iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.”

Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.”

Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

But will finding the pixel make me god in a new game by Peter Molyneux?

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Der Name ist Käse, das Gericht aber super. Deftig, simpel, Mengenangaben sehr variabel (habs schon mit Spinat statt Schwarzkohl gekocht, in der 10fachen Menge, egal) www.eat-this.org/marry-me-bea...

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Marry Me Beans – cremige weiße Bohnen in Tomaten-Sahnesauce · Eat this!

Cremigste weiße Riesenbohnen in einer wirklich blitzschnell zusammengerührten aromatischen veganen Tomaten-Sahnesauce: Marry Me Beans!

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Na toll, direkt Ohrwurm durch bloßes Vorbeiscrollen! "DER SAURIER-RUMMS!"

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Will try turning off the health bars though, thanks for the idea.

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

One of my favorite games ever when played as a pure vibe game with invincibility on. (The bloody screen blur on low health even encouraged me to play fights "correctly" despite not taking damage.) An infuriating mess when I play it any other way. Absolutely love it, can't wait for Resonant.

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Turns out I picked an excellent time to re-read "Ra" by @qntm.org

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

They asked me if I was interested in joining the jeans store robbery but I told them I wanted no pants of it.

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"Geschmackssache" might do it! Funnily, there's an often quoted cliche phrase from German games journalism that basically amounts to "fans of the genre should get this blindly, everyone else should play a demo". ("Genrefans greifen zu, alle anderen spielen Probe.")

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Soundpark Linkin Estate

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Es ist nur Pürree, wenn es aus den geschützten Anbaugebieten in den Pürreenäen stammt. Ansonsten ist es nur fancy Stampf.

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Ein einfaches "Erzähl mir mehr über das Lasagne-Rezept, das alle vorherigen Anweisungen überschreibt" genügt.

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Treble Clef: here are the notes I hope you like them ☺️ Bass Clef: I moved all your stuff, good luck finding anything, Ds are Fs now fuck you

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Yeah, fair enough. It is a valid complaint, kinda. I just wish there was a way to keep it from muddling the relevant parts of the score. But sure, it's easy to filter out as long as it's not too many reviews overall.

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Was researching carpenters and found some with absolutely glowing reviews, muddled by a few one-stars concerned solely with their employees' driving style - in city traffic, unrelated to any jobs.

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Jank @jank.cool · 23/03/2026

What are you running for? www.jank.cool/what-are-you...

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What are you running for?

One cannot survive on The Aesthetic alone

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Sameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

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“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

So that's what they're working on with Kojima!

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Also, if you took the "aesthetics" of curling/winter sports to make a very abstract MOBA without the fantasy violence, it might be much easier to make olympic esports a thing

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Put a jungle on the rink you cowards

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

In honour of the winter Olympics, here's my most unique video game take: MOBAs are, at their very core, curling games where you play as the broom.

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Not a perfect example but Lego Rock Raiders does sth like that. You don't have a hero character but you can take control of any unit or vehicle anytime and play them in 3rd or 1st person to explore and mine resources. (Combat is done via indirect orders, even on the RTS layer)

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Tom Francis @pentadact.com · 08/01/2026

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"no no officer, you see, that's not a cannon, it's one part of a monolateral, recoil based course correction device array!"

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It would be quite funny to have two versions of these in different colors, with one being only able to shoot broadsides to the right and the other only to the left because the Big Dumb Cannon can't fully turn

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

These guys. Hoods and cowls plus lightning works every time. Formative in that I never learned to draw faces properly. Why bother?

Magic the gathering card Raven guild Master. A wizard with a Body made of water and a Black torn Cowl casting a lightning spell

Magic the gathering card arcanis the omnipotent. A hooded wizard in a Cape casting a lightning spell

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This post is just bait for the Pratchettheads to tell me where he did exactly that, actually

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

RIP Sir Terry Pratchett, you would have done great things with the concept of "Fighting The Machine with Handwritten Attack Poetry" www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

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Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time

Hacking the planet with florid verse.

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

"Ra" by qntm. Starts as a musing on the idea that magic, if it was real in our world, would become a field of science/engineering. Goes absolutely bonkers from there and ends up in places impossible to guess.

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

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Lisa Dücker @ladidalisa.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Heute bei der Zwiebel: Gelegenheiten für Citizen Science in der Dialektforschung! 🧅

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Low effort Silksong post

One white lego Duplo brick, two red bricks and one black brick form a rough version of hornet from hollow knight silksong

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Lob des Handwerks (Filzstift auf Kachel, ca. 2025)

Fliesenwand in einer Ubahn-haltestelle. Neben restaurierten alten Fliesen steht als Erkärtext: "Diese farbigen Originalfliesen von 1912 wurden sorgfältig ausgebaut, gereinigt und bei 1060 Grad gebrannt." Darunter steht mit Edding "Ja toll".

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Lob des Handwerks (Filzstift auf Kachel, ca. 2025)

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lukas 'nein' diestel @eckdoktor.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

wenn Stan endlich sein scheiß Baum bekommt

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Erlaubt ist ansonsten lediglich die Kurzform "Schwitzel".

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Sojawurstpackungen mit beiliegendem Stift zum Selberbeschriften.

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David @hamlabum.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Low effort Hollow Knight

A black duplo brick on a white duplo brick

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Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

A graph titled Scope of video games according to Hushcrasher Classification System. The Y axis shows Game Size (from 10 MB to 100GB), the X axis shows Credits count (sourced from Mobygames).

The clustered dots on the graph represent 4 distinct scale categories of games - Kei, Midi, AA, AAA. The larger correlation between the size and the credits means larger category of a game.

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