iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 02/03/2025

made a blog post out of some old thoughts about rarity in games (and how the coolest shit in games is the shit that hardly ever happens) www.joewintergreen.com/design-thoug...

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are you or have you ever been a narrative designer (as your official job title)? I would like to interview you for a video! Pls reply to this if you’re interested ❤️.

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elliott junkyard 🌱 @elliottjunkyard.northsky.social · 22/02/2026

we need to collectively shun anti-human freaks like sam altan and embrace the spirit of the Jamaican bob sled team

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This is legitimately terrifying.

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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago

The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The wrongful death suits should destroy the company.

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 21/02/2026

Punk always flourishes in tough environments when resistance to the establishment becomes necessity.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This is seriously fucked up taskandpurpose.com/news/army-wa...

The Army will soon have senior warrant officers bid against each other in an eBay-style auction for retention bonuses and six-year service commitments. Soldiers who agree to take a “minimum” bonus can cash in, while those who ask for larger ones will lose out, Army officials announced in a recent press release.

Dubbed the “Warrant Officer Retention Bonus Auction,” the system will debut in March, an Army official said Friday. In the news release, Army officials said the new system represents a “shift from traditional, fixed‑rate bonuses to a more flexible, market-driven system and that the auction encourages warrant officers to bid their “true value.”

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 04/02/2026

“The masses of the people, however, did not realize how much the industrial tycoons, the Army and the State were benefiting from the ruin of the currency.” — William L. Shirer, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”

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Shelby Barwood @threepod.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

genuine thing I overheard waiting for my lecture today: “It’s so jarring to hear the American accent in amongst all the normal ones. Isn’t it? Like, that’s the TV accent, what do you mean it’s here in real life. Y’know?”

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I think one reason why games people are looking forward to the collapse of the AI bubble, despite it likely triggering a massive economic crash, is that we're basically already living post-crash.

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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 18/11/2025

Love that the internet is run on the same 5 companies in a trenchcoat!

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Oh my God

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Anna Hollinrake 🌤️ @annahollinrake.com · 13/11/2025

One of the best things to recognise in yourself as a creative person is when you are Sauceless. Not art blocked. Not struggling with a difficult creative problem. Being Sauceless is when you've done good work but have been staring at it for too long, and risk making it worse through noodling.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

(glances to the right of my screen)

A framed print of two screengrabs from the last Kirby Air Riders Direct. Game Director Masahiro Sakurai is saying 'Oh Dear', 'Why is making a game so hard?'. The framed picture is sitting on my desk.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The "I don't have time to read lots of dusty tomes for research, so I just ask a bot for a summary" thing keeps coming up. I just can't relate to anyone who isn't incandescently excited about digging into an archive and spending days deciphering Victorian handwriting. It's like a party drug to me.

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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 01/10/2025

bringing this one back lmao

The text "how it feels waking up every morning in 2025" above an image of Captain Picard saying "Damage Report."

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Shelby Barwood @threepod.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Seriously weighing the pros and cons of releasing “Consensual Mutilation: the Game” to itch to see if it gets banned.

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Shelby Barwood @threepod.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Update: It took 15 customer service calls before they finally let me speak to a human who works for Visa instead of my local bank. The result? She declined to explain what consensual mutilation is or why Visa feels it’s appropriate for their brand identity, and read me the canned statement.

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elizabeth is apparently a witchy vamp? @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Let’s be honest here: ableism is seldom if ever considered a red line on the left.

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 03/08/2025

it goes further: Yu Suzuki had a oh-shit-the-boss-is-here button installed on his devkits that'd corrupt the screen and make the game look visibly "unfinished", in order to keep his boss from trying to force the game out the door ASAP shmuplations.com/afterburner/

The color of the sky was also something that came from a bug, from wiping the color RAM on the PCB. At the time, we had worked up a pretty sky background with nice color gradations… and, well, this is a little bit of a digression, but President Nakayama used to visit our office from time to time.

The thing with Nakayama was, if he saw that the graphics were complete in your game, he would tell you it was done and it was time to release it. Nevertheless, we couldn’t just hide the game from him and show him nothing when he came by. So I rigged up a little switch underneath my desk…

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Suzuki: When I pressed that switch it would wipe the color RAM. You could wipe the color RAM, and it wouldn’t affect the rest of the game—everything would keep running, just the colors would get all glitched. To a layperson, it would look like the game wasn’t complete yet. Well, one time we did this, and randomly, the colors of the sky looked extremely striking. Then I used our development tool ICE to stop the CPU and extract the color RAM data, and those became the colors we used for Space Harrier.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

You do you but I joined a union, started volunteering more, have gotten more involved in my various communities, and am actively trying to have more fun in my day to day. Think of the beach scene in Camus' "The Plague." Times are bad. We will outlast them and build a better future together.

