iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man I miss Sugimori's original artstyle. When I was a kid and thinking Pokemon was getting lamer (which I don't entirely agree with now) I think I was mostly frustrated by the change in artstyle. I really liked the less polished, more rugged look in the early games.

Official artwork of Clair for Pokemon Crystal.

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

alright Necrozma let's see what you've got

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love my pikachu my pikachu is very strong

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

oops sorry had to cough up something lodged in my throat

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

yknow the vibe I get from this is that they used AI to do all their concept art and then made the game to emulate that aesthetic because this looks almost exactly like what I'd expect an AI to generate when prompted to generate an image for a super duper high graphics OoT remake

The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time remake

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

you'd think the only reason Nintendo ever had their iconic toony styles was because they were using underpowered hardware someone gave them too much power and now it's so, so wrong

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

google sucks ass and keeps giving me more and more unrelated results but this one is especially...... huh????

Google result is a post from reddit, r/childfree
"So... it happened. My My favourite YouTuber is pregnant
And now she's suddenly pregnant, and it kinda feels like losing a role model, y'know? I've been watching her for years, and some things she'd ..."

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

well, gen X were too so i guess its just every other generation the pendulum swings

Fox News segment from 2007, where the headline reads
"SE"XBOX? NEW VIDEO GAME FEATURES FULL DIGITAL CHARACTER NUDITY

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Is it the incredibly vague titles and thumbnails? Because I sure love that my feed keeps getting filled with videos that could be about LITERALLY ANYTHING no girl I don't want to have to click every video on my feed to find out what they're about, we had a solution to that and its dropping the ball

A YouTube video titled "This Stupid Trend is Taking Over YouTube". The thumbnail is simply the host holding their microphone and standing next to the word STUPID in all capital letters, with YouTube blurred in the background.

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

do you think there's anything at the end of this road or is this enshittification era something we have to live with forever

A new feature in Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away. Avoid minimizing or muting Twitch for a better experience."

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

resuming my pokedex journey to see if maybe I can get them through Bank before the deadline

A quote from a Nintendo employee disguised as a member of Team Plasma in Pokemon Black: "We will steal Pokemon! You'll never play together again!"

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

what if i have the evil nintendo piracy not-3DS machine

The AYN Thor (circa January 2026), on a DS collection hovered over Jump Ultimate Stars

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

when you try to self-host your own matrix server

A screenshot from CIMA: The Enemy for the GBA. It is a quote of dialogue saying "Why try to create discord between friends...?"

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"invades America" man even Fox *Weather* be yelling about invasions across our borders :v

News headling from FOX Weather: "Three major US cities rank among worst air quality in the world as Canadian wildfire smoke invades America"

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

this title and thumbnail combination fills me with an intense anger

A video titled "The PlayStation Was Capable of This All Along?"
The thumbnail shows the PS1 playing Super Mario 64, but also depicts the person holding a ram stick labelled "8x the RAM" with an arrow pointing to the PS1 labeled "Upgrade".

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Ah, thanks for the correction. I imagine you deleted it because it's not entirely accurate (your own source discredits that they worked on iNES), but I censored your name in case you deleted for other reasons. Either way, I didn't realize it was a game of telephone like that.

"I wish people would stop spreading this rumor. They hired someone who worked on iNES, and the header is only 16 bytes."

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

woah this takes my mind back to brave fencer musashi lol

Gameplay of Brave Fencer Musashi for the PS1 as the titular character climbs a spiral tower

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I just got back into PSO2 recently and then they dropped this on us about a week ago and now ive got a foul taste in my mouth. There's no shot it stops with the novelty AI chatbot they added to the game. SEGA is remarkably consistently disappointing.

Regarding NGS and SEGA Corporation's Generative AI Use Policy
In order to enable our development teams to concentrate their efforts on creative duties and provide our users with the best possible content, SEGA Corporation makes use of generative AI as a supporting tool.

For NGS, the specific uses are as follows:
As a productivity tool in the development process, to support our development staff and enable them to better concentrate on creative duties.
As an in-game conversation function, allowing players to receive real-time AI responses to messages.

