iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

yk those designers that can't play anything without coming back with unplanned new 'ideas' for their projects? couldnt be me. btw been splaying some RO lately.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there is no skill these people don't consider a means to an end they want the experience machine they're begging for their AI models to create it, to hook them up to the machine

excerpt from Wikipedia's "Experience Machine":
The thought experiment: Nozick describes a machine that could provide whatever desirable or pleasurable experiences a subject could want. In this thought experiment, psychologists have figured out a way to stimulate a person's brain to induce pleasurable experiences that the subject could not distinguish from those they would have apart from the machine. He then asks, if given the choice, would the subject prefer the machine to real life?

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't understand where does that specific uninformed confidence comes from with people. ever since this bs started people are always so sure things are genAI because they look genAI even when they clearly don't look anything like genAI.

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 09/09/2026

My assets spotted in Nintendo Direct! 👀

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 08/09/2026

Valve should lower their rev share portion to 15% for the first $1m a game earns. Not because it would would help small teams survive to make more games (it would), but because they would earn more money in the long term.

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puck_psx @puszke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've released an all-in-one tool that lets you extract textures from any perspective, turn them into seamless textures, and use them on your 3D models. #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevtools #itchio #indiegame

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lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm sure Bluesky hacked off most of that headline on mobile, so:

PC Gamer headline: "Dwarf Fortress creator says we can learn something from simply walling up dwarf nobles to maintain an equal society—but notes you have to abolish the dwarf cops, too: 'Another lesson to be had there'"

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.

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leaf corcoran @leafo.itch.io · 26/08/2026

In the next version of the itch app you can... make your itch games show up in Steam 😅. This has been a long outstanding request that should make it easier to play your itch games without having to change apps on Steam Deck or Big Picture mode

Screenshot of the "Steam Shortcuts" dialog in the itch app

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Tiani Pixel @tianipixel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And also to my new followers, this is the kind of stuff I've been working on lately, new NPCs for ABYSS X ZERO! Sadly a lot of it is spoiler sensitive, so there are a lot of characters I still can't show 🥲 but you can enjoy a few like this one:

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

trying to learn about audio equipment and intentionally looking for stores with one star reviews so i know the person at the shop is an enthusiast and not a businessperson

A Google review of an audio store reads: "Worst phone interaction I've ever had in my entire life. I called to ask if they had an electrostatic headphone amp, I was informed that it was a waste of money to own electrostatic headphones. Then I tried to say that I know a lot about headphones and own many and that I am just looking for an amplifier, but then I was interrupted and told that I don't know anything. Wild!"

A Google review of an audio store reads: "I normally have tremendous empathy for the mentally ill but not with this guy. He's abusive, slanderous and bizarrely demanding -- and that's if he likes you. Maybe he can still repair stuff but I wouldn't know; I walked away after the third time he screamed at me for asking a simple question and that's no exaggeration. Actual screaming. Just wild."

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 15/08/2026

Arise now ye tarnished, ye dead who yet live, the call of long-lost grace speaks to us all. Men! The accursed gender!

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Walaber @walaber.com · 15/08/2026

I like streaming because sometimes I get to capture the *precise moment* something I made works for the first time

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I keep harping on this but AI “writers” and “artists“ keep showing what unserious tourists they are. People who actually create agonize over adverbs and color palettes and metaphors and gesture. AI people can’t even be bothered to skim their own book once

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chess!! Hhalloween october @videochess.world · 11/08/2026

hey, here's a fun lil proof of concept i threw together a couple months ago and never posted about. made with godot (.net) and libsm64-godot. #chess_arts

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wonder if he realizes how many of us just immediately lost interest in everything he does knowing that some or all of what we're seeing is AI-generated. It's incredibly damaging to his whole shtick and he'd be dumb as hell to not just renounce it and move on.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 04/08/2026

insane that streaming services want *you* to pay *them* so that you *can't* see shit like this at the start of your movies

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

have you tried Putting in the Time and Effort Needed for Your Own Hobbies®? ik the hobby, the activity no one forced you to do and is done out of the enjoyment it itself brings regardless of the quality of the little make-believe drawings involved?

