iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Putting half the active user base on a massive block list then casually mentioning that your lead programmer no longer works for the company. That's the bluesky way

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 13h

This game is stunning - and it's free. Take time to play it.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I played the Deadlock tutorial and it seems complicated.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only good Oreo is the golden one and I'm not joking.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tonight's music: Melartin's criminally underplayed violin concerto, which belongs in concert halls but will probably never find a home there.

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Erkki Melartin - Violin Concerto in D-minor, Op.60 (1913)

YouTube video by KuhlauDilfeng2

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nivalis Nights lands within the hour. Just thought I'd say that.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'd be interested in a technical breakdown of why, unfailingly, the lighting in remasters is overbright to the point of diminishing the art and damaging the look.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Most problems in hero shooters would be solved by players remembering that things happen behind them.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot of strangers are very concerned about whether I've heard a song.

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Weirdly I don’t remember any smug, scolding articles after the 2025 Super Bowl when a bunch of people claimed to have never heard of kendrick lamar. Wonder why that is

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My feelings about Control Resonant are big and complicated, but I do want to call out something undeniably astounding about it: audio. The sound design absolutely kills it - one of the very best in the medium.

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Shades @damdonjulio.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

#Sinners

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have a lot in common with Dylan Faden. We both sound on the verge of breathless tears.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today's game series resurrection wish: Black & White 3

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Nothing is ever allowed to change

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I made pita. It turned out well, with nice pockets! I just need to make them rounder. The last one was perfect.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Best whatever" discourse is exhausting, just make me the Taste Arbiter and all lists will be perfect.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Resolute in my stance that the Control universe is a perfect fit for a Telltale-type adventure.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I got invited to a playtest for a game I am *very* excited about. #vague

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know humour's subjective but I'm trying to get Robbie Hoffman and I can't and she's *everywhere*.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Joan Osborne's "One Of Us" playing on radio and relieved that this specifically 90s singer-songwriter sound faded out. Which is to say: this is not a good song.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One day I will write up my vast thoughts on Control Resonant.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My greatest roadblock in writing is my obsession with rhythm. I want the tone to match the moment, and for the syllables to set the tone. Creating tension by alternating triplets and duplets; suggesting violence with a series of one-syllable words; inviting calm using words without plosives.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is it weird that the final scene of The OA season 1 makes me so emotional still, I know there's a contingent of folks that laugh at the cringe but I love the sincerity.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wait. Wait wait wait. Silent Hill Townfall is from the devs of Stories Untold and Observation??!!

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm happy for the WoW lovers but bring back Asheron's Call 2.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'd watch the fuck out of a Columbo reboot with Emma D'Arcy.

Emma D'Arcy at a red carpet event. They are dressed in red blouse and black pants, but it's the long, fabulous trenchcoat that steals the show.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Weigh-in day. Holding steady. Total lost: 60 kg (132 lb).

Selfie. I'm a bear man with mustache and beard wearing a polo shirt. I'm in black and white.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I guarantee the three of clubs was not a random writing choice - it's a specific reference, and a good one at that. I appreciate this level of care. (This is Nighthawks, from @wadjeteyegames.com. I think the words are @richardcobbett.bsky.social's.)

Screenshot from Nighthawks: an illustration and dialogue appear on screen. A gorgeous white-haired vampire is pictured, the very picture of feminine goth beauty. The dialogue states:

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"You slide out the card and cradle it. The Three of Clubs."

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Amelia Tyler @ameliatyler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🩸 NEW GAME! 🩸 I finally get to sink my teeth into being a full-on nasty piece of work in vampire RPG 'Nighthawks' and the reviews are great! My character, Monika, is the most atrocious person and I adore her. Click here to meet her for yourself: t.co/21W5kqcyfl

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Vaguepost, but getting the sentiment off my chest: Super disappointed.

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lovely that the years-long studio buying spree resulted in nearly every studio Xbox bought closing or rolling into another. Just decimating years of history and work in one go.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026

Nothing will ever be enough for these people.

Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was reminded that I'm 10 years from retirement age and honestly the passage of time can fuck right off.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Small game rant: This season of Marvel Rivals is so damned irritating, same as last. Playing support is an absolute slog - the game is dominated by aggressive tanks and flankers that kill in one or two strikes. And, somehow, I am always with teams that don't understand that things happen behind them

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Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As Order of the Sinking Star is coming out next month, in advance of review coverage coming in I wanted to add one thing to my last statement about the game: bsky.app/profile/drak... (note: at that time I didn’t have a separate personal account)

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Brian @brianwithaneye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Siri, show me xenophobia but make it left-wing.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gustav Holst was born this day in 1874. Today's music: St. Paul's Suite, just a rollicking good time.

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Holst St. Paul's Suite

YouTube video by Going Home Project

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There's no reason Remedy should give me a Resonant code but Remedy should send me a Resonant code.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gonna take up padel once my arm heals. If you've never heard of it, that's okay. I hadn't either.

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