iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Being someone who writes with fountain pens means that, on occasion, when refilling a pen, you will make a stupid fuck-up and have blue hands for like 36/hours 🤷‍♂️

Photo of my hand with blue ink stains on the tips of my fingers. It is worst on my index and thumb.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 02/10/2026

Oh shit. Fuck fuck fuck. Goddamnit. www.pokemoncenter.com/product/72-1...

A stuffed Pikachu in a space suit, floating in the cupola of the ISS.

A three-quarters view of the Pikachu-in-space-suit plush from the Pokemon Center store page

A different Pikachu plush that's in a blue astronaut jumper.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 30/09/2026

Yeah, not wrong. Now a little big more crispy.

Same nugget models as before, but the breading texture has been darkened a little

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 30/09/2026

Okay, I'm back. Oh, this 12pc nuggs isn't for you. I gotta make a stop over to mastodon to drop these off for someone.

Low-poly model of a container of chicken nuggets spilling out onto the floor.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 22/09/2026

Walking through Philadelphia's 15th & Backrooms Station under city hall.

Photo of an empty, expansive subway station with painted pillars and bare, polished concrete floors. It seems to go on forever

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 16/09/2026

Sigh. Spotted in Philadelphia, in the Fairmount neighborhood like an hour ago. Texas plates. Get out of here

A gold Tesla Cybercab with big gold hub caps parked on the streetside

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 11/09/2026

As usual, in all of the talk yesterday of "Kojima's PHYSINT has been picked up by Xbox" I didn't see anyone mention how this means the next Kojima game is covered by the ongoing BDS boycott. Which...

Three photos of a small child in a red shirt and yellow pants breaking down crying while holding a gun

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 09/09/2026

Somehow I am still working on this project. Yesterday, implemented objects you can examine with multiple states you can advance/retreat through. #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 20/08/2026

Went on a, like, 4-day bender learning GNOME's GUI library and seeing how far I could get with making an app with a 3D viewport. Got a window with a collapsible sidebar and an OpenGL surface! Quickly hit enough friction that told me I already have projects to focus on. But it was fun!

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 16/08/2026

Had a guest over during lunch. They were having a bad day.

A house sparrow hanging off of my microwave oven

House sparrow standing outside my door looking pissed off about being stuck in my condo for like 5 minutes

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 13/08/2026

Increasingly feeling like building my own Blender/Godot level design add-on. Written by hand. So that others can actually use, understand and maintain it.

Bender from Futurama standing on the lunar surface, looking angry at a closed airlock, in a scene where he says "Oh yeah? I'll build my own amusement park! With Blackjack! And hookers!"

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 05/08/2026

MORE GAMES SHOULD LET YOU BROWSE THE STATIONARY STORE #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 21/07/2026

More video games should have usable computers. #Godot #IndieDev #GameDev

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 05/07/2026

No way in heck we're going anywhere tonight, so we just went up to our rooftop to see. There are fireworks all around us, plus flashes of lightning from the on-coming thunderstorm.

Philadelphia skyline, lit up with red white and blue, with smoke from fireworks in the foreground

Fireworks over a church that's a few blocks away

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 01/07/2026

Speaking of Sony dropping physical media in favor of going digital-only, been having a heck of a time getting into my PlayStation account over the last couple of weeks.

Screenshot of Sony's account recovery page, showing an error that reads "The connection to the server timed out."

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 09/06/2026

We are so back. The revival @repebble.com hardware is thinner than my old Apple Watch and feels really solid! Could not be happier ✨💖✨

Holding two boxes: a white box carrying a silicone watch strap, and a blue box holding a Pebble Time 2 watch.

Wearing the Pebble Time 2, using a watchface that recreates the GoldenEye 64 pause menu. The watchface hasn't been updated since 2016 but works just as well!

