iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matatabi Mitsu @matatabimitsu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spectral Tower has a bad rep but honestly I felt it was more like outsider art when I played it. Yeah it's not made like other games and some of the choices make absolutely no sense but there's a kind of fun and wonder in digging into games this bizarre and obtuse.

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Fianna Ashley @affogatonokokoro.qtbrewer.moe · 03/10/2026

Some of you are jumping on this tile every chance you can get.

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MakeMonsters @makemonsters.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At one point, a thief stole all my items including the sword I had equipped, and when I got lucky and killed him he didn't drop any of it. Perfect game, no notes.

Screenshot from the game Spectral Tower:

The player investigates the "Useless Sword" they start with, and the description reads "A sword that has absolutely no positive effects."

Screenshot from the game Spectral Tower:

The player attempts to equip the item "Useless Sword" and the response is: "Your Weapon level is too low to equip Useless Sword."

That may be the funniest thing ever written in a video game.

Screenshot from the game Spectral Tower:

Player gets a critical hit on the boss of the first tower, killing him instantly.

Screenshot from the game Spectral Tower:

Brief cutscene at the end of the first tower. The player stands on top of the tower looking out at a sunrise/set, accompanied by the text "After slaying Brimolin, a part of my soul felt peace," which is an accurate statement for me as well.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I worked on this. Pls give it a shot. It's interesting in so many ways its hard to describe.

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clees @clees.me · 17/09/2026

it's been a hot minute, huh trails in the sky 2nd chapter BAYBEEE twitch.tv/clees

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

genuinely considering just entirely redoing the naruto codebase after seeing some other code from romhacking projects im on

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izzy @isobel.top · 11/08/2026

logging into bluesky

chrono trigger screenshot:

Welcome to the Millennial Fair!
Have fun!

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MirnAAH! @goodbye.computer · 12/08/2026

If you insist

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MirnAAH! @goodbye.computer · 04/08/2026

trying the new Castlevania

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sorry about the lack of updates. I've honestly just been busy with another project that should be releasing this year, work, and living real life. Here's some pics from camping recently.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Microsoft has gotta do something about their tendency to make sure their users have as many windows open as possible. Word, Excel, Outlook, Notepad...blasted by a gazillion windows on startup.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN IS AN ANIME?????? AND OSAMU DEZAKI DIRECTED IT?????????? world shattering stuff.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

lol my dad was blown away the my computer had 2 monitors attached when he came to visit

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Kaisaan @kaisaan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Happy 10th anniversary to the sequel story to Lost Kefin! In all seriousness, Ys 8 is a really wonderful game! Everyone should play it!

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

i did it... loved trails from start to finish. up there with ys 8 for me.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Sorry guys, if you've been wondering where the progress is...I had to take a break. I will be back on it soon but now that I'm back on my feet I'm going to fulfill a couple other project obligations first.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I've put this off long enough. Because one post on machine translation and the devaluation of human labor wasn't enough, I wrote even more words about it than before (2900, to be precise), this time from one former fan translator to another. Or at least, some of you out there.

dateemups.com

What's Not Yours Isn't Theirs, Either

On the disturbing rise of LLMs and machine translation post-editing in fan translations.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The variable width font is getting there (i totally underestimated how hard this would be to do)

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

lol the vwf ended up being an mfer but im still trying

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Started working on inserting a VWF for Konoha Senki. Hopefully I'll have some updates soon.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

this game was the shit man..

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

lol... a whole weekend to find and 2 seconds to fix

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Holy smokes...learned my lesson about writing shitty assembly lol. If you're wondering why there haven't been many Naruto updates lately it's because I was tracking down a bug that shows up partway from the game that ended up being from assembly I wrote and "tested" months ago lol

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

i saw a cat in chinatown when i was walkin to work today and i thought about takin a pic but i was running a lil late.. but damn i regret not takin it now cuz it was chillin in da fruit market like it was a clerk lol

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

writing python and realizing u actually did it p clean this time makes me feel like a million bux

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

sorry guys i didnt work on naruto today but i decided to play with some stuff i've been meaning to do for a while

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

btw, I am doing a lot of work on Konoha Senki lately. It's just bugfixes from bad behavior I cause from teh haxx0rz so theres just not much visual progress at the moment.

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

this entire thing is just the manual equivalent of ldr r0, [r2] lol does anyone know how this kind of thing happens? is it some kind of weird optimization or the compiler being silly or something?

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

i did the thing grids.fun/t/about-me-v...

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

sorry for the lack of updates lol i was in japan

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Hilltop @hilltopworks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Hi everyone. Things have been happening in the fan-translation scene and I've been overdue in talking about them. For the first time ever I've made a long writeup. Please read it and feel free to reach out to me with comments.

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The deadly serious part-time unofficial hobby of videogame fan-translation

The very serious part-time unofficial hobby of videogame fan-translation Hi. A couple of things have happened in the “scene” that prompted me to make this writeup, and I’m probably overdue in …

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

rain in honolulu got me feelin like im in gotham lol

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I just opened a word file and then acrobat opened and asked me if I wanted to get acrobat pro and convert it to a pdf. Um...no? Absolutely not??

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

so does microsoft make their error messages useless on purpose or what?

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

somebodys gotta do something about windows 11 man

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

learned a lot of good lessons cuz i had to rework the dialog extractor... but it was worth it because the code actually makes sense now

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

re-writing some stuff on the Naruto project made me realize how bad the original code I wrote was.. and makes me want to refactor the whole thing but that also feels like a waste of time since everything is self-contained anyways..

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Check out this RPG Maker game about the crew from Star Trek TNG going into a holodeck sim that Data made from default RPG Maker assets coleo_kin.itch.io/datas-advent...

a default RPG Maker forest. An anime character says "Fascinating, Mr. Data. Everything in the environment appears to be made of these hard-edged squares..." Also the anime character is Jean Luc Picard

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DevMsg.txt @devmsg-txt.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The coders of this game had to made this project using Micro$oft Windoze, and the fucking instablity of Explorer. They also had to code on COMPAK bulshit computers.

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DevMsg.txt @devmsg-txt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Optimize the engine so that the game doesn't chunk up every single time pocahontas jumps

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Found an interesting page from TV Tokyo about how to get hidden characters in Naruto: Konoha Senki that is still up after all this time. www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/naruto...

tv-tokyo.co.jp

NARUTO－ナルト－グッズねっと

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Apparently my inet has actually been out for over 30 hours, possibly longer. Thanks for forcing me to go into the office while I'm sick btw, Spectrum...

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

lol my internet has been out for over 16 hours at home. gg

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Quade @quade2.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

i mist push to github but my internet is out..

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