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by kyberias
4088 days ago
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Lol, I don't feel any pain. :) I can see that my words can be easily interpreted like you did but I was quite literal is stating that the culture is WONDERFUL. I have no hatred against them although I'm definitely an outsider. Also, I was literal when I referred to the closed source of these creations. I don't demand or expect them to release any source code. I'm merely wondering whether these demos would be MORE interesting with the source code released as well. As always. In 2015 it seems slightly weird that they don't. To be clear, I definitely share the joy the authors feel accomplishing these feats. Deep respect. But I don't get your sexism comment. I maintain that the sub-culture involves some behavior that can be described as "alpha-male". Maybe I was inaccurate with the wording. Could have said "competitive" as well. |
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I don't think you've ever been to a demoparty :-)
If there's any "alpha male" behaviour whatsoever, it's purely in a self-ridiculing way. It used to be there, back in the nineties when all demosceners were insecure teenage nerds and some of them felt a need to compensate for something. That part of the scene is gone for twenty years now, but it's still a lot of fun to make references to that part of history.
My favourite example of this is the demo "Regus Ademordna" by Excess [0]. The title is the reverse of "Andromeda Sucks" in Norwegian. Andromeda is another Norwegian demogroup who had just made a reappearance in the demoscene at the time after having been gone since those nineties. They hadn't gotten the memo that all that alpha male stuff was something of the past, so they took serious offense, much to the enjoyment of the rest of the scene.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkVbS4CTtfc