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@marat.uk
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An indie in London, I build games that are destined to die out

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Marat @marat.uk · 26/05/2026
Never forget
Comment by Neil Cicierega on YouTube, 9 years ago:
Someone recently confirmed for me that Lenny Kravitz heard this and his reply was “What the hell”
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Marat @marat.uk · 15/05/2026
Don’t worry man, I gotchu
Search results for "horse costume on horseback" showing an example of a horse rider wearing a horse costume
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Marat @marat.uk · 08/02/2026
1 GiB!!! You should be able to see the total objects at the bottom left in the status bar, mine is something like 7:1 files to folders What might work is increasing the USN journal size in Options > Indexes > NTFS Found a post that reads: "I recommend using a maximum size of: 131072 KB (128 MB)"
voidtools' Everything Options menu, Indexes, NTFS, showing the Settings for Local Disk (C:)
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Marat @marat.uk · 08/02/2026
Huh... I have it running as a service and it's using 755MB, but then again I have 8 million files and a bunch of stuff indexed:
voidtools' Everything, Indexes Options menu, showing the following indexed: recent changes, file size, folder size, date modified, attributes; and the following for fast sort: size, date modified, path
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Marat @marat.uk · 04/02/2026
A true classic: www.oglaf.com/portrait/
Oglaf comic strip, "Portrait":
“I’ve devised an incense of bad decisions!"
"Why have you labelled it 'Incense of Wisdom'?”
"…I don’t know"
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Marat @marat.uk · 28/01/2026
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Marat @marat.uk · 15/01/2026
Nice, somehow felt longer than v0.1 Not being able to choose the Bankers' algorithm is a bit frustrating once you get coins on both sides, would be nice to tell them "left side first" etc Not that converting all shooters to bankers doesn't get them picked up :P Would love to see E+ instead of Qx
End screen of Sos' Lazy Kickers v0.2
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Marat @marat.uk · 10/01/2026
Good iteration, I love the passive pp and the fact that there is an end state Roles were interesting to balance while playing, would be nice to have a way to set an auto ratio Had a bug where 3 players kicked the same ball Hilariously clicking the end screen takes me right back to the end screen
End Screen of Sos' Lazy Kickers v0.1
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Marat @marat.uk · 07/01/2026
Still looking for the actual image to match the third one, it's like a crocodile of a dog with tan fur, drawn in a 2000s anime style This will do for now:
The Cart Titan
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Marat @marat.uk · 31/12/2025
Ah, right, it's all non-breaking... (except the hyphen)
HTML source showing   between every word except the hyphen, which is a regular hyphen and not a non-breaking hyphen.
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Marat @marat.uk · 31/12/2025
Incredible
668px wide text container, showing a line break between "live-" and "action Street Fighter movie."669px wide text container, showing a single line ending between "live-action Street Fighter movie."
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Marat @marat.uk · 23/12/2025
this is giving George Foreman
A PlayStation 3 converted into a grill with a hinged lid
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Marat @marat.uk · 22/12/2025
Two people exchange money under PayPal, which speaks "to: DEADNAME, from: DEADNAME".
Both people have their eyes closed and they each think "I do not see it"
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Marat @marat.uk · 13/12/2025
I love shots like this, here is one I captured in Monster Hunter World
Monster Hunter World: a Gunlance user uses Wyvern's Fire (big explosion from a cannon) as a finishing move
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Marat @marat.uk · 11/12/2025
"The Fool knows that the only true madness is to regard this world as rational." Not sure where I saw this, but I tracked it down and want to share it Jan Kott's essay "King Lear or Endgame" (included in Shakespeare Our Contemporary pg 166/167, a translation by Boleslaw Taborski published in 1974)
Lear and Gloucester are adherents of eschatology; they desperately believe in the existence of absolutes.
They invoke the gods, believe in justice, appeal to laws of nature.
They have fallen off "Macbeth's stage", but remain its prisoners.
Only the Fool stands outside "Macbeth's stage", just as he has stood outside "Job's stage".
He is looking from the outside and does not follow any ideology.
He rejects all appearances, of law, justice, moral order.
He sees brute force, cruelty, and lust.
He has no illusions and does not seek consolation in the existence of natural or supernatural order, which provides for the punishment of evil and reward of good.
Lear, insisting on his fictitious majesty, seems ridiculous to him.
All the more ridiculous because he does not see how ridiculous he is.
