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7:36am on Thursday, 30th April, 2026:
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My talk yesterday went well, at least from my perspective (I don't know about the audience's).

The "on tour" part of the name is because that's what they call the monthly El Tardeo talk when it's not being held in its usual location. This one was in the Vodafone offices, which are huge; must make quite a bit of money in Spain. The room I gave the talk in was high-tech and configurable, with glass false floors so you could see the cables running underneath (and also the ones taped to the surface because there was no outlet where they wanted them to emerge).
Before the talk, I was interviewed by a Spanish games news site; I have another interview today at 10:00, Annoyingly, the shuttle to the airport leaves at 9:45 and the next one is at 11:00. I'm hoping I'll be able to get through passport control as quickly as I did on the way in, otherwise I may miss my 13:10 flight.
After the talk (which wasn't really a talk so much as a series of intelligent questions from the interviewer and somewhat less intelligent replies from me) there was a small get-together so people could mingle and network. I spotted two separate groups of students that were only talking to themselves, so I went to them in turn and they asked me a bunch more questions. All of them were smart; one of the two things I miss about university life is speaking to smart students (the other is being paid a salary). Now isn't a great time to be trying to enter the games industry, but they were doing everything right except the networking. I can understand that, as I'm useless at it, too. Still, at least I spoke to them myself, so they got one contact out of it — even if I am in the wrong country!
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