iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 03/09/2026

Books are great FWIW! The main plots are not super /about/ computers, but they are very computer literate and lean into the weird spookiness of digital technology

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 31/08/2026

this thread is so real, argh. I feel like someone needs to invent the opinions equivalent of an anechoic chamber, where you go inside it and all pressure from other people’s opinions is blocked out by complicated arrangements of cool blue geometry

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James Wragg @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Damn, the game's not even out yet and we've got some top-tier fanart. This is sick

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tench (commissions open) @tench.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Happy early access, Entropy! #art

A portrait of the female Player from Entropy, behind her the town us on fire, bats are flying in the night sky. She is casually leaning on her sword, holding a bottle of beverage in the other hand, looking daring.

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ABOOnchio👻 BOOlchetti👻 @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's been such a long and wild journey, and we're finally ready to present you the first chapter of ENTROPY - store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/Entropy/ - our Dying Earth tactical role-playing game, developed by @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social , and published by @dreadxp.bsky.social!

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 04/03/2026

A very special line to me, and one that has proven repeatedly apposite* in learning about people's reactions to this game! Glad you enjoyed it 💜 * in a gender neutral sense† † unless a given reader wishes otherwise

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James Wragg @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Keyboards have too many keys; they stare like spider-eyes, & it's just WIERD, man! Now CONSOLES? Consoles I can get behind! Analogue sticks baby! Uhh yeah, 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 🍭PS4 & PS5 🍒SWITCH 2 🍏DON'T MAKE ME LOOK UP WHAT THE XBOX CONSOLES ARE CALLED BUT THEM TOO

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 04/03/2026

sounds cool! happy to help. unsure if this is video or text; I don't do video but will happily answer questions in writing (email, text chat, whatever)

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 04/03/2026

✨🌈🚨⚙️ GDC ALERT ⚙️🚨🌈✨ I will probably barely be at GDC. but uhhh I do live here? 🌉 so if anyone in town for the week wants to catch up, hmu x

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Bran 9 From Outer Space @bransonreese.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Been rewatching Golden Girls. Grew up with the dub, it's crazy how different the sub is.

Fight well. I'll see that your remains are sent home to your families.

Moonlight's beauty weakens the androids.
It's why they seek out sunlight

The peace you take for granted was the result of war.
You dishonor the dead and the unborn when you refuse to fight.

Will all nations fall to tyranny of angels?

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 07/01/2026

I’m so glad! It’s lovely to hear that it moved people. What kind of series? I’m open to it, I’d just wanna know more details

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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

only a real man has the balls to become a woman

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 31/10/2025

(ngl I love this alternate universe where every GDC talk has accompaniment from a house band and there’s a razzle dazzle host bridging the gaps between them maybe everyone is sitting at those lil tables and eating food, like at an old timey cabaret)

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 29/10/2025

dreamed that I was the MC and leader of the house band for the GDC indie games track. we absolutely smashed it and everyone was really impressed afterwards Elton John congratulated me on a great show “Elton John!” I exclaimed. “Why are you at GDC?” “What, I’m not allowed to be here?” he said

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 09/10/2025

(I would not have made this reply if the guy in fact was dead)

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 09/10/2025

it's not "large volumes", but I /did/ write a 112-line erotic poem for @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social's Dread Delusion, which I remain very proud of 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTMR... (also, was glad to read that the third man, like Tiny Tim, did NOT die!)

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Let's Read The Romance of the Scarab, Part IV (Let's Read the Books of Dread Delusion, Book 9)

YouTube video by The RPG Chick

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crystal-rising.bsky.social @crystal-rising.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Terry Pratchett would write a novel about this man.

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 08/06/2025

made a girl teleport this weekend, using magic. that was pretty cool

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Thomas Brunet - Chants Of Sennaar's OST is on Bandcamp! @thomasbrunet.fr · 15/05/2025

4 types of characters I write: 1. The anarchist cop who steals confiscated drugs and money to sabotage capitalism, one petty malignant act at a time 2. The woman scientist whose patience is tested by literally everyone around her 3. The billionaire media mogul crushed by a Daewoo 4. The best boy

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Léonard 🛀 @leonardbertos.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

4 types of characters I write 1. The most craziest suicidal madman ever, masking 2. Spiteful woman burning with hate that is actually love 3. Passive she/he/they who would die for them. Who would *live* for them 4. Witty clumsy magical jester who puts you in danger, but also save the day

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

the two bluesky feeds

tv with reporter and line go down above tv with kid play with ball from untitled goose game

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 15/05/2025

4 types of characters I write 1. the saddest, wettest, most beautiful boy 2. traumatised lesbian intellectual doing her best 3. wotcher, cunt, i’m a swaggering bastard 4. powerful villain who kinda knows they’re evil but decorum requires at least a fig leaf of moral excuse bsky.app/profile/mish...

