iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just watched today's direct and I gotta say, this post had some real mileage.

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Alexandria Stone @alexandria-stone.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

THIS IS THE
EMPLOYMENT JELLY
Drawing of a slime with a briefcase and pencil
REBLOG WHENEVER THE HELL YOU LIKE AND YOU'LL GET A JOB THAT YOU LOVE AND DESERVE.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Still feeling the rampant speculation itch, so let's jump on the Apple Girlington train for #deltarune: Catti's Dark World form is a magical girl. She's been the one anonymously arguing with Alphys which season of Mew Mew Kissie Cutie is better. Her goth persona is only *mostly* a cover.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

These guys might be taking a shortcut to "deliciousness" by coating themselves in salt, and could be seen as dishonorable by the other Salmonid tribe. We might be getting ourselves into the midst of a conflict between the two, and have our first glimpse into their deeper culture.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

On a more serious note, these Spiralite Salmonids may be from a different tribe than the ones we're used to, given how different they look. The culture of "live deliciously" and the Salmonid focus on honor has some interesting implications for that salt coating.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Just realized some incredibly important lore implications about the upcoming #splatoon game: Salmonids have a culture of "live deliciously," powerful warriors slain in battle provide a tasty meal. The high-ranking Salmonids in the trailer are covered in salt. They're *literally* seasoned warriors.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The clash of steel and shield on the Stage of History. ⚔️ 📺 : Soul Calibur II, Namco, 2003 (GC)

A crt TV screen photo of Soul Calibur II gameplay with Xianghua thrusting a sword against Link who is reeling back from a shield block with dramatic sparks flying

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

In retrospect, I think part of the issue was that Unova was meant to be themed after America, yet they weren't entirely comfortable letting Pokémon not be in a Japanese region. This left the legendaries with a halfhearted mishmash of inspirations, and many fell short of their potential as a result.

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PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 11/05/2026

Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one. Not today. #pcgamer #pcgaming #darkestdungeon

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I can see why you're worried about Nintendo mishandling an IP like that, but Splatoon in particular is handled by a team that seems to care pretty deeply about messages towards cultural introspection. I think they'll have something to say here.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I don't think they'd be that crass with Splatoon of all things. They've been pretty keen to send *messages* with these games every time. Either there's a big wakeup brewing, or this is a rival culture they're stealing from and they're caught in the middle of a Salmonid style Great Turf War.

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Luca 🖋️ @lucawriting.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It’s so important to engage with other art forms as a game dev. This is a medium heavily influenced by ones older than it, for better and for worse. A lot of your favorite horror games have roots in amazing movies. And read! Please read! There are folks who think that this isn’t relevant. It is!

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Stuff like this is why I basically don't have accounts for anything anymore. I was late to the train on a lot of things, and now it all wants an account to even see content from outside links. If you want me to use your service, let me see what it's like to actually use it before I make an account!

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lete lyre@C108乙 @letelyre.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

PSA for those who have switched over from Windows to Linux for gaming (via Steam): As you may know, each game running via Proton is given its own prefix, simulating locations like Documents / Appdata to house saves + configs. That prefix, and all its files, is deleted ENTIRELY upon game uninstall.

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Ten | "Hold On, Let Me Save" @theletterten.lol · 12/04/2026

It runs on the blockchain and that's enough for me to never ever use Brave Browser. Screw the cryptobros. This is something everyone should read.

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Anthony Pham @viridianth.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Probably not illegal by strictest definition, but it's definitely something like Impersonation, and arguably probably some kind of defamation.

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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org · 30/03/2026

Project Plowshare was an attempt to use nukes for practical purposes: from digging canals to reshaping entire landscapes. But instead, it turned into an environmental disaster. What happened to it, and why did it fail in the end? Watch our full video to find out: kgs.link/ProjectPlowshare

An illustration of a close-up of a person wearing goggles, with reflections of explosions visible in the lenses.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Gonna go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure it failed because they were trying to use nukes to dig canals and reshape landscapes.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

No yeah definitely how my day went after reposting this. Spot-on!

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

great reporting here. basically yes DLSS 5 is running a gen AI model on the 2D output and nothing more. it doesn’t know anything about the 3D scene, textures / models / lighting / PBR other than what the model infers by looking at a frame. TL:DR, they sped up slop. youtu.be/D0EM1vKt36s?...

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Nvidia Answers my DLSS 5 Questions

YouTube video by Daniel Owen

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 20/03/2026

"Authors feel their work has been stolen" I have server reports and resource warnings that were generated due to GenAI theft bots scraping Anime Herald day and night. I have bags under my eyes because I repeatedly had to fix the server at 4AM Fuck y'all who say otherwise, we HAVE been stolen from

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Bazzite @bazzite.gg · 19/03/2026

... No.

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Update: Devs were left in the dark on DLSS 5, meaning their hard work was altered, modified and sloppified without their consent, to their shock. Disrespect is not a strong enough word to describe the perverse mockery of craft 😭 Source: insider-gaming.com/dlss-5-gamer...

