iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

"Great show for you tonight, folks. Just one quick announcement before we start, half of you have been laid off. Check under your seats to find out if it was you!!"

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The good news for Asha is that the mainstream gaming press will forget all of this in a few years. They won't even remember (or state) this happened during her tenure, so all the PR upsides and none of the negatives.

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Maybe don't hire a 20-year-old as the CEO of a global company almost as old as them.

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People keep saying the pandemic rotted CEO and rich people's brains because they all spent too much time on group chats, and the video-game industry seems to be keeping that thesis completely alive

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Constantly struck by how pointless all this is. How long before a mass of people stop buying GenAI-curious games out of spite because the tech completely gutted their favorite studios?

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Nintendo and Capcom are going to win this console generation by once again doing the same thing they always do: make affordable games at a regular pace

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"A billion gamers a day" What the fuck are you talking about? You have a shit digital store, an overpriced console and are killing all the studios that could make your players interesting games.

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There just is no moral reason to write about, cover or discuss Microsoft Games anymore. It's business sins, sure. But doing PR for its sales arm is like doing PR for the devil at this point.

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I'm so tired of tech companies

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K. Alexis @punchywombat.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Man, I AC: Shadows because Ubisoft stood against the rage-hate trolls on the internet and then they just shove AI in an OLD game for shits and giggles. Like, bro, I don't want to play games that are promoting a tech that might cost us all our jobs (among other things)

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Rich and famous people's kids are never at risk of not getting into one of the sixteen colleges they apply for, so this only matters in the sense it will be used to gut teaching jobs and give more government money to private IT firms

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K. Alexis @punchywombat.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Really starting to feel the PS5 will be the last gaming console for me. The year will be 2086 and I'll be soldering chip boards to make it work

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K. Alexis @punchywombat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"government are owned by big bus--" that's what big business wants you to believe. They want you to believe your vote doesn't matter and no one will stand against them so you should give up on government entirely

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K. Alexis @punchywombat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The digital ownership thing is why we have governments to legislate against private company interests. I don't know who else people think can solve this.

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K. Alexis @punchywombat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Got my contract renewed at work. Whew.

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K. Alexis @punchywombat.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Nintendo seems to be the only company that still hires exevutives who care about video games in some way.

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Dietary Fat @dietaryfat.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

COMMISSIONER GORDON: Bluesky Batman, why did it take you so long to respond to my bat signal. BLUESKY BATMAN: Maybe next time you should add some alt text.

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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

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K. Alexis @punchywombat.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Final EVO reveals. Get your bets in. Let's just push all the chips to the center of the table and call for a DarkStalkers revival.

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Maybe just let people buy ACs, and demand they have solar to power it. Parents booking air-conditioned hotels to keep babies safe in UK heatwave | Extreme heat | The Guardian share.google/drijgBKeS3e4...

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"Things were going okay, and then we came along and a lot of people's lives got worse. But it's not our fault because things should have been excellent before we showed up." Weird flex, but whatever.

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"AI is not a power problem. It's the power grid that's the problem." Ah, see, that's the funny thing about a shared resource. If someone starts taking a lot more of it without adding extra, and other people can't get access to it because of this, it's not the original system to blame then, is it?

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Lenovo: "Prices will never return to the before times." Well, maybe, but I would believe you a lot more if you had predicted this rise early and were not a company. We'll just wait and see.

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Europeans wanting the whole world to change so they don't have to make an extremely minor adjustment to their lifestyle is about par for the course.

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American gaming prices finally catching up to the rest of the world is just too funny. GTA VI Deluxe is 12,000 yen in Japan. Same as I paid for SF6 Ultimate, and I'm sure it'll have better extra content than SF6 did (which was BS pathetic)

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I'm not here to argue for ripping content, but if you love digital and hate the thought a company can simply snatch it away, DVDs are pretty easy to convert.

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I went to Book Off (a secondhand store in Japan) and bought all three LOTR movies for under 1,000 yen (~$7). I guess I'll be doing that a lot more in the next few years.

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"We Should All Call Our Government Reps and Demand Digital Products Be Ours to Keep" is not a difficult title to write

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Maybe instead of writing another article bemoaning the way things are, we should get more articles written about how legislation and yelling at government could change this overnight

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Also, Avatar: The Fighting Game news tomorrow. Let's get a Switch 1 release date on that title.

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Tim Sweeney should be thanking Valve for its GenAI disclaimers because people will see the brilliant products made with it and eventually normalize how it helps production

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To GenAI defenders, GenAI is both the best technology in the world because it allows people to create "the best" things, but also not good enough to ask money for and so can't be labelled because it risks the tech being rejected despite its genius

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I'm going to develop this further in a blog, but the ideas that a) you're an artist when you use AI, despite there bring better words for it: editor, designer, collage creator, is BS b) all AI art needs a labelling system and governments should legally mandate it with hefty fines for penalty

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Wish governments would support solar power and smart grids as much as they do AI

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Our governments should require legal disclosures from all GenAI content. Love it? Hate it? Don't care? Fine. But at least we should know what we're buying and supporting. Call it the "Tim Sweeney" Act

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I find it difficult to square that in December I could grab a new Motorola phone with 8GB of RAM and a decent processor, but MSFT can't make a retro handheld for their 1st console for under $200

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I'd pay $200 for a portable Xbox (original) that let me buy old titles I had missed

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If I was head of Xbox looking at the retro boom (and people trying to play games affordably), I'd think about updating and licensing my old OS system out to retro console makers. Then I'd slap an e-store on there and let people play the games legally.

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No one is using Copilot to make PowerPoints you silly people.

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What does Microsoft think will happen when its main income stream: office, just up and dies because people don't have a PC anymore?

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There was a time when Microsoft would have spent those billions on starting a chip manufacturing plant to ease costs in their supply chain rather than just buying shit to drive prices up. But no one said the smart people were left over there.

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I'm sorry, but I'm not taking out a loan for a new console. I'll just buy an old one.

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