iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Wow, that's really good!

There are 12 ray tracing cores in the 780M die that have a direct path to the GPU only, which is the first for AMD's integrated graphics, and it is the most outstanding feature in this case. The discrete GPUs are still superior, however, within the capabilities of the GPUs; they allow for een stuk meer hardware-accelerated ray tracing dan een game die die mogelijkheid heeft kan verwerken. Another capability of the 780M is its LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X memories, which serve as the GPU's energy sources and do it in a more timely
manner.

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 16/10/2026

Apparently some people have been having a stack overflow bug in Planet Zoo 2 where the zoopedia shows large negative numbers for an animal's area requirements. I'm pleased today to see that the bug seems to have been fixed and it correctly reflects that one mountain hare needs a full square km.

A screenshot from Planet Zoo 2 showing the Zoopedia open to the mountain hare habitat information. Just to the right of centre it shows the required shelter and total land space: 52530m2 and 945650m2.

000 0

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 13/10/2026

PLANET ZOO 2 DOES NOT SOLVE FOR SCUNTHORPE I REPEAT PLANET ZOO 2 DOES NOT SOLVE FOR SCUNTHORPE And it's the exact same one as in the MUD I played when I was a teenager. They always thought I was magic when they couldn't send a message and I told them to put a space between salt and water.

A screenshot from the Planet Zoo 2 workshop showing an aquarium with the description "A large sal****er aquarium themed with East architecture." Yes, sorry screenreaders, that is four asterisks.

020 2

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 13/10/2026

I was charged with making a playful green dress for one of my favourite characters who also noted that she likes frogs. I hope I did not disappoint.

A Dressmaker screenshot of a dress on a mannequin. It has a very simple silhouette with long green sleeves, a green bodice with curved cleavage hemline, rounded red shoulders, and a mostly green skirt. The two front panels are a lighter yellow and the bottom hem on the front has four red curves. Two of these have four red silk flowers in a semi circle. The red shoulders have a single vertical black line centered on each. The bodice has a line of gold trim curving down around the edge of the bust and dipping down on the stomach resembling a large mouth. There are two small black buttons on either side of the slight V of the bodice upper hem that could be nostrils. When taken all together it looks a bit like a frog with red eyes and four red feet under a yellow belly.

000 0

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 12/10/2026

It's so enjoyable to watch tv being blinded by one screen while squinting at the other.

A dual monitor set up showing one near black screen with a subtitle reading "Annabeth." and one bright white with a website open.

000 0

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 12/10/2026

Biblically accurate (kind of) angel dress for Dresstober day 13

A blue-purple dress with bolero and mermaid skirt. The bodice and front of the skirt use a fabric with lots of swirly circles and spirals that resemble eyes, while the bolero and rest of the skirt are patterned with feathers. Both sides of the skirt have a section covered with peacock feathers and two chains with sun motifs form an X starting from the hips down. Many of the hems are lined with pearls set in gold and there are dozens of brooches in groups of 16 forming diamonds and accenting the dress which are in the form of a single white gem surrounded by purple gems in their own diamond shape, overall resembling more eyes. There are many eyes is what I'm saying. Eyes everywhere. So many eyes. All the better to see everything you do when you think no one is watching.

010 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 12/10/2026

and if you look at one, they're so weird, they could have called it anything. that is not a serious animal.

An anteater. It's pretty fucking ridiculous. Its head is part of its snout and the rest of it is just kind of a rounded oblong.

3890 89

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 10/10/2026

Once I used over 14 metres of velvet it seemed silly not to decorate it a bit more. At least I made a bunch of money off it.

A Dressmaker screenshot showing a very ruffly, poufy dress on a mannequin. It's made of velvet in varying shades of blue transitioning to turquoise green in five tiers of fabric on the skirts; the bodice and top tier have the darkest blue shade with a gold star print. The bodice has an above-bust cut-out and the sleeves are a lighter blue and droopy. The top tier of the skirt is hemmed in gold with blue dangling gems and the bottom tier is hemmed with a green floral lace. The bodice has scale mail under the bust and silver chain around the waist and neck as well as draped from under the bust. There are gems dotted in the centres of the stars on the bodice. It's excessive.

