iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 5h

Why am I not surprised that the freakout over a completely rational and legitimately beneficial integration of (sounds to me *local*) AI tools seems to be coming from *that place* again? They need a hobby besides witch-hunting things to be mad at.

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, being rushed to hospital before sunrise was not on my list of plans for today. Somehow developed a viral infection that usually affects, like, 3-year olds, and is nothing to worry about, but in rare cases hits adults & does so with deadly force, requiring hospitalisation - I have all the luck!

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Sporkamarink @strivingally.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thread. Hypercharging gambling is going to hypercharge the ruining of lives. Doesn’t matter if you call it a “prediction market”, the end result is still The House Always Wins and they’ll encourage you right up to the point you lose everything you ever had.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Something that stood out studying for my book is that in the last 10 years we had visible pushes in academia for a more global interpretation & history of gaming... However, mainstream media & discourse went the exact opposite way - it's increasingly homogenous and worshiping an idealized past.

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For years we had this conflict between reporting local realities X parroting foreign media like IGN, Kotaku & EGM Both sides lost. Apart from a few brave souls, the space is now almost entirely taken by AI slop and local influencers translating whatever viral post they see online. It's all this:

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shout out to this article that made me lose it: www.terra.com.br/gameon/vida-... Here a Brazilian claims that Pokémon was the "last great social game of the pre-Internet era", something insane to say in the country of LAN houses & locadora de jogos, where maybe the richest 3% could afford a Gameboy

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Pokémon foi o último grande jogo social da era pré-internet

Antes do Wi-Fi e dos servidores online, a franquia criou laços reais com cabos, recreios e confiança

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My gods the dystopian state of this. It's just mask-off now; no pretenses of it being about enabling creative experiences, just... "we want to hoover up every bit of cash we can squeeze out of you."

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 27/09/2026

I always enjoyed using it, but coming back to the Game Boy Camera in 2026 felt like a breath of fresh air. The camera's offline simplicity is something to be treasured, a chance to forge a more personal and relaxed relationship with photography: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/03/13/g...

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Game Boy Pocket Camera: New looks through an old lens

Digital cameras are now beyond ubiquitous. They’re cute, functional keychains. They’re covered in cartoon characters and sold to children. They’re available in the supermarket for…

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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℌ𝔬𝔴𝔩 𝔚𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔢 @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So this game called "Dverghold" came across my Steam homepage. Interesting retro vibes, apparently collabing with a dungeon synth artist for the OST. The art was kinda tickling my AI-dar though, so I scrolled down to look for any disclaimers.

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's astounding how little effort it takes one or two egomaniacs with a petty grudge to destroy five years of community building, and how little the invisible labour matters to people who aren't doing that work.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Your usefulness has been spent, cog. Now you are an unnecessary expense on the spreadsheet.

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That people cannot tell that these posts are blatant satire is so incredibly distressing. Literacy is deader than dead.

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah, this is the narrative that has been pushed by people who just want to tear us down. I was upset when I made the original post. A few people quit because of the GG-style harassment overload. Most came back, and we're stronger than ever, resolved to keep doing what we do better than anyone else.

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I really hope everyone pushing this "HM64 has secretly switched to vibe-coding everything!!" conspiracy is proud of themselves. You won! Devs all quit due to harassment. Instead of our dedicated team making high quality feature-rich ports, you can have an ocean of actual vibe-slop Recomps instead.

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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This article is fascinating! What should, on paper, be the truest possible way to be faithful to the original intent fails to account for technical limitations, now absent, that the original was designed to incorporate and accommodate.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you cannot be trusted to stand up for transgender Americans when they’re facing what some experts call a genocide, I don’t trust you to stand up for anything.

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theotheories.bsky.social @theotheories.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A pattern here is anti trans changes made under a labour government are assumed to be "reasonable and moderate" by people who would oppose them if a right wing government was doing them. This is worse for trans people because cis people just don't believe us when we talk about what is happening.

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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ai companies are an existential threat, but only because they don’t obey laws, have dangerous amounts of money and computational resources and are connected to Peter Thiel the world could end the danger of “rogue AIs” pretty quickly with a few computer fraud prosecutions and by enforcing copyright

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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

if techbros started a sports drink company by promising the result would turn people into metahumans so powerful they would threaten civilisation, you don’t need new special laws against metahumans, you just need regular laws against scam artists poisoning people

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I kicked down my neighbour's door, smashed the place up, and when I offer to leave if they give me the kitchen, they just rudely tell me to get out of their house! So unreasonable.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026

I advocate for withholding your vote from the leading anti-trans Dems, the ones calling us biological males and/or declaring they will be in favor of healthcare restrictions. So of course Will, who I have never had beef with, compares our anger to a cult and drives extreme harassment my way.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is really well done, great tour of recent history for those who might not understand the rights trans people have lost or the devastation in learning some Democrats want to entrench those losses rather than reverse them.

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After games like Indiana Jones and Oblivion getting proper cart releases, it would have felt insulting if this one had opted for a Key Card... but that they're foregoing even that, and just going straight for Code-in-a-box... kinda tells me they fear player-retention and resale...

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Algorithmic feeds should be 100% opt-in - I don't want to see stuff I haven't chosen to see unless and until I click a "please show me some stuff I might also be into" button. And ONLY then.

