Hello! My name is Artem, and this is my blog!

TL;DR

aka @moofoo aka @shybovycha.

Passionate about software, boardgames and have a very specific taste in anime, movies, music and video games. Full-stack.

Hardcore interviewer:

Boardgames

In possession

• Arkham Horror LCG (+ The Dunwich Legacy cycle)
• Lord of the Rings LCG
• Legends of Andor
• Gloom of Kilforth & Shadows of Kilforth & Call of Kilforth
• Mage Knight Ultimate Edition
• Runebound 3rd edition
• Tannhauser (+ Operation Novgorod)
• Takenoko
• Evolution
• Star realms
• u2i softwar (🌟)
• 7th continent
• Robinson Crusoe
• Tiny epic galaxies
• Patchwork
• Pixel Tactics 1 & Pixel Tactics 2 & Pixel Tactics 3
• Avocado smash
• Munchkin
• Machi Koro (🇵🇱)
• Caverna: Cave vs Cave (🇵🇱)
• Bohnanza (🇵🇱)
• Star Wars: The Outer Rim (🇵🇱)
• Wingspan
• Hive
• Flick of Faith (🇵🇱)

Looking for 🔍

• Runebound: Unbreakable Bonds
• 8 Minute Empires

Considering 🤔

• Call to Adventure
• Dale of Merchants
• Furnace
• Spyfall
• Oriflamme (❔)
• Hansa Teutonica (❔)
• Undaunted: Normandy (❔❔)

Gone 💸

• Sword & Sorcery
• Stone Age
• Castles of Burgundy (2011)
• Small world
• Noir: a deductive mystery game

Favourite books, music, movies & anime

Anime

Long story short: myanimelist.

Movies

• everything Hannibal Lecter
• Exorcist
• Alien
• The Matrix
• Rick & Morty
• tons of those

Big hater of Avengers series and Disney’s interpretation of Star Wars.

Books

• “The Invincible” by Stanisław Lem
• “Old Man’s War” by John Scalzi
• “The Firefall” cycle (“Blindsight” and “Echopraxia”) by Peter Watts 🌟
• “Hyperion” and “The Fall of Hyperion” by Dan Simons

Music

• 🤘 melodic death metal
• viking metal
• black metal
• symphonic metal
• 🤘 satanic pop metal
• punk-rock
• dubstep

Video games

• Gothic 1, Gothic 2, Risen series
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Two Worlds series
• Divinity Original Sin
• Neighbours From Hell 1 & 2
• Unreal Tournament
• Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom (exclusively)
• ＠ true roguelike games: Angband, Nethack, Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup
• Dwarf Fortress

Photography

I love photography, specifically macro and astro. I’ve started with Canon Powershot, then switched to Pentax K-5 and then landed on this setup:

• Canon 7D mk II
• Sony a7 III with Metabones (Canon → Sony-E mount) adapter

with few lenses:

• Canon 100mm F/2.8L
• Canon 18-70mm F/2.8L
• Canon 50mm F/1.8
• Laowa 15mm F/4
• Laowa 25mm F/2.8 (3 - 5x super-macro)

I’m publishing some of my shots on Instagram @moo_foo

It is mostly about spiders:

And starry sky:

Guitars

For quite a few years been trying to learn to play guitar. Since I’ve moved countries few times, I’ve got a collection of three guitars:

Contacts

You can find me on:

• Twitter
• GitHub
• StackOverflow
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

Travels

I’ve been to quite a few places across the globe: