Alan Au

@alanau

Trickster disciple. 🦊 Game developer. 🎲️✂ Emeritus data generalist. 📊 Delightfully imperfect. ☁️ Not that kind of doctor. 🎓 [E] Itsatrap 🎮 He/Him

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Alan Au@alanau· 25d

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3-day pollen count forecast showing grass pollen at high levels

Alan Au@alanau· Jul 5

Calvin & Hobbes strip from 1991, where Calvin explains his great idea to stuff food into a half-empty thermos and drink the resulting sludge. "Your stomach won't know the difference, and it saves your teeth undue wear and tear."

Alan Au@alanau· Jun 16

Drawing of an anime girl hiding under a desk from a Terminator robot. https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/80877743

Alan Au@alanau· Jun 13

Well, at least it isn't the trees this time. 🤧

3-day forecast for pollen in my area, with Grass Pollen listed as "Very High."

Alan Au@alanau· Jun 8

We don't usually see each others headers. Here's mine.

Alan Au@alanau· Jun 4

I've decided that all-caps block printing is my most legible handwriting style, so I pretty much just use it for everything!

Handwritten text that says "My handwriting is this all-caps block printing."

Alan Au@alanau· May 28

"Can we get 007 First Light?" "No, we have First Light at home." At home:

key art from "Alpha Protocol - The Espionage RPG"

Alan Au@alanau· May 26

Alan Au@alanau· May 23

ST:TOS Title Card - Do You Remember Love?

Alan Au@alanau· May 23

Alan Au@alanau· May 23

ST:TNG Title Card "The One Where Beverly Crusher Has Sex With A Ghost"

Alan Au@alanau· May 20

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

Alan Au@alanau· May 9

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

image of Neal (Steve Martin) and Del (John Candy) from "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"

Alan Au@alanau· May 1

Dear Ubisoft, what the fuck is this nonsense?

"Ubisoft has introduced a new “State” of residence field in your Ubisoft player account for players located in the United States. This information helps us comply with state-specific regulations and to better assess legal requirements that may vary from one U.S. state to another."

Alan Au@alanau· Apr 23

LOL.

In-game pop-up when I loaded my latest demo save:
* Okay, you're back. You somehow obtained a copy of the full game.

Alan Au@alanau· Apr 22

What's Aquitaine? Not much. What's Aquitaine with you?

A render of the GTD Aquitaine, a capital ship from Freespace 2.

Alan Au@alanau· Apr 16

I dunno, maybe Bluesky should put in some effort to validate the quality of their engineering output. 🤷

Bluesky server status update with a very obvious typo in word "regions."

Alan Au@alanau· Apr 15

I was poking around in my old files and found screenshots from my Jagged Alliance 2 stunt runs. Yes, it's totally possible to do a solo run with Flo, the schoolteacher. She's the cheapest merc in the game and has terrible stats, but she levels up really quickly. (Requires M.E.R.C access on day 1.)

Screenshot from Jagged Alliance 2 showing Flo the schoolteacher lining up for a killshot on the story's main antagonist, Deidranna.

Alan Au@alanau· Mar 28

Happy happy birthday! I'm unfortunately not much for selfies, but here's an old profile pic I used to used from back before my hair went grey.

Alan Au@alanau· Mar 17

DLSS 5 OFF/ON

USS Enterprise Bridge (The Original Series)

Alan Au@alanau· Mar 16

Image of the original and ruined restoration of the Ecce Homo painting, jokingly labeled with "DLSS 5 OFF" and "DLSS 5 ON."

Alan Au@alanau· Mar 2

Pokopia title screen but it says "dwarf fortress" instead.

Alan Au@alanau· Feb 28

In 1947, the Olympic Peninsula became the staging ground for a promising new technology.

Title card from Twin Peaks but it says "Pacific Drive"

Alan Au@alanau· Feb 28

More chests! MORE CHESTS! Chests everywhere. And then color-code everything.

Stardew Valley partial screenshot showing a row of color-coded chests.4 on left are for seasonal stuff, 3 on right are for activity-based stuff (mining, fishing, combat).

Alan Au@alanau· Feb 28

Napoleon is Master of Europe Only the British Fleet stands before him Oceans are now Battlefields

Twin Peaks title card, but it says "April — 1805"

Alan Au@alanau· Feb 9

Remember folks, don't commit to prod on Friday afternoon. Or to be safe, any time on Friday. And if your service relies on always-on connectivity, avoid committing to prod any time during the week. 😎

Screen grab of a notice about a "Brief API Outage" noting that "Some of the Bluesky API services are having trouble. We are rolling back and expect them to resolve soon."

Alan Au@alanau· Jan 18

The first game I completed? I dunno; most games didn't really have an "ending" back then. But if I had to guess, it was probably "The Black Cauldron."

Box cover art for the Sierra adventure game "The Black Cauldron" (1985) based on the animated movie of the same name.

Alan Au@alanau· Jan 13

Here's what the Hitman leaderboard screen looks like. Different categories can be selected on the left, and different players can be highlighted to show their individual score breakdowns. As mentioned, it really just stores everyone's scores, and you can scroll through these 100 at a time.

Screenshot of a Hitman mission leaderboard screen, showing the top 10 scores, followed by the player's individual rank on the leaderboard at the bottom.

Alan Au@alanau· Dec 24

*sigh*