iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

just watched The Matrix for the first time in 20 years. cool movie but i wouldn’t base my theory of reality and any predictions for the future of human/AI relations on it

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵

evitable
adjective
uk /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 24/09/2026

i quit smoking 10 years ago. which is wild because i still miss smoking at least once a week

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 21/09/2026

last one! that’s 7 full weeks of playtesting my upcoming game Landfill every single day

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Gersande La Flèche @gersande.com · 21/09/2026

My photography (shaky as it is because I was so scared) and part of my witness testimony is in @therovermedia.bsky.social today. Please help circulate this letter. What I saw last Wednesday in terms of police intervention was completely excessive and frightening. therover.ca/open-letter-...

therover.ca

Open Letter: Investigate the Montreal Police who Beat and Hospitalized our Colleague – The Rover

Reporter William Wilson suffered a concussion after police assaulted him during a protest last week. This despite being a credentialed journalist doing his job.

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Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io · 21/09/2026

Send us your experimental game — we wanna help you show it off! Get a chance to share your project onstage at GDC next spring, and help us inspire more people to make strange and experimental projects that change how we think about games. <3

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 21/09/2026

last one! that’s 7 full weeks of playtesting my upcoming game Landfill every single day

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We don't live in slop world because of AI, we live in slop world because the purpose of everything is to generate a return on investment for capital. We evaluate everything along metrics designed to serve that purpose over any other. AI is just the best way we found of optimizing for these metrics.

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Qweerty Gamers @qweertygamers.org · 19/09/2026

🏳️‍🌈Have a queer or queer-made game releasing in 2027? Our Qweerty Game Dev Microgrant is accepting applications! Recipients will receive up to $2,500 to finish funding their game. 🗓️ Apply by October 11th Thanks to zPride for helping make this possible <3

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 15/09/2026

and there is a literal free train zone beside that street

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 15/09/2026

this ad for a neighbourhood that highlights it has PARKING is so Calgarian in a way that infuriates me. and the ad is on public transit

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 15/09/2026

a friend and i played this together and both enjoyed it. one of the characters, a weirdo theatre girl, is one of my fav game characters i’ve encountered in a long while. shout out to whoever wrote her dialogue! store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

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The Mermaid Mask on Steam

An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humo...

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 15/09/2026

i like my job but i would like a wife who pays for everything so that i can make indie games full time more

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 14/09/2026

went to a convenience store to get two cases of pop and it was $41.

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 12/09/2026

hearing a game dev give a talk about indie success say that his wife pays for everything so that he can keep making games full-time has really inspired me to find a wife who pays for everything so i can make indie games full-time

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 08/09/2026

week 6: Chris and Yasin share some of their process

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 08/09/2026

trying to get into techno music but it’s so boring

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 08/09/2026

week 6: Chris and Yasin share some of their process

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026

Solidarity with my fellow games-and-politics scholars who will have to play these racist slop games because they represent some kind of landmark in the form.

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 04/09/2026

i imagine it is like Gone Girl, though i have not seen or read Gone Girl

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 04/09/2026

i thought Yesteryear was insufferably written, its characters didn’t make sense, had terrible disability twists, and yet i couldn’t put it down

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 01/09/2026

week 5: oops, it’s hard to do something every single day

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Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone · 02/09/2026

If you too would like to stop using increasingly shitty software made by bad people who make the world worse, I wrote a guide for how to lessen/end your small team's dependence on US-based tech services: nelsanderson.zone/a-guide-to-d...

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A Guide to Ditching US Tech (for Game Developers)

This post is based on a guide from Paris Marx, host of Tech Won't Save Us, author of one excellent book and upcoming (likely also excellent) book last updated September 2nd, 2026 At this point, it's...

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 02/09/2026

i have kept up a daily gratitude list for 4 years and never miss a day, the secret is to write the tiniest and dumbest shit

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just to stress the point. The Paris Agreement's goal of reaching net zero in 'the second half of this century', would now need to be reaching net zero by 2031.

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 01/09/2026

week 5: oops, it’s hard to do something every single day

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 01/09/2026

these fancy canned mocktails are too good, they’re making me want real cocktails

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 30/08/2026

i just believe that everyone should do progressive overload til they max out their newbie gainz, and also understand the obfuscation of surplus value in the credit system

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 29/08/2026

i believe everyone should do 1 year of dedicated strength training and 3 years of reading Marx’s Capital vol 1-3

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Michael Iantorno☔️🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 28/08/2026

I'm happy to share a new 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 for an edited collection on game preservation in Canada, with co-editors @jeanketterling.bsky.social and @videogamehistorian.bsky.social. We welcome essays, material studies, and interviews. Full details at the link below - please share widely!

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Call For Papers – GamePreservation.ca

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 26/08/2026

6. deception: murder in hong kong 7. horseless carriage 8. hot streak 9. nemesis 10. excalibur 11. wavelength

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 26/08/2026

enjoying the final bit of summer by staying inside with friends and playing too many boardgames. here’s what we played this weekend, and my ranking from most fav to least fav: 1. blood on the clocktower 2. desperation: the dead house 3. yonder 4. lord of the rings trick taking game 5. bomb busters

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 25/08/2026

back before AI, video game developers had to make every digital woman look the same through hard work and artistry

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 22/08/2026

week 4: different kinds of playtesting, some art iterations

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 22/08/2026

week 4: different kinds of playtesting, some art iterations

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Meanwhile Alberta Tech Minister Nate Glubish saying the quiet part out loud: '“We’re essentially looking at these data centers as digital pipelines and digital refineries for us to help get the value from our natural gas to global markets” www.oilandgas360.com/alberta-pitc...

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Alberta pitches cheap natural gas for data center boom - Oil & Gas 360

The latest oil and gas news, dedicated to all things oil and gas: people, technologies, transactions, trends, and macro-economic analysis that impact commodity prices.

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 15/08/2026

week 3 of playtesting: losing, balance, and an infinite loop

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 15/08/2026

week 3 of playtesting: losing, balance, and an infinite loop

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Kara Stone @solarserver.games · 14/08/2026

i wear loop earplugs, wear a hoodie that act like blinders, and bring my own snacks, but somehow i still love going to the movies

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