iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/10/2026

Remember when Crunchyroll tried to make their subtitles significantly worse a year ago? They backtracked on it at the time, but I suspected they were just delaying their plans to shift from Aegisub to OOONA, and sadly, it seems I was right: Crunchyroll is actively pushing OOONA subs to users now.

Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for #I'm Looking For a Zombie episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"

Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for Vertex Force episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not saying that you need to accept this, but everyone needs to understand that there are practically no major non-indie studios that aren't adopting some form AI coding tools in their toolchain. And IGF disclosures apparently exposed some indie darlings as using it too (to judges only)

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 02/10/2026

Glad they kept the old voice acting in DW3R

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the final fantasy x/x-2 hd collection has been updated for the first time in seven years, and i'm sorry but square-enix could you please fucking elaborate

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grasshopper Manufacture splits from NetEase Games www.gematsu.com/2026/09/gras...

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

HDR is so damn cool on a display that properly supports it. But experiencing a good implementation once will only leave you angry at how many games completely botch it their implementation.

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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can’t even comprehend how important Eien ni Hen’s work is to the fan translation community. Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Glory of Heracles, Dragon Force II, Dark Half, Beyond Oasis, Psi-O-Blade, Arabian Nights, and so much more. What a loss. Rest in peace.

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

God I thought I could hold off on AC8 for at least a few months, but these reviews, man...

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Unicorn Overlord' director Takafumi Noma announced his brand-new action RPG 'DAWNGAZER' for PS5, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC. Launches in 2028. automaton-media.com/en/news/unic...

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Kyrie Page @kyriepage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Rest in peace to Richard Harrison, impeccable B-movie master, part of one of the funniest movie endings of all time.

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An annoying cousin to people accusing any art they think looks funny as being AI is people accusing anyone posting an AI watermark/signature detector of "using AI to detect AI." Is it too much to ask people to try to understand what they're even looking at before yelling at other people about it?

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

shout out to majuular for initially starting out this way but quickly realizing the error of his ways and pivoting to only showing old console games at their native resolutions (and PC games at period-appropriate resolutions)

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Metro - Comms Full 🥲 @metro-cat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I drew Freya Crescent from FF9 riding a skateboard while running a fever today.🤒 No reason. Just because. 😂🛹 #MetroArt #FF9

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not gonna lie, I hate this mealymouthed answer. I don't want an AI datacenter in my back yard even if it supplies local union jobs, or even if it doesn't affect the local water supply or my utility bills. I don't want an AI datacenter in my backyard, period.

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Man, I want a Steam Frame. I just wish it was $300 cheaper.

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There was a time when StarCraft may have been my favorite game. If that was still me, and if I weren't boycotting MS/Blizzard, then this would have REALLY pissed me off lmao.

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just a hundred million more dollars, bro. Just a hundred million more dollars and we would've accomplished our ambitious original vision.

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

oh that wolverine game is not doing great, is it

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vic-or-squeak!! ᓚᘏᕐᐷ @gizmouse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this bit from skill up's review of wolverine knocked me on my ass, it feels like something that wouldve come out of one of those focus m parody videos but its in a real triple A game

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Tea @polllinnnn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mouse mode is so fucking funny

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sony's been doing a great job of crossing reasons to own a Playstation off the list lately. As we approach the launch of the PS6 next year/the year after, there's barely gonna be anything left unscathed.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hideo Kojima says that Sony was going to cancel PHYSINT according to a notice in mid-June. Kojima teamed up with Xbox after searching for a new partner for 3 months

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

real emotional roller coaster here

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Shinra Middle Manager @shinramidmanager.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A familiar ally joins the fight in Final Fantasy VII Revelation, coming Spring 2027!

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So I actually do like the character designs (unlike a lot of people I guess?), but I didn't like the hyper-detailed look to the in-game art. I think this interpretation of the art style is interesting though, and I can see it when looking at the trailer again through this lens.

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PC-98 Bot @pc98bot.gang-fight.com · 09/09/2026

Yu-No Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utau Shōjo // Elf // PC-98

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

going insane because you traveled interdimensionally or met aliens or met god is understandable. but going insane because you used a computer chat program is just embarrassing

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Mom @milph.mom · 07/09/2026

Getting roped into choosing a side of the culture war ouroboros, because sites and channels like making everyone mad and reporting on everyone being mad, when you're already not going to buy it or it (relatively speaking) doesn't affect you personally is like losing to a dog at chess.

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Mom @milph.mom · 07/09/2026

The handwringing about the one artist on GTAVI that happens to be a big Trump fan isn't the biggest deal to me as with anything that large, you're going to find 1000 collaborators you wouldn't want to meet. Now if you're watching it suffer just for the industry fireworks implosion, that's my bag.

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binp @binp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

understandable

Bloody urine (haematurea) was recorded by Ancient Egyptians in papyri 5,000 years ago. They called it Aaa. The first scientific report

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Mikey [ mymonkey ] @mymonkeymikey.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

tribute to gwendolyn odin sphere 🦢

gwendolyn from odin sphere digital fan art by mikey

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prime time crackervision @lewmo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i mean this in the nicest way possible, but this cutscene direction is exactly like super mario bros z

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So you know how I said my current PSU fan was acting up and I was gonna buy a new PSU? Haha, well, about that... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofcd...

youtube.com

It Finally Happened... Nvidia Burnt Me!

YouTube video by Hardware Unboxed

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

“Snake, don't worry about it. There's more to being a good person than just having a stereo television. You can do it just the way you are!” A pep talk for those with 14" portable CRTs and a mono speaker.

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Okay, I pulled the trigger. I'm keeping google fi but ditching the pixel and getting an S26+. We'll see if this is a massive mistake or not, but probably not for a few years lol

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Onix, Vector's spouse @onixhope.myatproto.social · 31/08/2026

I played DQ11 today with the music off cuz I couldnt handle it, and I put Kendrick instead so it gave me the fucking funniest sync ever, I had to edit in what happened cuz the audio didnt capture

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dk @dk382.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thinking of pulling the trigger on a new phone I don't quite need yet. I think my current phone's battery has another year of useful life before I get fed up with it, so I COULD wait until next year's new phone release. But I'm afraid of what the prices will be at by then.

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