iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Z

I'm sorry but it feels like the subtext of every "ai is inescapable folks just deal with it" post is "I'm getting the vibe that using Claude might be something people won't respect and like me for and I really need that to stop"

422542

Reposted by Z

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 20h

ultimately if ppl want it to stop its going to come in the form of policy or labor power, not boycotts imo.

223948

Reposted by Z

Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Everyone in creative work for hire knows most of the job is clients asking you for something bad and stupid and you figuring out how to make something completely different while convincing them it's what they asked for. The AI era means everyone gets to see what clients actually want

61205322

Reposted by Z

rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 11/10/2026

Hi, I'm the vocal director for Star Wars Galactic Racer. My office has a Huttese dictionary, a mountain of cocaine, and a line out of the door of the loudest theater kids we could find. I hope you like the result!

6654100

Reposted by Z

Will Koehler @willk3d.com · 08/10/2026

You'll never guess where this goes

191395664

Reposted by Z

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/10/2026

it's good to see this laid out clearly, but i'm once again going to point to Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"

The present discussion is a contribution to the understanding of what programming is. It suggests that programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.

6416147

Reposted by Z

jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

3461372210

Reposted by Z

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 10/10/2026

Like they fired the entire union, as best they could

1378

Reposted by Z

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 09/10/2026

I'm sure it's a great place to work for a lot of people a lot of the time, but it's never a good idea to accept the idea of any company as a big lovely teddy bear; you need to be sceptical of these narratives. There are otherwise lovely people you'd never dream are viciously anti-union, anti-worker

29511

Reposted by Z

GP @mousefountain.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Probably no surprise that I'm enjoying this placeholders.itch.io/tiny-brutalism

Screenshot of a digital toy called Tiny Brutalism, stark and low saturation concrete structure, depicting a building with a waffle pattern of windows on one side suspended on leg-like supports.

Another building but this one is like a series of tall structures with gaps between them and a castle-like crown.

429942

Reposted by Z

Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 09/10/2026

oh yeah I utterly hate python. the fact that python "won" over perl is one of my many indicators that we live in hell. absolutely stupid language. if you're going to make a language where there's only one construct to do a given thing maybe pick constructs that aren't shit

1212

Reposted by Z

Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 09/10/2026

Melora (@historyofhyrule.com) has been archiving and documenting Zelda history since 2001(!!!), perhaps doing more for the series than anyone else. She scans in the highest resolution of anyone I know, and truly cares for her craft. She is also enormously kind!!! historyofhyrule.carrd.co

historyofhyrule.carrd.co

History of Hyrule

A website dedicated to preserving the visual history of the Legend of Zelda. Scans of out of print publications and a comprehensive gallery of official art.

1339

Reposted by Z

matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

251315628

Reposted by Z

jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

hey all, just a heads up to my artist peers- this is all AI slop, I would avoid this. It isn't adobe code, it's just vibecoded to emulate their features.

15922459

Reposted by Z

ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

"...AI is getting (significantly) better in narrow domains (e.g., coding[]) ..." Not so fast 🧐 "From the outside, software development seemed like the poster child for AI’s potential. On the inside, it’s a mess."

calnewport.com

On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport

Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more

57721

Reposted by Z

EvilToaster @eviltoaster.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Localization of dialogue is an art. Building engines and tools is art. Concept art is, well, art. Even placeholding art is art. If design or architecture are art forms then so is any act of building tools or systems. It's all art. And every AI model is built off stolen art, from every art form.

235653

Reposted by Z

Rascal News @rascal.news · 06/10/2026

The folks who create Dungeons & Dragons and Magic The Gathering are unionizing with @uwotc-official.bsky.social and they have identified a new pain point -- the inability to own the work they create off the clock.

rascal.news

The workers at Wizards of the Coast are teaming up

Workers at Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering demand ownership of personal work made off the clock.

