iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

a new studio in the most expensive part of america founded by a longtime industry veteran aiming to launch a large multimedia franchise straight out of the gate? kinda surprised nobody's tried that before to be honest. seems like the kind of thing that'd be a huge success.

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 02/10/2026

#inktober2026 DAY 2: "RELIC" the bygone days of cinema, they don't make 'em like they used to

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 01/10/2026

iPhone emulation now formally supports the best game in the series.

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 01/10/2026

60 year old man in plumbing fatigues at the other end of the bar, loudly watching soap operas on his phone without headphones, visibly on the razor’s edge of tears takes all kinds to unclog an s-bend, i s’pose

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Silent @cookieplmonster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People never used mods like this seriously, they were always made to prove a point: in the past, they were made to flex your understanding of both the source and the target game, "I documented them so well, I can do this". Now they flex... that you have tokens to burn, I guess?

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 01/10/2026

#inktober2026 DAY 1: "APPLE" i am as good at watercolours as mr. van helsing here is at repulsion

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Elias Daler @eliasdaler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seeing many cases of this occurring on YouTube lately...

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Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Been messing around with Doom Builder

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 27/09/2026

they added a horde mode to depth dwellers not sure how i can top that tbh

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 26/09/2026

good news: I found an empty seat at the pub bad news: it’s right next to the horse racing gambling terminals so I get regularly interrupted by tragicomic side characters from The Great American Novels #aflgf

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 26/09/2026

grand final day is the one day of the year where they have the budget to hire on cinematographers, as a treat #aflgf

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 25/09/2026

watch the floigan brothers fire their agent

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Surprise, we're doing Japanese magazines now! This has been a big slowly moving project with a bunch of collaborators, and I'm proud of the pilot we're launching today

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 23/09/2026

I hated it when Construct did this, and I hate that Fusion's doing this. Why the hell would you want to use a lunchbox to make lunch? (I'd probably be less pissy if Fusion 3 existed or was ever going to happen but I think we're approaching the 10th anniversary of it's announcement lmbo)

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 23/09/2026

between wolverine and gears of war it seems like a real bad time to blow half a decade and over $300 million on a corridor follow me for more cutting-edge insightful tech industry market analysis #tech #markets #techmarkets #marketsoftech

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 22/09/2026

and the other foot drops

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is the shit that really upsets me about AI. Not the apocalypse nonsense, but how it allows hacks to drown the world with garbage they "made" and trick people into giving them time and energy. It feels like the ouroboros end state of the attention economy and it sucks

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 20/09/2026

sometimes the rando just decides to be weirdly nice to you

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's always interesting to look at the sales charts in historical Japanese game magazines. You can never tell what was going to be the #1 game that week

An issue of Famitsu, featuring the #1 game of the week, ファック君の冒険II.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HARD CORE NON STOP ACTION GAME FOR CHICKEN BOYS AND CLUELESS GIRLS!

A Japanese magazine ad for Mad Panic Coaster, featuring some crazy concert poster style visuals. Features include "GO STRAIGHT TO HELL" and "SHOCK! SMASH! SCREAM!"

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 17/09/2026

the devil works fast, but i'm convinced hideo kojima works faster

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Glenda Adams @gmatom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

OMG. 29 years ago I put an Easter egg in Duke Nukem 3D Mac, that replaced two of the in-game posters with pictures of a couple plush animals I had. I never told anyone other than my wife about the code (DNGLENDA) and completely forgot I did this. 1/2

Two screen shots from Duke Nukem 3D showing a pixelated bunny and cow in the game.

A brown plush rabbit and a black and white plush cow

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Symphony of the Night design documents on display at the Konami booth at TGS. The mock screenshot is incredible

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beardeddoomguy.bsky.social @beardeddoomguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you are starting or planning to get into doom modding. Here are a few tips. -Start work on small scale mods. -Get your feet wet by trying some coding or graphic work. -Its okay to ask for help but be respectful. -Collab with other modders to help you understand stuff. -Don't be a dickwad!

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 14/09/2026

Remember the unwritten rules: If you're gonna do a piracy, keep money out of it. And if you're gonna do a server emulator/network replacement for an modern-ish game, don't share the game files. And if you're an untextured vigilante in a lowpoly Plymouth, NEVER get out of the car.

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 14/09/2026

They were sharing torrents for full game downloads, but also had a "seperately-developed" Black Ops 3 client behind the Patreon wall.

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 14/09/2026

Same as it ever was. When will people learn that locking access to mods behind Patreon subscription gates is just asking for trouble? It's happened quite a few times now (CoD XLabs, Cyberpunk REAL VR, that one pokemon mod for palworld, etc. etc.), you think it'd sink in by now.

