iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 10h

This might be the one use case for AI that I can actually support

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's rare that something grabs hold of me and doesn't let go. I'm aching for that again.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wouldn't mind if I didn't have to win. It's been two years since I shelved it and came back wanting to play the main quest line. But I'm stuck on a required minigame win that I don't feel like playing. So it's probably shelved indefinitely unless I find an accessibility skip or a mod to remove it.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I hate when games require winning a minigame to advance. Looking at you, Star wars Outlaws.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm pulling for a "I stayed up way too late gaming last night" kind of night to complain about tomorrow.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks Cookie. Having a shit day today 😞

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sums it up nicely. But hey, they bought a shitty publisher. It'll be hilarious to watch them act surprised when it does shitty things.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🫂🫂 I missed that post last week. But it's relatable. Most of my friends have died so this group is my primary outlet. It's an amazing group of people. But it's also hella lonely at times.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Editing. More editing. Lots of editing.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Same shit happens here too. "You say you hate Trump but you never said anything specific about this thing that you never posted about" or "well he's your President" like all of us are somehow responsible for him being there.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good selection. FF4 is S-tier

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the last selfie you posted was chocolate chip.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nah. That's just more of the same. Oakley's don't cost much to manufacture. Like $25 max. You're just paying for the name. This box is no different. GTA tax. Oakley tax. Same shit. Different company.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My first few passes are revisions and lore/continuity and things that I find naturally. I make a list for recurring things and do a deeper dive at the end when I do my final pass (usually 8-10 reads in) for tense, missing quotes, double or missing spaces, punctuation, etc.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In the past I have run my work through a circle of friends, depending on their interests. I don't usually do that until I'm happy with it. So it'll be a while. I usually do around 5-6 passes before I feel like it's ready.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pushing through an unplanned epilogue while I'm in the right state of mind. Then, I'll start working through my cover art for a little bit while it settles and then start a revision pass probably next week or the week after.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Id have to look at the classification, but I think it's in novella territory.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

First attempt at romance. But it's chock full of some pretty dark stuff for ~70% or so.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

36 days later, my first draft is finished. 29,060 words.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks man. I'm doing very well today. How are you?

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Damn. I thought 425 was cheap. That's a steal.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That was surprisingly difficult to get. I had an alert tracking it on the Hotstock app and had to get it checked out as quick as I could.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ugh. That's basically Oklahoma for a while. We had two weeks that felt like 110 because of tropic storms that moved up from Texas. The last three weeks weren't as bad with the humidity, but we were still triple digits. In the last five weeks, I think we only had maybe 7 days under 100. Sucks here.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There was a time that my retirement plan was to move to Florida and play Stitch in the Disney parks. Your weather ruined that.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very true. It's been unseasonably hot in Oklahoma this summer even for us. Can't imagine being close enough to water to have that kind of humidity.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's still swamp ass season in Florida.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That was the trap that I fell into

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If they're out, download that Hotstock app and they'll let you mark one item free. It'll notify you and make it easier.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finally got the controller ordered. That's everything except the amiibos. RIP my wallet.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is such a small-brain caveman way of diminishing the work of artists. As a guy who argued that video games are an art form, I'm embarrassed that someone associated with a dev studio would attempt to make such a distinction.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So, I'm not sure what this is. But I know my way around a sewing kit. Can you use fabric glue to make them stay?

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This, and when people drop a game and give an unfiltered opinion of what they disliked so that they stopped playing.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

End of Bag 15. Starting to look like the Enterprise.

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am. Work is crazy these days. Socials and gaming always suffer first 😞 but I game vicariously through my streaming moots

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

All good Carly. I'm in the same boat. Something always gets the short straw and lately that's the socials

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Felt . At 40 it definitely felt like my body betrayed me. I miss my 20s

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Daniel 🎮 @kropolis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For a few years, a lot of the games I started playing on old hardware got remasters right after I finished them. Unfortunately FF13 and Bloodborne broke that trend 😔

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