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Azathoth
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Finished campaigns of Modern Warfare (2019) and Modern Warfare 2 (2022).

No Steam reviews because I pirated. I only wanted to play the campaign but forcing me to shell out a hundred dollarydoos for a six year old cash cow is a fucking rort.

Review: unintentionally incredibly hilarious.
New blog post!

Making a satellite basemap because you care about your users privacy, making it static XYZ tiles because you care about your compute.

You can do all this for just the cost of your sanity (and maybe drive space): az.id.au/dev/static-f...
Az - Static File Webmap
Protect user privacy and avoid third parties for the low cost of your sanity and bandwidth by making your own static file basemap.
az.id.au
Oooh when I do a write up of it I think I'll have to title it that. :D
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Wolfenstein: The New Order: steamcommunity.com/id/judges119...
everything you want from a wolfenstein game: killing nazis.

Dead Island 2: steamcommunity.com/id/judges119...
Leagues ahead of any Far Cry or Borderlands I've played for chaotic/silly/fun and good design.
Steam Community :: judges119 :: Review for Wolfenstein: The New Order
it's got everything you want in a wolfenstein game! killing nazis.
steamcommunity.com
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Flux by Jinwoo Chong: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Camouflaged in trappings of a techno thriller this book is ready to pounce and force you to confront grief, the marginalisation of Asian-Americans, and realising you are repeating abuse cycles you promised to break.
Az Vera's review of Flux
4/5: Fantastic and unsettling read that is not done justice by it's blurb. You go in expecting: "A dazzling, time-bending neo-noir about a young Korean American man whose reality unravels when he sus...
www.goodreads.com
i love that Dead Island 2 is so incredibly silly but also the first zombie media that gives a description why some zombies are different.

the super strength ones are roided-out gym-bros, the runners are mostly Uber Eats delivery cyclists, etc.
working on a project to add a Digital Elevation model to my Satisfactory server map but it was going to take ~28days to finish processing.

asked myself "WWSD" (what would @shrydar.bsky.social do) and optimised it down to 2hrs
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Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
oooh shit that is dope, thank you!
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Peacemaker S01
Superman (2025)

i always felt his MCU stuff was G-rated saccharine nerd-bait but freed of Disney he does an entire season on rising US white supremacy and examining childhood trauma and then a movie on Israel committing genocide?
guess it depends on the context? like if it's work task probably matplotlib if it's easier and say "we can provide an SVG vector but it would take longer"?
awww thank you! <3
one of my favourite sayings that always gets me a "please do not say that when we get to the client meeting"
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"And finally, a couple of weeks ago, I realised that all this daydreaming wasn’t helping me acheive my goal. I could shit in one hand and wish in the other and see which fills up first, or I could just use what I had lying around and get started"
- az.id.au/ops/claude-t...
Az - Claude: The Laptop
An experiment in low power computing using a Raspberry Pi, small HDMI display, and a keyboard.
az.id.au
omg 👀
i'd be the same, like i'm not sure it's a job i'd actually want but it would be worth it for the comedic bit.
coordinate system (math/stats) or coordinate system (GIS)?
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"oh my god we've been trying to teach you that it's called gas-lamping, not gas-lighting for two hours now, look you can see on this clock how long we've been at this!"
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@az.scorpinc.social GasClocking (vb):

"... a research study where participants were required to engage in various tasks with a clock that was either accurate or artificially speeded up."
👋 Hi! Time Perception researcher here. Emotional time dilation has been studied pretty extensively with some neat findings. (I recognize OP was meant as joke but this is what I do). Check out my recent Psyche article if curious psyche.co/guides/how-t...
How to alter the passage of time to feel fast or slow | Psyche Guides
Knowing the psychology behind why moments drag or whizz by can give you a degree of control over your experience of time
psyche.co