But the Fool does not desert his ridiculous, degraded king, and accompanies him on his way to madness.
The Fool knows that the only true madness is to regard this world as rational.
The feudal order is absurd and can be described only in terms of the absurd.
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Marat @marat.uk · 01/11/2025
We get enough from the IHDR block to know it's a 1146x292 pixel image in TrueColor! The starting bytes \x89PNG\r\n are missing from the Base64 though, must be cropped off on the left. Fun fact: IHDR doesn't have to be the first block, but it usually is
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Marat @marat.uk · 30/10/2025
I wonder what makes some of the corners more crispy than others, almost seems like an even/odd pattern
Zoomed in screenshot of creature, with annotations of sharper corners
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Marat @marat.uk · 23/10/2025
Oh my god what is this beautiful and terrifying syntax
The start of an Inform 7 “recipe” for lemonade
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Marat @marat.uk · 22/10/2025
very good game, I rate it 6903+/498
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Marat @marat.uk · 26/09/2025
I can only imagine that it is a rogue homage
Feels Good Man man
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Marat @marat.uk · 16/09/2025
It could also just be a prank
21 of Galbraith's symbols, grouped with colours from https://flatuicolors.com/palette/defo
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Marat @marat.uk · 10/08/2025
"I'm doing my part too!" - Travis Lowen as Little Boy Trooper in Starship Troopers (1997)
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Marat @marat.uk · 09/08/2025
fucking incredible, please continue this
Start Mouse:
"You've picked up 174 dust"
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Marat @marat.uk · 19/07/2025
@alicen.bsky.social ok this menu is really funny
Loading bar Brighton menu
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Marat @marat.uk · 03/07/2025
The ultimate result of using generative AI has a lot of parallels to Click (2006)
The poster for the movie Click (2006)
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Marat @marat.uk · 24/06/2025
For this slide Ross says "The games industry is trying to up-end basic commerce" followed by "I think you have to go back to feudalism before neither of those things are true. Why even have consumer laws if you have no rights?" This I assume is his base position, I'll try to find a direct quote.
A slide from Stop Killing Games;
Basic commerce: Customer pays money
They get to keep what they bought OR They are informed upfront when their access to something ends
Most online-only videogames:
* Customer keeps nothing
* Customer is not informed upfront when access will end
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Marat @marat.uk · 12/06/2025
Goes hard as a laptop sticker www.etsy.com/listing/7465...
Brother printer with AvE die cut vinyl decal "no dumb area"
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Marat @marat.uk · 10/06/2025
Ah no wait it's all come full circle now
Seattle skyline with a quote attributed to Stephen Covey; "Begin with the end in mind"
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Marat @marat.uk · 19/05/2025
Dr. Ian Malcolm from Jurassic ParkJean Milburn from Sex EducationGenie from AladdinHobbes from Calvin and Hobbes
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Marat @marat.uk · 02/05/2025
Thankfully I made peace with it ~2 years ago, but unfortunately I moved on to 6x6 magic squares
Git commit on 2022-12-17, reading: Problems: pathLengthCache.containsKey gets VERY slow... it's possible to reimplement it by saving the Pair<Set<Long>, Long> as a Pair<BitmaskSet<Long>, Long> but would require implementing BitmaskSet
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Marat @marat.uk · 02/05/2025
This exact problem took me to some dark places Trigger warning, Java
Java code to compute powersets to aid with Held-Karp TSP solutions
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Marat @marat.uk · 22/04/2025
my mom!
close up of muscle man from Regular Show S02E06 "My Mom"
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Marat @marat.uk · 20/04/2025
you really said
uberman sleep schedule, where 24 hours of waking life is split into 8 sections of 2h40m awake + 20m sleep
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Marat @marat.uk · 07/04/2025
wow apparently it goes up to 5% with pig iron, and the max carbon infused iron is just called Cementite Good historical overview: youtu.be/7E__zqy6xcw Excellent phase diagram of all steels and a big lecture on the topic at large: youtu.be/-YIGjX-jcMo?...
Phase diagram of steel with respect to temperature versus carbon composition by weight.
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Marat @marat.uk · 06/04/2025
vince mcmahon reacts to a reasonably priced set of assorted ball bearings
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Marat @marat.uk · 06/04/2025
left: crunched version of "Thank you for changing my life"
right: the ultimate soundtracker
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Marat @marat.uk · 25/03/2025
that’s going to be a minor inconvenience for an insomniac princess
The princess and the pea punchline
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