Krazov

"I drive. That's what I do. That's all I do."
—Driver in "Drive"

"Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what's incomplete and saying, 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'"
—Muad'Dib in "Dune"

"I'm among no one."
—Lone Man in "The Limits of Control"

My ergodic website: https://krazov.com
GitHub: https://github.com/krazov
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@krazov

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krazov_at_mstdn.social@momostr.pink

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2026-09-14 13:06:06 UTC

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It shows.

2026-08-30 14:37:20 UTC

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I clicked the link and listened to the song, I really like "Basket Case", but then in recommendations I found a video about tribal people listening to modern rock songs for the first time and reacting to it (Trybals), and it was amazing. The proper Internet experience where you surf from one topic to another. Thanks for this trip.

2026-08-26 08:13:41 UTC

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If you liked it then you might give the 1980s Shriekback a shot, too.

2026-08-26 08:06:09 UTC

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I love this album. At one point I found "One Thing Leads to Another" in my liked songs on Spotify. When and why, I cannot say. But I fell in love with the bass. And then it turned out there's a whole album. I'd like to get a CD one day.

2026-07-02 18:50:49 UTC

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That was how Brother became the best printer.

2026-06-17 11:50:29 UTC

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Together, they could have everything.

2026-05-18 07:42:42 UTC

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I had no idea there were any games after the first one.

2026-04-23 08:54:59 UTC

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Alright, you convinced me. I was eyeing it, anyway, due to Mackenzie Davis.

2026-03-29 19:16:28 UTC

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True, but Bluesky the company knew that, and Attie — the "AI feed composer" in question — is a separate app, to not piss off Blueskyans. Also, it's not really AI, apparently, but more of an algorithm, which led someone to a hypothesis that the whole ruse was to satisfy (mostly crypto) investors. I'm still rather observing it, so we'll see, but BS devs started vibe-coding Bluesky, so this can take a sudden turn any time now.

2026-03-29 17:20:27 UTC

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However, the majority of comments under Jay's announcement were not amused, to say the least.

2026-03-28 23:21:33 UTC

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It's always the delivery that counts.

2026-02-12 14:17:25 UTC

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Masto.ai with no AI. 😎

2026-02-12 14:16:38 UTC

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I blame Agent Smith. He was code, too, and we treated him like a tragic character. In hindsight, it was a mistake.

2026-01-29 16:01:33 UTC

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At first, I was going to make a sarcastic comment, with sarcasm aimed at Germany, but then I realised that, of course, a lot of us know very well not to there already; however, Germany stating it officially means taking it to a new level. Hence, I acknowledge this development with no sarcasm.

2026-01-28 12:33:15 UTC

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Ah, yes. I like this store.

2026-01-28 11:27:40 UTC

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Polish language has a couple of attempts here. One is "enszitifikacja," which is a straight cliche. The other one is "gównowacenie," which is a transaltion. But the best one is "gównia pochyła," which is a play on words with "równia pochyła" (slippery slope), where "slope" is tranformed into "shit." The rationale is that once you're on it, you just roll down, and there's no going back.
(I also saw "rozpierdoszana," but I don't even know how to explain it. :D)

2026-01-26 14:41:36 UTC

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If only spinning new instances was affordable to anyone below the strictest Big Tech.

2026-01-23 14:33:41 UTC

Last week, I read that Wikipedia is finalising a deal with AI companies, and my initial reaction was: there goes my monthly donation to them; but this week, I read a little more on the subject, and I realised that the situation is tough, and Wikipedia could take up a fight with an opponent with far more resources on their hand, or they could minimise their daily damage.

2026-01-15 13:18:22 UTC

I don't really like stand-up comedy and I don't watch it, but sometimes I get to see a short bit, oftentimes as a preview on Netflix, and every time it happens, I like to imagine that I am doing a stand-up somewhere. In December, I was freestyling stuff during the company event, and at some point I told to my colleagues, "I could easily do stand-up," such good my flow was; and they agreed, my colleagues, I mean.

2025-11-28 10:54:02 UTC

Let's buy some games that I might never try. This time it's "Mortal Shell" and "The Serpent Rouge" (both for Switch), but I also think about "Dex," which is patiently waiting for me.
"The Serpent Rouge" is 90% not my kind of thing but playing as a plague doctor is my soft spot and it was only 2 euros now. What @npub1e9x…msz2 made me realise is I don't have to finish every game I start. I might just dip my toes and see what's what. And that's okay.

2025-11-12 15:08:36 UTC

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Wait, what, casinos tried using Fediverse for promotion?

2025-11-05 22:02:28 UTC

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Okay. My browser doesn't have that, so I misunderstood.

2025-11-05 08:48:24 UTC

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But that's not a *side* bar but a *scroll* bar. So I still think that it's about the content.
(Why scrollbar is needed: because of accessibility. I don't think I'll find it now, but I read a thread a while back on it.)
Content-wise, 80% of people use mobile devices to access content, so you need a single column look in place anyway, and I always find it distracting. When you're in the article, that's the only thing you should see. But I'm a radical in this minimalism.

2025-11-04 16:11:49 UTC

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I always design my personal pages without sidebars.

2025-11-03 12:50:11 UTC

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I had no idea. Thanks for posting this. Now I'm going over the differences between the two.

2025-09-15 12:01:44 UTC

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As the result, the contender got only little below 100% of votes.

2025-08-31 13:44:58 UTC

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I noticed that all those messages have the same text, differing with the link and the nickname. Would it be possible to filter them out and block from getting into the instance?

2025-08-10 17:41:14 UTC

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Twenty years ago such a review would be an instant sell for me. Now, however, I'll thank you for watching it for me, so I don't have to.