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

something horrifying has come to me in a vision

a venn diagram where the three circles are "no one can afford graphics cards," "running out of IP to remake over and over," and "ongoing strangling nostalgia effect," and the central overlap is "upcoming AAA "demake" trend."

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the old ebb & flow of being stuck into draining but necessary stuff for weeks but then just stopping to go do something silly & fun because I can't force myself to look at anything boring rn I'm gonna need to get back to those save serialization issues soon, but for now...

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I come back to this tumblr post again and again

Tumblr post by sunderwight: The current AI situation is like if the people who were pushing NFTs had successfully gotten everyone to start referring to any and all digital transactions as an NFT, thus allowing them to pretend that things like online shopping, downloadable video games, bank transfers, etc were closely related to convincing middle-aged would-be techies to invest serious money in ugly digital paintings, and hold the former examples up in defense of the latter any time someone pointed out that the whole NFT thing was a racket. What do you mean NFTs are bad, don't you want disabled people to be able to use their phones to have medication delivered to their doorstep? Wow. Horrible of you, really.

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Gamedev: Finally programmed the character to rotate in run direction. Let's check if it works:

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

over 1 year since release, 817+ hours in & today was the FIRST time I beat ED Libra through skill no Marais, no invader stack, no cheese, no team carrying me, just playing the game well and staying/keeping everyone alive FIRST time ffs whoever designed this boss should be beaten in the kness

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

all tech-touched industries were completely hijacked by fin-tech guys because for the few past decades they managed to convince everyone that finance and code are way more complicated than everything else in life so if they work with that they must be generalist geniuses fit to take over anything

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 22/06/2026

I am not sure there is a dimmer person with more power in the games industry right now than Tim Sweeney.

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Douglas @dmgregory.ca · 20/06/2026

Players will never understand what a triumph of the art of game development it is to get doors to do anything at all. 😲 lizengland.com/blog/the-doo...

lizengland.com

“The Door Problem” – Liz England

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Alex M-O | Wishlist Rune Fencer Illyia! @amodev.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

i created this meme like 4 years ago on twitter and it went super viral and i think i got like 20 death threats. that's how you know i was cooking with this one

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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Screenshot of the article
(I'm sorry I don't have time to type this whole thing as alt text my poor thumbs owww)

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

two weeks and counting trying to make my weapon/skill system realize I can't shoot arrows anymore because the bow was swapped for a dagger

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Eduardo Escudero @amonjerro.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for" I remember what happened with Bolivia's privatized water. If you intend a utility to be privatized, prepare for a rough time.

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💜 Big 💚 Roux 💛 @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026

Things have gone so far, it’s easy to forget where it started.

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Central Alexisonfire Centro de Guarulhos @leianesonfire.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Quando eu fiz audiovisual era um fogo no rabo pra aprender after effects e premiere ao invés de desenvolver senso estético pra produzir as coisas Resultado: hoje o Premiere e o AF tão defasados

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gamon @gamongames.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

once a week I have to sit on a call with a 'product team' that spends hours discussing how and why we should do things in the game I've already been doing for months/years, because theyre essentially randos talking about a work they dont do in a daily basis and dont pay attention to anyone that do.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

oh no, i don't use the ai for <thing that i am paid to do> it's terrible at that. it's great for <thing you are paid to do> though.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

First, I’d created 2000 free-text responses and labelled them ‘UK’. Then I copied and pasted the exact same 2000 responses but labelled these ‘US’. Finally, I combined them to create a dataset of 4000 total responses, and jumbled them up.

Despite the responses being identical for the UK and US, Copilot produced a rich, detailed summary of how US and UK respondents differed.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 13/05/2026

Nintendo goes after another fan project. smh

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Blue morphos' wings have a big range of unrepresentable cyans. It's structural color, so pure frequencies, and all squarely in the blue green region screens can't show you. They look nothing like this.

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