iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Will @will.bearwaves.com · 27/09/2026

big up my hummus i put a lil zaatar on top and it's workin

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 18/09/2026

i think my fave is the Don't Stop Moving

A stats screen for a fictional Destiny exotic weapon. It's purple, with a stock the shape of a snail shell, a golden foregrip and golden barrel tip. It has a window on the side with a dark bubbly liquid visible through it.

DON'T STOP MOVING

Kinetic Scout Rifle
*Crow - "I don't understand what lesson I'm supposed to learn from this..."
Cayde-6 - "It's just a hypothetical situation, have fun with it!"*

Perk 1: What Goes Around
When you defeat non-boss enemy combatants with this weapon, they are instead Taken, and will fight against your enemies. When combat ends, your Taken perish.
Perk 2: Comes Around
When you first Take an enemy, an Invulnerable Taken Snail spawns and pursues you. Each time one of your Taken is defeated, it absorbs its power and grows in size and speed.
The Taken Snail kills you instantly on contact.
Catalyst: Volatile Taken
Your Taken are Volatile, and explode when defeated. When the Taken Snail absorbs them, it leaves a trail of Volatility behind it, spreading Volatile to enemies that touch it.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 18/09/2026

what about the OOB Tube?

A stats screen for a fictional Destiny exotic weapon. It's a trumpet shaped one handed grenade launcher with a sight on top, and a swirling pink and green portal at the end of the barrel. A green rope attached to the gun disappears inside the portal.

OOB TUBE

Strand Special Grenade Launcher
*Forbidden spaces.

Walk outside reality.

No boundary unbroken.*

Perk 1: Thwip
Fires a strand projectile that sticks to targets. If the trigger is held, the projectile is connected to the gun by a rope, and when it is released, the target is pulled into the gun's barrel. This teleports the target to a random location out of bounds of the current load zone.
The next time the weapon is fired, the target is ejected at high speed.
Perk 2: Ope
If the projectile is instead fired at terrain, it opens a temporary OOBhole in it, and pulls the wielder out of bounds through it.
Catalyst: OOBhole
Sticking a large number of projectiles to a single target causes them to collapse into an OOBhole, a temporary hole in the terrain that pulls all nearby entities (including friendlies) out of bounds.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 18/09/2026

my beloved @destinythegame.bungie.net clan is running a contest to create exotic weapons and armour and i've become addicted to making them Here's ICP-04 "M1Nd-Xp&R"

A stats screen for a fictional Destiny exotic weapon. It's bright green with a pink bit on the back. The gun is long and pointy with big circular bits around the barrel. Its magazine is long and glowing green.

ICP-04 "M1Nd-Xp&R"
Trace Rifle
*A project by Cabal scientists, based on Emperor Calus’ theory that bigger brains would have bigger ideas.
It was abandoned after initial testing found that expanding the brain without also enlarging the skull caused... leakage.
Rahul improved the design, but still warns of its perils for Guardians who push past its limits. Their heads, in his words, “popped like grapes”.*

Perk 1: Inflation
Sustained fire with this weapon causes the target’s head to inflate in size.
Friendly targets gain stacks of Ego proportional to their head size, which significantly increases their damage output from all sources.
Perk 2: Burden of thought
If they exceed 10 Ego, they also gain stacks of Migraine: their radar is concealed, their peripheral vision and hearing is gradually obscured, and their damage resistance lowers with each stack.
Enemy targets only suffer the effects of Migraine, with no Ego benefit.
Catalyst: Intracranial Pressure
Enemy targets’ heads now pop like grapes after prolonged fire, jolting nearby enemies.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 11/09/2026

My neighbour's walls at this point

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 06/09/2026

really reminds me of this description of who Geoff Keighley is on the Gamescom website, which is probably a more damning critique of how his MO than I could've written myself

"About Geoff Keighley:

Over the past two decades, Geoff Keighley has established himself as a leading producer of programs and events that celebrate video games as the most powerful form of entertainment.

He is the creator of The Game Awards, the international games
industry's annual awards show, organizer and host of the live video game event Summer Game Fest and host of gamescom Opening Night Live, the grand opening show of gamescom."

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 21/08/2026

throwback to brain fog can't breathe

Text reads "Asthma is for LOSERS, I got my inhaler for LONG COVID" with a bunch of party emojis and ya boi using an inhaler

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 01/07/2026

I hate to inform you that the Outlier website gave me the ai stink, and to confirm, this is the guy who made it (or should i say, who vibe coded it)

Screenshot of the guy who made outlier's LinkedIn page.
Michael Szerencsy, listing Outlier under his CEO position at some company. His about lists many annoying things, but among them notably: ai and vibe coding.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 27/06/2026

Hey, just so people know, you never need permission from your employer to seek a new job. You can just go seek a job. It's cool that the studio have given them a heads up so they can have the best chance of landing on their feet, but this isn't "permission".

