iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Remember when Xbox announced a new game from this studio in June for 2027 and then almost immediately announced they were trying to sell them? And now they’re basically getting shut down? That all happened in 4 months.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Artists: the Pope’s got your back!

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pal sent me the video, so....

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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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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

3 and 4 are both all-timers. They are light years better than the first two

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes. 3 is also very good. Very much 3 is like 1 and 4 is like 2

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ll keep hoping until it’s zeroes but hoo boy. This ain’t great.

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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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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Weird. I just thought “not being a dick to my child” was a natural thing humans felt and did.

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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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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Concert #16 - @cheekface.bsky.social (again) with Apes of the State and @sad13.horse at Underground Arts

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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

Regarding that third point….lol yes. It has led to some good discussions about what’s appropriate, offensive, etc. Overall it’s still very funny though

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

Be proud: my oldest kid is reading the Twisted Toyfare Theater collections.

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We should both replay it and do some kind of podcast thing

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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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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Follow up: yes I still have it.

A screenshot from 2023 of major games releases in a spreadsheet that highlights how so many games have effusive praise and 30-40% “perfect scores”

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Neal Ronaghan @nron10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I believe I have a spreadsheet from a few years back labeled “Too Many 10s” and I kept a tally of how many major releases had essentially unanimous praise that was all the same. Everyone scores everything really high (glass houses I know)

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

Idk the defense stopped them three times and maybe one was a legitimate actual penalty

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