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Nyx 💜 @nyxvee.bsky.social · 5d

A lush hotel garden and pool, with green mountains between the palm trees and cloudy sky.

Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · 13d

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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.

Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · 21d

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Locke (2013): letterboxd.com/judges119/fi...

Traffic (2000): letterboxd.com/judges119/fi...

Grotsnik: Da Mad Dok by Denny Flowers: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

A ★★★★½ review of Locke (2013)

So simply done but such a powerful film on one man's attempts to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma by owning his own mistakes, no matter how much of his own life he blows up and his unwillin...

letterboxd.com

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · 28d

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

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · 29d

Oooh when I do a write up of it I think I'll have to title it that. :D

Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · 29d

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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.

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · 29d

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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

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Sep 16

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.

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Sep 15

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

part of the map from Satisfactory with a red line and a single icon showing a truck traveling across part of the world. the map looks like a standard web map interface using WebGL to display it with a certain pitch so you can see the rise and fall of terrain.

a bit spotty in places where i lack data but a solid first draft.

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Sep 1

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Nock Loose by Patrick Marlborough: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

John Wick by way of He Died With A Felafel In His Hand. Truly the Great Australian Novel of my generation.

Az Vera's review of Nock Loose

5/5: John Wick by way of He Died With A Felafel In His Hand. A true "Great Australian Novel" that tackles our culture and history and refuses to pull punches, a story that lambasts itself and our natu...

www.goodreads.com

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The Hearse Whisperer @babadooknukem.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Sep 1

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Wolfenstein: Youngblood: steamcommunity.com/id/judges119...
This did not deserve the negative reviews. An absolute blast killin' Nazis.

House Flipper: steamcommunity.com/id/judges119...

Steam Community :: judges119 :: Review for Wolfenstein: Youngblood

An incredibly satisfying and fun time killing Nazis, it carries well the vibe of all the recent entries (Old Blood, New Order, New Colossus) and also the legacy of the Wolfenstein franchise itself. No...

steamcommunity.com

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Aug 27

oooh shit that is dope, thank you!

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Aug 26

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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?

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Aug 21

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"?

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Aug 21

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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Millie @millieindeed.bsky.social · Aug 20

"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

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Aug 21

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.

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Aug 21

coordinate system (math/stats) or coordinate system (GIS)?

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Aug 15

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Death And Other Occupational Hazards by Veronika Dapunt: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Firewatch: steamcommunity.com/id/judges119...

Death and Other Occupational Hazards

An original and darkly comedic murder mystery about a f…

www.goodreads.com

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Aug 11

It me! :D

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Millie @millieindeed.bsky.social · Aug 10

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · Jul 5

i'm a batterypilled duracel

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Aug 10

when is GIS not GIS? a post on making a sick dashboard and also some beefs with The Bureau™:

az.id.au/dev/rain-rad...

Az - Rain Radar - When GIS Is Not GIS

Y'know, everything can be GIS if you've got that grindset. If you're CRS-pilled and not OGC-maxxing. But here I look at how to turn rain radar observations into a handy forecast dashboard and then get...

az.id.au

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Azathoth @az.scorpinc.social · Aug 8

"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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Jeanette @jeanette555.bsky.social · Aug 8

@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."

Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · Aug 6

👋 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

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