Rock paper shotgun headline: "South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games are allowing staff to openly seek new jobs ahead of possible Xbox layoffs, according to report"

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 26/06/2026

Spotify are now attributing my music to someone else who has the same name as me: hey, wtf

"SongDNA beta", lists for my music, me as the main artist, then someone else who is also called "William Watson", who is not me. I cannot report this error without contacting spotify through the publisher i used

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 15/06/2026

Dave's Word Game is so sick guys like @joelotter.com , @okw.bsky.social , and Dave (offline and twice as cool for it) have put an insane amount of effort and skill towards making it such a delight and I'm so proud of them the Steam demo awaits you

The Dave's Word Game credits, reading "Dave's Word Game, a game by Joel Auterson, Dave Cordell, William Watson, and Ollie Karrach-Wood

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 27/05/2026

Wait... The image doesn't look right... HUH??? Cavill didn't play Gerald in the game, so why did they still replace his face with Hemsworth?? Such an odd move for a DLC so long after the game's release smh my head

Hemsworth Gerald on a zoomed-in pic of the announcement image

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 25/04/2026

You know and love DENIM DWG, now at IKEA you can get DENIM CHAIR

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 23/04/2026

Rasheed's account has been flagged as spam, likely due to people maliciously reporting his account, and @support.bsky.team's failures. Dreams on a Pillow looks wonderful so far, and they need more funding! This is an important project for the humanisation of Palestinians. www.launchgood.com/1948

"I am thrilled to announce that Dreams on a Pillow has wrapped up pre-production and we are about to start full production. We can’t do it without your support. We are starting our second round of crowdfunding, to support us you can find out more here
www.launchgood.com/1948"

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 04/04/2026

this is such a popular feature that nobody has used it in the 10 hours since your comment

A screenshot of the latest usage of the stock ticker tag for NVDA. The most recent one is the reply from shredberg mentioning the feature exists, 10 hours ago. The next one down is an account with no replies, reposts, or likes talking to itself about some incomprehensible tech babble

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 25/03/2026

⚠️ Updated warning for players of Dave's Word Game #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #wordgames

DISCLAIMER
Dave's Word Game is NOT certified food safe.
Attempting to eat the game is potentially dangerous, and likely impossible.

There is a risk that playing the game will impact your productivity negatively. Arrived you're probably just making money for some rich boss, that's fine - maybe play a bit longer.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 21/02/2026

👖Are you ready for DENIM DWG??👖 New endless mode is out!! 🤑 DWG premium half price One time purchase for endless and all future modes 😎 Daily free forever 🙅 Ads NEVER EVER Update! Or get it: playdwg.com @bearwaves.com #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 16/02/2026

Caught this mindset in Skong, and equally, when they release some insanely hard DLC, I'll be skipping it

An excerpt from the post: "I’ve been writing for literally a decade now about Bloodborne and its impact on me, how it changed how I thought about what games were for, how I talk about them. I’ve spoken to friends about how, look, it’s not you against the game, right, it’s you against yourself, you know? You learn a lot about your own brain from how you overcome these challenges and stay calm in the face of frustration. It’s meditative, like."

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 21/01/2026

Proud of u guys here's my fan art of that one dude with the spiky hair and the gun and the sword

A hand drawn pic of the high guards man with the spiky hair and the gun and the sword

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 05/01/2026

Like I took these the other day, touched them up myself just throwing around the curves and saturation and stuff in GIMP But I feel like if anybody outside people who follow me engaged with this the only thing that would get them to comment would be if I didn't put alt text on em

Wooden stairs in the snow, the snowfall speckles the image

Some tires on the side of a lock for boats to pass through. Snow dusts the top of them.

The sun pushing through clouds with silhouettes of vegetation in the foreground. The speckling of snow appears black against the golden sky

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 26/12/2025

How are you faring on the monthly leaderboard for December? Which @bearwaves.com team members can you beat with 5 days remaining? playdwg.com to show us what you're made of 😉 #videogames #indiegames #indiedev #wordgames #december

The DWG monthly leaderboard for December, trimmed to show the Bearwaves team, WILL, DAVE, JOEL, and OLLIE, with scores 2330, 2169, 1350, and 859 respectively.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 25/12/2025

Did you beat MCLOVIN in DWG today? Deny him entry: playdwg.com @bearwaves.com #indiegames #videogames #indiedev #gamedev

Mclovin's Hawaii driver license with a screenshot of the DWG leaderboard showing he got 74 points today

