iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 13/10/2026

You can probably save a lot of space and also keep readability high by cribbing some old AutoCAD styles, and having each section have a "Minimal" and "Exploded" view. Like cursor-select it to expand to the larger view and the compact view when not selected just has the quick info.

A screen shot of an AutoCAD layout for something imperceivable. I honestly do not know what it is laying out, but it sure is laid out with lines on a black backdrop.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 25/08/2026

This being the smash cut from text in the new Mega Man footage didn't seem like... a choice... to anyone else?

A picture of Mega Man in duress with an overtone of pink. His eyes are bright red/pink, and the image is a close-up. There is a suspicious tone to the photo.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 08/07/2026

statement with that system. I mean, all of these, when extrapolated, will say SOMETHING- even unintentionally- and that is something to be careful of in transhumanist spaces... lest 1995 rear its ugly head again in a more subtle way. (3/3)

An excerpt from CP2020's rulebook. It is page 58. It reads: "Basic sex change requires a one month course of hormone therapy, gene editing and nanotech injection followed by a one week hospitalization and a one to two week recovery period. No counseling, no follow up treatment.
Total cost is 1200 EM for the prep and
3000 EM for the operation.
More advanced sex changes are more complete and harder to detect. Each increase of 5 in the difficulty of detection doubles the cost of the whole procedure and the time it takes to complete it. A change with difficulty 25 to detect costs
8400 EM and takes two months of prep and two weeks in hospital. A 30 costs 16800 EM and requires four months of prep and a month in hospital. The ability to bear children costs an additional 5000 EM and
identical to the bodysculpting in Cyberpunk 2020. There is hardly a prostitute in the Budayeen without an ATTR of 8-10, all bought and paid for.
Sex change has a 1D6 Humanity Cost.
Counseling cancels the humanity cost.
CYBERWARE, BIOWARE AND BIOMECHANICS
iomechanics, or biotech, is cybertech's modern cousin. Less obvious and psychologically damaging than cyberware, biomechanics are also much more mysterious, harder to get and more expensive. Although there are some standard items, most biotech is custom designed and built to fit specific..."

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 14/06/2026

100% on NG1. Going to begin NG2 shortly, and DAMN do I feel the drive to learn to speedrun this game. This is such a wonderful time. I adore Mina to pieces.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 31/05/2026

Credits roll. For the first time at the very least. This game is everything I wanted it to be, and more.

A steam achievement screenshot. The name is "Hollow Victory" and the description is "Reach the conclusion of the game". Notably, steam notes only 0.5% of players have this achievement.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 30/05/2026

The only reason I am stopping is because my body demands sleep.

A Steam Achievement. The name is "Sparks of Genius", and the icon is a series of retro sprite orbs. Seven of them, in fact. three are filled in. The description is "Restore half of the Spark Generators". Notably, Steam mentions that only 1.3% of players, as of the time of this screenshot, have this achievement.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 30/05/2026

It is a VERY good game, and I am DELIGHTED beyond measure.

A screenshot of a steam achievement. The name is "Traumatized", and 1.1% of players have it. The icon is a sinister grinning face. The description is crossed out in bright green,

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 16/04/2026

If you see this, quote with a picture of you in glasses (This is from this evening)

A selfie. I have on my glasses, with thick black rims. From each corner of the rims there is a brassy librarian glasses chain coming down with a starburst charm from the spot where they connect to the glasses. I have bangs, like every trans woman is legally required to have at some point in her life, and you should disregard the background as it is random bullshit in my room. A fan and a tea desk, specifically.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 17/02/2026

Sincerely, I am adoring the treatments.

The Magic card "April O'Neil, Hacktivitst". She is a mono-blue legendary creature, Human Scientist, that reads: "At the beginning of your end step, draw a card for each card type among spells you’ve cast this turn."

She is dope as fuck

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 01/01/2026

Fifth Slot goes to Dawntrail. I have not spent as much time raiding as I would like to... maintaining the type of raid team that raids the way I'd like to is... not easy in my situation. I need more friends lol. However the story, the world, and the setting have been comforting to me, specifically.

