iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

winning campaign message right there

the problem is that now with all the AI silliness people are going to think i decomped old games and asked Claude to flip their assets i do my stealing myself the old fashioned way thank you very much

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 8h

yeah "pretty similar" is a way to say it haha

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you! Unlike other isometric boards you construct your deck around one unit (mostly)

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18h

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

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FantasyAnime @fantasyanime.bsky.social · 23h

Horse riding powered by 16-bit 🐎 - Romancing SaGa 3 (SNES)

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Forbestonow @forbestonow.bsky.social · 10h

Emphasis on "appeared to". They set up their sandboxes ineffectively and fail to monitor as it runs through multiple iterations and then try to pretend that the consequences are not the foreseeable result of the product just working through the task it was set.

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

they just keep showing people hasan's pretty cool actually lol

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

and check out our animator's @elesrech.itch.io portfolio if you haven't!

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(Frog scene challenga day 30 of 30): New player unit anim. #pixelart #gamedev well that wraps up a month of updating this scene. Since then a few folks have started helping me playtest and also I passed 1000 follows (thanks!). I may do a summary video of the changes if there is interest.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/10/2026

He's just like me FR

"Bear goes into Aspen farmers market, eats pastries and bread"

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

babe wake up new player unit animation just dropped #pixelart tidebreak

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 09/10/2026

Cornell paid the Trump administration $60 million to appease them, and its police reportedly left the words I was raped out of a report to the DA. Only 51 people were found responsible from 1,216 assault reports. Kotlikoff should resign, and the trustees can go with him.

salon.com

What Cornell says about universities’ MAGA complicity

White House attacks on DEI gave colleges cover to abandon women and minority students

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What it looks like in game now just need to design a bunch of icons and prettify this menu #pixelart

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

doing some #gamedev concept work this morning at the library

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ok but do we have to make this wimp the leader?

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This incisive political analysis is brought to you by Tidebreak - deckbuilder RPG developed by human hands e

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

need less zionists please thanks

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

they went from "we'll go wherever we want" to being a pissy little bitch pretty quickly they know they are losing

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

republicans now want you to think that *checks note* abdul's mom is basically an al qaeda terrorist stinky loser smell

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this is also the way: mockery contempt and telling people clearly what's going on

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

totally not what a shady guy would say right

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

bringing up hasan again after it was proven to be a disastrous strategy these guys really have NOTHING

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I mean look at this level up menu and tell me the GBA wasn't the best console for #pixelart mastery

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm not gonna lie - Ive always thoght the original NES Zelda pixel art was hideous... The first metroid the first mario the first pokemon - they all kick its ass. I know apples to oranges; but still I do like the staircase in the water and some of the larger sprites and dungeon entrances are cool

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this is the voice democrats - copy this shit

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

man not to lib out but he's got the right tone for this shit

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

all im saying is that there is something about these early zelda scenes that made us keep playing and I think it definitely has to do with how these opening scenes made us feel... so what was it about them? certainly not the story lol

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

hahaha fair enough I do tend to overthink my sprites hence why I'ms till on my stage 1 after months

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

you can tell that these fucks would bring back the gas chambers if they could

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

IDK maybe I'm going insane because i've struggled with grass on my tiles a LOT but I find this to be a lot neater than LTTP grass or the pokemon games I've played from that era. But I'd welcome other amazing pixel art grass if you have better ones hah

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean it's not doing anything that hasn't been done before or after and it doesn't call too much attention to itself (it shouldn't that's sort of the point it needs to give you the illusion of grass)... To me it's the elegance of a really solid color pallette and small resolution

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

we don't hate the dem consultant class enough

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

democrats try not to shit the bed challenge level: impossible

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It does that while also being incredibly clear on the geometry of the space; you look at it and simultaneously you get the vibrancy of a field but also you understand what's a wall and what's interactable in a tiny tiny screen. Its geometry is very square but in a stylish way

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

minish cap grass was on another level holy shit #pixelart

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this guy really think he can talk his way out of starting the most dumbshit military catastrophy of the century lmao

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

hilarious that these buffoons think they can simultenously make us think that they are breeding autonomos killer bots which we may lose control over any second but also isn't this a cute tomagatchi you can attach to every aspect of your life like this has the subtlety of a rick and morty skit

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Nico Tidebreak @nsdiaz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they are losing but they are also playing hard ball but also the president will choose but also

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