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 22/12/2025

DANCERS are DANCERS I was distracted by the presence of TAUTOLOGIES because I was distracted by the presence of TAUTOLOGIES Hence I did not get my second full clear

Dave's Word Game ending board, with a score of 169. The longest word was TAUTOLOGIES and the highest scoring word was DANCERS with 91

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 21/12/2025

🙂‍↕️ "Alexa, complete today's DWG board" 🤖 >> I submitted my score, 100 points! << Can you do better? Play now: playdwg.com @bearwaves.com #indiegames #indiedev #videogames #gamedev

An Amazon Alexa with a DWG leaderboard score from a user called ALEXA, who scored 100 points.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 21/12/2025

Did you beat 19th century composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in yesterday's DWG? playdwg.com <- play DWG @bearwaves.com #indiegames #videogames #indiedev #classicalmusic

A photo of Tchaikovsky with a screenshot overlaid of a user of the same name on Dave's Word Game's leaderboard, having gotten 90th place with a score of 109

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 20/12/2025

A very nicely written review as always, with the flavour I always expect! However, I regret that I have to inform my favourite games writer Joel Goodwin that he was wrong about TANTALISE being missing from the word list I think it might have been a case of a typo ;) (hopefully not a bug 😬)

Sure: it’s got foibles. It did me wrong by not recognising TANTALISE once, so I guess it was looking for what Americans do, which is TANTALIZE. Second, I lost a high point score once because I was out of mobile signal at the time, a war of tiles and geometry lost on the 5G wind.

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 19/12/2025

This Steam sale, @bearwaves.com are giving away our first game, Feud, for FREE! The reason for this is because it is, and had always been, free #indiedev #freegames #videogames #indiegame

A screenshot from Feud's Steam page, showing it is free to play on Windows, Mac, and Linux

A screenshot of Feud. It shows a 4x4 board of pieces, with no empty squares. Each player has a king, two archers, two knights, a medic, a shield, and a wizard. There is an inkwell and eyeglasses for decoration

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 18/12/2025

This concept did not make it into our game but it took 30 seconds to pitch, draw, and reject as "too hard, and too silly" whereas generating this with AI would have been a significant pain in the neck

A sketch of a DWG board where Dave is sat in the corner eating the letters you submitted while holding a lil knife and fork. His hair looks like noodles because this was drawn by the sound designer, not the artist

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 17/12/2025

Disappointing that user SIXSEVEN has not committed to the bit by always scoring 67 #DWG

DWG's leaderboard. Today's daily leaderboard is selected. Number 73's username is SIXSEVEN, but they have disappointingly scored 77 today

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 17/12/2025

Today's challenge: get the lowest possible score in Dave's Word Game! To pull this off, you have to enter a 2-letter word for all 10 turns, without scoring a single bonus! @bearwaves.com Think you can pull this challenge off today? Try: playdwg.com #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #golf

Screenshot of today's ending score screen in DWG, with a score of 20 nestled among some abstract flowers, the longest and highest scoring words are both QI, for a score of 2

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 16/12/2025

Is it truly a placeholder if it isn't a violent neon green?

A screenshot of some of the colours used for Dave's Word Game. The default colour is called GROSS_GREEN, with html code #01FF01. It is used whenever a colour is not otherwise specified

GROSS_GREEN shown on a colour picker. It is a violent neon green

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 15/12/2025

The sequel Soup Tomatoes, blanched, peeled Onion and garlic softened, all blitzed smooth (ish) Simmered, blitzed again (smooth), seasoned, grana padano grated in, basil torn, oat cream for silk Extra care, all 6 (+1) pieces in attendance this time

A photo of a wooden serving board with the aforementioned garlic bread, alongside a bowl of light orange cream of tomato soup

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 15/12/2025

Our very own Dave has set the challenge today - can you beat him at his own game? @bearwaves.com #indiegame #wordgame #indiedev #gamedev

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 15/12/2025

WE ARE AGO Dave's Word Game is out! Now! You can slack off at work and do puzzles! #indiegames RULE WORK DROOLS ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review! It will make us popular! 👉 Playdwg.com 👈 🐻👋🐻👋🐻👋🐻👋🐻👋🐻👋🐻👋 @bearwaves.com #gamedev #monday #newreleases #wordgame

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 13/12/2025

HE IS GIDDY Dave is so excited to see you post a score on the leaderboard this Monday (and so is everybody else at @bearwaves.com ) Presave here: playdwg.com #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #boredatwork

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Will @will.bearwaves.com · 12/12/2025

MERCIFUL MOVE We're dropping DWG at the end of the year so it wouldn't sweep #TGA You're welcome 🤗 Coming MONDAY playdwg.com @bearwaves.com #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #goty

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