2025-08-05 19:07:19 UTC

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"No Country For Old Men" introduced me to Cormac McCarthy, although the Polish translation completely disregarded his visual style (dialogues merged with narration, treatment of commas, etc.), which was a subpar experience. Later books were better in that regard.

2025-08-04 17:52:49 UTC

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And of course Cormac McCarthy's "Suttree." None of those books survived long as the greatest one of all time, but that was my impression after finishing each of them.

2025-08-04 08:51:52 UTC

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I'm just reading "Moby Dick!" But going back to your question, I would place "House of Leaves" high on the list. And "The Birds of Verhovina."

2025-08-03 08:35:06 UTC

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Only For Followers is an option too.

2025-07-01 14:22:41 UTC

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The entire Doom scene revolves around reused assets. Granted, it's a bit of a different situation, but what wins in the end is the gameplay.

2025-02-11 12:27:29 UTC

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Bending the knee.

2025-01-12 12:46:21 UTC

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Imagine how low self confidence someone needs to have to pull stunts like that. And to self-own themselves. :D

2024-10-22 11:57:25 UTC

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, this "forever" is not something I would take for granted.

2024-10-20 06:55:19 UTC

I love the rewind functionality in DSDA Doom. All those monster lockers don't piss me off any more. Neither small errors of judgement. Instead of saving between fights, which I often forget, I just rewind. And exploration is less endangering for the level's progress. It's like Doom but with time-travel.
#Doom #DSDADoom

2024-10-14 15:51:17 UTC

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, it is only now that I realised you make two spaces after each sentence. And I respect that choice. I've been experimenting with it myself recently, so now I see that.

2024-10-11 18:25:58 UTC

I decided to try DSDA Doom, which is getting whole lot of recommendations, and my, oh my, isn't it smooth experience. There's only a handful of settings, but I got all like I wanted. My favourite new thing (kind of, it was in PrBoom+) is the crosshair locking on a target, which allows me to see who am I shooting. It's also helpful in the darkness. I will miss some of Doom Retro climatic improvements, though.
#DSDADoom #Doom

2024-10-09 14:14:00 UTC

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, but there was endless runner with their characters (I preferred the dog, anyway). I don't remember his name now, though.

2024-10-09 12:38:29 UTC

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, reminds my of time spent with My Talking Tom (courtesy of my daughter).

2024-09-26 08:41:32 UTC

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, I tried playing "Doom 3" twice in my life, and it's getting so boring at some point (around Lost Souls turning up) that I need to force myself. And I just can't. And I really wanted to see the Hell levels. They say that Hell was done really well in this one.

2024-09-24 09:11:08 UTC

Someone made a Doom map that has 90,000 monsters (for comparison, nuts.wad is *only* 10,000). It's called "Oversaturation." I started watching a playthrough, which is 6-hour long, and I was even planning to split it into 1-hour chunks, like a series, but then I saw that it's only part 1 of I don't know how many. So I abandoned it. That's just too much. But man, 90K. That's a small town. Quite impressive.
#Doom

2024-09-19 20:08:26 UTC

I played "Odyssey of Noises," map 29 from "The Plutonia Experiment," yesterday. I must have played it many years ago for the last time, so I was curious about how the vague memory holds. Turns out I had something bigger in mind. While the map grew with me in my memory, it shrank in comparison to modern mapping. It also had surprisingly monotonic texturing. But the gameplay holds. In the beginning, I had to stay off the streets. It got better once I had gathered my arsenal.
#Doom

2024-08-23 23:44:39 UTC

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, it's a mapset for Doom 2. It's really good, but now it's tainted because I saw some and replaying it is no fun yet. Doom on Switch behaves differently in regards to saving.

2024-08-23 23:40:03 UTC

I played "Liminal Doom 2," and got to an exit, but it seemed still a lot to do, so I decided to quick-save, go to the exit (to make sure), and then load again. But I had `autosave` on, and it overwrote my save. 😭
Now I have to play it again, but I am too pissed off, so I guess it'll wait a couple of weeks or something.
BTW there are some tight running sections which suck with gamepad. Also, WTF is this tight situation with Cyberdemon in map 2? I god-moded it.

2024-08-16 11:09:49 UTC

I'm playing "Back to Saturn X" (called "BTSX" as an official mod) and for the first time ever, I am enamored with the soundtrack. Some tracks heavily remind me of 80s gritty science-fiction movies, which goes very well with these rusty textures. *chef's kiss* I even found Jimmy Paddock's Bandcamp and listening to it as I type these words here.
#BackToSaturnX #Doom

2024-08-14 20:35:59 UTC

I was reading about "Legacy of Rust," the new official Doom episode, and someone complained about one level being almost unbeatable pistol-start on Ultra-Violence. To which someone else quoted one of the Cassali brothers, who were behind "The Plutonia Experiment," that he wouldn't respect a person who "chooses a higher difficulty level and then complains that it's too difficult." You chose it that hard. Thus, UV is the new Souls-like. You'll die a couple of times before succeeding.
#Doom

2024-08-14 18:01:09 UTC

I accidentally discovered that Liminal Doom got a sequel:
https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/j-l/ld2
Never enough time to play 'em all.
#Doom #LiminalSpace

2024-08-12 11:35:52 UTC

After two decades with (G)ZDoom and over a decade with Doom Retro, I got used to non-infinitely-tall monsters, so KEXDoom reverting to the traditional approach is something I need to get accustomed to. On the bright sight, I can chainsaw them at ledges. Plus, which apparently is Boom-related, monsters can fall of the ledge and something that was meant to be a turret is now chasing me. :D
Also, saving and loading makes monsters lose their intention, so I save only between rooms/actions.
#Doom