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So we've been working on this production for the gathering 2009 and I can't get it out of my head. I keep dreaming the most weird nightmares, which revolve around:

+ demo or parts of it crashing (usually on ATIs), not finished, forgotten
+ demo presented at another party and so is disqualified
+ Screensize too small (i.e. 14 inches monitor)
+ Party abandoned due to harsh weather conditions (snow completely covers the vikingship)
+ The party is not a demo party after all but some folk singing contest
+ me being a citizen of Trondheim (!?) for many years but realizing I cannot speak a word of Norwegian. Unfortunately all the paperwork presented to me by the Gathering authorities are useless (I saw that one just last night)


Strange anxiety dreams that I never really had with any prior production I hope everything goes well. But, anyway,

What are your plans, if any, for the gathering ?

Optimus ? Is that you Optimus ?

This is rather true, the party is not a demoparty after all, it's a gaming convention.

A Solskogen-invtro will (hopefully) be done in time. No anxiety here though :)

I had a dream recently that I have visited a Hungarian demoparty and wanted to submit my best demo ever but there were problems with it in the compo machine. The organizer was searching for me while I was lost stalking scene girls or something like that :P

Optimus: Great, put more womens off visiting demoparties.

I had a weird nightmare lately in which I was on an unnamed norwegian demo party (organized by people I know) and they didn't tell me that if you lose a fun compo you will get locked up, isolated and tortured.

... and so it happened.

A few hours/days later suddenly a car came crashing into my cell and the three TUM main orgs (benjam, mbb and dfox) got out and freed me. Only that the escape was somewhat weird as Benjam totally sucked at driving and kept crashing against everything that could possibly be considered an obstacle. So I thought "damn, this can't be real, this must be a dream", and whoops - i was back in the cell, isolated.

But then when "they" wanted to get me out and torture me some more, I managed to break free, and what I saw was a post-war battlefield, a whole demoparty hall full of dead, bleeding and screaming people. Last thing I remember is that I've seen Gloom, covered in blood, crying "what have we done?".

Then I woke up and was, like, wtf. :)

kb: Crikey. :) If this was in the US, you would probably be banned from arranging demoparties with dreams like that.

must be a weird fun competition..

Well, my plan is to start driving for Hamar in a couple of hours :)

We're going to spend tuesday on building the workshop area, adding compos to the compo system and in general prepare ourselves for the party on wednesday.

This year we will focus on getting some fresh blood attracted to the scene, by having a workshop where people can get help from our mentors, mingle and chat with other creative people and hopefully just chill out, watch some demos and be inspired.

We will be hosting seminars in music production, graphics and programming, aimed at both newbies and intermediate/advanced sceners.

There will be streaming this year, and we (the Creative section) will have a semi-live TV show every night with interviews, party and results service and hopefully some live compos as well.


A more or less complete overview over what we are going to do at this year's TG can be read at gathering.org


There's already a couple of webcam streams going from the partyplace, so if you feel like watching people rigging the party hell, go here:
http://webcam.tg09.gathering.org/

optimus, doesn't sound like a dream at all having you chasing them girls

Somehow the phrase "stalking on scene girls" was stuck on me and I was referring to it for fun. But now I think I should not say that again because it's wrongly attributed to me and sometimes I just feel some girls (scene or not) are afraid of me like I am some psycho or something (or it is just an extreme wrong feeling), which hurts me because it's wrong. I don't need to be feared or hated. Sometimes I think of it and it makes me angry.

On the french lessons some girls asked me to fix her laptop. Another time she said something else that someone else will do it at the end. Like she regretted it or feared that maybe I wanted something else and not her laptop. But she is married with child and I knew it and she knew that I knew it. But maybe it's just my idea that there was a conspiracy. Although before that, another guy there asked me to fix his laptop and I almost said no, but not exactly. The lessons started and I just had to stop talking and go back to my seat. Later the girl told me so. It's sad. Was she afraid of me? Do they afraid more shy guys because they think there is something hidden inside them that is dangerous? It's even more sad. Because those guys don't need that but they need love..

And I think I have seen in that dream that I was just hanging out with some of the girls (who would be afraid but at the dream they were not and it was all fine) but the rest is true.

Ok, I never speak about stalk not even for fun. Actually it was fun because it was never like this. I don't get it. People see girls accounts on facebook and other, even scene and the scene boys get the scene girls and it's all fine. What do I do different to look like scene stalker?

I just stop and don't speak again this word. I need respect for myself. I will give respect alone.

And I am not stalking scene girls, I never did!!!

Optimus, how about non-scene girls :) ?

optimus: you should stop stalking scene girls!!!!

How about "stop stalking", period? :)

I thought this was the case?
Just kidding, we all love you Optimus.

optimus: how about highjacking the thread with some more gibberish

Heh..

Last year I had nightmares about the Scene.Org awards failing miserably because I had screwed something up while organizing..

This year I'm not really involved, so the only dream so far has been seeing an excellent demo that turned out to be a 64k by mawi.

Oh and can someone please invent a brain camera soon, I see way too many cool demo effects while sleeping that I don't remember afterwards..

(Oh and Navis, are you _going_ to TG?)

no, sadly I cannot go to any party for reasons I'll explain somewhere soon (hint :-)).

Unfortunately these reasons do not exist any more since yesterday - but ticket prices to oslo are just too expensive now. If only I had some hintsight but I'm afraid I'm stuck here :-(((

Navis: that's a shame, would have been nice to have you here :)

Been at the party hall for about three hours now, it's the chaos you would expect at a party hall two days before the party opens. I hope to post some pictures and impressions during the party, if I can find the time between organizing stuff and generally running around.

navis: let me be the first to congratulate you on your second child ;-)

Navis: I also had a nightmare about TG. It was like that: after I agreed to make a soundtrack for the demo Lug00ber was coding, he kept stalking me, almost haunting me, babbling nonsense weekly about the deadline and the compo and about me finishing the tune in time and about the deadline again and about missing it (the deadline).

It was really scary, I'm glad I am not a musician and glad Lug00ber can't stalk me this way!

keops: That's funny - I had a nightmare just like that, except that you were me and lug00ber was.. you.. ;)