Developers Were Left in the Dark
About DLSS 5
Speaking with developers and artists at studios that have agreed to DLSS 5, including CAPCOM and Ubisoft, Insider Gaming was told that the DLSS 5 tech was revealed to them at the same time as everyone else.
"We found out at the same time as the public," said one Ubisoft developer.
Developers at CAPCOM tell Insider Gaming that the announcement and the publisher's involvement were particularly shocking, as CAPCOM has previously been historically very "anti-Al" with projects such as Resident Evil Requiem and other unannounced projects in development. Some at the publisher fear that the DLSS 5 announcement could prompt a change in the publisher's view on generative Al and its implementation in its games

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

On the other hand, if you hit a pothole the wrong way you could be out about ten times as much. So it's all relative I guess? ...don't ask how I got that number. (Seriously, what I wouldn't give to live somewhere with a streetcar network or something)

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Played Slay the Spire 1 again today to see if I could get some design inspiration flowing. Instead I ended up making a build where I had one card that just played itself and burned the enemy with status damage from playing that card. I never even ended my turn. ...I think that means I beat the game?

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

More-or-less the principal behind the yggdrasil protocol that's been tossed around for a while now. Main problem is that it's "independent" but still relies on centralized infrastructure, so it has an inherent flaw that bad faith actors could still exploit. That's a higher bar to overcome.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Ah, if only this had happened a year or two down the line... I'll be keeping an eye on you guys. One of my bigger hurdles is figuring out where I want to start the work once the time comes, and a scrappy outlier seems like the kind of ambition that I could really get along with, if all goes well.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This was the first thing I saw when I opened the app, so I didn't realize the text was from two different posts for a moment. Just kinda nodded sagely and kept scrolling...

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Majora's Mask has that reputation because it's the most in-your-face about the gloom of it all. Its predecessor is packed with quiet moments of loss and despair. OoT is *shockingly* bleak when you look at the state of Hyrule in the future. Bit of a media literacy test, in my opinion.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Sometimes I forget that other people know about the strange obscure media that showed up stateside when I was a lad. It's nice to get reminders like this that it actually DID exist, and other people liked it too.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Why did nobody tell me about Luminous Arc's soundtrack sooner? I knew the second one had some Spanish guitar vibes to it, but the first game's OST just whalloped me with major nostalgia. Serious Nightmare of Druaga vibes. Think a proper playthrough is in order... www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTQK...

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Luminous arc OST - Iridescent Journey

YouTube video by Alaguesia

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 08/03/2026

"WebP compresses better, don't you want the internet to be fast!?" yeah i do maybe we could work on not embedding twenty megabytes of trackers and other bullshit JavaScript so your page runs without adblocking most of it first. no? then fuck webp. that's my opinion

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

It's probably a high bar to set to want to be analyzed alongside the likes of League and Pokémon, but you know what they say: if you're shooting for the moon, you have to aim high!

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

One of the things that excites me the most about designing the characters and world of my game is the hope that someday I can hear you talk the little details, see if my designs communicated those ideas well enough for you to pick up on. So I'd say you've made it, you're a genuine goal for people!

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Starts playing in my head every time I see that screen. Whole game was certified vibes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QJo6...

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G.I.T.S Megatech Body - Firecracker

YouTube video by Product Number Five

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I'm so glad you chose the music you did for this, it led me to basically the perfect inspiration source for a song in my own game that I'd been struggling to really describe. I'd never heard FF8's soundtrack to know this leitmotif was there, so I never knew how much I was missing out!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/03/2026

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I think given your field of work you'd be especially acquainted with that feeling. There's this odd duality of craving novelty in our entertainment, yet longing for the nostalgia of years gone by. ...wonder if there's a name for that.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

To be glad that something has changed and grown, yet also long for what it once was - what could be more profoundly human? This mindset seems especially natural to the digital space, where we get excited for every leap forward, yet long for perfectly captured memories we can never quite relive.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

If Nintendo really wants to spice up splatling gameplay all they need to do is add a melee attack. Let's be real, everyone who's used one has wanted to do that at least once. I know that's a look that says they would.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My relationship to older not-that-tech-savvy folks makes me very aware of the shit silicon valley types expect to be obvious but really just isn't and this is why I'm begging people in positions of power to hire some midwesterners who care about people.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Also a great way to see if the material you're considering citing is worth using. I've had several incidents where I've investigated the source of a quote, only to find the writer completely mutilated the context to fit a different narrative. Instantly discredited them.

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Not Quite Nil @notquitenil.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Counter-offer: you're invincible exclusively to other players also using Squid Surge, enabling all manner of bumper car shenanigans

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illusory wall @illusorywall.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

You also have to be more specific w/ credits, in addition to asking for permission. It's one thing to name drop someone like Thens/Molly, but when you only say "data/unused content" it makes it sound like all you did was look at a spreadsheet they made. And not that you actually took a specific mod.

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