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So, how dead is it?

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Killing off productive people for reasons only happened due to misunderstandings-made-up-due-to-corona-only-online-parties surely didn´t help! :P

I really hate seeing the scene dying off like that! ;)

If you´d ask Dipswitch about the first ppl interacting with the scene still scening, i am sure he would at some point even mention me...he sent me a message once, where he said: "I found that posting of yours, where you must have been like 9 years old (1987), in that Scene-Mag, printed only in Germany! -> My Answer was ofcoz: "WOW, i knew i posted there, since i was like 6 (1984), but ofcoz i forgot WHAT i WROTE there at all, until now...thanks to you!" ;)
(He gave me a link to his scans back then and i remembered my own past thanx to him! thanx, dip!)

Too bad, i am not scening anymore for about 2 years, thanks to you ALL MOSTLY NEW-SKOOLERS (to me), having no idea what it all mean s/t (?!?!) to me! :P

I absolutely know one thing: If you all knew me a few bits better than you don´t, you´d know i am not even able to do what you think i did! ;)

Still sad here! Please just try to imagine what would have happened at a real party...how i would have had a chance to finish my bad joke and would have not get banned! This is just 100%! I would have not get banned! Even person you think i mistreated would have laughed at the end, maybe! But not letting ppl finish their sentences via banning from Discord leads to this! The Death of a splendid Culture! :/
(NOT MY FAULT!)
Apparently it takes more than two years of penance to learn self-reflection skills. Maybe therapy would help?
added on the 2023-01-18 08:31:01 by Preacher Preacher
oh, comeon!
This is you just repeating bullshit other ppl said before! I was a fan of you for some time! Maybe i still am, because of your abilities to produce nice stuff! But i am no fan of your personal ability to recognize bullshit or not! You don´t have to attack anyone for sth you think some1 did, if you have no evidence of it happened!

That´s the problem i can´t transport into your all brains, but:

IF i would not have got banned, i would have finished my joke, and no1 would have thought that bad of me afterwards! :/

I don´t need no Therapy! I am absolutely fine, always been! You just want to hate me now, because all of you considered me such an asshole, just after i got banned, so you could talk shit of me as long as you wanted...i guess you all just upped yourselves in how bad i really am, (which i really am NOT!) once i couldn´t respond anymore, due to ban!

If i would have been still around, like a real party...you would have had realized super-soonish, that i never meant any of those words, as you read them wrong, when you banned me!
(which banning wouldn´t have happened at all then! Maybe you would still have not come to close to me, tho, thanx to bad breath from alcohol, but...)
It´s ok!
I just realized i am repeating myself! (obviously, but it´s the only Reality there is, which only i live in!)
But none of you all will ever realize you all living in the wrong Reality at no point of time anyway!
So, i am gone forever now!

Love you all still, you all can´t for being that ignorant to the real Reality, you are just stupid Humans, just as me, after all! :/

Have a nice Demise! :(

(Scene will forever stay Alive...maybe just in my own Brain...and them cool brains of all the few other REAL Oldschoolers still around!)
I honestly just have read the first entry by Pixtur and I have to say:

I feel quite the same. I also noticed there were some simple fun releases that didn't get any comments or votes. And even looking at the bigger releases overall the comments feel less constructive and nice than they use to be. We even get more feedback during our website or facebook nowadays.

For me this made me think about becoming more active again these days again and more often attend the local demoscene meetings here in the area, because you get much more feedback there, than on Pouet.

I still add my/our releases to Pouet and I'm grateful for the guys maintining it and it still is the only place I have a look for what was released lately.

Possibly I also have to also become active here more often, to keep it going, because I also feel like I have to comment and vote more often. At least this made me think about it and I'll try.

Demozoo is nice, but the design is awful and it even feels more like this is just something people look without getting into a dialogue.

Just my 2 cents.
added on the 2023-01-18 09:15:59 by Raven^NCE Raven^NCE
Block "coup de coeur" is freezy? "Strange feelings by haujobb" is displayed there for several months. I remember that it used to change more often :)
added on the 2023-08-07 10:15:49 by bitl bitl
For me the scene is more or less dead. There are some interesting 256-byte intros released from time to time, but that's all that catches my interest. I especially think so because of the non-existence of PC diskmags. In the past the diskmags were what I was interested in most.

