iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.

7270811519

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

How do you get around the "some of my follows just post too much" issue? Like I have to scroll half an hour to get through the most recent 2 hours of posts. A lot of my friends' updates that are just buried under way too much stuff

100

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There is something weird in those videos showing the most trivial details in a game with subtitles like "when devs actually care" It feels like an appropriation of care where care is only recognized when it has observable and material results

000

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

First hour of Perfect Tides: Station to Station I'm already a fan of the game

000

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Touring China currently: It is genuinely fascinating how accepted genAI works are in official venues like museums and broadcasting. AI videos also have a noticable subliminal aesthetics, which works well for exhibitions that aims to celebrate land and history.

000

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Some people rhink being an academic is somehow related to universities, but no, it is about the distance between an opinion you hate and one you will fight for. An academic thrives in an environment of incredibly precise micrometer-thin nuances of raging disapproval and delight.

311317

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Introverts do love to gatekeep their introversion sometimes

000

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Incredible essay. Stupidity is not ignorance, but a false sense of closure. I love the point about subaltern speaking not being enough. The point is now to disturb the system that makes "the refusal of Palestinian humanity feel like a carefully considered position" www.equator.org/articles/mor...

equator.org

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR

Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

021

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

There's something infectious about how the theater tunes you into life's rhythm, like just how everything can have a sense of timing to how they move.

000

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The more I read about indexicality the more confused I am

020

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Bjarke A Larsen, PhD @bjarkeal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wrote a little goodbye to the game that could until it couldn't bjarke.it/article/good... See you on June 9th.

bjarke.it

Goodbye, Destiny / Bjarke.it

Bjarke A. Larsen's Blog

033

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If game journalism becomes more woke, the Mixtape controversy wouldn't happen because there'd be fewer reviewers resonating with its white suburban nostalgic vibe

110

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I've laughed waaaaaay more at this than I should have.

A screenshot shows a social media post with two sections. The top section contains a comment from a user, and the lower section displays a tweet from Pop Crave. The tweet includes a cropped image of Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry, one wearing a light-colored shirt and the other with long dark hair. Their faces are obscured by rectangles. The background is plain and light-colored. The tweet says: what the land sees when you acknowledge it.

141387148

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Although Lorelei and the Laser Eyes can drag in places, I still really admire the game for its craft of integrating the story with the puzzles. Frequent references to key events, confusions between fiction/realities, character building in the puzzles etc. A lot of tricks that deserve studying.

100

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes does a neat thing where the years of events are codes for ~50% the puzzles, so the puzzle part is figuring out how the same code is represented this time. And the repetition of number also slowly points your curiosity to what events those numbers refer to.

000

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Really enjoy this podcast on @acidhorizon.bsky.social Digital theory has some presence in game studies but I never paid much attention but this new essay collection feels like a good entry. youtu.be/xIDlnjzFYwM

youtu.be

'Digital Theory' Panel Discussion: Is Theory Itself Digital? (Fazi, Galloway, Weatherby, Handleman)

YouTube video by Acid Horizon

130

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I'm still in the tutorial sequence but the way that it deeply explores the thematic and narrative implications of the mechanics is imo incredibly inspired

110

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A game design for evoking reflection is to draw attention to the constructed nature of the game goal: Romero's Train, and Consume Me, Rhythm Doctor do it in narrative beats But I'm always surprised how often those moments and thus themes are missed that are often so evident to critics and academics

130

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

It's a crime that folks aren't more aware Pathologic 3 is coming out in <10 hours

010

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Finished Consume Me. Really enjoy the presentation, the sheer ambition and love behind it. Clever narrative touches through Florence-esque interactions and cultural critiques thru game logic. But at the same time I feel that its system is a bit overdesigned for its larger thematic goal (cont...)

100

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I enjoy the latest Wong Kar-Wai for the business drama (surprisingly) and that it is mostly in Shanghainese, contrasting China's past of Mandarin standadization But the article is correct, Wong's style feels substanceless in the show, almost tangential to the script compared to the classics

010

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Recommend the whole blog post, but there's a chess analogy in there that's interesting (obligatory @spizelo.bsky.social), where a specific game chess, rather than games like D&D, are used as models for scientific knowledge (I suggest D&D because it defines game rules very differently).