Materials: 1364
Labour: 161
Quality bonus (%) 150
Prestige bonus (%) 128

Sell price: 2928

010 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 06/10/2026

Made two hundred bucks on this because it's a lot of velvet and silk and the value is a % modifier based on materials cost

A screenshot from Dress maker of a long dress; it has a black bodice with peplum and black mandarin collar, a long green velvet skirt that looks like it might have been carpet or curtains in another life, and orange patterned silk for the upper bodice and long flowing sleeves.

040 4

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 06/10/2026

Look, all I'm saying is, the vampire goth lady *never* told me what colour to make her dress.

A picture from the game Dressmaker showing a finished dress on a mannequin. It has a deep V neckline, drapey loose lace sleeves, a fitted corset skirt, and a fitted band around the waist, plus three flowers arranged in a line down from the left shoulder. The lace sleeves are dusky pink. The velvet of the main dress is baby pink. The silk of the waist band is magenta. The flowers are light pink.

1110 11

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 05/10/2026

I absolutely refuse to waste fabric no matter how much the game is probably screaming at me to just buy more. This is good silk.

A screenshot from the game Dressmaker in which several pattern pieces are laid out on a piece of light yellow silk. The silk has several large holes in it from where previous patterns were cut out, and the current pattern pieces are fitted in around these gaps with often mere millimetres of affordance.

4473 47

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 30/09/2026

what's the german for "one dark silver balloon goes by"

000 0

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 29/09/2026

this is the kind of show this is if anyone wasn't clear from the summary

A screenshot from a very ridiculous c-...comedy? certainly not a c-drama anyway. A young man stands in a room in a made up region of Ancient China. He's wearing something kilt-like, wrist guards, and something like a leather gorget with a capelet attached and is polishing a sword. There is a full suit of (Chinese) armor on a stand behind him, but he lacks even an attempt at a shirt.

A screenshot from a c-comedy (I guess we're going with that) in which a woman makes a pained expression. There is huge Chinese text on the screen with the subtitle "Hello? Is this the police? Why haven't you come and take me away yet?"

100 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 28/09/2026

Found this planet that I don't think had a single fauna that wasn't completely awesome looking. Most of them were variants on these guys but there was also one that was dinosaur-looking skeletons with huge tusks, and underwater were huge molluscs.

A screenshot from No Man's Sky showing a landscape on an alien planet with beautiful scenery and most notably three very alien creatures flying in the air. Each one is in the shape of a four-sided (five including the bottom) pyramid with glowing blue lines along each edge and glowing blue pointy bits on the bottom, while inside the cage shape is a glowing orange ball. There are movement trails of pinkish reddish orange lines visible by two of them. A humanoid alien in a spacesuit stands looking out over a lake.

110 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 27/09/2026

@gretchenmcculloch.com this made me think of the whole "linguists are not kidding when we say that your knowledge of language enables you to understand sentences that have never been said before" lol (and yes the sentence is comprehensible in context and with niche topic knowledge!)

000 0

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 23/09/2026

I JUST FOUND A PERFECT STAT TOXIC CREATURE AND IT LOOKS AMAZING

010 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 19/09/2026

it's a-me, aeron-scourge kiri

A screenshot of a player character in No Man's Sky. Their spacesuit is in shades of yellow and pink and their head is likewise yellow and somewhat resembles Cthulhu with several tentacles falling down over the chitin chestplate and a vertical slit in the middle of their face that might be a mouth; on either side of it are glowing pink eyes.

100 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 19/09/2026

Devastating. This weirdo little guy is SO CUTE but in no way strong enough to use in the xeno arena battles.

210 2

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 18/09/2026

oh my GOD this game is so pretty and I want a base on a floating island with waterfalls (this one's on an expedition not the main save so it won't work)

A screenshot from No Man's Sky showing a view of a planet with red ground coverage, cyan water, a clouded blue sky through which can be seen the planet's rings, and floating in the sky are several islands, one of which is home to a decent amount of vegetation and two streams pouring over the side to form waterfalls

110 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 13/09/2026

The difference between $6 (On The Menu) and $22 (My Food Bag)

A rectangular plastic container holds a mixture of tannish brownish liquid either poured over or emanating from a shapeless off-white mass. It might be food. It might be art supplies. It might be taken from the insides of something living. Who can know?

