iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

toko @stokori.art · 15h

sometimes what I need after a ten hour work day is to just get my ass kicked by a dragonforce track in beat saber. this shit rules

toko @stokori.art · 05/10/2026

based on the number of people complaining on reddit about not receiving their steam frame, I got very lucky lol

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Moa @moa810.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🎃Pumpkin Griffin #sketch

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🦁 FunkyLion 'Yuyake' 🦁 @funkylion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Getting tired of untested vibecoded ports that are just buggy and because no experienced coders are around, they can't fix it? Never fear, as I have listed decomps and recomps done by actual people and it will continue expanding! If you know any, lemme know!

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tams! @maezanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy fma day! 🦾✨

An illustration of some of the main cast of Fullmetal Alchemist (Edward Elric, Alphonse Elric, Riza Hawkeye, Roy Mustang, Maes Hughes, Louis Armstrong) walking through the train station of Central City, in Amestris.

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toko @stokori.art · 03/10/2026

i was about to say "beat saber is so good I can't believe meta made it" but then I remembered Beat Games was originally independent and bought by meta. so meta didn't actually make it lmao

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toko @stokori.art · 03/10/2026

my god the purchase of the steam frame was worth it for beat saber alone lol I played it for the entire battery life of the frame last night and I want to play more today....

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toko @stokori.art · 02/10/2026

OH INTERESTING..... when I stop spending all my gaming time in steam frame VR I'll pick it up LOL

Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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toko @stokori.art · 02/10/2026

everything I see of fortune's weave keeps making me think "oh shit I should play this" this is sick as hell and only further convincing me of that fact LOL

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda

Looking at my software peers in 2026 I see fatigued faces, I see frustration, and I see a lot of people looking for a way out of an industry that seems poised on the brink of collapse. LLMs are being pushed on us at every turn, most people seem at best frustrated by them, and ultimately they seem to appeal most to people who see the production of software as a purely mechanical means to an end. They are antithetical, however, to the idea of software as a craft, or something requiring both initial and ongoing care. As an expression of the soul.

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toko @stokori.art · 01/10/2026

on a conceptual level I know it's just "fancy math that models human neurons" but I wanna know HOW the fancy math do its thing

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toko @stokori.art · 01/10/2026

new resolution: become good enough at linear algebra that I can full throttle 1v1 people in arguments about the value of "AI" I want to become so knowledgeable on machine learning that I can destroy anyone who tries to argue with me about consumer-level "AI tools" being good

toko @stokori.art · 30/09/2026

I also have a problem with being like super listless like, "what do I do now" after I finish work for the day. it's giving me a concrete activity to move into, makes it way easier to transition into *actually* taking a break for the day

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toko @stokori.art · 30/09/2026

my new after-work routine is popping into beat saber for like an hour or two and it's great. gets me physically moving after an entire day of sitting at my desk and it's fun enough that I totally forget I'm exercising. the steam frame was such a good investment for me

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do

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toko @stokori.art · 28/09/2026

i have made this to represent my feelings after completing my steam hardware collection with the steam frame

the "omg hi" meme but the top panel is "i hate technology computers were a mistake everything is evil nobody makes anything cool anymore"

bottom frame is the valve hardware selection walking through the door and the stick figure is going "omg valve hi!!!"

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toko @stokori.art · 28/09/2026

i wish rhythm game map makers made like. normal maps for normal people and not complete sickos i want to play fun songs that I'm familiar with while i learn beat saber and like, as much as I like crab rave, i would like. variety

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toko @stokori.art · 27/09/2026

steam frame arrived baba is VR

a screenshot of the Baba is You booted up in steam frame VR. it's sitting on the title screen

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toko @stokori.art · 22/09/2026

I made the mistake of mentioning the fact I was getting a Steam Frame to my team lead and he told me to tell him when I finish Half Life Alyx I am such a chicken in spooky games I am going to explode trying to play one in VR. and yet I must in order to maintain cred at work. oh god

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oh my steam frame purchase email came WAY sooner than I expected. holy shit the shipping is going to be a lot longer than the machine (it's gonna be 6-10 business days) but.... it will be so worth it.......

oh the S version! haha, for some reason I was reading that as plural X13 and not as the S version of the X13. that makes more sense!