A picture of John Finalfantasy, aka Meteor, standing in front of Tuliyolal. He is in his Viper garb. There is Valigarmanda in the background. I don't know why there is so much action in this shot, the Dawnthrone is not like... under attack constantly by Turak Vidraal. I mean, it was for a little bit but not constantly- I will shut up now.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 01/01/2026

Darkest Dungeon 2 has been a comfort pick for me all year. Any time I need to do something low-energy but high-engagement I have found myself reaching for this game. It is a significant shift from the formula, but it has deviated in a way that makes it fit smack dab in to my life perfectly.

A banner for Darkest Dungeon 2 featuring the Title and "The Usual Suspects". See, it is funny because "The Usual Suspects" is the name of the team banner you get if you send out the Plague Doctor, Highwayman, Graverobber, and Man-at-arms in the game. It doesn't do anything but call you "The Usual Suspects" but it is neat.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 01/01/2026

Digimon Story: Time Stranger is an EXCELLENT RPG and an amazing introduction to the franchise if you lack one, or a brilliant re-introduction if you have not been a part of the world since Tai and Agumon were around. Either way, this game has been amazing.

A Banner for Digimon, Time Stranger. It also features an advertisement for the new DLC since I got these banners from Steam. The new DLC is available now, seemingly, and has EVEN MORE OMNIMON variants! Cuz we needed those.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 01/01/2026

I would be remiss not to mention the not-insignificant portion of my life this game ate this year- in addition to prior years. I played in early access AND full release AND am still playing it. It is so good I cannot fully set it down, despite rolling credits and getting the true ending... twice.

A Banner for Hades 2. It features the title of the game, and Melinoe. The bisexual polyamorous disaster, Melinoe.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 01/01/2026

The first is Promise Mascot Agency. I don't know how to describe this game in a way that does not somehow do it an injustice. The best I can muster is a Disgraced Yakuza Mascot Business Simulator- Featuring Driving Mechanics and History Exploration. Please play this game. It is eerie and delightful.

A banner for Promise Mascot Agency, featuring the name of the game. It also features the main character, Michi, wielding his signature Broom. Behind him is his new employee, and soon-to-be Bestie: Pinkie. A Pinkie-finger mascot.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 09/12/2025

The instruction booklet for the original release, while not mentioning the KO state explicitly, does make effort to emphasize the any-time nature... and I would anticipate a non-zero expectation that "Dead" is equivalent to "Not taking action"

A snip of the original FF12 instruction book that is titled "Party". It reads: "Use this command to add and remove members from your current party. After selecting a character, use the © button or the left/right directional buttons to add or remove him from the party. Characters whose pictures are highlighted and offset to the left are members of the active party. A party can include up to three active members. The remaining reserve members can be called to action at any time using the Party command.

Note that while attempting to adjust party composition during battle, members who are targeted or performing an action cannot be removed from the party until they are no longer targeted or the corresponding action is complete"

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 05/12/2025

A small joy I have, in my day job, is getting to write these. This joke, however, was written by @kellydigges.bsky.social. A Joke I think the people here need their attention drawn to. Specifically @catacalypto.bsky.social.

A snippet from the newest Rules Update Patch Notes for Riftbound. It reads: "CLARIFIED: Priority is the singular exclusive right to take discretionary actions during a closed state
NEW RULE: Granting priority to a player either creates priority or removes it from a player that has it
No sharing. Even if you hold hands.
NEW RULE: Having focus without priority does not grant the right to take discretionary actions"

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 26/11/2025

He always thinks something bad's gonna happen the minute he leaves town. Somehow he's always right.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 26/11/2025

Cast in the name of God; Ye not guilty

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 24/11/2025

Well Pax was a ton of fun. Getting to meet everyone, see all of the cool games, see the amazing cards on display, and more… it was like I was walking through a Treasure Hoard every day :^) #RBSpiritforged

A Riftbound card. Specifically a battlefield that reads “When you conquer here, you may pay [1] to play a Gold gear token exhausted.” It is named Treasure hoard.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 02/09/2025

