iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 18h

Reminds me of that Brian Eno app for generative music I had on my iPhone 4S.

owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 02/10/2026

Never mind the Wii, I just found out my fave arcade game Bubble Bobble was released 40 years ago this June... I was 18 at the time. 😱

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Prehistoric Dinosaur Ride with Benjammins

Alt: Prehistoric Dinosaur Ride with Benjammins

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 01/10/2026

The game I just completed, Dreamfall Chapters (2017), features a minor character who is a slimy nationalist bigot, who harps on about cleansing the homeland of magical people & undesirables & immigrants, and wants your vote to protect ‘our’ women & children. He looks uncannily like Nigel #Farage

A screenshot of a horrid character in Dreamfall Chapters, who has a stern frog-like face with bulging swivel eyes. He carries a burning torch and is lit up like a demon.

owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 30/09/2026

New Scanners film looks terrifying.

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Hot man, gelatinous cubes, and THAT HAIR?!!! I’m just angry I can’t play it RIGHT NOW.

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In a related post to my previous one about the new Silent Hill, this #indiegame set in a depressingly awful housing estate looks like a lot of joyriding fun. I hope they keep the janky OTT car physics.

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I would freshly grate the cheese directly into his mouth on demand.

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Do you get extra points for featuring in a Tory MP’s ‘hug-a-hoodie’ campaign?

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To be fair, that sounds like me, but I'm Gen X and 30 years older... and my obsession with AI involves avoiding it and deriding it at every opportunity.

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He’s so smooth and shiny that he must’ve internalised the fleshy corruption and the pustules.

Baron Harkonnen, played with superbly camp corrupt sweaty spotty relish by Kenneth McMillan in the superior David Lynch version of Dune, squishes the cheeks of The Beast Rabban, played by Paul L Smith, who has an excellent evil laugh.

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Sorry to be racist, but what is it about fashy zealots being mostly balding white guys with beards, who you definitely wouldn’t want to be left alone with your children?

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The young autistic chap I mentor (mostly playing janky job simulators & awful brainrot games in Roblox at the moment) has a 25 hour sleep cycle & it’s terrible for his folks as he now wants one of them to stay awake with him due to his anxiety. It’s badly affecting their health and their work. 😞

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Hey @netflix.com - it’s okay, I don’t need you to ‘deliver even more value for my membership’ and offer 85 new releases next month, as you already have more shows & films than I could watch in my entire lifetime. So there’s no need to increase my ’includes ads’ plan fee by 33%. #enshittification

A partial screenshot of an email from Netflix with the following text:

Thanks for letting us entertain you since 2025. Starting on 27 October, we're updating our prices to bring you even more exciting, new entertainment. Your monthly total will increase from £5.99 to £7.99.

Why are prices changing?

We're updating our prices to deliver even more value for your membership. Expect fresh, can't-miss films, series, live and exclusive content every week to keep you entertained. Next month alone, you can expect more than 85 new releases.

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A game on Steam made by Nazis… nothing unusual there. It’s almost as much a cesspit as Xitter.

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I hate Roblox for how it has affected the young autistic chap I mentor, who would now rather play awful janky dopamine-injecting ’billionaire tycoon’ driving games than Forza Horizon and Minecraft. I also cannot get my head round Studio, even though I have 5+ years messing around in Unity & Godot.

Funny Cat Trapped in a Box - Cat Fun Lol

Hard-right anti-welfare anti-NHS Tory-types are in ascendance again in the UK and this sort of thing is the target of their ‘journalism’, just as I’m seeking a diagnosis of AuDHD at the age of 58 after struggling all my life and being stuck on increasingly useless SSRIs for two decades.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 26/09/2026

I’ve been so down-in-the-dumps of late and grumpy about everything, including this little one’s annoying shenanigans, but having her curl up on me like this at the end of a crappy #caturday makes things not seem so terrible.

A cutely curled up tuxedo cat on a very lucky lap.

owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 26/09/2026

I’ve set an arbitrary condition of not investing in another console until I’ve at least cleared the backlog of 35 unplayed games on my PS4. I’m kidding nobody but myself.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 26/09/2026

The struggle is real. I nearly dropped £180 on a secondhand Switch plus 3 games (Zelda BotW, Metroid Prime 4, Animal Crossing NH) but then remembered I have over 500 unplayed games across 3 other platforms. I was wanting to inject some Nintendo joy into my life after getting GameCube nostalgia.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 25/09/2026

All these recent statements of ‘concern’ and ‘oops! sorry! it did a bad!’ by the creators of LLMs is just them yet again puffing up their plagiarism machine’s abilities for the next round of corporate and government funding.

I've never had any interest in playing any Silent Hill game until I saw this. It looks like where I live. Getting by in a town like this is the real survival horror. #Sheffield #videogames #depression

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I'm 58 and have been a miserable twat for most of my adult life, but I sure as hell have never been a transphobic bigot. #NotAllMiserableTwats

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I'm so depressed that I'd need to be squeezed so hard that I'm turned into paste.

procrastinating getting out of bed to not do any game dev (again)

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That billionaire tax rate should be shifted one decimal point right.

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Christopher Lee might’ve been on his side if Saruman was called Geoff

This is a good visual metaphor for #gamedev using generative AI to code… it gives the illusion of competency and creativity without an understanding of what the hell is going on.

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Funny name for a fish

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Mothra got dat booty

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Saying people are too old for video games is like saying people are too old for movies, or books, or music. I’ve been playing video games since I was 11 in 1979. I’m sure as hell not going to stop now, not when video games are better than ever.

If it’s a software developer job, you have to have 10 years experience of using Claude* to code. * released 2023.

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I wish I was a small green frog, instead of a big fugly toad.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 21/09/2026

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm going to hold off saying what I would prefer him to slash instead, the disgusting fashy waste of space that he is.

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Brexit happened after an advisory referendum with far slimmer margins... 51% for leaving the EU, 49% for staying, with only a 72% turnout. Which, TBH, was fucking ridiculous.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 21/09/2026

I’m in my 50s and so would add that everything sucks except my cat, which is a lie as she really fucking sucks sometimes.

owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 18/09/2026

Are these brave fellows all yours, Freya?

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 18/09/2026

Thanks for reminding me about this awesome video.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 18/09/2026

First they came for the selfless heroes...

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 17/09/2026

It's okay, Reform are waiting in the wings to truly deliver us the sunlit uplands. /s

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 16/09/2026

That picture smells of Duchy Original Salad Cream.

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Wow! What partially-destroyed radioactive bunker did you dig that up from?

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The needle/haystack DLC for Conan Exiles Enhanced

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See this? I want the opposite of it. I would buy a Switch 2 if they offered it as a screenless brick you plug into a TV. Just a regular game console with a regular gamepad. Charge me £269 instead of £419 and I’ll buy all the games. I’m too old to be squinting at handhelds with fiddly controls.

A retail boxed Nintendo Switch Lite in turquoise.

Pretty much the same in the UK, except all parties in government have been right wing neoliberals. Now we have fashy Farage waiting in the wings to (probably) hand it over to some corrupt crypto billionaire donors to dismantle.