A rectangular white container holds a serving of some kind of pasta, grated cheese sprinkled over top. The plastic film hasn't been removed yet and is slightly fogged in the corners.

100 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 12/09/2026

Even after writing this out I have *no* idea what it means lol

"Qin law, marriage with fugitives is forbidden. Women also prohibited abandoning her child and remarrying. But there are exceptions. For example, this one. Woman becomes a wife. Go to death. Get out of the house. Xiao Weiying was six feet tall. When it is not appropriate to discuss, officials should be dealt with accordingly. Unofficial positions should not be discussed."

"So, the woman needs to be 6 feet 2 inches. One is considered an adult at age 15. If she is not yet full, never registered with the government, the marriage is invalid. Exempt from prosection."

000 0

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 10/09/2026

One of the characters just told the female lead a story and I just wasn't following it so I had to copy out the subtitles to make my brain process it properly. The tenses and pronouns are actually mostly correct through this whole scene but I wanted to give an idea of what I'm working with here lol.

"Peony, also known as tree peony. The peony mentioned in this poem refers to the peony. Legend has it that at the foot of Mangshan Mountain there was a poor boy named Huang happy. I encounter this every day when I go up the mountain to chop firewood. A stone figure and a purple peony. He then every day water the purple peony before going down the mountain."
"The purple peony transformned into a beauty. To repay the kindness of a river. He desperately wanted to marry Huang happy."
"Yeah."
"Yes. Stone Brother was jealous. To break up a loving couple. Yes?"
"That's right."
"What's next?"
"Later, the stone man tricked Huang happy. The purple-clad creature is a demon. Make him take the purple-clothed elixir."
"I knew it. The woman in purple is a flower spirit with supernatural powers. To repay the kindness of a river, land gift and bonus available. Why would you offer yourself in marriage? Beauty is a demon. Then the talking stone wouldn't be one. How stupid is Huang Xide? Peony would look favourably upon him. Furthermore, peonies thrive in dry conditions and dislike dampness. That Huang happy waters the plants like crazy every day. Do not know how to serve. Damage to flower roots, where is the kindness? It was clearly hatred. Heroes bestow favours without expecting anything in return. This storyteller... the intention was to tell the young girl in her boudoir heroes rescued. We must sacrifice ourselves to repay this. This is clearly deceiving the ignorant. How utterly depraved and shameless this place is! (interruptions, etc) What happened after drinking the elixir?"
"Later, Huang happy shattered the stone statue to avenge himself. But because he swallowed the elixir. Burning with flames. He rushed to the mountain spring. He gulped it down. But no matter how much spring water he drank, it didn't help. He had no choice but to jump into the mountain spring. Sink to the bottom of the spring."

000 0

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 07/09/2026

Date yourself with a snap of your first compute.

An image of an Apple IIe computer, though one in remarkably clean condition and closer to off-white than the murky beige most units actually came in. To the right of the unit and monitor are two incredibly chonky 5.25" disk drives that would probably cost a good $25 if they were cheese. Missing are the joystick and turtle; the only input device is the keyboard, mice not being ubiquitous yet.

000 0

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 07/09/2026

I'm extremely tempted to vote for toroa ingoingo solely for this fully high school yearbook photo.

A mostly-white seabird with black wings poses, head held up high and beak slightly open as though it's saying "Cheese!" on cue. If it were a person, it would probably be a teenage drama nerd with incredibly curly hair and a huge grin.

