iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Spending all day repeatedly pickpocketing the same black pearl mourning necklace from this zombie in the ruins.

210

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Using MS Word online is so great, because it's like using Google Docs that locks up every 30 seconds.

020

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I love Milli Vanilli and I have no intention of ever stopping.

020

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Medical offices these days expect patients to do an unreasonable amount of bookkeeping online before you show up to the appointment. I just entered my own phone number about 55 times in a dozen forms so my son can go to the dentist tomorrow. Sometimes I just give up and tell them to deal with it.

010

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Whoa did any of my fellow Looking Glass homies catch this cameo in Black Mirror s7 ?!?!? I actually still own this exact issue of this magazine! Also this was an extremely rare example of media depicting video game developer culture that I didn't absolutely hate (in fact it was pretty good).

A screenshot from the show Black Mirror showing PC Zone magazine from 1994 with video game System Shock on the cover.

1100

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It's totally doesn't at all feel super creepy and exploitative that every image on the Stable Diffusion page is a sexy young woman. No notes. This is totally how I would want my totally legit and good-for-society product represented.

A screenshot of the interface for Stable Diffusion where users can select a model to use. Every image is a photoreal or anime style image of a young woman.

050

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Hot take: the executive branch has too much power (even when it’s not wantonly breaking the law).

020

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Sometimes you really bring your best self and use an infinity symbol, other times you're too busy and important so you just turn an 8 on its side.

A video game HUD where an 8 is turned on its side to stand in for an infinity symbol.

050

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

And instead it was a jumbled, self-serious plane crash where no one achieves karmic enlightenment, even if getting there narratively requires torturing their character unrealistically.

000

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Ok now I'd like to see the original version of the White Lotus season 3 finale, the one before the horrible last minute rewrite, the one that follows through on foreshadowing, makes logical sense, is thematically consistent, and fulfills the promise of the season's confident and glorious story arc.

Rick and Chelsea of White Lotus season 3.

000

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Imo this is totally readable and looks like a solid design.

100

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I used to make these kind of structural diagrams for Thief levels! Wish I could dig some out of storage to show you, but they are back in Vermont.

100

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

P sure I made that exact picture before.

110

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I was all "oh Unity has scene templates? that sounds like it might save work and not easily become corrupt with broken references that it doesn't mention but allows you to save into the file!"

000

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I clean my laptop when it's really dirty and think "there that should last about 6 months"

000

Reposted by Randy Smith Evergreen

The Onion @theonion.com · 07/04/2025

What To Know About The TikTok Sale theonion.com/what-to...

Q: Shouldn’t the Trump administration be dealing with the collapsing U.S. economy and the genocide in Gaza instead of this?

A: Have fun in El Salvador.

153507490

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

We were there until my 1 yo son touched a swampy dead squirrel and we had to flee to the 7-11 for hand sanitizer.

080

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

See, I like the misdirection because you can look ahead and see that those words ALSO go with some other groups and slow your roll. But the designer has to handle this well, not all: lol tricked you.

110

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Right on cue, today’s Connections was the worst ever, with 12 symbols that could be grouped by any amount of arbitrary interpretations (including their own, which sucked). They read Ian’s post and hold my beer’ed.

020

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

And they just let us run multi-million dollar projects!?

010

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I am fully in support of requiring businesses to offer their collaborators fair terms and good compensation, but even so wow does California make it hard and painful for small indie studios to work with talent in California.

010

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Dems said these guys were incompenent, and within a month they spectacularly demonstrated intense incompetence.

010

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

That said the badly-designed ones are definitely "sorry you didn't read my mind on this niche subject matter I love" and make me roll my eyes. But I play most games to unpack the design more so than to win, so I still get something from the experience.

010

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Connections is the only NYT puzzle I actually like. The well-designed ones have a balance of "the tools were there for me to figure this out" and "I fell for a trap; it's my own fault." You only need to solve 3/4 categories, which they lean on well.

120

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Is that the one where the walls slide away and you realize Polito was SPOILER REDACTED? I implemented that! So cool, right?

120

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I don’t disagree w you though. It *seemed* like it was adding up to something for a whlle there.

000

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I saw a video of Westworld rearranged into chronological order, at which point it was clear it had never made sense nor had any plan.

000

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Severance is like if Westworld made sense

030

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Who am I even if I’m mostly attending business talks at GDC

040

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

So excited for the day when I see two WayMos stuck in a faceoff, honking at each other.

020

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I will never know how to spell leutenant

220

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Same - I was(*) working on a "shocking" novel a few years back about the US annexing Canada because climate change. * - theoretically only

010

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

warnings always say "Check your surroundings for safety" but really they should say "Check your surrounds for danger" thanks for coming to my ted talk

010

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The ShadowLords? For sure. Even more scary than the ritual murder at the beginning of VII??

110

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I only beat V, so together we got them all!

110

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

How many of the Ultima games did you actually get to the end of and beat?

100

Reposted by Randy Smith Evergreen

ThiefGuild.com @thiefguild.com · 03/03/2025

Ever thought that the intro cinematic to Thief: The Dark Project didn't exactly tell you a whole lot about what Garrett would be up against? Here's an alternative for you. Let's talk about CUTSCENE ZERO by @dthron.bsky.social

1136

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

There is no surer sign of cowardice and weakness than using an unfair advantage to not allow someone to finish their sentences.

020

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

How embarrassing to watch the US behave like the worst, most pathetic schoolyard bully you ever knew and the MAGAsphere suck down obvious Orwellian lies and agree to side with an evil dictator who has been drooling to slit our throats for decades. “Let’s just be shameless” is now foreign policy.

160

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Richard Garriott is one of my personal heroes. Maybe some day my own work will catch up with Ultima 4.

071

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Started SKALD: Against the Black Priory by @highnorthstudios.bsky.social and it's excellent: tons of freedom, plays fast, and a strong, engaging narrative. Big ups! (Makes me wish I'd started making low budget ultima-likes in 2017 when I first thought to.) store.steampowered.com/app/1069160/...

store.steampowered.com

Save 40% on SKALD: Against the Black Priory on Steam

SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark...

140

Randy Smith Evergreen @randyevergreen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Matthew McConaughey, about to go into hypersleep : “so what planets are we flying to?”

030