iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

huh. 'bout that.

Screenshot from the 2020 soulslike Hellpoint, with the character standing in an archive reading a record saying:
"2027: Powerful Transhumanist cults force populations to increase bandwidth with AI lest they become part of an obsolete class. The beginning of the great human purge.
Population: 8.014 billion."

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can not convince me that this game wouldn't be something for @anyaustin.bsky.social.

Screenshot from the game "BURGGEIST", looking off into the distance, a green/red mountain range at the far side, with a bog lined with large bones, green stones, and a structure that looks like a large open book on a twisted pillar before the mountains.

Screenshot from the game "BURGGEIST", showing multiple spiraling and looping structures, and a floating stone castle in the distance.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This brings about one of my (I think) most controversial gaming opinions: people who praise the "moral ambiguity" of NVs story have little concept of media literacy as well as historical and political introspective. The open-endedness is great, don't get me wrong, but the meat of the story isn't.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Games that shaped who I am Difficult decision, this one. Fallout kinda belongs on here, as does DKC3. Persona 5 as a pretty recent one. But I did pick these 9:

A 3x3 grid of video games shown with artwork, titled "The 9 Games That Shaped Who I Am". From top left to bottom right:

Zelda Majora's Mask
Terranigma
Chrono Trigger
Morrowind
Dark Souls
Master of Orion II
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Gothic
Hellpoint

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I guess I'm one of those three people. Random encounters are based.

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

First EP track recorded 💪

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finished Shin Megami Tensei 3. Very good game, bordering on great. I understand why people recommend it - it's heavy and grim atmosphere is very unique, and I enjoyed it a lot. Got the Freedom ending, which I would assume is probably the most vanilla one?

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Castlevania is turning 40 today! As a little treat you can watch a 5 year old VOD of me trying to play the original game... with a bass guitar: youtu.be/qCS8WNMqaiY?...

youtu.be

BASStlevania - Castlevania on bass guitar - Part 1

YouTube video by ChiaroBenArchive

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As a modular sicko I concur.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nicht mal 2 Wochen auseinander. They don't care.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jetzt in Berlin eine Koalition mit der Linken abzulehnen und sich wieder der CDU anzubiedern wäre schon the most SPD thing possible.

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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Falls ihr es vor lauter Red-Scare und um sich selbst drehender Berlin-Debatten vergessen habt: In #Sachsen-Anhalt droht die erste faschistische Regierung seit 1945. Gemeinsam mit dem BSW bereitet die AfD bereits die Entmachtung des Parlaments und die Isolation der Opposition vor.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Finished Fallout 3 for the first time in 10+ years (and some of the DLC for the first time ever), and I gotta say it was both better and worse than I remembered. I genuinely think it has the best map out of the 3D games, and while the story feels rushed at the end, I enjoyed it.

static.klipy.com

Fallout 3: Happy Birthday in the Vault

Alt: Fallout 3: Happy Birthday in the Vault

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Games that shaped who I am Difficult decision, this one. Fallout kinda belongs on here, as does DKC3. Persona 5 as a pretty recent one. But I did pick these 9:

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Alexandra Braun @rainbraun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Den Aktionismus, den das Wort „Vergesellschaftung“ erzeugt, den hätte ich mir mal in der Politik bei „Remigration“ gewünscht.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Put another mail on the "I accidentally wrote 'King Regards' pile.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

wdym there isn't a metal band from Kazakhstan called "Kazakh Doom"?

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Saw the descriptor "spicy worker", and my already German/English mixing brain just went: "... Würzig arbeitende Person"

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🎃Sophie of the Dead👻 @frau-loren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

es gibt auch so viel Schönes an diesem Montag 🌹

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 21/09/2026

Vor ein paar Jahren haben vor allem (aber nicht nur!) FDP und CDU entschieden, als Reaktion auf die AfD auf Rechtsruck und Übernahme der AfD-Themen zu setzen. Jetzt ist die CDU aus dem Landtag in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern geflogen & die FDP gibt es bald gar nicht mehr. Man kann jetzt noch umschwenken.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stellt Euch vor, es würde in Reaktion auf die Berlin-Wahl in den nächsten Wochen bundesweit intensiv über die Frage gestritten werden, was man gegen horrende Mietpreise in Großstädten tun kann. Thema in allen Talkshows, Task-Force auf Bundes- & Landesebene. Volles Programm. Das wär doch mal was.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My anime taste is so fucking vanilla. I only really started watching more series during covid.

