presence on bluesky is nice. like your cool uncle just hanging out and occasionally being like "here's something cool i did"

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This video helped me put words to why I love Marathon: The quest structure (in action) feels like a single-player game. And the human players aren't there for competition, but to serve as boss fights impeding your way to completing each quest

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 14/03/2026

Jesus this is insightful banger after banger.

Yes, you will hit the limits of this machine. 8GB of RAM and a phone chip will see to that. But the limits you hit on the Neo are resource limits — memory is finite, silicon has a clock speed, processes cost something. You are learning physics. A Chromebook doesn’t teach you that. A Chromebook’s ceiling is made of web browser, and the things you run into are not the edges of computing but the edges of a product category designed to save you from yourself. The kid who tries to run Blender on a Chromebook doesn’t learn that his machine can’t handle it. He learns that Google decided he’s not allowed to. Those are completely different lessons.

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Tiffany Turrill @tiffanyturrill.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Sorcerer (1977), Dir. William Friedkin

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Weeks-long Timmy Chalament opera/ballet "scandal" shows how addicted everyone has become to being outraged. People are just licking crumbs off the empty bag now.

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

✨MARK YOUR CALENDARS✨ Starting March 24, visionary filmmaker Bi Gan’s ravishing third feature RESURRECTION — his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure dreamscape — will begin streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel alongside a new Meet the Filmmakers interview with the writer-director!

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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online · 07/03/2026

hey why did they make the hole too big on the new google maps logo why would they do that look at how big that hole is don't do that

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is why God punished Pokemon to only speak their own names.

Pokopia trailer clip of players collaboratively building a large structure.

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

new mitski, gorillaz, and bill callahan albums dropping on the same day really undoing a lot of my psychic torment

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 26/02/2026

myrient shutting down

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

especially loved the part about how Anderson thinks it’s a great disservice to try and adapt a game without playing it; capturing the mood and feel of a work through a different medium is way more valuable to me than trying to copy entire setpieces and narrative beats wholesale

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

genuinely think Resident Evil: Retribution is one of the truly great videogame adaptations and PWSA remains a woefully underappreciated genre filmmaker. really great interview

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tante @tante.cc · 20/02/2026

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

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Traders of the Trade-Union International. In the 1990s in the [[sectionB.html#secb43][next section]], the state.

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Bowl of Lentils @bowloflentils.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Last year Daisuke Amaya (the creator of Cave Story) began drawing a really cute web comic series about a cat girl artist trying to find love. It's called Ame Choco Gamila and can be read on Daisuke’s website in JP and English. Highly recommend giving it a read! studiopixel.jp/amechoga/ind...

Choco sarcastically giving a smile. Taken from chapter 6 of Ame Choco Gamila.

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🐰harsh noise hotot🐰 @merzbun.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

i love video games. people arent saying this anymore. theyre scared to say this. video games make nme smile and want to hop around

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 26/01/2026

Please pay attention to what's happening in Minneapolis, Minnesota. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY Reposts are appreciated.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/01/2026

someone stole kuleshov's lunch from the work fridge and now he won't stop cutting between a picture of my face, an empty tupperware of chili and a venmo request for 6 bucks

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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Images from films directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi - BOTD in 1938 School in the Crosshairs (1981) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983) Hanagatami (2017) Labyrinth of Cinema (2019)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

this sucks and if i see one more person saying it's elitist to defend seeing movies exclusively in theatres, i'm going to lose my fucking mind. just say you hate art and human interaction because at least that's a take grounded in some sort of reality

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 15/12/2025

Seeing people in the comments saying that To a T was unfun and essentially that he deserves this if he can't make a good game. Gamers, I don't know how else to say this, artists are not supposed to be punished with financial ruin for making imperfect art. That's such a fucked up idea you have

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

thinking about a new kkb album

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laura @godheadheavyindustries.life · 09/12/2025

so insanely fucking real for this

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Step 1: Watch this hilarious video Step 2: Buy Despelote Step 3: Play Despelote Step 4: Transcend from "Slug Dusted with Salt" to "Enriched Human" through the power of autobiographical storytelling Step 5: Gradually descend back into the default state of "Goo Ball"

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DESPELOTE: FIFTH TRAILER (now on nintendo switch)

YouTube video by Panic

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Morning Song @aubade.itch.io · 07/12/2025

A film is just a TAS of a play

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy

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tristan @backseatdog.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

*stephen malkmus voice* i could streetpass a stranger. . .

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