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Shelby Barwood @threepod.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I’ve been avoiding calling them bc I’m a wimp but I am now COMPELLED to ask customer service what the fuck consensual mutilation is

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the haver of it🔞 @taylortitmouse.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

so what i'm hearing is call more

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 29/07/2025

Unexpectedly good politics from Thomas Kinkade's family! www.kinkadefamilyfoundation.org

On July 1st, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a photo on their social media accounts accompanied by a Thomas Kinkade Studios painting. The use of his artwork was unauthorized, and we have requested that DHS remove the post, and we are consulting with our counsel on our options.
At The Kinkade Family Foundation, we strongly condemn the sentiment expressed in the post and the deplorable actions that DHS continues to carry out. Like many of you, we were deeply troubled to see this image used to promote division and xenophobia associated with the ideals of DHS, as this is antithetical to our mission. We stand firmly with our communities who have been threatened and targeted by DHS, especially our immigrant, BIPOC, undocumented, LGBTQ+, and disabled relatives and neighbors.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/07/2025

Steam and itch.io have removed thousands of video games in recent weeks deemed to be "adult content" in order to comply with strict rules from payment processors like Mastercard. These policies censor artists engaged in lawful speech. Mastercard shouldn't be the gatekeepers of our digital freedom.

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Why did thousands of adult titles just disappear from the biggest PC gaming marketplaces?

Digital distribution platforms Steam and itch.io have tightened their rules about adult content – under pressure from payment processors. Why has this happened and where will it lead?

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Currently on the phone with Visa Instead of starting with a complaint, I approached this as a Confused American Consumer who doesn't understand why they can't buy things off a website they use The call center rep immediately asked if it was about Steam/itch (cont)

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Trezy @trezy.codes · 24/07/2025

⚠️ A NOTE ABOUT ITCH.IO ⚠️ Dear #GameDev: I'm not going to pretend I know all the details, or that I should be considered an expert, but we need to talk about this situation. 🧵 P.S. - Jump to the end of the thread for what you personally can do to help address the situation.

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Shelby Barwood @threepod.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Y’know, like “his name is mud.”

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Shelby Barwood @threepod.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Personally I think we should turn Zerat Games into some kind of colloquialism. Like, “I heard itch got Zeratted.” Or, “Itch had steady growth before they got Zeratted.” It would be cool if today’s ire also prevented anyone even remotely associated with Zerat Games from ever making a comeback.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Bog Witch Girl 🏳️‍⚧️ @bogwitch-girl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to askvisa@visa.com they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you want to actually solve the problem, instead of punishing itch, start calling payment cos Collective Shout, which is run by people who get published by Spinifex, a very terf-seeming organization, apparently needed 1,000 people to yell at visa to get this done. We got more than 1000 people.

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Shelby Barwood @threepod.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

the biggest brain take I’ve seen today is “the solution this problem is to go back to shareware and floppies like the good old days” yeah grandma sending 225 individual floppy disks through snail mail to tens of thousands of players is a totally viable small business model in 2025

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Shelby Barwood @threepod.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

UK observations, week 1: You guys prefer much sweeter crisps and pasta sauces than the US does. Not in actual sugar content, just flavour profile. “HOT CHILLI EXPLOSION” means that someone blew the faintest whisper of capsaicin-tinged air over the outside of the bag. The La Croix of spice.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America. Guess which one they want you to focus on.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

We intentionally did not put Rosie in the headline because this is not about Rosie O’Donnell it’s about everyone

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

every day I gotta jump through hoops to win over editors and prove my thoughts worthwhile but if you are a white supremacist the newspaper will print your diary entries

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Shelby Barwood @threepod.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

"23 Tips and Tricks for Home Canning" "Top 10 Happiest States in America" "Survival Gear You Should ALWAYS Have on Hand" "Self-Defense Every Girl NEEDS to Know" Stop it. Stop it. Aren't you ashamed to write this? There's no self-sufficiency hack that will fix this. Form community. Reach out. Resist.

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Nathan Daniel Hernandez @natedhernandez.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Midterms won't save you. Polititans won't save you. Your community will. And making that network as big as possible. It's not impossible if it's unavoidable. The only way out is through and together.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/07/2025

they’ve even plowed tens of billions into a man-stealing operation so vast and unaccountable that it makes the fugitive slave act look like a modest and responsible use of federal power

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