iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jordan @pagemasterjordan.bsky.social · 8h

📼 NEW VIDEO ALERT 📼 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗖 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗧 𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦: 𝗚𝗢𝗧𝗬 𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 Project Reignition is so good it gave me brainworms for a bit. Here's a video about how it improves on Secret Rings, as well as what Secret Rings managed to get right in the first place. Reposts much appreciated! 🔄️ youtu.be/RKxi0boPklQ

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Sonic and the Secret Rings: GOTY Edition

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 7h

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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gatakk @gatakk.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

過去絵　ザンボット3

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Ridwan Chandra | MeganeRid @meganerid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New walker mech! :D Pilot enters the cockpit from the back :d #mecha #scifi #illust #イラスト

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 23h

So glad we finally got to see that part of Steel Ball Run that is the equivalent of the scared master comic animated #steelballrun

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Johnny is watching his nails spin while Gyro watches from a distance

Johnny: UAAAAAAGGHHHHHH! I CAN FEEL THE POWER OVER-FLOWING!! GYRO! WHAT IS THIS...

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Gyro looking scared

Gyro: I don't know... That's scary...

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ヤシン @inuinukawaiine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

スキマ時間にちょこちょこやってるパズルゲームのキャラが大変かわいいという話 #babaisyou

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

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Unions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they could

New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 09/10/2026

You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

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Will Koehler @willk3d.com · 08/10/2026

You'll never guess where this goes

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Z Ace @z-ace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That's not wrong, but isn't that just everything now days?

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Ranjo Manjo @ranjomanjo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*extremely crunchy 90s synthesised arcade shmup voice* ThErE iS oNlY oNe RuLe In ThE jUnGlE: wHeN tHe LiOn Is HuNgRy, He EaTs

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Sunshine Moon @sunshinemoon.zone · 09/10/2026

A thought I've been finding myself having recently is "I can't tell at a glance if this promotional image is or isn't AI, but even if it isn't I'm dismissing it because it has that sheen of over-processed fakeness that made it questionable"

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Z Ace @z-ace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Little me was a fan of all the weird PC 2d platformers, and I remember feeling a real melancholy in the mid-late 90s after I realized that the FPS boom probably meant I wasn't going to get any more of those.

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 09/10/2026

Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse

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written about this before but whatever.

Videogames as an artform have a problem with nostalgia. Not that people shouldn’t have nostalgia. Or that games shouldn’t draw from the past. But instead the weight we give to nostalgia.

When people go back to enjoy old games, we assume it’s a nostalgia thing. Do people assume that with books? Or movies? Or music? People certainly do go back in time with those mediums for nostalgia! It happens! I know when my sister is listening to certain cheesy old boyband pop or punk she’s often having a musical nostalgia trip! That’s cool! But we still don’t ASSUME, CONSTANTLY thats why people go back to stuff.

People like old stuff because it’s cool and interesting. It’s historic. People go watch Metropolis still, but how many people alive could even be nostalgic for a movie like that?

I almost want to see the word Nostalgia excised from discussions about video games – not because nostalgia is bad but because we over use it to the point where it’s actually harmful I think.

I mean I made IWBTG and am making an NES style game right now and even for me, the obsession with ‘nostalgia’ seems crazy.

Old stuff is cool. I know this because I see a lot of you kids on my tumblr feed talking about games I know you didn’t grow up with. It’s like finding your parents record or CD collection. Thinking the primary greatness of old games is bringing back memories of eating cereal and playing games on a saturday morning is a great injustice, even if those memories for some are perfectly worthwhile things.

#this post is 11 years old and still holds true

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Dooper @dooper.live · 09/10/2026

I fucking love my Trans friends. Fuck off with the transphobic bullshit. Suck my ass. Trans Rights. Remember to fucking vote.

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✧Mirai✦ @starrymirai.moe · 07/10/2026

I feel like my GOAT TGBS literally made this vid for me and @kayin.moe as ammo for anytime we yap about metroidvania's sacrificing their strengths at the altar of "good" combat and bosses www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkXD...

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How "Good" Should Metroid Combat Be?

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MegaZeux @megazeux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it's that season where Discord can't be bothered to remember your settings again. don't forget to go turn this off!

fucking discord turned on their fucking halloween sound pack again, go to settings > notifications > sounds to turn off this tedious setting yet again

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 07/10/2026

another momentous EGG Console drop next week: Magical Zoo's THE SCREAMER (PC88), the 1985 3D cyberpunk dungeon crawler known by some for its gnarly setting & hardcore chara-deleting permadeath system, and indirectly known by millions more the world over for 𝗗𝗘𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗭𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗗𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗗

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プロジェクトEGG - YouTube

EGGコンソールザ・スクリーマー PC-8801 for Nintendo Switch（EGGCONSOLE THE SCREAMER）

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 07/10/2026

I have no interest arguing what may or may not be done sustainably with "Best Practices", but in pragmatic terms virtually all of these projects are toys cosplaying as tools. Toys can be cool (when they're not ruining the world), but pretending to be a serious tool is deceitful, intentionally or not

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Tirk @frogkaro.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

my ocs: oh boy, I exist! I wonder what kind of lore I will have? me:

"In 2041, basketball was made illegal and almost all b-ballers were massacred in what is now known as "The Great B-Ball Purge". I lived, but I lost my reason for living. B-ball was gone." - Charles Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

8 Closed
Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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Z Ace @z-ace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is really cool but I almost think I shouldn't be looking at it. This has to be forbidden knowledge.

