My watch just triggered its loudness warning at applause for someone finishing Tetris Effect.
I’m currently standing at the back giggling to myself at how utterly ridiculous this is #EMFCamp
Not bad for a thing that came out of someone on the Discord going “you know what would be cool, a club where some mad lads play Tetris Effect” and thinking that I might just know a place mad enough to let me do just that. #EMFCamp
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 scratch that, a more competent passer by has already fixed it.
@jarkman WoT is by the Arcade seeming unwell, possibly a lose cable but brief poking inside merely revealed it appears to use wires.
@stephen That's ok. I packed 17 Raspberry Pis to keep everyone going. (I think they've all been handed out now)
Send a message asking if they could be posted to me. Was reminded my son arrives by train tomorrow and it might be easier to just put them in his bag.
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.
Proper Christmas Eve vibes here now, with a slight tinge of “shit, I didn’t buy any presents” because of the crate situation, but mostly excited and unable to really settle down to anything. #EMFCamp
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.
@jonathanhogg it’s ok, the lack of enthusiasm was exactly the same reason from all of us I think!
Not even going to the toilet has worked. That’s usually a surefire option for having the postman knock on my door the moment I’m committed.
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)
“There has been a change in your resting heart rate”. Yes, watch, no need to rub it in. It’ll go back down again in approximately 5 day’s time.
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