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The more productive you become, the less you complain about demos from others. The more lazy you become, the more you rant about everything.

Amiga AGA demos and intros from 1994 are really cool, and, in a way, better than AGA prods from 1995 onward. More original and varied.

We're not as great as we think we are

party prod rank is good measure of prod's quality, same goes with pouet rank

Demoscene graphics (of the 1990s at least) was 95% copies of Boris Vallejo, Dungeons & Dragons, and female supermodels. If demoscene music was held to the same standard, it would've been 95% covers and remixes, often of the same artist/group.

Goddess Amiga is the mother of demos and Guru is the father of meditation.

if you prefer to do demos and thus miss every demo party, meme, demo, name voting and time itself, you have reached the most difficult level in the scene and all your prods will be real party prods

Greetings to Okkie.


(sorry if this one is too unpopular)

DFox: you are pretty great though!

ruthless

Unpopular: "Breeze" made some fabulous demos.

Ukulele sounds wonderful!

online demoparties are awful

Nowadays 4k intros are just shadertoy shaders with music player.

fpga is not real hardware

most of the demos are super pointless unimaginative trash, even if they sometimes look and sound good

"8k intro" was a necessary category

XXX has the best muziek at parties.

Aaaand: Pico-8 sucks as a demo platform!

i really cant stand currywurst.

most chiptunes sound the same.

the humor of the scene is borrowed from a 1970s B-movie

And shadertoy shaders are regular GLSL shaders just stored on iq's server with web-based viewer.



The format itself is not outdated, but the distribution is. Majority of genZ doesn't know the concept of downloading zip files with binaries, not being able to verify the source/signature, unpacking them to a temp folder, trying to execute it in a sandbox just to find out it doesn't work in a sandbox, finally executing it with full write permissions and crossing your fingers that it doesn't contain exploit and it won't modify any of your important data.

more often than not the coding part in demomaking is a redirection activity, it never was about art