iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’ll be showing off Crackernuts on Thursday at this RCS meetup. Should be an interesting event for anyone who is curious about the intersection between tech and performing arts. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/split-scre...

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Split Screen Meetup 'in the making'

Join us for an inspiring evening bringing together the tech, creative and performing arts communities to share and connect.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A fantastic set of weird soundscapes in a beautiful location. Highly recommend checking out the Sonica installations at Pollok House this week if you’re in or near Glasgow.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Videogames is still this weird vestigal lump growing off the sides of the toy industry and hollywood superhero films. It's all smooth plastic down there. Worth reading: bloodknife.com/everyone-bea...

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Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife

The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

how do i manage to click this single pixel 8-12 times every day and why does it even exist??

tiny little bastard pixel next to the unity component context menu button which collapses the bastard inspector instead of opening the bastard menu

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I call on all the stick factories to agree to measure their sticks and only add one inch per week. And if you think that sounds scary you may like to join our next investment round. It’s not cheap to make these enormous sticks!

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Following the recent incident at the stick factory where one of our sticks was used to beat an employee at the other stick factory, I believe it is only a matter of time before we have built a stick big enough to destroy humanity.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Loving this AI drama. OpenAI announces maths breakthrough, superintelligence etc etc. Mathematician says GPT sucked up his private work into its training set and then claimed it as its own. www.reddit.com/r/mathematic...

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From the mathematics community on Reddit: On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Explore this post and more from the mathematics community

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Amazing! Gonna go neelix up my kitchen!

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Off to an itchy start over here...

Email preview with the subject line "Nits and Head Lice"

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ah I should have guessed it's their latest shitty acquisition, that they're pushing everyone towards: Unity Version Control, aka Plastic SCM, aka The Most Underbaked VCS.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Trying to debug my Unity game and constantly having to dismiss random uncaught exceptions from the engine. Seems like it's trying to request some gravatar URL but the 404 is unhandled. The state of this engine is just beyond frustrating. Instead of fixing it they're adding new AI features!

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Obviously the inimitable @agaitcheson.bsky.social Incredible Playable Show (pictured) but also mass-games like asses.masses or techy larps like Strandfall. Anything in this general space - there might be an opportunity (and some budget) to put stuff on next summer in Glasgow.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Anyone out there seen any interesting games or games-adjacent stuff that combines live / in-person and digital elements?

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

MIST cannot be drawn by man.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There are games you play or books you read when you are that perfect age and they make such an impression on you. You crave that memory but nothing can ever recreate it perfectly. You cannae do that ahm sorry.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I keep thinking I want to play a game like Skies of Arcadia but starting to suspect this is basically my Millport. How do I get to there?

Still from the Limmy sketch about wanting to return to Millport.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Absolutely shocking behaviour from Steam once again.

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Hairy Heart @hairyheartstudio.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live the life of an globe-trotting spy with thecatemites' new series International Obsession! thecatamites.itch.io/internationa...

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International Obsession by thecatamites

Future Jumpers Issue #1

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Where can we play it? Looks great!

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A science fiction story set in the near-future (approx 60 years) where all the young people have been transformed in to old and infirm half-zombies. The protagonist, now appearing like an 82 year old, must race against time to find a cure for this mysterious disease before it kills him!

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New Turing test just dropped

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

2028 will be the year of match cuts.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

So the only way I can work is to disconnect my laptop from the wifi. Cannot exaggerate how much I am done with all this.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today’s fun Unity issue is that either their VCS server is down or it’s having an issue with my mobile hotspot but as a result the whole app keeps locking up and crashing.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Planning to cancel in November soon as my 12 months are up. I can’t wait!

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hey my folk games talk from @amazefest.bsky.social is up! Watch me try to link Tarot cards, Monopoly, wicker men and Rainbow Friends like some wannabe Adam Curtis. youtu.be/ZWwOGSl50HM?...

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A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 - Day 1: Folk Games: Game Design by Passing Along

YouTube video by A MAZE.

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2026 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 27th More info 👇

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Agree. I don't understand the fuss at all, it seemed very dull to me.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Went to town on pinhole eclipse viewers and then got treated to a cloudy evening. See you in 70 years guys.

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Daniel Turner 🔜 AdventureX26! @pointered.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In Edinburgh for the Fringe? Tonight ONLY, a free show of locally made indie games! Offbeat student games from HW, local indies, 5pm tonight next to the castle, tickets below! #EdinburghFringe #IndieGames #GamesExpo

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’m 40 and I’ve just realised men’s shirt sizes are based on your neck size! My neck isn’t the problem guys.

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How do people like their game save systems in 2026? Three save slots or an infinite list of auto-saves?

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

“There are no sex scenes and all the food looks horrible” - wise and insightful review of the Odyssey by Emily Wilson (that everyone else already read apaz) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Joe Bain @ohcripes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Bagless vacuum cleaners were a mistake. Who wants to deep clean 17 interlocking pieces of moulded plastic once a month?

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/07/2026

Workers behind immensely popular Game Theorists YouTube channel will get their union, with or without MatPat's help aftermath.site/game-theorists...

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

sharing this post one last time before letting it vanish into the social media void forever 😌 in it i talk about how local communities are a source of hope and resilience in the midst of all The Bad. keeping the true spirit of indie games alive.

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