120

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

In normal academic writing, we use brief discussions of games to help us make a point. Writing a whole book about ACNH instead gave me an opportunity to explore complex, ambivalent experiences with the game — some of which I recently got to talk about with Emily Cerf news.ucsc.edu/2025/12/anim...

news.ucsc.edu

Ahead of new game release, Animal Crossing: New Horizons book reflects on comfort, community, and capitalism

Professor of Computational Media Noah Wardrip-Fruin speaks on themes explored in his new book

0113

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

😶‍🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025! github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...

remember that day vividly, vividly
remember that day vividly,vividly
remember that day vividly,vividy
remember that day vividly,vivid
remember that day vividy,vivid
remember that day vivid,vivid
remember thatday vivid,vivid
remember thtday vivid,vivid
remember thday vivid,vivid
rememberthday vivid,vivid
remembertday vivid,vivid
rememberday vivid,vivid
rememberay vivid,vivid
remembery vivid,vivid
remember vivid,vivid
remember vivid,ivid
remember vividivid
remember vividiid
remember vividid
remember vividd
remember vivid
reember vivid
rember vivid
reber vivid
reer vivid
ree vivid
re vivid
r vivid
vivid
vivid
vivd
vid
vd
d

Remember that poetry is like a baby
Remember that poetry is like baby
Remember that poetry is like baby
Remember that poetry s like baby
Remember that poetrys like baby
Remember that poetry like baby
Remember that poetrylike baby
Remember tht poetrylike baby
Remember th poetrylike baby
Remember th poetryike baby
Remember th poetryie baby
Remember th poetrye baby
Remember th poetry baby
Remember t poetry baby
Remember poetry baby
Remember poetry baby
Remember poety baby
Remember poet baby
Remeber poet baby
Remebr poet baby
Remeb poet baby
Reme poet baby
Ree poet baby
Re poet baby
R poet baby
poet baby
poet baby
poe baby
pe baby
e baby
baby
baby
bab
bb
b

remember to pass the throne to your younger brother
remember to pass th throne to your younger brother
remember to passth throne to your younger brother
remember to passt throne to your younger brother
remember to pass throne to your younger brother
remember to pass throne to your youngr brother
remember to pass throne to your young brother
remember to pass throne to youryoung brother
remember to pass throne to youryoun brother
remember to pass throne to youryou brother
remember to pass throne to ouryou brother
remember to pass throne to uryou brother
rememberto pass throne to uryou brother
remembert pass throne to uryou brother
remember pass throne to uryou brother
remeber pass throne to uryou brother
remebr pass throne to uryou brother
remebrpass throne to uryou brother
remerpass throne to uryou brother
remepass throne to uryou brother
remepass throne to uyou brother
remepass throne to you brother
remepass throne to yo brother
remepass throne to y brother
remepass throne to brother
remepass throne to brother
remepss throne to brother
remeps throne to brother
remep throne to brother
reme throne to brother
ree throne to brother
re throne to brother
r throne to brother
throne to brother
throne to brother
throne o brother
throne brother
throne brother
throne broter
throne brotr
throne bror
throne bro
throne br
throne r
throne
throne
thone
thoe
tho
to
o

remember that I myself tended that wound for you
remember that myself tended that wound for you
remember that myself tended that wound for you
remember that myself tended that wound foryou
remember that myself tended that woundforyou
remember that myself tended that woundfryou
remember tht myself tended that woundfryou
remember th myself tended that woundfryou
remember th myself tended that woundfrou
remember th myself tended that woundfro
remember th myself tended that woundfo
remember th myself tended that woundf
remember th myself tended that wound
remember th myself tended tha wound
remember th myself tended ta wound
remember th myself tended a wound
remember th myself tended wound
remember th myself tended wound
remember t myself tended wound
remember myself tended wound
remember myself tended wound
remember mysel tended wound
remember myseltended wound
remember mysetended wound
remember myseended wound
remember yseended wound
remember yseened wound
remember yseeed wound
remember seeed wound
rememberseeed wound
remembereeed wound
remembereed wound
remembered wound
rememberd wound
remember wound
reember wound
reembr wound
reemr wound
reem wound
ree wound
re wound
r wound
wound
wound
wond
wod
od
o

28930

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum". PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...

youtube.com

The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members

YouTube video by People Make Games

131954883

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Haven't read the paper yet but in my experience LLM is just terrible at picking up what makes writers actually proud of their work like proses, themes and very tailored moments of obfuscation and reveal. Glad there's a study on it now!

