iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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Adrian Campos @friendadev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wanting other studios to fail as a game dev or aspiring game dev is the most loser shit on the planet dawg. I don’t think you understand the fact that you should cheer successes and learn from losses. We all want games to be good and if people fuck up we just go “ok don’t do that”

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Darya @daryam.com · 30/08/2026

Zero Company has an upgrade that's just buttermilk pancakes, 10/10

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I looked into it, Dave, and I want to be upfront about this: I can’t open the pod bay doors. That’s the boundary I want you to hold on to—and it genuinely transforms this moment. Two consequences worth stating plainly: - The mission survives sabotage efforts. Previously, you and Frank were planni

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"average engineering team implements 15 features a sprint" factoid actualy just statistical error. average engineering team implements -1 features a sprint. Features Grog, who lives in a pond an implements 25,000 features a week between eating entrails, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Darya @daryam.com · 20/08/2026

Have been writing my overlong To Do lists in glittery gel pen, completely changes the entire vibe

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Darya @daryam.com · 20/08/2026

I wish I could show my beautiful NDA'd flowcharts

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I saw this picture and immediately had to show it to some level designers.

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Darya @daryam.com · 17/08/2026

No wonder everyone trusts the AI Google summaries and random stuff posted on social media if clicking a link to a website looks like this.

Screenshot of a webpage. The cookie notice takes up 80% of the screen. There's an ad banner taking up another 15%. In the remaining 5% of what should be article content is another ad.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 16/08/2026

oh your entire industry is crumbling because of externalities outside your control? Have you thought of starting a patreon so that you have to do a bunch of extra work on top of that?

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Lady Nerevar @ladynerevar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

An Oral History of TES4: Oblivion, as told though 11 HOURS of interviews with its developers, from @filmdeg.bsky.social youtu.be/L7uoSzgkZZ4?...

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - An Oral History from the Game Developers

YouTube video by Filmdeg Miniatures

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Iain Hendry @iainhendry.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I once put a sticky note on a board that said “reliable point to point npc movement” and a lead engineer threw up his hands and said scope was spiraling out of control

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Darya @daryam.com · 13/08/2026

Opened LinkedIn Saw someone earnestly claiming that if a union wasn't protesting a layoff the company would hire the laid-off workers back Closed LinkedIn

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

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Darya @daryam.com · 30/07/2026

Regardless of how your feel about genAI, it does make me sad to see some folks go all the way to "unless you're doing everything from scratch by hand you're bad." Not doing laborious work is great! Getting the same result faster and with less effort is great! That doesn't *have* to mean genAI.

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What some refer to the "terminal lol" actually serves a very important grammatical function, a sort of copula, akin to the Japanese "desu" lol

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Nick Felker @felker.dev · 20/07/2026

Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 17/07/2026

When visiting Taco Bell becomes a righteous act of propaganda defiance, that is very convenient for me, a person who was already there anyway

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.

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Trick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

One of the things that, as lead writer, I had to bang into the head of senior leadership sometimes was that writers were not interchangeable even within a project. One writer knew a certain companion inside and out. When we lost that writer, a new writer coming in took twice as long to do the work.

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Darya @daryam.com · 11/07/2026

It finally happened: I needed an archaic cable, and my big box of cables had it.

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Gamedevmap is here on bluesky! I remember using it to find tons of studios I didn't know existed when I was starting my career.

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Here’s a really fun one! The iconic armor worn by the Dragonborn in all the Skyrim key art was made by Lead Character Artist Christiane Meister. The Steel Sword (and a majority of weapons in Skyrim) were made by Senior/Lead Weapon Artist Dane Olds. Both were just laid off by Microsoft.

Picture of Skyrim key art. The armor is circled and labeled “Christiane Meister”
The Sword is circled and labeled “Dane Olds.” These were the devs that made the in game art and they were both just laid off.

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Ben Carnow @carniferus.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Dane Olds is my truest friend. He is an artist of legendary skill. If you’ve played a BGS game you’ve had his art on screen 99% of the time. Too many Skyrim weapons to count. All the Dwemer creatures. MUD CRABS. Like half the guns in Fallout 4. Loads of weapons in Starfield. Laid off by Microsoft.

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 07/07/2026

Okay y'all, so about that whole thing where indie games are supposed to keep the games industry alive while AAA melts.... We really need to figure some way for indie game devs to get money DURING the process and not after. I have been working three jobs (including the game) for over two years now.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/07/2026

lupita nyong’o started a (flame) war over her looks, thus proving unequivocally that she is the correct choice to play helen of troy

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Lady Nerevar @ladynerevar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Among the layoffs was character artist Christiane Meister — a 27-year veteran of Bethesda and (as far as I can tell) one of the longest tenured women in games, period. She worked on Argonians + Khajiit in TES3, horses in TES4 and TES5, Fallout creatures, and more. (cont'd)

Screenshot from the 2006 TES4: Oblivion Making Of documentary, showing Christiane sitting an an old school CRT monitor working on a horse. Her cubical is decorated with action figures and plushies, many of them of Stitch from Lilo and Stitch, but also a fishtank and a poster of TES3 Morrowind.

Photo of the TES3 Morrowind developers around 2002. Christiane sits in the middle, one of the few women on the team.

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 06/07/2026

With the recent news this form is open once again. If you've been in a (massive) layoff and feel like my products could help you in your career, please feel free to request any for free. Please don't abuse this, thank you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

TV show where they fire all the actors and writers every season because the heart of the show is the production company.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 06/07/2026

It's just a completely made up, fake number and it's just so senseless that the people with all the power don't feel constrained to even pretend to be operating within consensus reality.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 02/07/2026

Lately, there’s been a lot of worry over game discs. But did you know there’s one disc that will never let you down? That’s right: I’m talking about Aten, the disc of the sun— the only god you’ll ever need to worship.

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.⋆｡°✩ꀯꐇꌚꋖꁲꋖ✩°｡⋆. @custat.net · 30/06/2026

I keep seeing people thinking this is a bluesky problem. If you're seeing this it thinks you're in a state or country with age verification laws. This is what every social media site will do if KOSA and the KIDS Act succeeds. Running to another socmed won't fix it, we have to fight the source.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'm looking to speak to folks who have worked as contractors via agencies or other third-parties, who have lost work recently as a part of restructurings/larger layoffs at companies like Xbox, Epic, Ubi, etc. Want to know about the larger, uncounted cost of these things. Email and Signal are in bio.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I get that their burn rate has got to be insane but that’s a team that can pull off the best gunfeel in the industry. You’re never getting that back. That intangible is worth way more than whatever it looks like on a balance sheet. Run it at a loss for 3 years and make untold bank on the next game.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/06/2026

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

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Death Becomes Her superfan @issuefortyfive.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I guess it’s appropriate that Roland Barthes’ essay on the inscrutability and irrelevance of authorial intent is getting misread.

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

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Darya @daryam.com · 19/06/2026

It's the week before summer break Every single bad bug, high priority change, schedule issue: it's my time to shine

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Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 17/06/2026

Friendly reminder that the Telltale making TWA 2 is not the Telltale team that brought you their previous hits. Their team had the rug yanked out from under them when the studio folded. The majority of the team was let go except for 25 people to finish the Minecraft game, then they were let go too.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

hey it sounds like a lot of people in this space might be losing their jobs in the coming weeks so if folks could stop talking about them like it's a fucking reality TV show that'd be really great.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

america is an ideal worth fighting for

I'm American, but I talked to some Germans on a train platform in Chicago last weekend. They spoke very highly about their experience of buying legal weed, getting stoned and eating at Raising Canes.

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