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 14/09/2026

in short: please ask all ur fancy opensource decentralized social media knockoffs to implement a "no americans" filter in all their apps and feeds, only then will they dethrone their fathers and become the new One Website they all seek to be

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 14/09/2026

Current Twt Feed: Indie games, meming on Wolverine, sports, 5000 Japanese Boston Terriers Current Bsky Feed: Retro gaming, indie gamedev, occasional comically miserable people Current Insta Feed: Allow me to address the all*ged happenings at Chet's Pizza Vermont last S*turday night

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 14/09/2026

I think of all the social media algos, Instagram's might be the worst. All the others at least have funny jokes or cool drawings every now and then, Instagram is just a deluge of Notes app screenshots from skate shops and tattooists on the other side of the planet, no matter how hard I cultivate it.

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 13/09/2026

seriously, every time you see an old guy going on about our new robot masters, they invariably know what applesoft is. it's approaching conspiracy theory levels at this point.

A screenshot of the Apple II RPG Shadowforge, credited to John Carmack.

An excerpt from a blog post by Retro365 (https://retro365.blog/2023/10/04/raid-on-bungeling-bay-will-wrights-first-game/) about SimCity creator Will Wright's early history with computers.

"Living in an apartment in Greenwich Village, Will Wright purchased his first computer, an Apple II+, and started to teach himself Applesoft BASIC, to connect and control the robots and other mechanical things he was building out of random parts at the time. While trying to implement John Conway’s Game of Life into BASIC it became apparent that the cellular automaton simulation needed a much better way of utilizing the computer’s hardware and he dove into Pascal and Assembly Language both lower-level programming languages with fewer layers of abstraction from the underlying hardware."

Excerpt from an interview conducted by Antstream (https://www.antstream.com/post/game-developer-interview-the-oliver-twins) with Dizzy creators The Oliver Twins about their early career:

"Antstream Arcade: How did your interest with computers and programming begin?

Philip Oliver: Andrew and I were fascinated by early computer games such as Space Invaders and Pac Man and around 1980, when we were 12, played a lot of games on a friend's Apple II. Our parents bought us a Binatone Pong game that plugged into the TV which was very heavily used, and a year later our older brother bought a ZX81, and we were absolutely hooked on it. We didn't buy any games; instead we used the manual and programmed our own, starting with Pong-style games."

Excerpt from an article by Eurogamer (https://www.eurogamer.net/20-years-of-level-5) marking the 20th anniversary of Level 5 in 2018.

"And that's how Level-5 found itself in charge of Japan's most popular video game series, and found itself charged with ushering Dragon Quest into 3D. Akihiro Hino has, you suspect, a knack for making things happen. It's something he's done throughout twenty often remarkable years of Level-5.

And it all began back in Fukuoka, when Hino used to play with an Apple 2 in his youth. At primary school he read an article on Sir-Tech's Wizardry series, and he was fascinated by the possibilities they suggested."

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 13/09/2026

the CIA, inspired by old stories of past exploits with crack cocaine in the 80s, sets about introducing a terrifying new addiction into a new, lucrative target community (has-been apple ii programmers)

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 12/09/2026

official western game developer announce a game less than half a decade before its release date challenge (ultra-nightmare) (impossible mode) (they'll still have to delay it)

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 11/09/2026

saw the news in the morning, went to high school where i walked in a haze past conversations that started with things like "now if *I* was the president of afghanistan..." (afghanistan did not have a president at the time)

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 11/09/2026

alright who's going to be the first to snap their $3,500 telephone in half when the idiot box appears

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 11/09/2026

ooh i'm sorry but that is NOT the answer we are looking for

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 11/09/2026

Choose The Thing You Value Most In Your Soul of Souls: ☐ Your Firstborn Child ☐ Your Darling Bride ☐ Milwaukee 18V Jobsite Radio With Built-In Bottle Opener

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 11/09/2026

singing billy joel's "my life" to myself in increasingly exaggerated stereotypical regional american accents eeey, it's my life over heah

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 10/09/2026

like six months ago i think, this is a recent innovation

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 09/09/2026

that quake champions classic armor model still getting work nearly a decade on

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 09/09/2026

re: #nintendodirect - did the metal slug loctest version ever get dumped before, because if not that's a heck of a mic drop

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The Kinsie @thekinsie.com · 09/09/2026

Metroid: Broke Ass MF In The Corner Yelling YO GET WINGS #NintendoSwitch

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HANNAH CRAWFORD @embyr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPRAWL zero is out now! The culmination of so much blood sweat and tears, who would have thought a random interaction on the Quake Mapping discord would have lead to this? store.steampowered.com/app/3748520/...

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