iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

i think "excited" is too high energy of a word to describe my feeling about this announcement but i am aggressively looking forward to it

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 25/09/2026

never been a better moment to have a sad time

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 19/09/2026

incredibly good write-up of not just the album but of how our musical tastes evolve during our youth. i see so much of myself in the writing, in describing a curiosity for exploring new music using through-lines between albums, artists, and musicians

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 18/09/2026

I think anyone who enjoys using genAI is not getting enough enrichment from like... life itself. It's like preferring to eat chicken nuggets over a friend's home-cooked meal because you never expanded your palate.

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 16/09/2026

getting caught up with fatima al qadiri's last EP and it's an emotional wallop. what a track fatimaalqadiri.bandcamp.com/track/fideti...

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Fidetik (I Lay Down My Life), by Fatima Al Qadiri

from the album Gumar

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Treble @treblezine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Best Albums of the 21st Century: Feels in the Machine Innovators in electronic spaces who found new ways to make us feel through breaks and BPMs, whatever emotional shape that might take: heartbreak, ecstasy, grief, regret, or pure hedonistic pleasure www.treblezine.com/the-best-alb...

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The Best Albums of the 21st Century: Feels in the Machine - Treble

50 albums that captured the heartbeat behind the electronic pulse

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 14/09/2026

Just finished the 2001 A Space Odyssey novel. Why didn’t I read this as a wide-eyed college student? What a great book!

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 08/09/2026

Can't wait for the Super Mario Bros Remake

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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 04/09/2026

My first piece for @kotaku.com sees me document the rather surreal experience of demoing a game funded by a government that would have me executed for being trans. kotaku.com/the-1001-thr...

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The 1001 Threads Of Mizan Director Avoids Answering A Simple Question At Gamescom - Kotaku

'This is a really decentralized company. We completely decentralized'

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 04/09/2026

Not bad! Beyond having lived most of my life in Texas, I also wonder how growing up in a deaf household shaped my dialect 🤔

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 01/09/2026

'Gone To Earth isn’t simply soothing because, for all its beauty, it has an unsettling, unmooring quality which, prefiguring the post rock of the unknowable future, derives from dismantling conventional practices and presumptions.' #DavidSylvian's Gone To Earth turns 40 today! buff.ly/0hgKSgs

David Sylvian's Gone To Earth album cover with Japanese obi strip. A circular, mandala-like shape that appears to be hung like a necklace, comprised of blue, red, orange and white with a triangle in the upper part and a square in the lower section.

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 29/08/2026

i wrapped up 7.5 today and i want to say that i love final fantasy xiv

A screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV. The scene shows a dark, space-like void with a heavenly portal in the distance. A glowing beam of light, acting as a walkable platform, emerges from the center of it. In the far distance is a small mage-like character, appearing about to walk onto it.

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Classic Video Game Box Art @classicboxart.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (2003)

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You're a vertical shooter. Translating the entirety of the first Darius collection was a job that took me two days and cost Taito or whoever footed my bill like $500 back in the day. If you wanna save money, just don't hire generalist agencies where like half the fee is pure profit margins lol

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Officially the most relaxing music is the stuff in Jupiter's Picross games, pure chill and guaranteed to reduce heart rate and move us all closer to a state of bliss www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4n1...

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【Official】PICROSS S Series Soundtrack

YouTube video by ジュピター公式チャンネル

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 24/08/2026

So glad this looks like a straightforward port with presentation and gameplay QOL enhancements. but why couldn't it have been a collection with Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia 😭

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 20/08/2026

this is what the internet sounds like when logging on is a deliberate act

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Juri @juriva.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m working late and listening to my husband and daughter playing #FFXIV. Her room is to the left of my office and my husbands office is to the right of mine. They are shouting the names of the spells and weapon skills they’re using like they’re in an anime

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Nova Crystallis @novacrystallis.com · 14/08/2026

