iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Garry Newman (of Garry's Mod and s&box) put out a blogpost recently where he admits to the mistakes he made in s&box and promises to walk them back but this statement in particular hits home. There are quite a few AAA games in particular that NEED to hear this sbox.game/news/rethink...

My idea of a Netflix for games doesn’t work. It’s not feasible. It’s not how people discover games. You can’t land people on a menu of 60 games and say have fun. That’s not a good experience. People want to find games through recommendations, through active multiplayer games, through watching streamers, influencers and content creators. We have been coming at it from the wrong direction.

We shouldn’t strive to be a platform with the most games available. We should strive to be a platform with the best, most popular games available. Where good taste and great opinions are valued beyond everything else. This is a very human thing, this isn’t something that can be replaced by AI, ever.

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xct @xct.bsky.social · 13h

It's my great pleasure to give a long overdue progress update on our fully human-translated and human-coded English patch for the legendary Tokimeki Memorial 2!

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 19h

24 HOURS left to back my book kickstarter 🔥 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Grinda 🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @grindagoat.bsky.social · 18h

didn't know tenga was cool like that

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Fallsmyer @fallsmyer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I don't talk about this game much on social media but sometimes I feel really cool in #GBO2.

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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

r/bonecollecting is currently beating the shit out of an OP who picked up a human femur because Claude told them it was a camel bone

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Hatok @hatok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the crazy thing about this trend is how badly this exposes that these people have the same attachment and awareness of video games as scalpers do for pokemon

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 09/10/2026

Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse

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written about this before but whatever.

Videogames as an artform have a problem with nostalgia. Not that people shouldn’t have nostalgia. Or that games shouldn’t draw from the past. But instead the weight we give to nostalgia.

When people go back to enjoy old games, we assume it’s a nostalgia thing. Do people assume that with books? Or movies? Or music? People certainly do go back in time with those mediums for nostalgia! It happens! I know when my sister is listening to certain cheesy old boyband pop or punk she’s often having a musical nostalgia trip! That’s cool! But we still don’t ASSUME, CONSTANTLY thats why people go back to stuff.

People like old stuff because it’s cool and interesting. It’s historic. People go watch Metropolis still, but how many people alive could even be nostalgic for a movie like that?

I almost want to see the word Nostalgia excised from discussions about video games – not because nostalgia is bad but because we over use it to the point where it’s actually harmful I think.

I mean I made IWBTG and am making an NES style game right now and even for me, the obsession with ‘nostalgia’ seems crazy.

Old stuff is cool. I know this because I see a lot of you kids on my tumblr feed talking about games I know you didn’t grow up with. It’s like finding your parents record or CD collection. Thinking the primary greatness of old games is bringing back memories of eating cereal and playing games on a saturday morning is a great injustice, even if those memories for some are perfectly worthwhile things.

#this post is 11 years old and still holds true

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Ghost of Futures Ain 👻 @ainsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They Don't care they just want slop lmao

Reddit post by a user in r/decomps that reads: "Batman: Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360) now runs natively on windows, no emulator: static recompilation + a Vulkan renderer. Android is next"

Attached is a picture of the game supposedly running "natively"

Comments from the same reddit post;
User 1: There's literally already a PC port of this game.

User 2: And, unlike most ports from those days, it has zero compromises, it is superior to the consoles version in every way possible.

User 3: And it's always like 5 dollars

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Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Another classic, not sure if I've already posted this one here.

The image is a six panel black and white comic.

Panel 1 - a girl sits at her desk in front of a computer, looking disheartened. She says, "I dont know if I should post this art, who would even want to see it?"

Panel 2- A new person bursts through the door in the background with a loud BAM

Panel 3- The new person pushes the girl out of the way, smushing her face in the process, while slamming their fist down on the keyboard.

Panel 4- The computer shows that the art has been posted

Panel 5- The person makes direct eye contact with the girl while pushing their finger against their own phone screen

Panel 6- A motion blur is added to the last panel, enhancing the impact of the new notifications on the new post. It reads, "(Friend) Liked Post just now" Followed by "(Friend) commented 'I FUCKING LOVE THIS AND I LOVE U'"

Underneath the last panel is a watermark that reads, Shubbabang

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Fallsmyer @fallsmyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I remember seeing people getting mad he didn't work on this first over the past couple of months. I was just hoping he'd stick to his words before having to leave office.

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tracey 🌱 🔜 gateway fate 203 @sheepskin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

gaia online making anti-genAI posts i knew we could always trust u

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

EG fell for it too. :( The Capcom presentation contains a slide with "AI世代のゲームエンジンへ" - the article omits the "へ", for one, but the issue is that while 世代 means 'generation', it's in the 'console generation' sense, not like GenAI. Without へ, translation software gets it totally wrong.

