iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 18h

If you vague posted about this an hour before a woman shared it therefore giving you ‘permission’ to actually talk about it, fuck off.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 19h

It’s wild that we went from arguably the most accessible Fire Emblem with Three Houses to the most dense, Proper Noun filled nonsense in Fortune’s Weave. If any game needed a glossary, it’s this one. What the fuck is anyone talking about.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My four year old is at the age when he thinks made up words are funny, so he was being silly and called me ‘gooner dada’. That’s it. That’s the post.

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 28/09/2026

i don't wanna empower jace, i don't even like that guy

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave feels like reading a textbook about a subject you really like. It’s interesting, but it’s still a textbook.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just passed someone who looked like Ted Danson with a license plate that said XCX 365

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026

It's really comin down out there (civilization)

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s been six years and I still don’t know why it’s called a DualSense

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hong Hua and Fortuna - Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A CD holds about 80 minutes of uncompressed audio. This song better be 80 minutes long to justify selling three different versions of it.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This morning @jessicogs.bsky.social looked over my shoulder as I was working and went ‘wow, so you do like real person work’ So validating.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Show got cancelled 15 minutes after it was supposed to start due to a medical emergency.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve been trying to see Thrice live for around 20 years and it just never worked out. Tonight, I finally get to see them in a small little venue. I can’t wait.

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Thrice - Cold Cash and Cold Hearts [Audio]

YouTube video by Thrice

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Jesse Vitelli @mamavitelli.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AI can't take Gumby from us

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crowbar. @crowbar.diy · 11/09/2026

New bird. Same goal. Introducing three annual Steam events hand-curated to champion, elevate, and celebrate the very best of the indie scene. 🌸 Bloom Fest: Spring 2027 🏎️ Demo Derby: Summer 2027 🏆 Indie Encore: Winter 2027 But first… 🍁 Grand Theft Autumn: Nov. 16th - 23rd 🔗 www.crowbar.diy/events

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s so cool that when you read an email in Outlook, sometimes it won’t be mark as read so you have to do it manually. Microsoft are truly always thinking towards the future. Hopefully in the next update I’ll have to manually check for emails instead of them automatically being delivered.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I love being my wife’s muse (I sent her blusky post from the dev saying ‘video games are cool’)

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Give me your favorite albums. Any genre. Putting together a list/lil project and need 300+ albums.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Been getting up and walking >2 miles every weekday. No dog, no kid. Just me and music. I take a different route everyday, and let me tell you, this shit is invigorating.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’ve been a parent for almost five years and I’m still shocked how often I say some variation of ‘put on your pants/why are you not wearing pants’

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Seventeen years ago I asked @jessicogs.bsky.social to go mini golfing with me. Since then we’ve had two dogs, two cats, a kid, moved across the country twice, and kissed each other a whole bunch. This anniversary means we’ve officially been together half my life and it’s been pretty great.

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Jon Drake @jondrake.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Inside of me are two wolves. I am a zoo in a medium sized city

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I must play Duskbloods immediately

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Jesse Vitelli @mamavitelli.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Announcement!! Big Talk is back!!! The whole crew is here You can get that Big Talk goodness a few different places so please give those accounts a follow First ep is now live! www.instagram.com/bigtalkhq?ig... youtube.com/@bigtalkgami... www.tiktok.com/@bigtalkgami...

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Big Talk Gaming

Big Talk, Small Conversations. Henry, Jesse & Imran (plus our lovely editor Ian) deliver and dissect the mildest takes you've ever seen in gaming and beyond, all under a harsh time limit. Feel free to...

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Ross Reelachart @rossreelachart.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

You can finally play as the most powerful magic user in the Final Fantasy canon: Donald Duck.

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parker b @parkerpermits.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Sora should visit the magical, far off land of Toronto to help Matt and Jay play a show at the Rivoli

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The kid at 3:30 this morning: can it be time to get up? Me: absolutely not

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Shoutout to my local library for breaking street date on the new Phoebe Bridger’s album.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Been spending the last few weeks checking CDs out from my local library and going around second hand stores replacing all the CDs I threw away, and ripping them to my computer. I think after this next batch of 41 CDs I get from the library, I'll be ready to cut the cord on streaming music.

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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My four-year-old son just told me he wants to “make bad guys for the new hollow knight game” when he grows up. Your move, Team Cherry

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Jesse Vitelli @mamavitelli.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Sub-a-thon Day 4. Could this be the end? 705 subscribers. Subs 35% off five or more for the next two hours. Tune in now Twitch.tv/Mamavitelli

a bunch of viewers as ducks and me giving a thumbs up

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sammy v @doctorveemd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Video games huh

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KZ @kzxcellent.live · 08/08/2026

The Windows 98 Command Menu mod I installed for KH2FM is pretty soulful.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Me last week: ‘I’ve cooled a bit on Pokopia. Maybe it won’t be my GOTY’ Me today: ‘Pokopia is a perfect game and I love all my funky lil friends and their weird habitats’

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Jesse Vitelli @mamavitelli.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Day 2 of the Sub-a-thon continues!! Blown away by the response to this! Sincerely thank you to everyone has reached out about the layoffs. It's means the world. Twitch.tv/Mamavitelli

Me looking at pokemon facts on stream. 13 hours left, 371 subs

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

You ever think about how the girl in The Summer I Turned Pretty allowed people to call her Belly? I think about it a lot

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

One of the owners at my new job is walking around in cargo shorts and a Less Than Jake shirt which is to say I now work for @kamkonek.bsky.social

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arcadus @birdapp.rip · 29/07/2026

A scene from The Odyssey where Penelope stands before the suitors, but Tim Robinson has been added in. It’s a reference to I Think You Should Leave. Penelope says “Ronnie, I feel like you’re just here for the zip line” and Tim Robinson says “what?”

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

‘Has her birthday theme picked out two months+ in advance’ gf, ‘oh my birthday is tomorrow’ bf

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ben @benrs.uk · 26/07/2026

watched The Odyssey last night 😍

the go piss girl meme that then became the pigs girl meme from spirited away, which i’ve poorly reused to be about the odyssey. i did consider making this adult content for a spoiler warning but also this story was written in the 8th century BCE so you really can’t be spoiled by it like say, house of the dragon y’know?

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Been thinking about The Odyssey all week. What a motion picture.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I reviewed games pretty much weekly from 2008 until, uh, May, and although it was a little refreshing to not have to worry about it at first I now miss it. if you're an editor who needs help with the fall's avalanche of releases, I'm available. get in touch.

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It’s Monday so let’s do some news. I’m employed full time! I’m a marketing project manager for a local agency, which means outside of GDQ, I’ve left the games industry professionally. I loved my time working in games, all the friends I’ve made, but I’ve got a family to take of and can’t wait

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Andrew Cogswell @joyboygenius.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Waiting on an email to tell me if I have a full-time job, my phone saying ‘downloading one email’ and it’s from my local grocery store mailing list:

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