'Thunder Plains • Besaid • Zanarkand' (Lounge Jam feat. the KuJenger) from: Final Fantasy X via: Square Enix Music Composed by: Nobuo Uematsu / Masashi Hamauzu Arranged by: Takumi Kakimoto Performed by: the KuJenger (Band) Recorded＆Mixed by: Yuta Tateishi Studio: Sekiguchidai Studio

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【FF10】Thunder Plains - Besaid - Zanarkand【Lounge Jam feat. the KuJenger】

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 10/08/2026

gonna put on my hater hat for a tiny moment and say this is the most annoying way to release a game soundtrack for purchase

A screenshot a Bandcamp store page showing a grid of 9 separate, various albums of tracks from the game Big Walk.

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404 Media @404media.co · 10/08/2026

AI posters are everywhere, and our readers have seen the mess too. We showed Matthew Sabloff, a creative director at Concrete Design Studio, some of the worst ones you all sent us. Here’s why he can’t imagine his work being replace by AI. Read more: www.404media.co/these-are-th...

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 06/08/2026

a transformative game for a young, wide-eyed kid with a big imagination (it’s me. i’m talking about me)

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 03/08/2026

boomer parents be normal challenge level impossible

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 29/07/2026

All the video game studios that refuse to use generative AI aftermath.site/video-games-no...

someone holding up a sign that AI crossed out

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 24/07/2026

God I had an even uglier cry at one long-anticipated moment, but I'm finally at the last battle. #FFXIV

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 23/07/2026

In the final stretch now and I've already ugly cried once. The pace certainly quickened for the second half, but otherwise DT has a great story.

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 22/07/2026

The quasi-catharsis I feel when listening to the music of DEE is like pulling something ancient and grotesque out of my body

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Romanus Surt （スルト゠ロマヌス） @yomigael.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Dragon Ruins II: Aftemath is out now. Get it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3819770/...

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Romanus Surt （スルト゠ロマヌス） @yomigael.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I fell asleep and accidentally pressed the release button. Sorry, folks, now you can play my little game. store.steampowered.com/app/3819770/...

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Save 10% on Dragon Ruins II: Aftermath on Steam

A standalone expansion for a dungeon crawler for tired people.

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 17/07/2026

Suddenly remembered Alto Arc. There's gotta be so much from that musical project left to explore: youtu.be/EqWTtFXoJL4

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ALTO ARC - "Bordello" (Official Video)

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 15/07/2026

I’ve been fortunate to have avoided the bad faith hot take zone for Dawntrail, so I’m also finding myself really liking it and especially Wuk Lamat 1/3 into its story and I’ve found it to be a warm with a lot of nuance. It needed to let the WoL stay in the background so it could breathe

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Dungeon Encounters ($8.99) - dungeon crawling stripped to the very basics, then made into something incredible. cranks the "fuck YOU" difficulty of greats like Wizardry to their natural - and oft hilarious - logical conclusion. store.steampowered.com/app/1451080/...

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r.j. nye @ego573.com · 02/07/2026

it kinda sucks that sony won’t produce physical games anymore but a lot of takes from my fellow millennial dudes sound like they just discovered that they’re not a kid anymore lol so many guys whose personalities are tied up into consuming and collecting as substitute for having taste

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GuileWinQuote @guilewinquote.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Front Mission 2's window color configuration menu is still the most romantic thing i've ever seen in a video game

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

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Wes Fenlon @wes.readonlymemo.com · 28/06/2026

Remember the internet before Google, before algorithmic feeds, before monolithic social media corralled us onto the same handful of apps? When small, *personal websites* and webrings linking them together reigned supreme? Time to bring it back.

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Introducing Warp Point, a Web 1.0 gaming blog directory built for 2026

It's a webring! And a website!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

“Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” said Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering.

“Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.”

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Here come four months of centrists attacking the left with far greater existential fury than they ever aimed at Trump (because they prefer Trump and helped him win):

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