iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 28/09/2026

Idea for Activision's first Halo: Spinoff farming simulator set on Harvest before and during the events of Contact Harvest. Stakes are high, leading the breadbasket of the complicated war against other humans. Until winter of year 2, when the stakes get even higher and the gameplay changes entirely

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 26/09/2026

Going to play through the mainline 2D Metroid series in release order, including notable fangames. NEStroid, II, Super, Fusion, Zero Mission, AM2R (2.0 by then hopefully), Samus Returns, Dread, Prime 2D, Prime Origins fangame, then M. Planets Anything big I'm missing?

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 25/09/2026

March 28th 2025 I paid $186 for 64GB RAM. It goes for $1269 now, USED. (CORSAIR Vengeance DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB) 6000MHz )

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 24/09/2026

quadruple-entendre title for my scarlet letter modern-day adaptation, "Parish the Thot"

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 23/09/2026

The title, of course, has a dual interpretation of "EVERYTHING YOU CAN SEE". When inspectors would visit Theranos lab, they would hide things. They would inspect everything they could see.

YouTube screenshot with the text "YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING", with "EVERYTHING" wrapped around so that it is left-of-and-below, so that it might also read "EVERYTHING YOU CAN SEE". YouTube's "Show" button is in the top right.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 21/09/2026

Re: It/its pronouns: For a few years, my friend group were largely Chinese international students. In Chinese, singular pronouns are pronounced the same (ta), and only gender-differentiated only in writing (only recently, as ~100 yrs). He/she/it 他/她/它 and are made plural by adding "-men" (他们，etc)

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 21/09/2026

I think I don't want a typical static site generator, I think I want the ability to write Markdown inside of, say, a <markdown> tag. With no support in HTML spec, and wanting not to require JavaScript, I'm surprised to find there is no such HTML preprocessor that does this?

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 20/09/2026

We could replace the three-syllable "dou-ble-you" in W with "dub" or "dubs", giving us an alphabet composed of monosyllablic letters. Or, as a compromise, the two-syllable "dubya".

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 20/09/2026

Hey #ocarina students and educators. I couldn't find a free blank sheet music with ocarina staves, so I made one. It's free and fit for printing: carrion.0xpossum.dev/ocarina_stav...

Blank sheet music with treble clefs and blank 12 hole ocarina tabs

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 20/09/2026

Samus' armor "damaged" effect pops in 20 frames before the impact

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 19/09/2026

I used to do AI research, and so I had (and still have) difficulty with people on our side being very wrong all the time on technical matters. It can be isolating and kind of crazy-making. I think most people with this knowledge are pro-AI because they have the profit incentive to stay on that team

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 16/09/2026

I have a fun "my uncle works at Nintendo" story where - I was the kid whose "uncle worked at Nintendo", - I was not lying intentionally, I truly believed it, - My prediction for the "GameCube 2" came true

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 14/09/2026

A thread of classic Metroid fanart that I have enjoyed from decades ago for no particular reason (2006, Maganiac, www.deviantart.com/manganiac/ar...)

Samus dressed in organic Metroid-armor kneeling in front of an explosion

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 11/09/2026

VERY cool website I found, "Diatom Ravine" www.diatomravine.com Includes a Metroidvania search engine Found this because Demake86 has four hits from it on Itch :>

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Diatom Ravine

Diatom Ravine — Metroidvania search, tools, and curated catalogs.

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 10/09/2026

A stream of new features are flowing your way! 🚣 Mip-level texture streaming, preserving alpha test coverage, a reworked toolbar for the 2D editor, and more await in #GodotEngine 4.8 dev 5 godotengine.org/article/dev-...

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.8 dev 5 – Godot Engine

A healthy stream of new features await!

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 09/09/2026

Metroid: Ravenous trailer observations: 1. Security-camera style intro shows these figures 2. Their arms look very similar to the EMMI, but they do differ

Greyscale image of three figures with round hats. "I was attacked by unknown assailants and sustained grave injuries".