5356115

Reposted by Z

it’s ben @yotsuben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you know, the voice actor for Biddy Blas has gotta be having the time of their life lmao

250621338

Reposted by Z

Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

4790682192

Reposted by Z

jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 05/10/2026

“if we’re mean to them they’ll retreat to their bunkers” ok??? let them??? cut off the internet and electricity to the bunker??? seize their assets??? what fucking nonsense

27118

Reposted by Z

rdein @rdein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've written a post introducing Record of Dorathia, the dungeon crawler RPG project we have been working on these past few years. I hope you enjoy it! Let us know your thoughts! Link: www.bombservice.com/post/record-... #rdein_dev #redora

641726674

Reposted by Z

Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse

5426911014

Reposted by Z

Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

723440685

Reposted by Z

Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

5486582726

Reposted by Z

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

244139522481

Reposted by Z

Flora 🍓🏳️‍⚧️ @floramerigold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...

epiloguegaming.com

What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming

Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...

2982736591

Reposted by Z

Ticky🏳️‍🌈 @drac.at · 02/10/2026

I wrote a little piece about the ongoing battle for the soul of software as a craft, where we've been, and where I hope we're going

drac.at

The Silent War for the Soul of Software - drac.at

8369111

Reposted by Z

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 14/06/2026

every company using "ai" has split its workforce into two groups: those who are useless hacks and those who suddenly want to kill themselves

9778153

Reposted by Z

Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda

Looking at my software peers in 2026 I see fatigued faces, I see frustration, and I see a lot of people looking for a way out of an industry that seems poised on the brink of collapse. LLMs are being pushed on us at every turn, most people seem at best frustrated by them, and ultimately they seem to appeal most to people who see the production of software as a purely mechanical means to an end. They are antithetical, however, to the idea of software as a craft, or something requiring both initial and ongoing care. As an expression of the soul.

271819577

Reposted by Z

Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

YOU - “I'd like to dedicate this song to my partner, Kim Kitsuragi.” (Nod to the lieutenant.) KIM KITSURAGI - The lieutenant doesn't say anything, but gives you a quick smile, before turning away. COMPOSURE - He's incapable of blushing, but if he weren't -- he'd blush.

017027

Reposted by Z

Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An absolute delight to do the cover + slipcase for this one www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves...

Switch cover for Caves of Qud - illustration of a sweeping landscape framed by trees, whose roots are crowded by various denizens and artefacts beneath the earth

38807180

Reposted by Z

WanderingDM @wanderingdm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good on them! But their last paragraph also highlights a problem we have arrived at: people (some) can't differentiate between LLMs/GenAI and npc AI or procgen in a game. I'm seeing it more and more online. Words matter and this is just another thing these mfers have tainted with their grift.

320969

Z @murdertwink.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ai could fucking never

000

Reposted by Z

Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

3443571479

Reposted by Z

where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

piracy is culture-building. file sharing is pro social. it is good to send your friends links and files and zips and pdfs and stuff. some of the tightest knit most incredible fighting game communities are built around pirated games and downloaded roms and this is not an accident its a feature

101015365

Reposted by Z

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"

28717197

Reposted by Z

Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i wrote some life sim thoughts, namely about mistria and pokopia jannouna.dev/the-cozy-gri...

jannouna.dev

The Cozy Grind

I have thoughts. Life sim thoughts.

1287

Reposted by Z

Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 27/09/2026

✨if you use LLMs you are dead to me✨ ✨if you use LLMs you're a piece of shit✨

39212

Reposted by Z

PandaMonium @pandamonium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today, I decided to dump all my thoughts about A.I. infecting the retro and Saturn scene into one cohesive article. In short, I am certifiably sick of this.

521746693

Reposted by Z

D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

2649261738

Reposted by Z

Kronok @kronok.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A few weeks ago I released an update to Scythe, my Unreal Engine level editor, which has a lot of QoL features and cool new stuff. Here's a list of some of the cool stuff starting with "hotspot locking":

317656

Reposted by Z

Tom the Anime Sicko 🔜 Hell @tomharrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what I mean about how we have to become snobs. When a bitch says shit like this to you, the move is to immediately become very mean, and laugh at them, and say out loud that you don’t respect them, things of that nature, things Ezra Klein would never do

9646173

Z @murdertwink.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

V.IV Rusty AKA The Coolest Motherfucker To Ever Do It AKA My Boyfriend www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-YP5KObHd0

youtube.com

Armored Core VI - “I won’t miss!”

YouTube video by Zatheroth

010