iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I'm just looking at the files on my hard drive of an old class assignment where we had to make the credits for a fictional television show. This was mine. I'm guessing, based on the image I used, Esther Jill-Row and Reagen Gorges are anagrams of @jeriellsworth.bsky.social and George Sanger. Heh.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm glad now that I created a Hotmail account in 1999.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"be strong enough to be gentle."

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Davinci Resolve doesn't want to generate the waveform in the audio properly. It just looks like a flat line. I tried the delete the Audio folder in the CacheClip folder trick, but that doesn't change anything.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

That's ridiculous Microsoft. My email account is old enough to vote. If you need me to "verify" my age with an untrustworthy third party service then I guess I won't be buying games or apps from you.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I can't believe Hello Kitty joined the Decepticons :O

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Let's not tell them about the Gold Saucer ;)

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I'm not sure why the IGDA page thinks I live in Finland, but uh, I'd like to please :p

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Damn AI data centres making RAM so expensive these days...

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Oh, I guess it has been awhile since I've played #ffxiv :p

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I saw the musical The Lion King earlier this week in the city, and the kids who played young Simba and Nala had such strong Australian accents, they reminded me of Bluey and Bingo...

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I just discovered that there's a Les Misérables fighting game. I need to play it. DLSS 5 On!

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

View of Alt: Games from the Instagramable spot upstairs.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I found the sacred symbol in the wild tonight.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I just realized that my boss sprite for the shooting game I'm making in Pico-8 to learn how to use it, is a bit too big. It's 128 x 128 pixels, which is the entire length and width of the Pico-8 window. There'd be no room for anything else. :p

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I tried Battletoads on Nintendo's Switch emulator and I was worse than I remembered being. I thought, maybe I'm rusty. So I tried it on my actual NES on my CRT television and I was better. 🤔

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I could win a gold medal in weight lifting after moving this television from the old bench to this new one.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Here's my top 9 games. All of these games are meaningful to me.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

That 8-bit font in Pico-8 gives me a headache. I kinda wish it wasn't so committed to the aesthetic in the editor.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley are defined as "Cozy Games", but early 90s DOS platformers feel cozy to me.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Wow, how romantic. A Valentine's Day card written by a large language model.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I'm dumping some more #C64 disks with my #zoomfloppy and it's a bit of a process with many cables. So far so good though.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I tried taking the Final Fantasy pixel art #ClairObscurExpedition33 characters and making the Maëlle one into a #C64 sprite. There's no good pink colour for light skin tones in the C64 palette and there's no strong red or orange, so I don't like how her face and hair are the same colour.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I got good at Tetris in 2025.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I have a 3D printer now. It's a Bambu Lab A1. I just put it together and printed out Benchy the Boat - the Hello World of 3D printing.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Coming soon to @bsky.app we'll have to prove we're humans and not dogs.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Oh @bsky.app initially realized I'm an adult, but now it's forgotten again. Weird. I guess I have no DMs again. This age assurance stuff is so ridiculous.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Blue Sky this morning realised that I'm an adult. No need to verify that by uploading a screenshot of Norman Reedus from Death Stranding.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Oh, so now my DMs are locked until I prove I'm an adult on @bsky.app. Insane. If anyone here wants to send me a DM, my Instagram account is: www.instagram.com/markiduval/

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

And so it begins. The first computer I owned was a Commodore 64. Take a guess how old I am @bsky.app

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My top emojis on Bluesky this year. The middle two are because of Clair Obscur, évidemment.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Petition to redesign the UTS logo on the tower to have the Cool S symbol as in this game...

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I was curious to see how the 3rd Doctor would react if the Brigadier had Kate's dialogue...

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

There were countries in the 80s that don't exist anymore. For example, the U.S.S.R., West Germany, and Epyx.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It's the final issue of PC PowerPlay. It's sad to see so much print media disappear.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Sex, Peace, Drugs, Love, Rock 'N' Roll, and... French? 🥖

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Not only does Zangief's USSR no longer exist, but there's a McDonalds now on this little street corner in China. I guess capitalism won.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

If you've ever wondered what a rave in a Borg cube would look like, you should've been at @waypoint-events.com and @serenade.games's Constellations last night.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This is a photo from Portland.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The Usborne programming books were so good when I was a kid. 🤖👾

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Yeah nah, the auto dubbing sounds horrible.

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Mark Duval @markduval.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

There should be a Street Fighter stage set in Newtown, Sydney, Australia, with the the connection being that Sagat's Aussie cousin owns a Thai restaurant on King Street. That would be iconic.

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