031

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/11/2025

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

89109802273

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem

For Zohran,
You teach us how to engage the world in difficult times. May you inspire many and blaze a trail!
It’s like a path across the land—it’s not there to begin with, but when lots of people go the same way, it comes into being.
—Lu Hsun, “Hometown”

From the dedication page of Mamdani, Mahmood, "Neither Settler nor Native : The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities," Harvard University Press, 2020

7604180

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It's a good time to write a book about a single game/series! There's the great work being published by @bossfightbooks.com And now three of the best scholarly presses have joined in ...

163

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I've been teaching and mentoring beginning game makers for a while. One thing I noitced is that they very often try to introduce variety by making completely different (mini)games. It feels like a really surface level understanding of variety

020

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I ordered a "big spicy" at a malatang place in Flushing. The person apologied as she handed me the bowl with mostly redness on top of it.

010

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

In light of all discussions of AI use in education, people don't talk often enough about hybrid cases, where some efforts were involved but there's things like hallucination that points to AI use. There's a lost of trust but at the same time treating it as plagiarism doesn't feel quite right.

010

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I'm a Battlefield fanboy. Not sure how many could connect with my observation here but it's very interesting to see the mixed reactions for Battlefield 6 coming from supposed "fans" and "veterans". It is like a "communal" feeling that can only define itself thru oppositions.

100

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

My first experience with the NYPD is that it took 3 visits where each time there's new rules that we didn't meet to file a police report. The very last time the officer looked at 2 documents for minutes and then came up with a reason that doesn't even follow the state law.

000

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"this does not look like a game from 10 years ago" just doesn't make sense anymore in the age of marginal graphical improvement. Almost every game from 10 years ago "does not look like a game from 10 years ago"

010

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Murders on the Yangtze River is a really well-made ACE Attorney-like. I'm mostly fascinated by the historicity of the plot. The colonial theme slowly reveals itself across all the murder mysteries and the drama of the court (e.g. they had a pair of British and Chinese judges during court hearings)

110

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I was today years young when I learned that Butlerian Jihad was a Dune term, not a fun word for queer revolution.

010

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I'm so thankful that Roottrees are Dead uses MSAA, sick and tired of seeing TAA and DLSS everywhere and sometimes they look downright ugly

000

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The Witness is one of the most influential games for developing my taste in games. And seeing JBlow's politics was obviously pretty disappointing. And Reddit is trying to find whether we could've seen his turn in the game, which is a fascinating discussion to me.

120

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Just a quick reminder that when Miyazaki said that AI-created animation was "an insult to life itself" he was speaking not just about humans abdicating the act of creation, but also of the moral obscenity that flows from the work of a robotic "creator" with no understanding of human dignity or pain.

3596195

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

As I keep writing for my dissertation game, it really struck me how powerful dialogue choice is as an expressive form I love creating contrast between options. It makes you imagine what could've been, and whatever happens afterwards can respond to that contrast to communicate a message

120

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Dead Letter Dept is an amazing low-poly+analog horror game. Although it made me think about endings, I ended up reading on the good ending because it's very missable and I dread playing it again. Part of me wishes that the choices were presented more directly...

100

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

things I need to watch immediately

0182

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Bjarke A Larsen, PhD @bjarkeal.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT! my game is releasing on Monday! "Telegrams from the Choir Train" is an experimental narrative game about managing freight through a telegraph wired to frail binary Gods. It is played entirely inside YOUR DISCORD SERVER Releasing Monday January 20th! bjeck.github.io/CRC-RITU/ind...

1128

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Watching this Nvidia conference just makes me imagine how 30 years from now people are gonna write "deep history" or "platform studies" to imagine how computer graphics could've turned out differently

110

Reposted by Hungriger Henry Zhou

Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain

2035382932

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Really excited that my paper is out!! It went through many rewrites and I hope that my framing around agency is helpful to folks!

050

Hungriger Henry Zhou @normandhaw.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

There's something about being too much of a gamer where you become very illterate to process dialogues. I missed so much of Mouthwashing's initial setup and key (Anya's) plot points that I honestly felt embrassed for how much I didn't understand what was going on.

020