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 28/05/2026

[vibrating intensifies] new pebble watch New Pebble Watch NEW PE

Shipping notification email that my new Pebble Time 2 has been shipped out

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 25/04/2026

Been having so much fun modeling and texturing props for a personal project. Pixel density is all over the place, but that doesn't bother me at all.

Blender viewport screenshot of various street signs, bollards, and machines common on Japanese urban streets.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 23/04/2026

Update: I actually love how small and pocketable this thing is, and the CrossPoint firmware has a really nice, simple interface that gets out of your way fast.

A small, A7-sized e-reader dwarfed by my left hand holding it. On the screen is the cover for Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 23/04/2026

Got a tax return and celebrated by jumping on the Xteink X4 bandwagon.

Holding a white box with a black outline of a small e-ink reader with XTEINK in large letters, followed by a Chinese subtitle I can’t read.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 17/04/2026

First-person game developers are cowards for not allowing you to sprint when also crouching. Imagine how NPCs would react when they see you doing this.

Japanese athlete Ryusei Yonee while breaking the world record for fastest 100 meters while running on all fours.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 28/03/2026

Didn’t take long for me to have a Homeowner Moment. I tried to fix a clog, wound up somehow breaking the bathroom sink. Then had to find a replacement part to fix it. Wound up finding a local guy with a 3D printer to make one and used it to finish the repair.

A 3D printed drain cover installed into my sink.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 25/03/2026

The hubris of Man to spend centuries selectively breeding wolves to create their ideal of the Living Muppet.

Close up shot of Kepler, a brown French Bulldog with an extra-wrinkly face and floppy ears.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 04/03/2026

I think it hurt his brain trying to contemplate the scale of it.

Kepler (French Bulldog) looking over a railing at the enormous Grand Canyon

A shot of the Grand Canyon over the ledge

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 28/02/2026

“We just want them to be straight with us on what the plan is” says the biggest dumbass in Congress. Meanwhile, Trump is like “idk just felt like creating a power vacuum, it’ll work out.”

U.S. President Trump, in announcing that
'major combat operations' had started, urged Iranians to rise up.

"When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations," he said in a video address.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 23/01/2026

Been in a kinda mood lately to delve into 3D illustration. Did an interstellar probe. #b3d #scifi #space #art

A scene in space, with a small space probe on the left with a large solar sail seen flying past a planet on the right of the frame that's partially eclipsing a blue star.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 06/01/2026

Just updated my web site, which is now 60% more cursed than before! brodybrooks.com

Header for my web site, now with a floating 3D model of my head in low enough fidelity that it would fit perfectly in a Dreamcast game from 2001.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 04/01/2026

There, that should suffice. "Random Shenmue NPC who only says 'Sorry, I can't right now. Could you ask someone else?'"-fidelity head bust.

Screenshot from the Blender viewport of a low-poly rendition of my head

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 04/01/2026

No! No. Everything is going fine, here. I'm fine. Not done yet. Please stop yelling at me.

Blender viewport screenshot of a model of my face, with photo textures that are definitely not fully aligned yet. Looks like I have a giant lower lip.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 03/01/2026

Well, might as well embrace the feelings of dread and make myself feel extremely uncomfortable today while I'm at it.

Split screenshot, with Krita on the left where I'm stitching photos of myself together to make a self-portrait 3D headbust, and Blender on the right where I have the untextured geometry.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 31/12/2025

Rewatched Contact last night (still a great movie) and I did a spit-take in this scene, not remembering that they dressed Jodie Foster up as Carl Sagan in one of the most jarring wardrobe decisions I can think of.

A still from the 1997 movie Contact showing Jodie Foster in a brown turtleneck and a brown tweed jacket, a signature outfit worn by Carl Sagan.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 31/12/2025

I know I know “person in LA posting about rain” but like, look at this! This is *so rare*! A full week of rain?!

10-day weather forecast for Pasadena, California showing rain nearly every day.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 04/12/2025

Oh my god??? It really happened????