140 4

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 24/08/2026

He's gonna have to get up (He lifted his head to stare at my phone so I'm showing him the pic like "look it's you" like he understands human speech or the concept of photos lol)

A grey and white cat lies draped across a person's arm with his eyes closed and one lil paw curled in

160 6

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 21/08/2026

lol I was prompted to explain the government to an Australian friend after I mentioned The Spull That Wasn't (Ignore "Moving" on the first image I deleted the text of an old note to paste into lol)

Current govt is TERRIBLE but we want the PM to stay in charge bc the election is in November and a new leader would probably get a popularity boost from getting benefit of the doubt. This guy is a former CEO who was also bad at that and negotiated a coalition with two very small minor parties who now get to do *anything they want* because he's too scared to discipline them. One of them is led by an 80+ year old transphobic and virulently racist cooker who was given the foreign affairs portfolio and demands a new review of our covid response every time they conclude it was good, and the other is

010 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 18/08/2026

look at this magnificent fuzzy insect it looks like a show dog but for insects

A white bug sits on a leaf. It appears to have glorious long hair of some sort, like an angora cat, that sweeps back from its body. Maybe it's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline.

010 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 18/08/2026

that headline makes me think of the graph showing the incidence of left-handedness

The history of left-handedness
Rate of left-handedness among Americans, by year of birth.

The line on the graph begins in 1880 at slightly over 5% before dipping to a little over 3% around 1908 and then gradually rising to 12% in 1950 or so at which point it becomes a flat horizontal line

120 2

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 18/08/2026

they actually are kind of reddish

A red-tailed bumblebee sitting on a wee pink flower. Its body is mostly black with the tail end being a fuzzy orange-reddish colour.

010 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 16/08/2026

we played one more round after that and I didn't get found AND had the high score. someone else was in the same spot as me but lying the opposite way but her colour matching was slightly off and she got caught. the only other person who didn't get found was in a spot impossible to find.

Missed-Spot Ranking
#1 Kiri Kiwibear 1,840

000 0

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 16/08/2026

I just got a high score on Meccha Chameleon. Apparently my legs were less obvious to the people searching.

A screencap from Meccha Chameleon showing pages from a Where's Wally book laid out in a grid. At the centre of the screen is one set in space and on the moon you can see a silhouette of a figure's legs. If you look extremely closely you can see their torso painted into the background and their head disguised as a white planet.

Missed-Spot Ranking
#1 Kiri Kiwibear 27,074

100 1

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 04/08/2026

These things are hard to catch on camera!

A shot of some kind of rather depressing tree-ling taken through a large glass pane, showing a pīwakawaka with its tail fanned out. Its head is hidden behind leaves because it moves at roughly the speed of light and only pauses for mere split seconds in any given place.

130 3

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 04/08/2026

jesus christ look at that hairstyle

A Manchu woman is standing in 18th century dress, her hair in an incredibly elaborate style in which it is wrapped over a framework in order to form arches on each side of her face and then adorned with jewelled bands, while strings of expensive beads hang from her head. It gives the effect of an oval lying on its long side with her head in the centre.

220 2

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 04/08/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no big franchises.

120 2

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 18/07/2026

We finished Meccha Chameleon with Where's Wally instead of Bob Ross. I was a little ambitious and didn't have time to finish all the line work and colouring but it wasn't bad!

A screenshot from Meccha Chameleon, showing several large Where's Wally (Waldo for Americans) images laid out in a grid. Aside from a shadow of a player on one image it focuses on a beach scene and when looking closely you can see the outline of a humanoid figure in a star shape painted into the scene.

000 0

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 12/07/2026

(not ai'd I just threw on some filters in gimp)

An image of three cats playing on an old fashioned wingback chair, laid out like a Renaissance painting and with filters applied to make it look as long it was actually painted

0201 20

Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 12/07/2026

CAN YOU SEE ME? I did get found but I don't even care, I'm so proud of the shading I managed for how bad I am at art. #MecchaChameleon

A screenshot from Meccha Chameleon (though the left side of the screen has been cropped so as not to show the names of the other people playing just in case). several Bob Ross paintings are laid out on a horizontal surface; the camera is directed at one with a tall pine tree against a slightly clouded sky.

A painting of a tall pine tree against a slightly clouded sky. If you squint you can see a partial outline of a generic human shape in the space where branches of the tree stretch out against the sky. The slight outline is the only way to see that anyone is there as they are painted to match the background.

120 2