Greyscale; figure extends an arm, as if about to strike downward

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星空★lone @hoshizoralone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

[metroid] hungry gal lifehacks

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 09/09/2026

Phones are practically required to exist in civic life, has "Automatic Verification" to get past captchas, and now has "Reference Images" for image verification. Not good that smartphone ownership is increasingly tied to ones humanity

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 09/09/2026

First reactions to the trailer: - Metroid has always been in part about bombastic action spectacle, and this is the best its been - MercurySteam characterizes Samus the best - They are making the music good this time - Other M crawled so Mercury Steam could run

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 09/09/2026

Metroid Ravenous (Nintendo, 2027) vs First Super Metroid Remake Revival X Blood Pt.2 Ch.5 The Return Of Samus Returns -The Sequel- (Tokinsom, 2010)

Glowing green Metroid-form Samus with a sick ass green energy blade

Very crunchy pixel art of Samus with a chainsaw for an arm cannon

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 07/09/2026

fucked up that nigel farage is a brexiteer and pro-crypto. makes it hard to criticize him, what with him being eurodivergent and a miner

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 08/09/2026

I really appreciate how they handled the ocarina in this remake. They went from a bad Gretsch-style seven-hole fingering to a standard 12-hole system. The ocarina looks like real glazed ceramic, with Link's fingering updating for each key played. Very good

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Ashley Black @darkside-ashley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

some illustrations, UI design and screen mockups from Dungeon of Flowers, an abandoned cute/horror dungeon crawler i was working on some time ago. i still really love the vibe of all this

Dungeon of Flowers art - enemy illustrations from left to right:
"Bad Pattern" a ghostly face that appears to glitch and waver
"Weird Lantern" a lamp with a 1-eyed slime creature spilling out
"Lamia" a snake girl wielding a long, thin dagger
"Puddle" an eyeless blob with human-like teeth

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 08/09/2026

Super Metroid had a profound impact on my life, just for enrapturing me at just the right age. But when I grew old enough to play it, it's actually in the middle of my rankings for favorite-to-play Metroid games. If remade, I am looking forward to it, as I enjoy ZM and SR over their originals.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 07/09/2026

I did not use any AI for my game, and I found a particular bit of difficulty when making shader code. Shader code is something that I write infrequently enough so as not to learn much, right. My first real shader was in 2016, so I saw a decade of things changing on the matter.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 07/09/2026

- Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc. do not mention that their curation feeds are AI in the modern sense. This is because they know that people hate AI and they might lose users. - "AGI" is still bullshit, as evidenced by no CEOs being replaced with an LLM by shareholders. It's a prerequisite

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 07/09/2026

It is significant and concerning to me that the latest models can reliably interact with Blender and produce results that aren't absolute garbage. Earlier this year, people falsely accused the IASIP promo art of being AI. Now, it much more feasibly could have been

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may @maysuser.name · 07/09/2026

new nathan fielder project in theaters in october??? oh i'm so sat

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 31/08/2026

first week free in awhile, going to do what's left to open source demake86 not going to bother with codeberg, or a fancy license, or with cleaning up the repository, or with a good CONTRIBUTING dot md, or with an adversarial AGENTS dot md, etc hope that's okay with everyone :^)

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kuraine @lena.fyi · 28/08/2026

the industry might be in a total freefall but if you file taxes as a game developer you can expense buying the strip mahjong game as research because it has impressive technical achievements for 3d animation

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may @maysuser.name · 24/08/2026

there's a very deliberate choice to avoid designing rooms for the zoomed in camera that makes the whole space feel much larger and unknowable then it actually is

screenshot of metroid 2 overlaid on a similar area from metroid 1, notice how the zoomed in camera means you can't actually see the top of the room anymore

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Kef-Meister 📚🐶 @kef-meister.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Incredibly legally-distinct and challenging homage. Why can't Meteoroid crawl? Because you're not playing as a big space rock, silly!

