iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🚨IMPORTANT NOTICE🚨 If you use Notepad++, you need to uninstall it *immediately*, then reinstall the latest version from the website (don't update!). Apparently their update server was hacked and has been giving out malicious versions for many months now.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Yeah, yeah, they used AI and have now taken down their game because they've apparently realised AI is bad. Millions of you are talking about it. Can y'all please go BUY several low cost indie games that refused to use AI from the start, now, please?

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

So Meta's #VR division is laying off 10% of their Metaverse staff. Seems surprising until you hear that they have over 15,000 staff - nearly twice as many as ALL of Nintendo.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Laputa. I saw Laputa in the 80s (a heavily cut version called something like *The Flying Island*) and absolutely loved it, then loved it even more when I got to see the proper version in around ~2001. It'll always have a special place in my heart.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It's great to see all the people here expressing their opposition to generative AI in gaming. Can I suggest, though - alongside avoiding games that use it - the Steam Winter Sale is coming up; consider actively buying a few games that don't. Indies really need this.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

During the last days of the dotcom bubble, we arrived at a weird place where companies saw a bump in share price just for putting ".com" at the end of their name, or referring to a website in a press release. Even if such things were nonsensical. Just putting that out there.

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Obsolete Sony @obsoletesony.com · 18/11/2025

MiniDisc deserved better

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Oh wow... Ubisoft... You were trying to make your games *stand out*? In the past I've been uimpressed by the way so many of your games have been samey and cookie-cutter, but at least I thought that was an *intentional* decision

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Via Reddit, I've seen the recent developments in AI-generated video. All I'm gonna say - if you have young or aging family members, you *need* to start making very clear they must *not* trust video anymore, to assume that anything they see online, EVEN a video, is false until proven otherwise.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

For the record, that appears to be these games: store.steampowered.com/bundle/18805...

store.steampowered.com

PSIKYO SHOOTER: Collector's Bundle on Steam

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

"I just feel so sorry to all my fans for not being able to deliver my new work. Sorry. It is what it is. So it goes." RIP, Tomonobu Itagaki.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Am I the only one who keeps being surprised, whenever I see that *thing* that this is what the newest iPhone looks like?! Looks aren't everything but I think for mass-market phones it's a pretty important design consideration, and this looks waaaay over-engineered for an Apple product.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Fox's law: As an anime parody franchise continues, the possibility of it getting a Mobile Suit Gundam-themed chapter trends towards 1.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Don't let them go to waste!

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Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle ⚖️🦅🎮 @ninaaquilagame.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🎉NINA AQUILA SHAKER NOW AVAILABLE!⭐ NALE is partnering with @waifuwares.bsky.social to offer our fans a chance to get their own exclusive Nina Aquila shaker, with a summer-time Nina design by the talented @originalmika.bsky.social! Head over here to get yours now: waifuwares.co.uk/products/wai...

An image showing the Nina Aquila shaker design

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

They probably need to ban the use of DLSS internally, give their team "ordinary" computers as defined by the Steam Survey, and insist they use them. Management too. Developers sometimes have absolute monster machines and carefully calibrated monitors, and this leads to complacency.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Wow, as they'd already said there would be no VR stuff I didn't watch it - but it's sounding like that was a good call as all signs I'm seeing suggest that the keynote at MetaConnect was an absolute shitshow

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

In recent weeks, I feel that we have found that all too many people can look at a person and mistake civility in their appearance for goodness of their intent, directness of their words for debating from a true position of good faith, and quiet within their spaces for happiness within their nation.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

OK everyone, the Steam Frame! What is it? PLACE BETS NOW

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This. I want tech with control panels that look like a light-up tray of Jolly Ranchers

a tray of different Jolly Rancher candies

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

PSA: If you use MailChimp. They've REMOVED the ability for free users to send a receipt email when people sign up for a mailing list. This basically makes the service near-useless for non-paying users, as most people encourage mailing list signups using some sort of freebie; can't do that now.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

So The Acolyte... Wasn't great. Some great fight scenes, and I really liked the premise, but honestly the show left me really cold. But this is a good take. Jacinto was great, and his character's goal was cool:

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

In a weird way, it's actually kinda exciting to read this 🤣 They're SO CLOSE to an important realisation. SOOOOO CLOSE.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This whole "wishing ill" fiasco is *bizarre*. I mean, okay, sites have to react if a person makes an actionable threat against another. They'd probably get shut down if they didn't. But "I wish ill" is, at worst, *vague disapproval*. No revolution started with the rallying cry of "I wish ill".

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Okay, hear me out... Bullet Train is the definitive live-action Cowboy Bebop movie

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Personally I preferred the TNG years, like that one where Riker has a relationship with a person with a nonconformist gender identity or that one where Data lets his child choose its own gender. Not all this modern-day *woke-Trek*

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I never get tired of the opportunities for creativity that #VRChat provides.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Is it bad to say that 12yo-me feels a bit called out

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

3,000 followers! Thanks, all of you, for taking an interest in my somewhat eclectic mix of game development talk, VR news and complaining about *gestures vaguely at everything*

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a girl in a maid outfit is dancing on a stage .

ALT: a girl in a maid outfit is dancing on a stage .

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I feel there's many in the A/I Ge/nerat%ed art crowd who really need to learn this.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I absolutely LOVED this game. It was part of a wave of big novelty arcade machines; this one had a near-full-size jetski. My local arcade had it, and I used to play it every time I passed. I could consistently "finish" both courses in 1st place/within the timer. Freakin' loved it.

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Okay put it off for years but I've got a day off, it's hot enough that time feels like it's standing still and it flashed up on my Google TV home menu so... Time to watch Terminator: Genisys

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Be honest 🔁 If you still initially think of this guy when you hear the word TikTok

A picture of Tik Tok, a character from return to Oz

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...by Ethan Fox @byethanfox.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Be honest 🔁 If you still initially think of this guy when you hear the word TikTok

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Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle ⚖️🦅🎮 @ninaaquilagame.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Nina sheds light (and clothes) on injustice: Stop censoring videogames! Find out how you can help at: stop-paypros.neocities.org

Nina Aquila, nude. She's holding a placard protesting payment processing companies having too much power over videogame censorship.

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