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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Referring to American medical insurance as a "Hospital Battle Pass"

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 28/04/2025

yeah honestly this feels like the horribly supercharged next level of the whole “facebook hijacks to ur brain by exploiting salience signals / natural arousal triggers” thing

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 27/04/2025

HA good good good! Aye that was meant to serve as an opportunity for mutual clocking for trans players, where Aphra chooses to give you the wink so you know you’re in certain company. Or, for cis players, an example of her desire to build bridges between different people’s experiences!

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 27/04/2025

Still, I think we can keep going if we have… what is it Genevieve says? “A bridge”? That’s what Missing Persons was meant to be, for all of us.

still.is

Sensa ehf

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 27/04/2025

Oh!!!! I am so glad. Thank you for playing, and for engaging so deeply. I’m particularly glad the ending wasn’t quite (it sounds like) what you feared. It wasn’t meant to be pure grimness, pure sorrow. We’re already missing so many people. We’ll lose more yet. There’s no way to make that easy…

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Evan Balster 🍂 @art.imitates.life · 19/03/2025

An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

A column of fire envelops an RV in a pine forest late at night.

My bedroom and office reduced to ashes. The metal walls and roof are largely destroyed, revealing the forest beyond.

A class C RV gutted by fire. The heat of the fire has killed most of the plant life in a nearby garden.

A segment of an RV's exterior wall. The heat of the fire has melted through the aluminum panels.

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 19/03/2025

I'm glad! I wanted to make it and am sorry I couldn't; my health is trash atm. Hopefully see you soon x

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 19/03/2025

GDC FOLKS: I probably won't be at the conference much because my mental health is all fucked up! but if you fancy a drink or a meal or just hanging out, message me — I'm around

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 10/02/2025

Aww thank you, I’m so glad. Great display name too - love that game

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Sally Beaumont | BAFTA Breakthrough | Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Dread Delusion is up for GOTY! “It is the definition of the saying "more than the sum of its parts" – every aspect of it is executed in service of another. This creates one of the most cohesive and fun RPGs I’ve played in a long time”

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

How is the shitlord who used to pay me $50 to write about Binary Domain for his game blog now advising a fascist unelected billionaire leader via Twitter wtf

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 02/02/2025

It is also about ‘what are civil wars like’, but I feel that is a secondary theme and one that remains at a pretty abstract level

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 02/02/2025

I liked it a lot more once I realised it was really about journalism and not America Today. The dumb political set up annoyed me less after that

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 01/02/2025

oh it’s kind of an easter egg! basically there is a way to Charm your way through the Clockwork Kingdom gatebridge without doing Mikhail’s quest. It’s just that the necessary stat is insanely high (~130 IIRC)

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 31/01/2025

it’s a horrific shame. every now and then I think to myself, “wow this day job is killing me, maybe I could do something else with my life”. except the number one other thing I’d /want/ to do is… this. lol.

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 31/01/2025

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Is A Human Being With Inherent Dignity

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 31/01/2025

honestly Oleg is lowkey one of my favourite CWK NPCs. I feel like I did a pretty good job at writing him as a complex human being with sympathetic traits, possessing the same inherent dignity as all of us, while also not equivocating about what a fucking asshole he is

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 31/01/2025

and btw, the spit-in-mouth bit specifically was not my work but that of @scherawyss.bsky.social! She snuck it in as an easter egg and when I stumbled across it I lost my fucking mind. So glad it's in the game lmao

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 30/01/2025

and it's probably not a coincidence that this movement emerged in an era when the delusion of fairness has badly broken down — when it no longer offers much protection to America's elites. ah well. maybe I can cover that in the next game I write.

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 30/01/2025

its headline feature is the sheer nakedness & shamelessness with which it pursues an unfair society, where ingroup supremacy is enshrined by law and outgroups are victimised with impunity. the injustice is the point. the cruelty is the point. the cold-blooded zero-sum chauvinism is the point.

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 30/01/2025

today the US government has been captured by a movement with quite different delusions, which makes no serious pretence of fairness. it speaks of fairness only as a marker of followers' loyalty & a test of outsiders' obedience, measured by their willingness to indulge an audaciously obvious lie.

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 30/01/2025

these systems don't manufacture delusion just because their architects are earnest utopians (although some are). they do it because it protects the interests of the elite. the delusion of fairness is above all else a defence mechanism for people in power — whether they admit it to themselves or no.

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Io Brindle 🦠🍄⚙️🌙 @io.brindlebrothers.com · 30/01/2025

that's because the Clockwork Kingdom is a fable, and not one about blood and soil nationalism. it's a fable about 'rational' systems that crush human beings between their gears to preserve a delusion of fairness. systems like Soviet bureaucracy, or American capitalism, or Silicon Valley monopolism.

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