iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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NamaTakahashi @namataka.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I feel like the history of The Legend of Zelda is also the history of puzzles.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe.

A bright sun in a clear blue sky with bold text below stating, "They made the sun bisexual in GTA 6." The word "bisexual" is in a vibrant pink and blue design. "INFOWARS" is written at the bottom.

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I had never seen this Game Boy model that came on an action figure card backing, it makes me happy to look at. Man, remember consumer electronics?

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Only 1k+ layoffs to go in a 'reset' that is lasting months interspersed with the Kojima deal and pieces highlighting the CEO taking on support tickets. I would say all this does not fill one with confidence of success. But that relies on knowing the real end goal and that still seems up in the air.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Even though the Halo franchise has been gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations, at least Bungie, the original creators of Halo, have also been separately gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I reviewed Madden NFL 27 on Switch 2. And by reviewed, I mean talk about the quality of the game after spending most of the time trying to explain why the situation with publisher EA is precarious and harrowing www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/77452...

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Madden NFL 27 Review - Review

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Alan Hazelden @alanhazelden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As Order of the Sinking Star is coming out next month, in advance of review coverage coming in I wanted to add one thing to my last statement about the game: bsky.app/profile/drak... (note: at that time I didn’t have a separate personal account)

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BadgerNoonan @badgernoonan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Well of all the Packer wins of all time, that was certainly one of them.

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Peter Bukowski @peterbukowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The thing is, the offense is Matt LaFleur. Guys can’t get lined up. Bad technique. Bad personnel decisions. Today the gameplan and game call has been bad. There’s no doubt who’s at fault.

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What an incredible show, complete with a whole strings and horn section. Thanks @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social @mikehuguenor.bsky.social @johndedomenici.bsky.social @skatunenetwork.bsky.social and everyone else who played

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I started writing for @nintendonwr.bsky.social when I just turned 20. I was a year+ into a relationship. I essentially married both the website and the girlfriend. I’d be thrilled

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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J.J. @double-j.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fucking bonkers to sit on this second photo for so long and then throwing it into the room like a ninjas smoke bomb after winning an Emmy.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not much you can do when your coach puts in a position to get your ass kicked. No doubt in Jordan Love’s ability. A ton of additional doubt in Matt LaFleur.

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Tim Backes @timbackes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ref BS aside, this is a pretty classic Matt LaFleur football game and a perfect example of why I thought the Packers should have parted ways in the offseason. Long year ahead but sitting here watching yet another late game collapse in week 1 it sure doesn't look like many lessons have been learned.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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He does this every Friday. @doesthiseveryfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

He does this every Friday.

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Willem Hilhorst @whilhorst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was already excited for Final Fantasy VII Revelations but @jrudek.bsky.social 's preview for @nintendonwr.bsky.social is exactly what I wanted to know/see in motion. So curious to see the Switch 2 version compared down the road. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMuY...

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Final Fantasy VII Revelation Hands-on Preview - Ready for the Remake Finale?

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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JEERFROSENSTICK @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

fucking coward

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don’t know if I trust people who don’t like Pikmin 4. Nothing personal

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Jordan Rudek @jrudek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've got another PAX West preview for you, and this is for a game that made a brief appearance in this morning's Nintendo Direct: Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World youtu.be/lcUDMlo5Bwo?...

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Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World Hands-on Preview - PAX West 2026

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John Rairdin NWR @jtsknight92.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Well timeline analysis doesn't make sense for a remake sooooo... Let's translate some signs! youtu.be/8BtXCNdalJs

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Can you Read the Signs in the Ocarina of Time Remake?

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 05/09/2026

Somewhere in the middle of all this will come a time when PR folks figure out who is going to "focus on the game" and who is going to ask them a bunch of questions about their AI usage and one group will just stop getting opportunities to preview those games. It may have already happened!

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Speedrunning what I thought would at least take a few months.

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mike huguenor @mikehuguenor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Counterpoint: this is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen, a bunch of ahistorical AI-generated nonsense that openly miseducates people while also trying to enforce the idea that human life is worthless other than as data. Absolute shit

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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

referring to metroidvanias as "hollowslop" to simultaneously piss off people who like metroidvanias, people who like hollow knight, people who want a better genre name for "metroidvania", people who are sick of the word slop being misused, and gradius fans who want to see more checkpoint recoveries

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Many of the teams supporting the biggest games have also experienced layoffs recently. Yes, consolidation of time and spend is a thing, but layoffs have not been relegated to those outside of the behemoths. It's not a consumer spending issue, it's a squeeze for maximum profit issue.

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Willem Hilhorst @whilhorst.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Terranigma Remastered looks like the best way for anyone to play Terranigma. Some sweet quality of life features, but honestly this one needs only a delicate touch-up if you ask me. So far, Clever River Games seems to be doing just that. www.nintendoworldreport.com/hands-on-pre...

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Terranigma Hands-on Preview - Hands-on Preview

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

listen as someone who reads fast in video games, I appreciate cut scene flexibility. i think it's weird to be preachy about it

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Allyson 👾 @serenyty.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is a really great video on how Harry Potter is being normalized in a way to try and assuage people who might be uncomfortable with supporting JK Rowling. It gets into a nuance that I really value. youtu.be/xxD1ekkA7hc?...

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Harry Potter Is Manufacturing Your Complicity

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andrew @8bitacrylic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

big walk is the best game about big walking i've ever played

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’ll sub-tweet the shit out of Tanabe hate: Paper Mario: The Origami King is a marvelous, incredible, and thoughtful game. It was not a failure. It was not a misfire. It’s a good game ffs. This is as much as I can say without descending into chaos.

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My great uncle died today, two weeks shy of 100. He was an incredible human being and the closest thing to a living great-grandfather my kids will ever have. He was a Long Island high school football coaching legend. He was married to my great aunt for like 60+ years (she died a decade ago). R.I.P.

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

@strikerobi.bsky.social - you are singlehandedly making sure my timeline does not let me forget that Sony announced a TV thing today.

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Slay the Spire 2 does this very well. Slay the Spire is very successful. Learn from Slay the Spire.

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