The game Routine (announced in 2012) released today on Steam

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 22/11/2025

idk man, if you think you see a huge problem, maybe that should be the headline?

Washington Post headline: “One sector is holding up the economy. These 8 charts help show if it's a bubble about to pop.”

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 24/09/2025

Either the guys at Krafton don’t know how games are made or are counting on there being no witnesses called who do.

"Cleveland exported hundreds of
Subnautica Maya (.ma) files, which are used in 3D animation modelling and contain proprietary embedded data, providing, effectively, a blueprint for a game," added Negangard. Krafton claims Cleveland downloaded what "essentially amounts to a blueprint for Subnautica."

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 10/09/2025

Happy Dreamcast Day (or one year since I got laid off as a games programmer) Definitely the longest dry spell I've had in my career, but it's kinda ruled as I can just work on tech skills I've not had the time to learn and do fun projects! I do miss my savings going up not down, tho

Mr. Yukawa (aka Mr. Sega) at his desk with his eyes closed, looking down, his hands on either side of his head. Behind me are stacks of Dreamcast boxes.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 02/09/2025

Goddamn, sometimes you can still get some great shots out of the iPhone 11 Pro.

Night photo of Kepler (a French Bulldog with floppy ears) sitting in grass by the roadside, illuminated by the headlights of an oncoming car. His silhouette is accented by an outline of light.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 26/08/2025

Hey, new coffee shop down the street, you gave me a fucking aneurism just now.

Inside the window of a closed coffee shop at night, a mannequin with a screaming unicorn head sits at the window bar with a book.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 01/08/2025

Watching a stream of the Crew-11 launch www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0j6...

A stream of NASA'S Crew-11 launch, presented by a V-tuber

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 31/07/2025

Maybe I'm the only one that remembers, but I was really looking forward to seeing Urbanista release the 2nd gen of their solar powered headphones. They announced them January of last year, but it really looks like they've silently died. More companies should put solar charging into their devices!!

Screenshot from Urbanista.com showing all of their products are sold out.

Press release from January 4th, 2024 announcing a second generation of the Urbanista Los Angeles over-ear headphones. Circled in red are the date of the release and their announcement that they will be available in 2024.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 14/05/2025

Node to figure out if you is a soft

Unreal Engine blueprint node for a function called "Is A", used to determine if an object is of a class type. Coming out the right side are two outputs called True and False.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 01/05/2025

Watching Eizouken as I work (I'm on a pretty brain-off task right now) and I find it extremely funny that in this particular localization, they decided that Asakusa goes full Scottish during her tirade at the Student Council budget meeting.

A girl, angry-crying, with a jungle camo bucket hat pulling her school uniform top up to cover her head, with the subtitles saying:

"Ahm nae gonnae listen tae ye go off aboot nothin', ye eejits!"

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 06/04/2025

On top of everything else, the American Experience in recent times has been seeing super cool vehicles that you know you will never be allowed to own. insideevs.com/news/755713/...

The KG Motors Mibot, a tiny, one-person car. It has a yellow body with black trim and wheels, and the front and back are symmetrical; no front hood jutting out.

An isometric view of the KG Motors Mibot. It shows that it is 1130 mm wide, 1495 mm tall, and 2490 mm long.

Interior of the KG Motors Mibot. The wheel is centered on the dash, a door on either side of the vehicle. A small tablet is affixed to the dashboard on the left of the wheel showing car speed and data.

A render of the KG Motors Mibot driving down a narrow, riverside road in a Japanese town.

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 25/03/2025

Doing a contract job lately, which has forced me back into Windows briefly and

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Brody 🚀 Brooks @brodybrooks.com · 19/03/2025

Kepler has just discovered a new sitting position.

Me sitting at my desk with headphones on, and a French Bulldog in my lap, back vertical and front legs over my arm like the handlebars on a rollercoaster.

Closeup of Kepler sitting upright, paws over my arm and staring off to the right of frame.

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