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James GHOULizio 👻 @theswweet.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

TIL that PCGamingWiki has a whole system for labeling whether games or mods have AI in them, and to what extent: www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/PCGamin...

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Tool-Assisted Speedrun clips @tasnocontext.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Casual Gamers vs Speedrunners vs TAS

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Evil Con Fettie @spacebeer.net · 02/10/2026

Doing this the week after Twitter artists just put out artwork of Wumpus in the brazen bull is funny to say the least

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Jason Prime @blazingwaters.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Crossposting this here to spread awareness Someone (Pale) stole Life Bottle Production's work for Phantasia Narikiri Dungeon X, used AI to fill in the rest and is trying to present it as their own They also reportedly did this [shitting out AI crap] for a month straight

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A recomp you can play without fear of it being AI Bro slop. And it's rejecting those who write whole issue reports with GenAi. You love to see it. 👏

A warning to AI Bros that it's proudly human made and that bans from repros will be handed out if Claude is a contributor on any PRs

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Naolin Davis @naolindavis.art · 01/10/2026

Vtuber Fighter, looking for playable characters! Wanna join? - Post your ref - Add 2 names for your Ultra Combos - Like & share! - Follows not necessary! - Not a raffle! For fun when I have time! Many thanks to @glytchvt.bsky.social for helping me with the graphic <3

Naolin's Vtuber Figher Character Select Screen

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Morgan Lea @morglea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Little disappointed in ANN's headline here. Tsuda's point was still made, and Japan has now made it very clear that actor's voices do, in fact, belong to them. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules

Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark Japanese verdict to protect publicity rights

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I HAVE REVIEWED EVERY SINGLE EVANGELION GAME EVER MADE! All 51 of them. youtu.be/QRnrE4uS3lg

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There Are 51 Evangelion Games. I Played Them All.

YouTube video by St1ka

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Fallsmyer @fallsmyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What version of Initial D is it?

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Julie🆖 @chromadeline.newgrounds.com · 29/09/2026

my friend played triple trouble 16bit a few weeks ago and ive had the tital plant melody stuck in my head... not the whole song its kind of mid but i really liked the way the melody started

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Tie, Rapidly Approaching @tietuesday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

screaming "trans rights free Palestine fuck all recruiters tricking the young gambling is a blight and i think we will look back at it the same way we do cigarettes now" at the start of every stream to give everyone an ad-free experience

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The film is written, directed, and co-stars Hitoshi Ozawa, a legendary Yakuza actor who is a villain in Yakuza 0, who got his fellow legends involved. This was his passion project inspired by one of his best friends, a trans woman, and he worked with the community for representative casting.

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Pin🌸ゆずもデザイン @pinyuzumo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sakura Wars: An Oral History from Its Creators [ENG SUB] I edited the video I posted the other day and re-uploaded it. Here's the new URL. If you haven't watched it yet, check it out here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHfm... #SakuraWars #sega

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【開発者に直接取材】サクラ大戦開発秘話│Sakura Wars: An Oral History from Its Creators [ENG SUB]

YouTube video by ゆずもデザインゲーム動画部

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Fallsmyer @fallsmyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can't believe you hate Phantasy Star Online now.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah man "computer, give me bespoke balance patch for me only" who the fuck are you going to play that with you idiot How tf do you play these games and then behave this Poser-Brained

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heads-up for fellow CRPG dungeon crawler fans as one to avoid: this one is made by ban-evading neo-nazis.

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Ghoulumunkus @gulumunkus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

discord casually admitting they know that nobody wanted the age verification implemented and trying to be funny about it is seriously something that the pr team should reflect on and really study when they lose a lot of nitro subs in this next week

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amelie doree, fan favorite denpa onna 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇷 @speedynoelle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New video! What do Hungarian mathematicians, Alfred Hitchcock, a golf course in hell, and the Japanese military all have in common? They all have games on the 3DO, and a force greater than me has compelled me to talk about them and many more Japanese 3DO games. youtu.be/fYp2ryfrFm8

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I Played More Japanese 3DO Games for Your Fun and Entertainment

YouTube video by Amelie Doree

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's important to remind everyone that some absolute madlad, before LLMs ruined all mod voice acting forever, got a girl into a recording booth and redid every single voice line in Deus Ex to let you play as a girl www.moddb.com/mods/the-lay...

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The Lay D Denton Project mod for Deus Ex

The Lay D Denton project is an effort to provide a FULL seamless female JC Denton experience. Features include: -A complete female JC voiceover -Female JC model -All pronouns and gender references mod...

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Secret Panel HERE 🩸 tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/09/15/drinking-the-kool-aid

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