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• demo Amiga AGA Patarty by Slipstream [web]
• it's not a plasma, it's a planelasma
• isokadded on the 2017-06-27 20:19:25
• demo Windows a boy and a girl go to the moon by ukscene allstars [web]
• this was very lovely
• rulezadded on the 2017-06-27 11:53:51
• demo Amiga AGA Patarty by Slipstream [web]
• Hey i'm glad i entertained people!!
  
  I had in fact been planning this demo for months beforehand but i ended up coding nearly all of it on the actual day, so it didn't have as much stuff in as i'd hoped. It is supposed to be OCS but falls short by a hair's breadth. Fun fact, it is actually a modified Mr Beanbag title screen, which is AGA dual playfield with 8 bitplanes. Patarty has only 6 bitplanes so it can work on OCS if i just correct the second playfield palette offset. Also the code uses some 68020 addressing modes and there are a couple of KS3.x calls iirc.. so it needed running on an A1200 at the party but i hope to get it running on an A500/+/A600 soon..
  
  I might finish the rest of the demo as well while i'm at it, and i've started thinking about a Patarty game as well..
• isokadded on the 2017-06-26 21:09:35
• demo Windows sp04 - Hello, Kevin - A Dental Journey by Spacepigs [web]
• @JCO is it possible to send you a private message somehow? (can't find such feature on this site..)
• isokadded on the 2017-04-26 19:59:49
• demo Windows sp04 - Hello, Kevin - A Dental Journey by Spacepigs [web]
• @jco, that is what i thought, but also that despotism begins at home.
  
  I couldn't find that particular picture of the German soldier on Google, at least, it's not someone obvious like Kaiser Wilhelm, which was my first thought, so i did wonder if it was someone who adorns the top of an aunt's piano or something..
  
  I thought there was only one Kevin, but he dissociates or otherwise has a distorted sense of self-awareness.
  
  Of course in reality there are millions of Kevins.
  
  I'M KEVIN
• isokadded on the 2017-04-20 14:14:48
• demo Windows sp04 - Hello, Kevin - A Dental Journey by Spacepigs [web]
• the radio brand "Kaiser" and the Prussian/WW1 German soldiers in the stadium also seem significant. Is that somebody's grandfather?
  
  "Your grandfather died in the war so that you could have the freedom to do such-and-such so you can damn well do it now whether you like it or not"
• isokadded on the 2017-04-20 13:46:17
• demo Windows sp04 - Hello, Kevin - A Dental Journey by Spacepigs [web]
• indeed when i get anxiety, i feel it in my teeth. that peculiar feeling of being told off by a teacher, that i still get, whenever someone points out a mistake.
  
  the narrator is patronising, but to me this just seems like a parody of children's television. I thought Kevin was a child, or at least, being treated like one, which as an adult still, being treated like a child by my own parents, again i can relate to that, and then the aggressive sudden swing into furious hypercriticism. Both the narrator and the radio are really two sides of the same persona, of which the latter, if not both, have been internalised in Kevin's own psyche, insisting that he live his life "by the numbers", even though to do so is ultimately an act of self-destruction, and any deviation from which is punished.
  
  Actually i keep thinking about this production, because there is so much in it, i've practically forgotten all the other productions already now. I was thinking this morning that the story is not in chronological order. the question marks on the clock are maybe a clue, and note that the clock is shaped like a coffin. The first scene is actually the last, where he has basically given up on life. The story really starts with the authority figures trying to make him "fit in", against his own nature. "Soccer Sports" is obviously a parody of pointless pay-as-you-play grinding games masquerading as masculine self-esteem. This leads into his productive phase, until his motivation is finally destroyed by his own sense of failure and he spends the rest of his life staring into space.
• isokadded on the 2017-04-20 13:27:32
• demo Windows sp04 - Hello, Kevin - A Dental Journey by Spacepigs [web]
• Wow what a discussion this one has spawned..
  
  Well i have to say, personally i loved it, and i really have to disagree with anyone who says that all demos have to be serious. To be honest there are only so many shiny spinning cubes i can look at before it gets boring. I mean i know the point of a demo is to push the hardware and all, or at least it used to be, but now hardware doesn't really have fixed limits anymore (there is no single "PC spec", it's really only limited by how much money you have to spend, and if you just wait a bit it gets better/cheaper) so i don't think that's quite as meaningful as it used to be. Even long before Kevin came on i was thinking about how modern demos are as much about the design work as the actual coding. So it is refreshing to have something with a narrative, as well as a bit of humour (dark or otherwise). I hope to see more demos in future that are like cartoons or movies. (Eidolon in the 64k category managed to do that while also being technically impressive so hats off to that.)
  
  As for this being offensive, well i was actually a little surprised to read that someone could interpret it as poking fun at disabled people, because it never occurred to me as a depiction of any literal physical disability. I used to work for a charity that advocated for disabled rights and provided assistance to disabled people to live independent lives, and i encountered quite a lot of disabled people with different kinds of disabilities ranging from the invisible (chronic fatigue, stroke victims) up to profoundly disabled electric wheelchair users, yet i never encountered anyone whose eyes and teeth would spontaneously eject and regenerate. It seems like Kevin's disability is somewhat in the eye of the beholder - the person with dental problems sees it as mocking dental problems, the teacher of children with learning disabilities interprets it as being about that.. maybe some Christian saints focus on Kevin's apparent tendency to bilocate.
  
  What i personally saw in it was a depiction of anxiety, for which the teeth are a metaphor (in fact teeth falling out is a common nightmare that people have when under stress). The teeth go out of control when his anxiety goes out of control. And i really can relate to that, having been bullied at school, having very low self-esteem, bad hair, thick glasses, and being generally malco-ordinated.. so i could really feel for Kevin.. and so much of his story rings true, the adults/society at large demanding conformity, why don't you go outside and do a sport &c.. and what programmer worth their salt never got a segfault and wanted to rage-quit (the power button sliding out indicating his urge to do this, but then the monitor suddenly turning into an over-critical parent). Yes, you can say, he is a failure. But he is a heroic failure. He's a failure because nothing he ever does is good enough for other people despite it being bloody brilliant. Well done Kevin!
  
  As somebody said, representation matters, but it is such a minefield. We need characters in media that are not just straight white cis het male & whatever but it's impossible to do anything without somebody somewhere misinterpreting it (sometimes seemingly on purpose), maybe that's why so many people just play it safe and make everyone a dudebro. Even being a member of some disadvantaged group doesn't get you off the hook if you "do it wrong" despite that people in any group have a diversity of experiences, if you portray one thing people who experience it some other way can get upset..
  
  I wouldn't want to upset anyone with anything i create but at some point people also have got to take responsibility for their emotions. Harm done to individuals or groups is real but offense is a feeling and they are not the same thing. Sometimes you just have to take a step back, and then, by all means, as Anita Sarkeesian would say, "be critical of the media you love".
• rulezadded on the 2017-04-19 22:26:33