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 06/10/2026

SHADOW TOWER (PS1) - full tower map!! 🗺️ hot off the presses. true OGs played this in the 90s because it was made by the Armored Core people. how the tables have turned... www.vgcartography.com?game=shadow-...

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Z Ace @z-ace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I also tried using heavily-thinned acrylic black instead of panel liner, since I wasn't sure how the old plastic would handle the oil, which seemed to work quite well! I'll have to remember that the Tamiya red is a little orange-ish. The pilot came out way more Luke Skywalker than I wanted.

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Z Ace @z-ace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had a lot of fun with it, although it was a learning experience. I wanted to dry brush metallic gray on black for the inners, but the molded detail wasn't quite sharp enough to catch the paint. I should probably buy some prethinned varnish because getting the consistency right was a pain.

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Z Ace @z-ace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The mechanism still works, as well! Lookatit go! youtu.be/ipwPoogLGKg

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Zoids Tomy Dimetrodon SOE 065

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Z Ace @z-ace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've never really gotten into Zoids, but I've somehow had a Dimetrodon kit in my closet for years and years that I finally found time to assemble. It was very different from your typical gunpla. Thicker plastic, broader details. No individual part looked like anything until the final assembly.

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A Spiced Pumpkin Sergal 🎃🍂 @adorablesergal.neocities.org · 04/10/2026

Cohost became a safe space for unpacking complex feelings around the high expectations our parents often place on our shoulders.

Cohost user Kortney writes, "when I was telling my mom about planning to go to MFF 2019, I showed her a couple of pictures of friends' sonas (and also mine mixed in!) just to be like "this is what these folks get up to, I have a bunch of friends in this group" and she was promptly like "so a bunch of these folks want to represent themselves as these wild creatures in crazy colors and someone you know just wants to be a plain old deer. well, I guess it takes all kinds. ...fursona shamed by my mom." Kourtney follows up with another post, "Mom, I have something to tell you ... I'm not a sparkledog."

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 20/03/2025

CASTLEVANIA heat maps from here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCk...

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Have some good news folks!

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Florence @justflorence.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

what do you MEAN the developers of Cookie's Bustle contacted every person who registered their copy by mail 25 years ago and invited them to a secret Cookie's Bustle party with live music and merch???

A Cookie's Bustle "25th secret event" Cookie Blair bear

A Cookie's Bustle t-shirt, featuring Cookie Blair flying in the air

Musicians playing instruments alongside a mascot of Cookie Blair, a teddy bear girl

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rdein @rdein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've written a post introducing Record of Dorathia, the dungeon crawler RPG project we have been working on these past few years. I hope you enjoy it! Let us know your thoughts! Link: www.bombservice.com/post/record-... #rdein_dev #redora

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 03/10/2026

"Hey, did you know? Mechs look super cool when they're in the rain! 🎶" Armored Core: 4 & For Answer Rayleonard Aaliyah cosplay via: fixupx.com/11Vadu/statu...

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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026

“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap

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Blur @tomboypepsilove.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Watched an El Santo movie and I htink the funniest thing to me is that he's simultaneously played as a detective superhero yet he's also still an in-universe wrestler, so he has to pause the plot to go wrestling three separate times

El Santo on a phonecall: "When I develop it, it'll be confirmed. Got to go wrestling."

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Blur @blurmarsh.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Starter AC #ArmoredCore #アーマード・コア

An Armored Core 1 starter AC standing with its gun ready, surrounded by a square grid with bits of hexagons and binary code representing its radar, its eye shining. The text above it says "MAIN SYSTEM ENGAGING COMBAT MODE".

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 04/10/2026

oh hey its my girlfriend

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Dani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026

FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 03/10/2026

Ultimately too, that person still has to try and limit out much other peoples opinions effect their personal day, but still, people are going to yap about how things make them feel, and the negative is no more or less valid than the positive. Just... gotta be courteous and considerate.

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 03/10/2026

And I think there is a bit of a small tyranny in how we prioritize positive feelings, because you can flip this. You can talk about how much it sucks when everyone is gushing over the thing you think is OBVIOUSLY GARBAGE, and how frustrating it is.

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 03/10/2026

So like I agree completely with the first part, but I feel conflicted on the second. It's important to limit your splash damage when you can, and practical realities of dogpiling might mean *now is not the time*, but ultimately people gotta not let their day ruined by people hating on shit they like

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