I was under the impression the X series used intel core ultra processors? correct me if I'm wrong though

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oh no I think this may have broken containment from my usual non-techy audience lol. please don't crucify me for oversimplifying this

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yeah!! I was just reading about that. I'm not a handhelds guy so I haven't been keyed into it. crazy cool stuff in an era where hardware has gotten so expensive

they are two fundamentally different ways of Making a Computer. meaningfully different ways of making software talk to hardware, the magic layer where the words I'm typing get turned into 1's and 0's. and they somehow got it to work WITH PROTON. YOU CAN MAKE x86 WINDOWS GAMES RUN ON ARM LINUX. WHAT

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

the steam frame is generally cool as a concept but I just learned Valve casually poured money into an open source compatibility layer between ARM and x86-64 to create it. I know your eyes probably glaze over when I say those words but trust me it is extremely impressive and cool

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books can be about bad people. the characters are not your friends. the protagonist is not you.

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toko @stokori.art · 18/09/2026

just hit the second city in my metaphor NG+ run and these have been my main two thoughts so far: 1. good god this game has immense amounts of clever foreshadowing for the huge plot twists even frame zero 2. it somehow did not strike me the first time how strohl is so incredibly spicy

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toko @stokori.art · 18/09/2026

i don't think i actually know anyone who got waitlisted, so the demand was probably predictably lower for this one

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toko @stokori.art · 18/09/2026

got my steam frame reservation email 🎉 let's hope that this time I don't have some massive life upheaval that causes me to miss the purchase email

toko @stokori.art · 16/09/2026

i cannot stress how weird it is that i'm invested in replaying this game. i am never a NG+ person. no matter how much I enjoyed it, usually when i finish a game it's pretty one and done and I'm ready to move onto something new. idk why this one has possessed me so

toko @stokori.art · 16/09/2026

a friend is visiting from out of town and all my housemates left me with her unattended, which means nobody was there to stop me from subjecting her to the first several hours of metaphor

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani reveals that ‘Digimon’ is his favorite anime.

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provided I haven't tried the Vision Pro or most recent post-Meta Oculus shit since I haven't had the opportunity. but also I am the target audience for neither of those things. like I heard the Vision Pro is good quality fun but I don't own a single other apple product lol

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it ranks extremely highly for comfort so I'm optimistic. I really enjoy VR but I have yet to try a headset that I haven't wanted to rip off after like an hour

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hmmm I think I am going to try to get a Steam Frame wanted a VR headset for years, but out of all the ones I've tried (which is many, going all the way back to developing for the DK2 in college) I haven't been satisfied enough to buy anything except maybe the Index lol so I guess now's the time

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I'm so normal about Metaphor that, to help my friends get into it, I'm taking the existing very good guide that I followed and condensing it down to a spoiler-free schedule for them to follow lol

toko @stokori.art · 13/09/2026

suggestions from my friends (who have never played Metaphor) on what to name the protagonist in my Metaphor NG+ run: - Chad Narukami - Previous name but with a + at the end - Birdfeet Religiousbliss - Big McLargehuge - Metafive

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toko @stokori.art · 13/09/2026

go commission Errant!! he's a delight to work with and did a phenomenal job drawing Halo yaoi for me

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Errant (COMMS OPEN) @errantsquam.heckingsne.cc · 13/09/2026

since this knowledge is getting lost again: when people claim to "train AI models on (their) own artists", it's usually not. Most AI models are pre-trained on scraped datasets and what is being done is fine-tuning additional data Models trained on pure ethical datasets are not as impressive:

joaanna.github.io

Opt-In Art: Learning Art Styles Only from Few Examples

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note: just because I enjoy them does not mean I am good at them. in fact I am quite awful at them and find them exceptionally difficult. but that's half the fun for me

i still need to find some way to define the genre of game that is Yes Your Grace, Sovereign Tower, King of Dragon Pass/Six Ages.... maybe Banner Saga falls under it too. like apparently I just really love games where you are some important leader guy trying to manage a bunch of dorks

I did in fact immediately ping my fate gilgamesh enjoyer friend with "look it's your boy" the moment this asshole came on screen

gwendan from Sovereign Tower saying "I've heard you're in need of great heroes, so here I am." he is the spitting image of Gilgamesh from the Fate series

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