“I think I’ll play this new game I’ve bought” I say to myself. “lol, Processing Vulkan Shaders (79%)” replies Steam.
Since getting home from EMF I’ve done approximately nothing, just some light life admin and watching YouTube. Really not sure what to do with myself now I’m not single mindedly focused on one thing.
Thankfully I’ve got a few more days of nothing planned, a family get together for my Dad’s birthday, and then I’m back to work for a day on Friday before a three day weekend so plenty of time to get back into the swing of living in the real world.
apparently yesterday's Trans Pride march in London was the biggest *ever,* not just in the UK. 150,000 people marched for trans rights.
Found the EMF 2026 Teardown Commemorative Plate while unpacking. Signed by those present on the last night using the pen of conduct (a giant brass biro with surprising momentum).
I so badly need to sleep but the post-event chat is still going and somehow it feels like once I climb into my normal bed I’m going to wake up in the real world tomorrow and it’ll all be over for another two years. (Except it won’t, because we’re already planning 2028)
There are very few upsides to carrying a camping chair with you on a train. Really the only one is being able to set it up in a disabled cubby left empty on an otherwise full service (yes, I will be vacating it immediately if needed).
Finally on the train home from #EMFCamp catching up on the internet and welling up a bit at all the amazing posts from the weekend. It’s an absolute honour to get together every two years and make something so special with a few hundred of the smartest, most creative people I know. I may write a proper blog post soon if only to process some of the thoughts flying around my head.
Almost time to stop my biannual holiday where we cosplay as construction workers (with a brief interruption when a bunch of people rudely invade our peaceful camp site) and it’s really quite beautiful. Down to 30 or so people on site now who’ve spent anything up to three weeks working together to do a crazy thing, the power is gone, and we’re all sat round a single battery powered bulb.
OH at #EMFCamp: “What I’ve not seen is a ride on Henry Hoover”
“I have, did you not see the Henry Hoover tent?”
Anywhere else everyone would have immediately called bullshit but we spent a few minutes debating and were then shown photographic evidence.
My watch just triggered its loudness warning at applause for someone finishing Tetris Effect.
Achievement unlocked: Rez-urected
Run Rex on a festival stage.
It’s not quite come off as I’d hoped (but lighting will hopefully work for Sektori later) but fuck me, @tef is currently playing Rez on a stage, and there are people coming in and out to watch. Tetris Effect in a bit, followed by me butchering Sektori, and then I’m just going to do pass the pad until people stop showing up.
#EMFCamp Arcade workshop, now until late.
Today in leaving it to the last minute news: Music based video games with lighting and sound system starts in 40 minutes. The lighting is not yet set up, and I'm not sure this computer is pushing audio to the mixer yet. Some code will be required.
@jarkman WoT is by the Arcade seeming unwell, possibly a lose cable but brief poking inside merely revealed it appears to use wires.
Left my meds at home by accident but I suspect I'm going to be sufficiently stimulated for the next few days. I've cracked open my first Club Mate of the event to make sure.
Just realised the station code for Ledbury is very appropriately LED.
Posh Englishmen and reserved train seating are a plague. A man in a blazer and suit trousers was very upset at not getting his reserved seat for the 20 minute hop from Reading to Oxford on account of the entire train being cancelled and everyone being loaded onto the already full train after.
His wife had clearly had enough of his bullshit approximately fifteen years ago.
As is traditional I’m in a vestibule on the Reading to Ledbury train waiting for it to empty out at Oxford rather than fighting my way through and braining everyone with things dangling from my backpack.
A Deutsche Bahn train just went through the station. Double checking I’m on my way to the correct hacker camp and didn’t accidentally get a taxi to Germany.
I am on my way to #EMFCamp via the Royal Mail depot, where I will be dumping two large crates they were meant to pick up yesterday. Not entirely sure why I didn’t think of just throwing them in the back of a taxi yesterday.
Sooo, the bad news for my 9:15am train to #EMFCamp tomorrow is that Parcelforce failed to pick up the shipping crates with all my gear in today, so probably not making that train at least.
The good news is that I found the bag of googly eyes while packing so hit me up if you need any eyes.
Absolutely fuming that the one day a Royal Mail pickup doesn’t happen inconveniently early is the day I said it’ll probably be fine but I might have to bail if they don’t show up early enough.
@chrisd the EMF speed run link now points at a speedrun submission rather than a delivery submission! (Apologies for the out of the blue notification, I don’t have the password for the content account, and my Fedi server desperately needs updating so I couldn’t reply)