iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 18h

Took that political test that's been making the rounds. I got some interesting results.

Image of the results of a test on a person's politics. Result is Geosocialism and the poster has a lot in common with Albert Einstein.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 11/10/2026

Made a graphic for my marathon. Very "graphic design is my passion" thing.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 03/10/2026

Why not, you know? Need to render out some new profile image and a banner, but it's a start.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 02/10/2026

Recreated an outfit I made a long time ago I lost in The Great HDD crash. Still trying to get the hang of materials in DAZ Studio and my renders are still trash. I only made the blouse and skirt. It was also mostly an experiment as I learn my way around Blender's sculpting tools.

DAZ Studio render of a woman in a blouse, skirt, and peeptoe boots.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 13/09/2026

Starting to get the hang of sculpting in Blender. Wish it had more cloth brushes though. Those are so fun to play with. I will still miss ZBrush for one thing though, map baking. It was superb for baking normal, ambient occlusion, and cavity maps.

Screenshot of Blender with a current WIP project.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 09/09/2026

And that's King's Field III done and dusted. Not gonna badge it, though. Requires too much bullshit.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 23/08/2026

Render complete! Created the top and skirt on stream. Just need to package it up and create the entry.

DAZ Studio render of a woman wearing a halter top, skirt, and peeptoe boots.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 12/07/2026

My 2.5 model is almost done. Now with ARKit tracking enabled. Just have to figure out how to texture the blouse, skirt, and boots.

Blender screenshot of Saeko's 2.5 VTuber model.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 13/06/2026

Fucking christ. It's 10:30 PM and it's this hot? Help. No AC and a fan blowing warm air on me at full blast.

Screenshot of the current temperature (85 F) and feels like temperature (93 F) where I live.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 16/05/2026

I hate that I have to rely on the official Second Life mobile app to connect to the grid because any desktop viewer I try crashes. This is the shit Event Viewer spits out at me:

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 06/05/2026

Work proceeds on my 3.0 model. Slowly. Not happy with the UV layout, but what can you do?

Screenshot of ZBrush showing a front-view WIP of my 3.0 model

Screenshot of ZBrush showing a side-view of my 3.0 model.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 21/04/2026

I just have to get this off my chest and vent. Please ignore if you so choose.

Not gonna sugarcoat it.
Things are looking rather grim for me.
My depression is at an all-time high and it's getting worse.
Truth be told, I'm nearing the end of my rope and running out ofplaces to tie knots.
I've begun to believe I'm just a washed up, unwanted and unloved loser who has and never will amount to something.
I have no appreciable skills, my body is breaking down, and I'm stuck in a body I completely despise. Not to mention there's a chance I'm on the spectrum.
I love to stream and talk to people, but I can't do that regularly because I have no privacy and no matter what I do to try to improve my situation, I usually get ignored and my cries for help go unheeded, making me believe no one cares about me.
I'm just done with it all.
I give up.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 20/04/2026

Seeing that kink list floating around, figured I'd try it out myself.

Saeko's kink list of everything she's into/not into.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 09/02/2026

Quick and dirty render of the dress I made on stream earlier today.

3D render of a woman in a handcrafted silk dress standing infront of neon lights wearing latex gloves and boots.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 07/01/2026

I'm pretty proud of how this render turned out. I still have a long way to go in learning though. Rendered in DAZ Studio 4. #3DCG #DAZStudio

3D render of a woman with short black hair wearing a latex catsuit, latex gloves, and latex boots holding a riding crop and standing in a studio.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 28/12/2025

I think it turned out pretty well. Was my first foray into Blender's Geometry Nodes. Though I wish there an easier/simpler way to do it. There's a few addons out there for Blender to streamline the process, but I can't afford them.

Screenshot of Blender with a figure in the scene with hair.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 02/12/2025

Ugh. I thought I was ready to return, but apparently my body says otherwise. So no stream today. Instead Twitch recaps are out and I'm going to drop my stats here.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 27/11/2025

Design's done. Now to figure out this VRM rigging stuff.

Screenshot of Blender showing the complete design of my new vtuber model.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 24/11/2025

New model is coming along nicely. All that's left is the glasses and shoes.

Blender screenshot of a work in progress of my new vtuber model.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 23/11/2025

Finally beat it. All that's left is clearing out the dungeons of their treasure chests.

Screenshot of a game's progress on RetroAchievements.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 05/11/2025

The gown I made on stream earlier as rendered by Character Creator 3. Doing texture work is something I've yet to wrap my head around.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 05/11/2025

This is what I've come up with so far. Still trying to wrap my head around Ucupaint though. But I would whole heartedly recommend this nice addon. It's like having Substance Painter built-in to Blender, and best of all- it's free!

Screenshot of a Blender workspace with a work in progress gown.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 04/11/2025

Dress and gloves I created on stream today. Rendered in DAZ Studio. Figure used was Genesis 9.

DAZ Studio render of a woman wearing a dress and gloves.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 07/10/2025

Mastery badge #10. Great game, but it's hampered by balancing issues. Just gaining 1 level makes you go from dough to a piece of steel necessitating serious grinding.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 01/10/2025

Game's done and dusted. Likely won't master the set, though. I'm not masochistic enough to tackle the low-level challenges. Despite everything though, this game remains up there as one of my favorite RPGs.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 19/09/2025

Finally went back and mastered this set. The part that was driving me up a wall was beating it without using continues.

Screenshot of the mastery of the Castlevania II RetroAchievements set.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 14/09/2025

Tagged because it's me whining. Normally I don't whine, but I needed to get this out.

Image of text on a lavender background of me just airing out my issues.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 30/06/2025

Dahna: Megami Tanjou for the Genesis is a rather brutal game. But once you learn it, it gets a little easier. I need to really learn and practice it to get good before I tackle hard difficulty.

Image showing achievements obtained on a game.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 05/06/2025

Found an old Reddit post of someone who used Brasso on the pins and had great results.

youhavecouvades on Reddit posted:

I think Brasso gets a bad wrap because people don't use it correctly. Brasso generally doesn't need to be used on SNES or other top-loading console games. However, some NES games can have some built-up residue that neither ISO or Windex will not remove. In these cases... a quick application of Brasso and subsequent removal will always do the trick. Then, as long as you keep the cart clean - it will require no more cleaning again.

Brasso is highly abrasive but will not permanently harm the NES cart if you are just doing it once and aren't scrubbing obsessively. NES carts have BRASS pins. To remove the Brasso residue, I use alcohol on clean Q-Tips to remove the visible Brasso. Once all the visible Brasso is gone, I take a clean paper towel with some basic Windex (not with additives like Ammonia or Lysol) sprayed on it and do a final, quick wipe off.

As long as your NES's 72-pin connector is clean... you will never have to clean the cart again once you use the Brasso on it. Unless of course you allow the cart to get dirty and dusty afterwards.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 12/03/2025

The result of the stream this morning:

3D render of a blue blouse and black skirt using Blender's Cycles renderer.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 26/12/2024

Completed the outfit i started on stream a couple of days ago off-stream last night. and this is the result:

3D render of a woman in a green dress about to swing an axe.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 24/12/2024

If I ever get enough money to have someone design my vtuber character, this is they style I'm aiming for:

A screenshot of Madame President from the Golden Boy anime

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 07/10/2024

This is an example of the rot infesting Twitch. Rogue staff members going after vtubers, but not IRL streamers because they feel the vtubers are shielded by avatars and won't get intimate with them in more ways than one. Let's not forget they'll use double standards too, in enforcing the guidelines.

A Twitter post stating new guidelines for VTubers on twitch saying that hips must be covered.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #631,660!

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 27/02/2024

Been working on this outfit off and on for a while. finished it last night. Please excuse the jank render, I'm better at modeling things than taking photos, posing, or setups.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 08/02/2024

Hello to those new to Bluesky. I'm a 3D artist, content creator for Second Life, retired content creator for Poser/DAZ Studio, game dev, and VTuber. Here's some of my art:

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 31/01/2024

Did a spur of the moment stream where i just putzed around in Blender/ZBrush and made a dress. Here's a quick and dirty render of it:

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 29/11/2023

Websites shouldn't need this many scripts to function. This is mostly why the modern web is trash.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 13/10/2023

Got the urge and made some progress. Mental health has been an issue to the point where I haven't felt like doing much of anything except sleep and veg out.

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 16/09/2023

Been poking at this when the urge hits me:

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April ❤️⛓ @silkysoftsaeko.vtubers.social · 30/08/2023

Been teaching myself C++/SDL and it's been fun. Gotten this up so far:

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