iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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maddux @bluffingdamacy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

new site idea everythingloggd and you click on someone's (my) profile and see this

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 09/10/2026

Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse

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written about this before but whatever.

Videogames as an artform have a problem with nostalgia. Not that people shouldn’t have nostalgia. Or that games shouldn’t draw from the past. But instead the weight we give to nostalgia.

When people go back to enjoy old games, we assume it’s a nostalgia thing. Do people assume that with books? Or movies? Or music? People certainly do go back in time with those mediums for nostalgia! It happens! I know when my sister is listening to certain cheesy old boyband pop or punk she’s often having a musical nostalgia trip! That’s cool! But we still don’t ASSUME, CONSTANTLY thats why people go back to stuff.

People like old stuff because it’s cool and interesting. It’s historic. People go watch Metropolis still, but how many people alive could even be nostalgic for a movie like that?

I almost want to see the word Nostalgia excised from discussions about video games – not because nostalgia is bad but because we over use it to the point where it’s actually harmful I think.

I mean I made IWBTG and am making an NES style game right now and even for me, the obsession with ‘nostalgia’ seems crazy.

Old stuff is cool. I know this because I see a lot of you kids on my tumblr feed talking about games I know you didn’t grow up with. It’s like finding your parents record or CD collection. Thinking the primary greatness of old games is bringing back memories of eating cereal and playing games on a saturday morning is a great injustice, even if those memories for some are perfectly worthwhile things.

#this post is 11 years old and still holds true

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you're serious about game development or design, PLAY OLD GAMES I can't overstate how many good ideas are sitting there waiting to be discovered. Sometimes it's not even stuff that was there at the time, it's only there now looking from a modern perspective.

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 09/10/2026

this can be the Future of all art

arthur aardvark and his best friend ANDY, a photo of a baby's head on a cartoon body

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i'm interested how the tech hype spiral progresses from feasible but too-soon promises, to unfeasible sci-fi nonsense, to 'you know what, fuck it, we're gonna cause a doomsday event and kill everyone' like that last step seems counterproductive, but maybe it's the only way to keep turning the dial

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Bryce B @brycebucher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Dave McKean, from Wizard and Glass by Stephen King, 1997

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aceitunasyeye.bsky.social @aceitunasyeye.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ESTO, COÑO, ESTO, QUE SE HAN CAGADO CON LAS MOVILIZACIONES DE LA VIVIENDA Y YA ESTÁN DICIENDO LA TONTÁ MAS GRANDE QUE SE LES OCURRE Y VOSOTROS VENGA A ENTRAR AL TRAPO.

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Alexelcapo @alexelcapoyt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nadie debería poder tener legalmente más de 3 propiedades y estoy siendo generoso con 1 extra más allá de 1 para vivir y 1 para vacacionar. Y es curioso como ante esto el primer argumento es "Con su dinero uno hace lo que quiere" y la respuesta es tan obvia como lógica. No, no que va.

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Hakita @hakita.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Great shot from I For Icarus (1979)

Assassin POV shot from the film "I For Icarus" (1979) showing both a wide shot of a crowd from above as well as a close-up of the target through the rifle's scope simultaneously.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

She calls out, “Where are you going?” And I say, “I am going out to get an envelope.” And she says, “Well, you’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.” And I say, “Hush.”

I go next to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue. The woman behind the counter says, “Thirty-nine cents for a stamp.” I say, “I only brought thirty-seven. When did that change?” She looked at me a long time. “Thirty-seven isn’t enough.” “Well that oughta be enough for one envelope,” I said. The line was getting longer.

The lady moved her hand into her coat. I knew this routine. I backflipped behind the man behind me in line, wrapping my elbow around his throat as I landed. By the time the stamp seller had unloaded her clip, I had full cover. The gentleman’s body dropped to the floor, six holes smoking. The package he was carrying fell to the floor with a heavy clunk. Whatever was in there, it would do.

I rolled my foot over the cardboard and did a “flick up” as they call it in soccer. I bounced the package once or twice on the back of my foot as the mail lady reloaded, then I launched it high and spun 360 to deliver my patented “Rising Phoenix kick”. The package caught fire as it shattered through the protective plexiglass window and struck the woman’s head with all the force and hatred I had learned to channel in my grueling tutelage under five fallen Wudang masters in my youth. The lady’s body exploded off of her bones, leaving just a blackened skeleton spinning in her office chair. “So it goes,” I said, but no one laughed. I guess they weren’t big readers.