3x3 grid with different anime, represented with promo pictures. From top left to bottom right:

Dragon Ball
One Piece
Neon Genesis Evangelion
86 - EIGHTY SIX
Mob Psycho 100
Digimon: Digital Monsters
Hellsing Ultimate
Hunter x Hunter (1999)
Samurai Champloo

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jetzt in Berlin eine Koalition mit der Linken abzulehnen und sich wieder der CDU anzubiedern wäre schon the most SPD thing possible.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It could be so many. Morrowind. Fallout. Link's Awakening. But I think when it comes to the earliest that made a gamer, not just a fan of Nintendo IPs, there is a simple answer:

Cover artwork of the SNES game Terranigma

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Das passiert, wenn man sich an die extreme Rechte anbiedert und im Grunde sagt, dass sie recht hat, aber es ein wenig netter sagen sollte. Man gibt sich selbst auf und gibt niemandem einen Grund einen selbst zu wählen. Die wählen halt alle AfD, Weil das mit dem „nett“ ist irrelevant.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No stream tonight, Deutsche Bahn did me in again yesterday and I'm feeling quite a bit sick.

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Edgar of the 00ZE @secretofthe00ze.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

if you want to play a modern game with the exact vibes you're looking for in a game like Lollipop Chainsaw, there's a game that's coming out next month with a demo out now. side note: if you want to play a new Suda51 game, play a game actually made by him.

Stupid Never Dies comes out next month! Wacky colorful vibes, zombies, a protagonist that'd do anything to save his lover, it's got everything Lollipop Chainsaw has but it's also a roguelite!

Romeo Is A Dead Man is the latest project by Suda51/Grasshopper Manufacture!

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it?

Disco Elysium text reading:

SHIVERS [Easy: Success] - Your skin crawls.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Apparently an overhead high voltage cable just exploded roughly a platform away from me at Hamburg main station. Well, at least my train is still going.

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

3. Es gibt keine Evidenz, dass Normalisierung Erfolg hat und die extreme Rechte stoppt. Keine. Nirgends. Es ist sehr mühsam, wenn man aus einem Bauchgefühl heraus die Diskurse führt, die der Resteuropa seit über 10 Jahren durch hat. Deutschland ist nicht in einer einzigartigen Situation.

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Klar gibt es spezifische lokale Gründe und Befindlichkeiten, aber die gibt es überall. Es gibt keinen Grund Ostdeutschland als diese große Abweichung zu sehen, außer man schaut wirklich gar nicht auf den europäischen Vergleich und glaubt alles passiert nur in Deutschland. Gefährlich und falsch.

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🎃Sophie of the Dead👻 @frau-loren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Alter, Profite werden immer auf dem Rücken der Menschen gemacht. Mit Ihrem Bedürfnis nach Nahrung, Wasser, Wohnen, Gesundheit, Bildung.... Und den Fossilen Konzernen jetzt noch mehr Subventionen aus unseren schon sehr leeren Taschen zu überweisen hat auch keinen anderen Effekt. SPD komplett sinnlos.

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 15/09/2026

Wir diskutieren ernsthaft, ob wir die militärische Geheimpläne aus Sachsen-Anhalt schaffen müssen oder wichtige Verfassungsschutz-Infos entfernt werden müssen, damit die rechtsextreme AfD nicht die Sicherheit Deutschlands bedrohen kann, aber ein Verbotsverfahren zu prüfen soll übertrieben sein?

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Liebe SPD, gerne wieder so.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't know if I can state how terrifying it is to be awoken by the sound of your electric toothbrush turning itself on, and then refusing to turn off. Apparently water got to the button and it's a known issue with Sonicares. Fuck me, it wasn't that old.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Man, I wish that time would just move a little bit faster right now. After 3+ years of a long distance relationship I'm just done, and with moving in together so close in the future it just makes Mondays alone even more rough. Just a couple more months.

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florgoth @florgoth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Starting the sixty-first Starter Pack with all the bands, orchestras, choirs, independent labels, and musicians that I covered and who volunteered to be on here. Do you make music and want to get included? Let me know! Labels are welcome too, AI or bigots are not! go.bsky.app/HggsFPh

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

wdym there isn't a metal band from Kazakhstan called "Kazakh Doom"?

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring

Lu-Tze, artwork by Paul Kidby, from Terry Pratchett's homepage:
https://terrypratchett.com/book-categories/lu-tze/

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible: Nutellica (This was an actual Metallica cover band btw)

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H.P. @hannelore14089.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Am 11. September 1973 stürzten Chiles Militärs mit Unterstützung der US-Regierung die gewählte linke Regierung. Allende beging Selbstmord bevor ihn die Häscher fangen und foltern konnten. Folter und Mord folgten massenhaft – und ein radikaler Umbau zu einer faschistischen Gesellschaft begann.

Man sieht auf dem Foto eine riesige Menschenmenge und vorne
auf einer Tribüne steht Allende und winkt den Massen zu.

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ChiaroBen @chiaroben.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm glad a lot of people like the OoT remake, and it'll probably lead to more and younger people experiencing such a historical game. Me personally? Eh... I just hope to gives us a revitalization of more classic Zelda gameplay. I really don't want Tears of the Kingdom again.

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Tilo Jung @tilojung.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wie kann es die internationale Medienlandschaft wagen unsere teutonischen demokratischen Entscheidungen schlecht zu reden und völlig unzulässige historische Parallelen zu ziehen?!?!!111

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