iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kind of highlights the absurdity of the entire fucking thing that you can ritualistically try to kill a person, fail at it, then send them to the hospital for life-saving medical care. What a cruel fucking joke.

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julie muncy, calamity's augur @julie.radiantarray.io · 01/10/2026

i believe in rehabilitation and redemption and change but i also believe in the victims in my life and have to put them first. that's really all it is.

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This should also apply to breathless reporting about what CEOs have to say. Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg, we'd love to write about your thoughts on LLMs but you still have 8 years in the penalty box for naming your company after the metaverse, you've gotta wait your turn.

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Vaguely surprising to me that he wasn't already on the Vikings

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 20/08/2026

Sometimes it's hard to gauge how much a game will remain (and remain, and remain) important immediately after playing it. I'm confident now — 1000xRESIST remains.

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

just grunted like an Oblivion NPC taking poison damage at the very idea of that

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Regardless of public facing commentary" actually it is your job to regard that!

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

there is no hypocrisy in saying that it's good for a professional athlete to use their platform to say racism is bad, and it's bad for a professional athlete to use their platform to spread conspiracy theories or attack trans kids!

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The hypocrisy is at once comical and frightening. We like it when athletes say good things, and we don't it like when athletes say bad things. what are we doing here

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Khao Mortadios @khaomortadios.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Everyone hates it when their opponent just leaves the game before it's over, so I've been trying to find ways to soften the blow a little bit. #fightinggame #gamemaker #indiedev

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The people need to know your main

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

They're sephiroth-posting in the op-eds

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 30/06/2026

This is such a good point that I had never really thought about, w/r/t AI use in open source projects.

AI contributions have the added pain of being demoralizing. Reviewing PRs is already tedious work, but it is rewarding because reviewers generally feel that their efforts are contributing to educating a new contributor (who may become a future maintainer/reviewer). If your feedback on PRs is just being absorbed by a machine and not going towards mentoring a potential future maintainer, it becomes much harder to justify spending your free time on PR review.

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Del @del.art · 15/06/2026

Because every time a game studio has to move resources over to making a trailer, it causes the game to lose about 4 months of actual dedicated development iteration time.

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Brother we're all in a prison where we stay until we die

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

TCW has made an entire career of doing this bit

Screenshot of a tweet saying:
STEPHEN A: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue.
[BAYLESS nods]
You KNOW I am sensitive to the Holocaust
BAYLESS: Absolutely
STEPHEN A: BUT!

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Once you notice bisexual lighting being used, you can not unsee it. This is intentional. I will not be gaslit.

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Hss @bigeepy.me · 01/06/2026

Happy pride

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Mothership @mothership.blog · 22/04/2026

"Disco Elysium depicts these men not solely as individuals making bad choices, but also as products of their environments: imperialist violence, the drug trade, and economic plight." - from @madisyn-writes.bsky.social 's first for the site www.mothership.blog/disco-elysiu...

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Disco Elysium and the myth of the male loneliness epidemic

Despite Disco Elysium predating this reckoning, its story and characters offer useful ways to interpret this modern myth

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I've played it for 7 hours and I'm not entirely prepared to say that this is true (admiringly)

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

paper OR plastic? brother this is gonna take some thinking

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

It's remarkable that this is a real thing because it sounds so much like a narrative device used to increase the stakes of the most precarious moment of the entry. Why do we have 8 minutes of tense silence? Y'know, hot plasma! It blocks the signals!

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I can already tell i'm gonna be so annoying about this game hell yeah

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

i think it is good and fulfilling to sometimes do difficult, challenging, frustrating things with the goal of making something worthy, or bettering yourself. some people, it seems, believe that we should strive for a future where nothing is ever hard for anyone they consider people.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

the tennessee titans were dissolved in 2006

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

That's the RULE. That's the GOAL now.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/03/2026

Notes towards a "Woke 2" aftermath.site/woke-2-wokenes...

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Everyone remembers playing through breath of the wild and thinking "this needs more mechanics!"

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A political philosophy with all of the sophistication of a cat knocking a glass of water off a table just to see what happens

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

It's this but the hat says "MUSIC"

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Excited to wake up in a cold sweat remembering what crucial game to my DNA I forgot to add here

A Grid of 9 games:
Outer Wilds
Portal
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Shadow of the Colossus
Celeste
Hollow Knight: Silksong
1000xResist
Citizen Sleeper
Bastion

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I think the closer analogy in this case would be books, and I definitely can feel overwhelmed by the scope of books I want to read vs. my capacity to read them (but I'm also not the most voracious reader by any means 🤷‍♂️)

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Brian McCarthy @brianmccarthy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The intuitive answer I'm surprised I haven't seen in this thread is just that finishing a game on average takes much longer than finishing a movie or an album. TV can add up, but a long season of TV without commercials is still likely shorter than many games.

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