Speaking of Rog//Theas pieces… this is nutty

A magic the gathering card, translated by MTG Goldfish, from the new Spider-Man set. It is red, costs 1R, and is an enchantment named “Shadow of the Goblin”. It says “At the beginning of your first main phase you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card. Whenever you play a card from anywhere other than your hand this deals 1 damage to each opponent”

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 17/06/2025

Finding a copy of this single is damned near impossible— and the ones I can find are nearly as spicy as the Fallout Mana Vault gaht DAMN

A Japanese language magic card depicting Edea from FF8 preventing her own assassination. It is an alternate version of Force of Negation whose translation equates to “Witch’s prophecy”. It was given out in limited quantities in Japan for the launch of Final Fantasy MTG.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 16/06/2025

Things are now crystal clear. Whether you need a little bit of filtering or a backline advantage engine, Gemcraft Seer has you covered!

A Riftbound card named Gemcraft Seer. It is a Calm Card that costs 3 energy and 1 power. It has 3 Might. It is a Mount Targon Unit. It has Vision, and gives your Other friendly units Vision. Vision is a keyword that says "When you play me, look at the top card of your main deck. You may recycle it". The flavor text reads: The light changes with every reflection.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 13/06/2025

Early in working on Stun as a mechanic for Riftbound we found it to be really interesting as a combat trick. It was a lot like a localized "Fog" effect- it could stop an Enemy Unit from dealing Damage, really tilting complex fights in your favor.

A Riftbound card named Eclipse Herald. It is a Calm Unit that Costs 7 Energy and 1 Power. It is a Mount Targon and Bird Typed unit. It has the ability "When you stun a Unit, ready me and give me +1 Might this turn". The flavor text is "An Omen as terrifying as that which follows".

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 16/05/2025

Spongebob and the Warrior of Light are both Jodah. Both... SHARDS... of Jodah. Which means that they are also incarnations of Elidibus... In this essay I will explain how Spongebob deserves his convocation seat, an-

An alternate art for the MTG card Jodah, the Unifier that depicts the Final Fantasy 1 Warrior of Light

An alternate Art MTG card that depicts Jodah, the Unifier as SpongeBob Squarepants

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 14/04/2025

This is clearly karmic in nature. I don’t know what my crime was in a past life but it must have been grave to end up here.

A can of Coca Cola Zero sugar zero caffeine

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 11/03/2025

I saw someone else mention this— but I think it sounds baller: Spongebob Universes Beyond deck. Just all the bling, all the oppression, all the goofy bullshit. I am so stoked.

SpongeBob as a magic card. He is depicted as Jodah, the unifier. He is a Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Card Text:
Legendary creatures you control get +X/+X, where X is the number of legendary creatures you control.
Whenever you cast a legendary spell from your hand, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a legendary nonland card with lesser mana value. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 26/12/2024

"Hey Zara, how is Caves of Qud going?" "I can summon gardens with my mind!" "Oh! I bet that is useful for harvesting materials, or food, right?" "Actually, it is a huge DPS gain as the plants are typically murderous" "..." "And occasionally explosive"

A Steam achievement titled "Oops", which is awarded for being killed by a companion. Only 3.1% of players have this achievement. I earned this achievement today.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 14/12/2024

If we surmise that the quality of one’s love life is inversely proportional to the quality of cards in hand, allow me to present yours vs mine:

The magic card “Windfall”, a blue sorcery that discards all player’s cards, and then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards discarded. This typically draws many cards, implying Scar has many good cards in hand, thus a poor love life

The magic card “One with nothing”. An instant spell for one black mana that discards your hand. It leaves the caster with no cards in hand- objectively the worst situation to be in, and the worst card is “None”. This implies my love life is radical as fuck.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 13/12/2024

Now, at the end of my time on the floor, I can say it was a good day. Also my voice is shot.

Tired goblin with a new card game— still clearly aged and wilting. Her blonde hair side parted, black rimmed glasses barely hiding her roughly-mussed eyeliner.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 13/12/2024

I rarely break immersion but I feel like the midway point on a busy show floor is sort of a look?

A very tired goblin woman— dark rimmed glasses, upper-lip lipstick, and a side-part hair mark her as middle-aged Millenial and tired.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 28/11/2024

We got premade crusts, but like normal we made the filling from scratch ourselves! Pie looking good :3

A pair of Pumpkin pies right out of the oven

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 13/11/2024

If you find you need of a way to deal with controlling lists/ you need a less interactable Thassa line, I would consider Thought Lash. Since this happens during your Upkeep, you can palm an Emergence Zone or Borne Upon a Wind, but still have your control suite to run down the table on the off turn

The Magic card, Thought Lash. It is a blue enchantment for 2UU with cumulative upkeep- exile the top card of your library. If you do not pay the cumulative upkeep, you exile your entire library. The remainder of the card, largely, does not matter- but it allows you to exile cards from your library to prevent damage.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 21/10/2024

This game was my white whale growing up. Never did I know a "Puyo Pop". I knew a "Mean Bean"- and when Sonic Mania paid the game homage in Chemical Plant Zone I wept the sweetest tears of childhood joy.

The cover of the Sega Genesis' "Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine". It features cover art of the eponymous Dr. Robotnik pointing menacingly while robotic henchmen shuffle about roboticizing beans in the background.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 21/10/2024

Paradise Killer. Immaculate Soundtrack. Flawless world. If I could forget a game to experience it for the first time, again, this is the game I would do that for. I love this entire experience from tip to tail.

The title card for Paradise Killer. Pictured is a large array of interestingly designed characters- from a bright red skeleton to a man with golden arms. In the center below the title is an island.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 21/10/2024

Surprising no one, allow me to introduce you to me long-term obsession. A major time-sink, hobby, social experience, and unironically the single greatest narrative experience I have had in a game. I owe a lot to this game both in a virtual and literal sense- friendships, family, and experiences.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 21/10/2024

Not just a Billie Eilish song, ilomilo is a game that really impacted me in Uni. The multiple Summer of Arcade releases had already sent my mind abuzz with shorter games on console, at the time, and ilomilo's release between LIMBO and Bastion was an adorable and emotional Jackhammer that year.

A cover art image for ilomilo, the indie game that originally debuted on the Xbox Live Arcade. There are two weird thumb-shaped creatures above the title of the game. One is red, and the other is blue.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 21/10/2024

So, starting with something formative: I always enjoyed the sequel more than the iconic original. Something from the soundtrack to the more interlaced puzzles, to the more dense levels really captured me as a kid. Even to this day when I revisit these games every other year or so, I prefer Tooie.

The opening sscreen for Banjo-Tooie, the sequel to the eponymous Banjo-kazooie. The title dominates most of the screen, but on the screen there is a green gremlin in a lab coat from the first game named Klungo trying to move a boulder.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 21/10/2024

I like telling stories. I’ll do this, too.

Text that reads: “Get to know my game taste. For every like I will post one game I love <3”. The term “Game” has been obviously edited in.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 19/09/2024

The tonal whiplash that #magicthegathering is taking from Bloomburrow to Duskmourn is amazing. Happy Redwall adventures against evil to the dredges of human fear. This is best exemplified, I think, by these two cards. Same cost, both chase-rare treatments, WILDLY different tones and outputs.

The raised-foil version of Mabel, Heir to Cragflame from Magic, The Gathering. She is a heroic warrior-mouse wielding a flaming sword standing in front of roaring waters and lilypads.

The double-exposure treatment of The Jolly Balloon Man, an evil clown from the haunted-mansion horror-world of Duskmorn of Magic: The Gathering. Super-imposed in the double exposure is one of his balloons.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 17/09/2024

While I am not quite cool enough to be on the 1% club— I am in the 10% club, lol.

A blusky percentile card. I am user number 148,695. This puts me in the first 10% of users joined.

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Zara “Gearhook” Berry @gearhook.goblin.horse · 11/09/2024

For when Cohost finally vanishes I wanted to share the source piece. Again, done by one of my lovely partners. My Lalafell, Zaz, being spicy. #lalafell | #FFXIV

Lineart of a Lalafell in a risque leather outfit and rounded glasses looking at the viewer with a saucy expression. She has her hair up in two tight buns, and her legs are crossed high, showing how little the outfit leaves to the imagination in terms of how much she puts the "Stack" in "Shortstack" with her thighs.

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