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

this meme is SIX YEARS OLD and it has yet to stop being relevant

Damn... I'm kinda tired of living through these major historical events

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

why tf is the dominos pizza brand doing gamergate nonsense

A post on X by @Dominos_UK: "God of War game with no Kratos = Pepperoni Passion with no pepperoni"
There is a reply by Santa Monica Studio: "ok thanks for the feedback, dominos pizza corporate account"

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

how did we get to the point that even 1 in 4 democrats deny man-made climate change

Most Democrats (75%) who responded to the Pew survey said climate change is the result of human activity, while Republicans had much more varied views: 21% said it was because of human activity, 37% said it was a naturally occurring phenomena, 19% said they aren't sure and 23% don't think evidence supports the warming of the Earth.

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

College graduates aren't under half but I'd argue it's insane that even for them these numbers are this low. This is abysmal.

Quote from the article:
The Pew survey also found that the more educated a person was, the more likely they were to believe climate change is the fault of humans—62% of people with post-graduate college education believe humans are causing the Earth to warm, while only 56% of college graduates felt the same, 45% of people with some college education believe it and only 40% of people with high school diplomas or less education think humans are at fault.

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

their fundraising schedule is almost over and they've only raised half 😨

Noah Samsen's gofundme for fighting a lawsuit by Ethan Klein, suing him for defamation due to his video criticizing Ethan's positions on Israel/Palestine. It has raised about $100K out of its $200K goal.

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

What the fuck is Doordash doing? This is the entire point to subscribing to Dashpass in the first place, so why would they lock it behind $75+ orders now? Why would we even pay for Dashpass anymore?

A prompt from Doordash:
"Add $21.02 to save with DashPass
Spend at least $75 to unlock your DashPass savings of $0 delivery fees and lower service fees. Otherwise the standard fees applied."

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I miss when cool artwork like this meant it was a labor of passion and love someone poured into it. Now every time I see something like this I have to immediately be skeptical. AI really sucked a ton of the whimsy out of the internet.

AI slop of what would otherwise have been a cool image of Kite and Blackrose from .hack// playing a 2D pixel version of .hack// on their PS2

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This frustrates me so much. I know I care too much about what strangers think but I do sometimes wish I could provide a user the *reason* I've chosen to block them. Because they're going to come away with this like "lol they didn't want to engage with my argument" when I honestly would if it

An excerpt from a multi-post reply I received here on Bluesky:
"And then when we ask for that, troglodytes lie you go 'not EVERY game has to have that' like, you're acting like most games have what we want, and you're just begging to have a little DEI and a little non-conventional attractiveness in video games."

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I always confuse her for Kallen at first glance The outfit in this case not helping lmfao

Kallen from Code Geass R:2 wearing a bunny suit

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Hm, yknow, I have a sneaking suspicion they didn't mysteriously forget.

A post from "weedle" on Bluesky:
"All of the big protests over Israel stopped as soon as Trump got in office and never started again even after he bombed Iran twice in cooperation with them. This is plainly visible to anyone with fucking eyes but you'll still get yelled at for saying it."

My response:
"hey so when ICE literally began abducting people off the street and throwing them into unmarked vans do you remember who they were targeting first because I do"

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Lot of war based content yesterday

Video on youtube: Game Theory: The Console War is OVER?!

Video on youtube: Nintendo's Nastiest War: WonderSwan vs Game Boy

Video on youtube: $20 Pokemon Just Started a War

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

No Discord. It doesn't matter if you required it from *everyone*, you required it from some people and anyone who was unlucky had to give up their privacy to you and shady third parties. I hate so much when companies are like "we're sorry YOU were confused". No, you fucked up.

From Discord's latest statement partially walking back age verification:
"The way this landed, many of you walked away thinking we're requiring face scans and ID uploads from everyone just to use Discord. That's not what's happening, but the fact that so many people believe it tells us we failed at our most basic job: clearly explaining what we're doing and why. That's on us."

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

me and the boys when yoko taro evangelion drops

a group of giant 50 foot tall man-eating babies with full sets of teeth

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Yeah I'm sure you would. Go fuck yourself Discord. Dark pattern ass bullshit.

One of the messages seen when cancelling Nitro:
"Your Nitro badge will reset after 5+ years of progress! We'd hate ot see your streak come to an end."

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Lmao, I'm going to be stopping 2 months short of the final Nitro badge

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Yeah I may be killing civilians and kidnapping people off the streets but you're pointing it out and that's worse

An image of a sad anime schoolgirl, crying with bandaids on her face. A hat reading "ICE Immigration" has been photoshopped onto her head. A caption reads: "Yeah, I may be the Gestapo, but you were filming me and that's worse."

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