Tony Albrecht

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20+ years in game dev, Engine Programmer at Riot for the last 8 years. I’m interested in game performance and performance monitoring. I also brew beer.
I'm heading to GCAP next week (an Aussie Game Dev Conference) in Melbourne. This will be my 25th consecutive annual Aussie game dev conference, and I look forward to it every year. Can't wait to cram 12 months of socialising into 3 days again.

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

I just got back from a week in Seattle and my connecting flights via LAX were very tight. I did some research and discovered THERE ARE TUNNELS! You can get from some of the terminals to Terminal B without going through TSA! I made my flight easily, but my luggage didn’t.

How does someone drum this fast? This is insane...

https://youtu.be/MlnGYcMpxgU

(Two music posts in a row. People are gonna start talking)

ARCHSPIRE - "Drone Corpse Aviator" (Official Music Video) 2021

YouTube
I was listening to The Algorithm on Spotify and glanced at their bio.
My non-gaming Wife, just published an article on how a video game character helped us to identify our daughter as being Autistic. You can read the article here (pages 18-19) https://issuu.com/fusa-association/docs/empire_times_issue_3_13.6.23
After years of misdiagnoses, it was a real relief to finally understand the why of how she felt. And this game, Persona 5, helped her (and us) to understand herself a little more.
Empire Times 50.3

Issuu
We named this cat Fibonacci, but we should have named him Pythagoras (That *is* a right angle isn’t it?)

I just used ChatGPT to figure out a regex for me. I needed it for a NRQL query, and my regex skills are pathetic so it seemed like a good chance to try it for something useful.

ChatGPT was confidently, persistently wrong, but was correct enough that I could figure it out for myself.

One thing it could do well though was to write a haiku about the query once it had finished. (Although, upon inspection, it also got the number of syllables wrong in the second line)

Look! Babies! (TW Insects! But cute baby ones)