Clearing out my demo backlog : creative use of cubes

tyrnannoght (65)in #tyrnannoght • last month

What an ungodly hour, but i had to go infirmary so saturday before noon is a best-bet, less humans, more back home faster ... turns out another store closed . When i see whoever was working there i will tell them :

"gat mor wa neiger moete weirken aja, ten zoj ir nou ni zittn!"

Bem

i kept a txt file because too many vids in one post is slow on lo-machines like for instance this raspberry pi5 - (for daily use en de gazet)

backlog :

creative use of cubes, the hunt for the ultimate minimal

Cubed by Grumpy Gods

To turn the computer on : press cube, you'd think its a plane but its all just dots, in essence a fancy starfield with algorithms to compute the colour according to the distance on the screen or more fancy if you use textures and if you use unigine, about 20 layers of that

The hunt for "how can i just do a cube and still get a "not meh" from that narcist bunch" must be as old as Euclid i bet ... sometimes someone goes a little further.
The names dont ring a bell but the good side to that is that someone somewhere in 2025 still tries to get on the scene starting with a cube and putting actual time and effort into it ... its becoming more and more rare.

Simplicity is the Key to Happiness by Trolek

do keep in mind that this is all real-time executred code, not generated or rendered video.

Rust Ritual by Altair

slurp 3 spoonfull-hicaf jug of java ... its gonna be a ... well im quite sure i'll dunk into a doze this afternoon no matter what i do ... but well i had to get the apothecary stuff so i had to, and therefor i had to ...

Unreal Engine

And what might be labelled as "alternate worlds" , ive seen it as a tag more than several times now

Into the Pit by Suspend

Not known to me but so are many many other names as i havent been on the scene since the 90s like most of those forum peoples , i remember the Tanhauser Gate demo, it caught a lot of bad wind too ... use of A.I. and mostly ... if you are gonna use a classic like bladerunner as a hook ... you have a whole generation to deal with that grew up gawking at that when they were young ...

Up til few years ago your product would literally been pissed off the table for having no skills but today i guess everyones so hungry for goodlooking prods they're already happy its not jippedee in disguise.

This one is gud tho, it looks like one of those Unigine Benchmarks or

"Dear sir,

I know we have a lot to learn but this is what we do with no budget in our spare time. Would you kindly consider our applications for Obsidian and From Software, lol ...

hmmm ...

The Three Electroknights by Norferin

i guess that makes this an application for CD Project Red

going back all the way to 1997 i wouldnt be surprised Norferin, like many others is coming back after a life of chained to a desk because they got too much art and not enough sales and politics int their veins and now ... laid off by a.i. , or maybe zuck throwing a tantrum no one wants his Oculus AND YOU WILL BUY IT OR ELSE , or maybe retired (if they're lucky) before the big bang of 2050 (but the food riots should come earlier, all was predicted when this one was still in high school, droughts climate change, displacement, food riots, resource collapse .. i musta been 17 , still on an Atari STE , NO IDEA how they succeeded in ignoring that for all these decades but LOOK , half of it is here ! )

... im sure generative A.i. will save us tho, gotta have faith !

Particle systems, Point clouds or "replace your vertices with cubes" ?

2.5D starfields sure have come a long way.

I'm somehow getting the feeling Xenium is ready to takeover the high-end from Revision and let them go back to their roots and claim 68080 fantasy consoles as the best amiga demos ever

Fabula by Madwizards

Madwizards aint a new name though, but i feel most of THESE must have something professional to do with it, or else sell crack while making demos because just a GPU for a high-end PC atm costs more than i get in a year atm (and ofcourse from 2026 until ... that will be 0 barring lottery, disability (never thought i would consider that "an option"), or writing a game that gets me not-homeless-in-the-gutter within 5 years ...)

So a total high end pc probably costs 3 years of current income ...

If you dont have one it would be hard to write a demo for one me thinks ...

BUT .. it looks like they're aiming for the high-end of revision at Xenium

my story ?

aint nuttin much to my story but

O M F G

do i see bitcoin dumped to 96k ???

it was a trap again huh ?

a cattoon we did back when steem was still well over $2 ... but after it dumped from $7 in the name of gud content

so what happened now ? Buffet desperately NEEDS to prove that bitcoin is poison because he said so ? So he wrecks a chinese company and uses the money to tank crypto into the ocean with total disregard for all the potential businesses and

YOU JUST HAVE TO FIND REAL WORK

sais the guy spent his life making money with money ... ???

The local story seems to be as expected ...

The store was originally owned by a guy i mentioned before, one of the few from the times when belgium was a good place to be normal middle class, who was declared adult at the age of 17 because he was making so much money at 16 it was in fact

well legally speaking criminal lol even if he wasnt selling any substances or nothing ...

used to be a video rental , then turned into a supermarket, then a Spar Franchise ...

so when this guy and his wife decided to quit i was already like ... no way in hell the little woman (petite perhaps) with lots of fire could have convinced him to do that, the king of workaholics, unless it wasn't worth the time for the money anymore

they got one ... pretty girl, a daughter ... despite all that she always seeme levelheaded and went her own studies, i think psychology but if she hadn't ...

i think the family is set for seven generations, just like the apothecaries ... they own like half the street there (for salems lot thats a whole lot lot , man ...)

So it went to another guy who ran it with like one employee, and then quit to go work-for-a-boss for the last 10 years (they do that a lot to get more pension/retirement money as the money from independent business means you have to have made A LOT and in belgium no one really make A LOT (if you go by american standards) ever barring some 100 in the country maybe)

Then it went to this guy who actually has a main job as a judiciary repo-man ( .. cant be nice people if you can actually do that kind of job imo) and about 15-20 franchises of carrefour ...

thats like microsoft being 4000 companies right, you only need one HR department and all that so in essence you lose 100000s of jobs in total over the mass of crotter that might go in the 100 millions , same thing, here , all that could be anywhere from 50 to 100 family businesses but bem ... far be it from me to win nobel prizes in economy so they must know better

So i always wondered, how can these fuckers run that thing with sometimes 8 or 10 personnel (all day contracts ofcourse, minimal liability and they dont have to fire, you dont get a period , nothing ITS A DAY CONTRACT, if you say anything or they dont like anything you simply dont come back and thats it : we have 50000 refugees waiting in line goodbye you are the weakest link, no rights include)

that was before the reign of the mad emperors started

and there we go, i needed some coffee and cat food

the store is closed, the apothecary (who would be one of my favourite source of information if was an undercover spy b/c those people seem to know EVERYTHING that happens in town always for some reason, probably b/c its the most visited business and they get all layers of the local society because everyone gets sick and the population is ageing)

tells me its over, the guy close 3 of his stores
i bet HE can put that on the tax form as "loss" and its a null operation and the others ?

Well, they just have to find work! im sure , according to the inquisition

three stores down , now its either the next town or all the way to the highway or speedway

which is quite inconvenient if you dont have a car

and i cant just order online if all i need is some coffee and some catfood and

the baker or the butcher dont have that

remember what you said right ?

"Gat mo wa neiger moete weirken , ten zojjir nou ni zittn ! NI WEIRKEN NI EETN !"

... im gonna eat ...

and probably drop back to bed ... how deep will it go ?

does this mean STEEM will be 1 cent soon ?

not that that makes much difference between 8 or 1 ...