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Saki Endo's Rubbish Heap @rubbishheap.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Heartwarming to see some people finding my latest article for @timeextension.com was enjoyable and helpful. I don't pretend to have all the answers, the secret or the right way, but I definitely have an unlimited amount of interest for learning Japanese and encouraging anyone's language learning!

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 06/09/2026

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! I love the way the game's non-logic slowly starts to make perfect sense :D

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Okay, so it's not just me! Let's make things actually interesting - people tend to act as if gaming didn't exist before the NES, so instead of "fave game made before 2000" give me the games you love from before 1985.

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Fave game made before 2000" is a thing right now? But like... several of the best 'years in gaming' ever, and many of the 'greatest of all time' games were pre-2000... This isn't like, a slim-pickings time period.

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I swear, the worst part of the global fascist descent is just how *uncreative* each group are - it's the same rubbish borrowed and recycled from each other ad infinitum. If you're set on dismantling my rights as a human being, at least make it fresh and interesting.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Man in glasses that partook in the assault of young women at a Reform conference identified as Stephen Cooling of Sutton, a Reform member who previously stood as a UKIP candidate in Erdington.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Just a reminder That Reform banned dozens of journalists from attending their conference" via St Helens Resistance ... but not out-and-out racist, fascist, violent criminals like

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's actually kinda hilarious just how many kinds of infringement this thing committed. Like, there's the IP theft, in the characters and their likenesses, then there's the copyright violations in the assets they stole, and even trademark infringement in the use of the logos. Just EVERY violation.

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 04/09/2026

More of a nightmare than a fantasy, Zangeki no Reginleiv plays like everything I loathe about novelty Wii controls conveniently concentrated onto a single disc: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/09/04/z...

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Zangeki no Reginleiv: Waggle woes

First impressions of Zangeki no Reginleiv are… let’s say not great. Sandlot’s (you may know them as the Earth Defense Force developer) fantasy action game plays like someone got paid by…

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 04/09/2026

That reminds me - I wanted to post this thank you message to everyone who's played Terror of the Alien Mindmasters, too :) kimimi.itch.io/terror-of-th...

An image in the style of a C64 BASIC screen, a dark blue window on top of a light blue background with text of a similar colour. The text reads "
'Greetings, Earthians of the Internets! I have been closely monitoring
reports of your interactions with Terror of the Alien Mindmasters' an-
honestly, terror, really? Although I do suppose we have been really
rather ru-'
Jill, the thank you message ...
'Oh yes, of course! My dear Earthian here has politely requested-
requested! Ah, still such a novel concept. Thanks to our psychic
tendencies we have always operated under a remarkably different
social structure where such direct intercommunications and
interjections we-'
Ji-
'Fret not, I haven't forgotten my prose nor purpose!' Jill waves a
tentacle in a certain scientist's direction, 'I am here to proffer a hearts-
felt thank you to all of you for joining us on our marvellous adventure
-truly, your numbers have exceeded both cautionary estimations and
even secretive unbridled hopes-and wish you all as much delicious,
refreshing tea as your internal digestive system can comfortably
handle!'
Shall we find out?
'Find out what?'
How much tea an Ea-human digestive system can handle?
'Fabulous idea! Incredible substance, isn't it? To think such tiny leaves
-leaves !- could contain so much fla ... '
~Thank you to all TERROR OF
THE ALIEN MINDMASTERS
players !~"

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our Grandparents could own a home, and support a family of five or more with a single full-time job, with savings, retirement investments, and plenty left over for family holidays. We have been systematically *robbed* of the life they still expect us to strive towards.

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Kevin Bash (KBash from YouTube) @kbash.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"truth as consensus" is so toxic HOLY

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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

"And she was very, very concerned about the way the Welsh Gender Service made her feel like the enemy for raising these questions." M'am, you were trying to interfere and stop the provision of healthcare to your ADULT child, you very much are the enemy, your do not own your child

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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The US has run out of ways to grotesquely misinterpret the gospels and needs new material. Next week: Brave New World II: Brave and New is good, right?

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Dana the Elf @danatheelf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

LRP: If you haven't already been de-Googling your life, and taking back some privacy, now is a very good time to start. Switch your browser to LibreWolf or WaterFox. Use DuckDuckGo instead of Google. LibreOffice instead of Google Docs. You don't need to let Google run your life.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So 3 days ago was a good time to post this, but it's even more important now that Google updated the name of Lake Ontario to Lake Epstein or some shit like that. Digital sovereignty now. Get your data off US digital services.

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Watching the new Harry Potter series is a clear signal that you'll support JK Rowling no matter how many lives she takes. It shows that holocaust denial and destroying human rights groups isn't a deal-breaker for you. It has never been easier to take the right side of history.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

if you watch it you tell WB to keep making more Potter stuff and you show them that directly funding JKR’s transphobia, that she LITERALLY uses to strip trans women’s rights away, is not a dealbreaker how could i ever feel safe around someone who buys her the boots she uses to step on my neck?

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Immortality. Longer/Wider Genitals. Infinite Brain Power. The Secret Is Fish Milk.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

She literally did holocaust denial claiming the Nazis didn't target gay and trans people. Metro didn't wrongly state anything.

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