Clearing out my demo backlog : Old men in new groups
yes, pun intended ... eurojank as the homers call it has some of the best imo, french crime movies ... scandinavian ... not all scandinavian movies are weirdness but ofcourse , nothing like UK grime
i think RocknRolla is still one of my old time favourite and since we're talking about old men we could go on a while
but its demos
Well yea, i think we explained this before, we don't write cuz ... there's no set pattern to it, or daily articles, and its not about what players want its about whats on top of the head and what intrests us ... so if its not about hi-culture , famous people who everyone knows one quote from , cars, sports or crypto (not that crypto doesn't intrest us but since its all about how wallstreet you can get i say talking about it is not interesting anymore to us)
This one here :
the state of Scene is in dire straits since ... 2019 ?? 2020 ?? when was that spectrals demo on revision ? that was the last of the straws before the downfall ...
And you can't go wrong with oldskool , just like all renders we have on the site were made before pt-4 claimed to have taken the world (to us it still looks like chatbot Billie from day 1 but humans and their gestalts connect dots a lot in ways they WANT to see them)
The video explains it all there , this one is from the Arok party 2025
i assume Pixelpunx mostly goes Petscii from what we've seen so far but none of them are 40 yo-xp l33t coders afaik
Goerp strikes me as someone who did cartoons for a newspaper of sorts at some time and since we havent been part of or on the scene until we started watching it after getting stuck here the other names dont ring a bell ...
And THAT, Pete, is why you and i start looking like old men to a plastic generation : our yearning for quality ...
AAAND
cut
it sure makes Thandie Newton eternal ... what a pre-woke beauty ... and skills but Johnny Quid there ( we have Leonidas too if you didnt see him) is the pivot of the movie really. The guy has probably lots more but there's some series about a serial killer in which he plays the protagonist (most like Antigone but bem) which i have ofcourse forgotten the name of as names are my specialty WHICH IS REALLY REALLY REALLY something you should see
truly
aand, i think there's stuff to do since days are short and without money they seem shorter not longer
i guess the maid will remain on strike indefinite so ... well there's a 0.1% chance of selling enough of a 1% chance at a game hitting that we can get just enough to sit out this half-life in the gutter without begging
i'm too broken for armed robbery i'm afraid ... it would have to be something ...
be''ah
P.p.S.s edit ...
addendum paragraph bis part tris in the small subsecion under (1) et al
i don't get paid to make sense
another one from the same arok '25 party that seems worth mentioning :
classic tek-tek in the sense of the word i guess, not sure if the pixar is a.i. free (it LOOKS like something "the" a.i. might come up with but thats the thing : that THING has been stealing everyones stuff online so some styles will have been picked more and labelled popular in its glorified database (always wondered why Trump was putting Oracle on a pedestal in his first run .. i guess the scheme was already being planned)
so you can get someone's style in it recurring while its maybe the other way around at any rate, unless you get a full blender file to go with it its hard to say ... tho not impossible i bet if you have the write analyzer tools
it would be nice to see some useful laws (for once) passed like "obligatory label "A.I. generated" required" as well as "you have to list your main conglomerate name in letters at least half the size of your company name" and suddenly 4000 companies would be microsoft , 8000 would be Mars ( not exact numbers) and the world could see how small it is today btw :
if microsoft has 4 trillion, nvidia has 5 , openai is worth half one (still more than the national debt here i think) ... how many dollars are there in the world, so after subtracting the top 100, how much money does that leave for the 8.99 billion others ?
no one ever thought about that trying to win a nobel prize for "economy cant possibly work" ?
eum, yea well tek-tek in the classic sense : demo fx that the machine can't do in essence and maybe it looks like not much , i wonder how many can code this in scratch on a 5090 pc and safe to say that even using LUTs on a c64 this is not ca va de soi coding
... almost time to cycle
i had one other from the same batch
the name Copass rings a bell but as stated before , we were never part of the scene (and arent) we just LOVE DEMOS (and programming)
reminded me of the biblical parable of how the russians took a pencil to space while the americans spent a million on developing a ballpoint pen because the ink went bonkers in zero-G ...
good ole' kennedy ... he might not have done it for any other reason than "to win from the russians" but at least he did it
no one after can say that much ?
also kinda made me think : can the demoscene keep its borderless nature or
in a few years will hungarian and russian demos be warez overhere, like jeans was overthere during the soviet era ???
russians != what russia does
im sorry great leader but we can't be brought to think like your speeches would have us
good thing we are discreditable old lunatic
otherwise it might be a problem
...
ofcourse
but Fairlight already has the top spot hahah ... they have a CDC and im sure there will be more linked tho im not sure we'll be writing demoscene indefinitely
there is no plan
i have no idea what it would be anyway under these circumstances it comes down to sheer luck and thats not something our life is known for
Yea, its a bit early but time , been taking brufen "infection brakers" (im sure they called that painkillers) for the thir day again b/c i have no clue what otherwise to do , i doubt they'll give me something stronger against the tension and this steel cable coming up from my shoulder to my right temple which leads to extra infections
and the rest of the world ?
we care about as much right now as it did for us when it was needed
well okay
since its 2025 this one certainly stands way above the average :
definitely more than we could code together
but gotta skit its time