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 18/08/2026

Wikipedia is a role model in practical epistemology, but I wonder how they'll ultimately handle McConnell's death announcement. There's no question Mitch McConnell is dead, and Wikipedia is a large ship that moves slowly, but the policies clearly aren't working here.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 14/08/2026

Right now I'm stuck on trying to 1. Craft / find a license which is explicitly anti-AI, 2. Which is copyleft (not MIT, sorry, I don't want people to make MTX forks of Demake86!), 3. Ideally charges for AI training/RAG/whitelabel, and 4. Is Codeberg-ToS friendly ( codeberg.org/Codeberg/org... )

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 14/08/2026

Do people still do automated "this repo has an agents dot md, must use AI"? I'm trying to craft an "adversarial" AGENTS dot md to catch bad actors who are going to use AI anyways.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 13/08/2026

I have a beloved friend who does face painting and similar work at fairs with his mom. But his mom is fully AI-pilled, she insists on a ChatGPT-generated banner, which she "created" and is proud of :\ She is indifferent to the ethics and ignorant that the banner will drive away customers, right

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 12/08/2026

Some articles mistakenly reported my "8^6 pixel" Meteoroid as an 86 pixel Meteoroid. Fuck it, sequel to Demake86 will be an 86 pixel Metroidvania. It'll be a real demake this time!

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artee @samarantes.neocities.org · 09/07/2026

dogtroid, my newest super metroid hack, is now available for public consumption: metroidconstruction.com/hack.php?hac... "What if you were a dog? Wouldn't that be interesting."

A little Umbreon is hopping in front of a standing Braixen who is ready to speak, and has a blue sphere in front of her.

A small Umbreon is hopping in some waterlogged ancient ruins, in front of a Lucario wearing a hoodie and holding a fishing rod.

The equipment screen from Super Metroid, except the Samus wireframe has been replaced by an anthropomorphic Umbreon (as drawn by BACHELORSOFT). Equipment categories include Beanz, Beam, Lungz, Dawg, and Paws.

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星空★lone @hoshizoralone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

[metroid] sammyyy

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 11/08/2026

First patch for Demake86 is out! More info and free to play here: opossumcarrion.itch.io/demake86 Window can be resized arbitrarily, escape sequence is a smidge more forgiving and clear, and pickup flavor text has been adjusted.

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 11/08/2026

Not a unique observation, but over the past two years is that public mutual tech support communities (StackExchange, Reddits, etc) have drastically dried up. It tends to a lot of "figure it out yourself" work. I'm happy I started using Godot in 2016 and not 2026, because geeze

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may @maysuser.name · 07/08/2026

samus aran is the coolest character to be plagued by horny men and in an attempt to unpack that I found myself returning to one simple question: is samus trans? maysuser.name/posts/is-sam...

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Is Samus Aran Trans? It Doesn't Matter

Metroid and the Male Gaze

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 10/08/2026

Something I'm looking for: - A copyleft license like the GPL, which - Explicitly forbids AI training, use in RAG, or "whitelabel" reimplementation, and - Names a cost ($10,000 per source file scraped or references) for any of the above Do any of my followers know of an anti-AI license like this?

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artee @samarantes.neocities.org · 07/08/2026

belated comic for metroid's 40th where samus receives some fan mail

A four panel comic:
PANEL 1: Samus, in her power suit, shoots her mailbox.
PANEL 2: Samus is holding a letter. To her side is the remains of her mailbox.
PANEL 3: A view of the letter, saying "HAPPY 40TH SAMUS! Hi Sammy it's me, one of your biggest fans. Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to be a bounty..." A portrait of some Original Character is visible (u can find this character at samarantes.neocities.org)
PANEL 4: Samus, visibly confused, thinks "Who in Sollan's name is this???"

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 07/08/2026

Trying to collect all the Metroid 40th anniversary releases I've seen so I can play them once I'm back home :> Top of the list is Astria by Mididog: mididog.itch.io/prototroid

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ASTRIA by MIDI DOG

Explore a planet split in half!

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opossumcarrion @carrion.0xpossum.dev · 07/08/2026

I'll be mostly offline and away from my computer for the next few days! I really appreciate the warm reception to Demake86, it means a lot to me that people are enjoying this dinky game, speedrunning it and finding the handful of secrets :) A few fixes coming in about a week!

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