And I go home. And I have had one hell of a good time.

We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.

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Bryce B @brycebucher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

hapy 25th birthday to silent hill 2, yayahh

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Rocky @viperwave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Silent Hill: Townfall is a game made with the idea Jacob Geller is going to get choked up talking about it. Really bad.

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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EndSky @end-sky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The entire foundation unto which the last 15-20 years of the Western game industry has been built - the simulacrum of a "playable movie", and transforming into a "higher" medium like film - has come crumbling down as its become markedly clear no one involved knows what a *game* even is anymore.

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

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catherine (available for work 📝) @cathroon.itch.io · 11/09/2026

i knew from the start this case was gonna be the end of me…

abstract glitch art of noir detective/femme fatale

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𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔞𝔯𝔡 @franengard.neocities.org · 11/09/2026

Hoy se conmemora el aniversario de dos sucesos históricos: Uno fue un atentado contra todo lo que conocíamos que no dejó indiferente a nadie El otro fue el 11-S Feliz 23 aniversario, Drakengard 🖤

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Cvit @cvit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

game design that should be banned

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𝙰𝙲𝚄𝚃𝙴 𝚆𝙴𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚂𝚈𝙲𝙷𝙾𝚂𝙸𝚂 𓁣 @bzvowell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

𝙰𝙲𝚄𝚃𝙴 𝚆𝙴𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚂𝚈𝙲𝙷𝙾𝚂𝙸𝚂

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is why self-determination is absolutely vital. And it's why I despise Americans who watch something on Fox News, Jon Oliver or TikTok and start talking about "helping those people". That's exceptionalism brain rot - you're not the "world police", you're an invader, a pillager, a colonizer.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Elliot Gould and friend in The Long Goodbye (1973)

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m trying to be more positive on here so I’ll concede that this is a pretty effective flier

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Salem 🏳️‍⚧️ @salem-bitch-trials.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

made it to the swamp for the first time in monhun 1 and wowowow its just vibes all around... really amazing atmosphere in each zone, very oppressive n spooky but still beautiful...

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yames @yames.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Music for the nice tranquil stream of unease

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/08/2026

GTA 6 feels less like a game and more some kind of totem for a certain kind of dying gamer identity, that cannot economically or culturally sustain itself anymore. it represents a million different things and seemingly the least important of them is that it is an open world mission based video game

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Modus Interactive @modusinteractive.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Nothing compares to the rush of clicking on a glowing orb and being met with a hearty "donk" in response

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Salem 🏳️‍⚧️ @salem-bitch-trials.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

monster hunter 1 really fuckin nailed it immediately huh...

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 29/07/2026

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Boo Mario @tomatograndpa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is the first time I've seen someone with the actual correct interpretation of what is happening here: Sony wants to go full subscriptions service/cloud gaming. They don't want to sell you physical games because they don't want to sell you *games*. They want to sell you a subscription.

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Ray Vallese @rayvallese.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.

Screenshot from the videogame Grey Skies. A female character stands in front of an indoor swimming pool. A sign by the pool says PLEASE DO NOT SWIM, and, in smaller letters, "There isn't an animation for it."

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Saša Đurđević @azuremeraki.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Quote your art with fire 🔥 Its mostly the ars goetia demons that have any fire

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Matej Kollár @smuggerby.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hello #portfolioday I'm a freelance illustrator of weird fantasy. Looking for work from next month onwards. Portfolio: www.matejkollar.com Email: matejkollar.art@gmail.com

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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 13/07/2026

youtube vid of 3 kids sitting on couch. "is Fortnite overrated"

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Luke Vincent | Automaton Heart @lukewasthefish.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I would tell my past self to not see making games as my 'purpose' or 'higher calling' in life. The more I see the less I believe in those things. We are like the humble cum sock, one day we absorb semen and build up a healthy crust and the next laundry cycle is time to be on feet

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Bryce B @brycebucher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

500 Caliber Contracts - Opening Cutscene

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