Still I often check out pouet.net, which is mostly due to my lack of other interests.
added on the 2023-08-07 10:24:03 by Adok Adok
I just called 1-800-howdeadisthescene and the answer was 5.
added on the 2023-08-07 20:56:15 by rp rp
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Block "coup de coeur" is freezy? "Strange feelings by haujobb" is displayed there for several months. I remember that it used to change more often :)

I keep forgetting to change it, and when I remember I can never think of one. (I should probably cook up some sort of suggestion submission system...)
added on the 2023-08-07 21:00:27 by Gargaj Gargaj
To offer a serious perspective:
People grow. Interests change. So do their relationships with their interests.

It's no secret that the culture of online communication generally gravitated towards polarizing sharing of opinions during the last decade.

If you miss the kind of comment you enjoy reading: how about writing it yourself?
If you miss the kind of production you'd like to see: how about creating it yourself?

The people I met at Evoke seemed pretty alive. The competitions were highly enjoyable. There were at least 20 people for whom it was the first demoparty ever. And everybody of them that I spoke to, very much enjoyed it.

In the end, "the scene is dead" says more about the person saying it, than the thing that's being observed.
added on the 2023-08-07 21:12:31 by rp rp
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Block "coup de coeur" is freezy? "Strange feelings by haujobb" is displayed there for several months. I remember that it used to change more often :)

I keep forgetting to change it, and when I remember I can never think of one. (I should probably cook up some sort of suggestion submission system...)


for some reason, I thought that this block changes randomly after a certain period of time (a week, a month?). Why not? Just any prod that has "coup de coeur".
added on the 2023-08-07 21:35:24 by bitl bitl
It stayed like this for that long to remind us that once upon a time... there was a supergroup called Haujobb :'-(
added on the 2023-08-07 21:47:21 by Navis Navis
Haujobb is not dead.
added on the 2023-08-07 21:55:27 by ham ham
I'm not sure why ham chose that release specifically (though I can guess), but Haujobb had three releases this year already. Whether or not they are still a "supergroup" I cannot say, but the group is not dead.
added on the 2023-08-07 22:16:24 by fizzer fizzer
ok true. Maybe I miss the days of Visualice and co. although I wasn't a huge fan back then (maybe because he was so far ahead - it's called envy), but times change.
added on the 2023-08-07 22:21:06 by Navis Navis
Yeah, I can't say that things haven't changed of course...
added on the 2023-08-07 22:23:55 by fizzer fizzer
I mean, times change as in - we want him back. He would still be ahead of the curve, just in a different way.
added on the 2023-08-07 22:25:17 by Navis Navis
@fizzer: No need to guess. Despite the fact that I have also seen their most recent productions, I have seen those in streaming and after downloading them from the internet while the one I have given as an example I saw at the party where, in addition, I met people from Haujobb like noname and hellfire. They looked pretty alive.
added on the 2023-08-07 22:43:04 by ham ham
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By Visualice, 8th at Revision 2023 Modern Graphics Compo.
added on the 2023-08-07 22:47:37 by ham ham
It depicts the demo scene's burden of the spinning cube.
added on the 2023-08-07 22:53:39 by absence absence
amazing ! never saw that, but it's very close to my visions as we were working on "legend of Sisypjus". Nice style.
added on the 2023-08-07 22:57:06 by Navis Navis
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I mean, times change as in - we want him back. He would still be ahead of the curve, just in a different way.

You're probably right, but whether he is or isn't coming back is just the nature of our creative subculture - we do these things only because we want to.
added on the 2023-08-07 23:24:20 by fizzer fizzer
exactly, don't force things. If they happen they happen. Don't fall to peer pressure to release at a party or in general. But if they did - that would be fab.
added on the 2023-08-08 00:00:45 by Navis Navis
Totally. :)
added on the 2023-08-08 00:02:00 by fizzer fizzer
Visualice released a new farbrausch animation outside any compos shortly after revision, i mentioned it on my monthly report but i think most people still missed it since it only has like 100 views on his youtube channel and is not added on neither pouet nor demozoo.
added on the 2023-08-08 00:04:05 by psenough psenough

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