Joel Auterson

I love the Peak District

Two years on.

I wasn’t late to the meeting, I delayed my attendance by eleven minutes, because of Silksong

Never played MGS3 before so all these years I assumed Snake Eater was something metaphorical and not a thing you literally do in the game

Finally got around to mounting (by which I mean Lucy did it for me, I made a bollocks of it last time) the magazine covers for the games I worked on that got far enough to get magazine covers.

Definitely a birthday theme

My granda (on the right) with his siblings and his father.

There’s something about Nintendo’s style of trailer voiceover that rubs me the wrong way.

Footy footy

Some more of the day

Please appreciate my friend Vincent’s sign.

Father, it is hot, I require ice lolly

St Vincent at Somerset House

Every time I try to follow an American recipe it’s like “use a cup of milk, three bushels of flour, two cubits of sugar and eleven hands of egg”

The world is full of horrors and the games industry is no respite but I am going to allow myself to be a little bit excited about a new Destiny expansion today.

Finally got to the bottom of weird Linux ethernet issue - seems from Linux kernel 6.9 onwards some kind of power saving setting is turned on by default and this breaks it entirely.

The annual Develop karaoke was a beautiful gorgeous thing.

Cold brew season is here again

My Switch 2 arrived from Argos with the seals on the actual product box already cut.

Launch day of the Switch 1, back in the old Improbable office.

Made terrariums.

Watching it like a hawk waiting for season 2 to drop

Went to get the microsuction done and it didn’t fully work, my ears are too powerful, so next is macrosuction.

Bonus Jezza

And Kneecap, obviously

WITCH, Nadine Shah, Fcukers and CMAT at Wide Awake

Our next game is a Zach-like (Gage rather than -tronics)

First game of Feud in a while, a new opponent, let’s see how I do.

Modern C++ has a decent amount of stuff in the standard library but there are a few things I was naively surprised it lacks: base64 any cryptography stuff at all really HTTP!

Random discovery of the day is that GNU’s linker has different rules to those of MSVC or LLVM - the latter two are happy to resolve linkages at the final executable or library, while ld seems to require that every intermediate object binary be linked up?

Kissing Gate, Dog Race and Ugly at Village Underground

In light of the recent AI news I hereby renounce my 1254-day Duolingo streak.

So, two weeks on, got to try and bend my finger and it…doesn’t.

Met some new types of guy yesterday

Generative AI has ruined bold text for me.

Taking quad bikes through the Sahara desert to a 2000 year old Roman fort might be the coolest thing I’ve done on a holiday ever

Saw these in the wrong order

More Tunisia exploring, saw Berber villages and the place they filmed The Phantom Menace.

Salt flats in Tunisia (yes I did taste it)

Exploring Djerba!

It’s been quite a day

Putting haptics into our game (and engine) and while it definitely makes the game feel better it does create a gap between the iOS and Android versions - iOS haptics are so much more advanced and flexible.

Added a tiny little bit of controller rumble to our new game and it’s amazing how transformative it is.

Think I might have caught the mechanical keyboard bug alas

I asked WhatsApp’s new AI how to get rid of it and it hallucinated a setting that doesn’t exist, a brave new world

Dream come true

Beededededoop.

Yeah that’ll do

Let’s go

Upgraded my monitor to a 4K OLED and so obviously I’ve been playing the ideal game for the format: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey