iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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jeremy mitchell @floatvoid.com · 31/07/2026

After a solid run of about 13 years at Double Fine, It seems I have found myself with an abundance of free time. If you know anyone hiring for games VFX, please let me know!

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Don Silvio @omichron.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I suppose this is as good a time as any to update my profile information, seeing as I was one of the 23 people laid off by Double Fine today. Twelve years ended today. I wish it could have been twelve years more.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/07/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

Death looked down at the shape under the falling snow. Then he set the lifetimer on the air and touched it with a finger. A spark flashed across.
“You ain’t really allowed to do that,” said Albert, feeling wretched.
THE HOGFATHER CAN. THE HOGFATHER GIVES PRESENTS. THERE’S NO BETTER PRESENT THAN A FUTURE.

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Ioannis Karavas @karavas.io · 04/05/2026

OK this i wasn’t expecting. BEST UI AND TYPOGRAPHY I’VE SEEN IN A WHILE …and in GREEK 🇬🇷 ?!?! Who is responsible?! Who @timoflegend.bsky.social ?! @doublefine.com ? I need to hug them. Thank you. THANK YOU! P.S. Tim, don’t worry, you’re still getting a hug too. Honestly, this brightened my day.

The initial configuration screen of Kiln by double fine productions in Greek!

The pottery interface in Kiln by double fine productions in Greek

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Don Silvio @omichron.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

What I need now is for Valve to release a simple app that does one simple thing: SteamMachineCompare. Just let me know how WHATEVER I RUN THAT APP ON compares to the Steam Machine. #steammachine #valve #steam #gabecube #valvebox

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Don Silvio @omichron.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I recommend reading this to get an idea of just how insidiously misinformation can spread into even the 'old' internet; the web pages that existed prior to the rise of LLM (or even automated) content hallofdreams.org/posts/physic...

hallofdreams.org

PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory

An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet.

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Don Silvio @omichron.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Years ago (2017 or prior) I saw a post (I gotta assume Twitter) that consisted of someone writing English as if it was Korean. Not using Hangul to write English words, but arranging Latin alphabet letters in blocks following rules similar to Hangul. Anyone have ANY clue about it?

English words using the Latin alphabet arranged in blocks so it looks vaguely like Korean Hangul: "Hello there this is from memory"

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Goodness, if the President has a serious health problem I certainly hope he follows the expert medical advice of his Secretary of Health and Human Services

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 24/07/2025

To honor Ozzy's larger-than-life rock and roll legacy, we're making Brütal Legend *FREE* on itch.io: doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night... 🤘 🖤

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Becca Bear @thebeccabear.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Game dev is spending 100 hours making a game and 0 hours playing any then wondering why your design feels like it was made by a sleep-deprived robot who’s never felt joy. #GameDev #IndieDev #DevHumor www.beccabear.com/just-pick-up...

beccabear.com

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Don Silvio @omichron.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

@unreal-garden.com I don't know if it's an issue with bsky.app or what, but all your previews lately are showing up as 405 Not Allowed. Clicking on the link opens them up fine. This seems to have changed about 4 days ago?

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Don Silvio @omichron.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Hard not to feel some great dishonesty at play here. When I'm logged into my work account or incognito, I get one set of ratings for the Battle.net app (2.3 stars too many in my opinion) while in my home account, it shows me much higher ratings (3.7 stars), WHILE CLAIMING THE SAME REVIEWS (139k)

Screenshot of the Google Play Store for Battle.net (not displayed) showing aggregate review score of 2.3 (137k reviews) with bars indicating a significant number of 1 star reviews.

Text for displayed review reads:

This app says it's "not connected" a lot of the times I open it. The few times when it is connected, my account is signed out or logged out...I don't want to have to log in every time I use the app! and then the other pages/tabs either take forever to load or don't load at all, with the exception of the store/shop tab... which seems to always work...

Screenshot of Google Play Store for Battle.net.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

2.3 Star, 139K reviews
10M+ Downloads
Parental guidance

Install button, share, Add to wishlist

Screenshot of the Google Play Store for Battle.net (not displayed) showing aggregate review score of 3.7 (137k reviews) with bars indicating a significant number of 5 star reviews.

Text for displayed review reads:

This app says it's "not connected" a lot of the times I open it. The few times when it is connected, my account is signed out or logged out...I don't want to have to log in every time I use the app! and then the other pages/tabs either take forever to load or don't load at all, with the exception of the store/shop tab... which seems to always work...

Screenshot of Google Play Store for Battle.net.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

3.7 Star, 139K reviews
10M+ Downloads
Everyone

Button reading Install on more devices, Share link

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lasha3D @lasha3d.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

It will cost you $0 to RT my work #blender #3d

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Have reached the "Fuck it, I'll rewrite the entire animation system" phase of fixing this bug.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I'd like to bring this video to your attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyco... It's doing pretty significant numbers for what it is, so while I understand sharing it won't make a difference for those knee-deep in the cult of personality, I'd say it has a better-than-average chance of resonating.

youtube.com

Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy

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Don Silvio @omichron.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Fun fact of the day: easiest way to see a rainbow is to look at your head's shadow. Technically the bow will be above it. Try to do it with a lot of mist (a house helps) and on a sufficiently sunny day you can even get to see it form a full circle.

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The Other End @theotherend.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

“Burn it” 1 of 2

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/01/2025

I paid sixty dollars for No Man's Sky nine years ago and they refuse to stop making the video game. I've begged them to go home to their families but they won't stop adding new kinds of weird little guys and like, optimizing the gentle patter of rain on an alien ocean. Please let me pay for a DLC

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Dizzy ★ @tindizzy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We saw it coming.

‘WHAT'S THIS? WHY DIDN'T SOMEBODY WARN US ABOUT THIS?’

‘WE WERE WARNED.’

‘THEY SHOULD HAVE SAID IT IN A WAY WE'D BELIEVE.’

‘SOME OF US DID BELIEVE
SOME OF US DIDNT.’

‘THEY SAW THIS COMING?
WHY DIDN'T THEY TELL US?’

‘THEY TOLD US.’

‘I BLAME THEM FOR LETTING US NOT BELIEVE THEM.’

‘THEY SAW THAT COMING, TOO.’

Jim Benton- instagram.com/jimbentonshots/i

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Don Silvio @omichron.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Finally sold my sealed copy of Wrath of the Lich King Collector's Edition which I had purchased by accident. Doing the math, I held on to it for 16-17 years which seems INSANE to me, but math is math.

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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 25/12/2024

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

Code written with box characters used on old old software to make fake UIs

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

every site needs a version of somethingawful's "we can just ban you" policy to use against bad actors who make a game of ruining the site while making sure to always stay 1% shy of violating the rules as-written

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Brent Lee @brentlee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Misinformation? Disinformation? What's the difference? A very simple and festive explainer. 🎅 Credit: 🎨 @felixuncia.bsky.social 🧠 @brentlee.bsky.social

A festive two tile comic strip illustrating the difference between misinformation and disinformation.

Tile A: Disinformation.
Scene: Christmas morning in the living room. A child looking at wrapped Christmas present which seems to have the outline of a bicycle. Parents stood in the background are telling the child "It's from Santa Claus!".

Tile B: Misinformation
Scene: Later that day, the child is riding his new bike outside. While passing his three friends standing on the sidewalk, he shouts "It's from Santa Claus!".

Credit: This comic strip is a collaboration between @brentlee.bsky.social & artist @felixuncia.bsky.social

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christina 死神 @chhopsky.tv · 04/12/2024

i hate how every data scientist in the industry who puts out matchmaking content has mathematical proof that stochastic matchmaking will bleed out your playerbase but then a couple product folks who think they Know What Gamers Want listen to loud idiots and kill their game for no reason

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Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This is absolutely not the news I would have dreamed of waking up to. South Korea's Yoon declares emergency martial law. to I have some scattered thoughts to follow. m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2024...

m-en.yna.co.kr

(URGENT) Yoon declares emergency martial law | Yonhap News Agency

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Just gonna drop this here…

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A journalist's job is supposed to be to figure things out by observing the world and if you haven't caught on to the fundamentals of how X dot Com works—what it's been revamped to do and not to do for the past two years—you need to work some other kind of job because you are very bad at this one

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Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · 29/11/2024

He was never going to work out

A comic. Trevor, who is a cartoon character, breaks up with his girlfriend, who is a giant talking eraser. He explains to his friend fuzzy that he tried to make it work, but that he just couldn't feel comfortable around her. Trevor says that his girlfriend kept saying a tool isn't inherently good or bad, it's how you use it. But at the end of the day, Trevor says, he is a cartoon wombat, and she... Owns so many guns.

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Don Silvio @omichron.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Does Bluesky have a sort of private Save/Bookmark feature? Sometimes I just want to save a post without having to publicly like it or repost it

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Why does 'finding the fun' fail so often as a design strategy? #gamedesign New designers are told to prototype and 'find the fun'. But the naive version of this is a garbage tactic that mostly results in poorly thought out prototypes that are never going to converge on gameplay.

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

So Unity recently decided that the tiny startup I dayjob for needed to upgrade to Industry at 5k/year/seat. We had no chance to contest it because they would have killed our only product. They even threatened people we worked with in the past with the same. It's not just us. DO NOT USE UNITY!

reddit.com

From the Unity3D community on Reddit: Unity accounts suspended after releasing our indie game on Steam

Explore this post and more from the Unity3D community

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 27/11/2024

Why does Unity keep making reasons for people to avoid it? All they gotta do is make engine, support devs, and charge in a way where you don't suddenly go out of business over your engine choice. On this episode of "Unity fucks up", apparently client revenue counts towards your own? Is that true?

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

here’s a comic about arguing on twitter

Three panel comic.

Panel 1: Blue person sitting on a chair saying “I want to control population growth by murderin’ brown folks”

Panel 2: Purple person sitting on a chair replying “fuck you”

Panel 3: Both characters sitting opposite each other. Blue person now adopts an air of superiority (complete with top hat and monocle) and says “oh-ho-ho my good fellow, verily control thine self. I twill notteth giveth credence to one whoms course language offends mine genocidal sensibilities and what-not”

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Don Silvio @omichron.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Loose translation: DO I NEED TO DRAW A PICTURE? Folks, a coup d'etat can only be punished when it's an ATTEMPTED coup. After it's successful, dissenters die. Hope this helps You may go back to memorizing doctrine

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Don Silvio @omichron.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Join the dogpile commenting on how garbage articles like this are, therefore increasing their post's engagement? Or better to just ignore?

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