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I still have my doubts with this whole en devour. How awesome and helpful NVidia may seem, they are still a big company and have to have some other motivations next to 'we really like the scene and want to help, yay!'.

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Well, you are of course free to see sinister motives where you feel like it

irokos: this whole "oh it's all so 1337, it's so unfair" attitude stinks. it really irritates me.
the scene is fair. you make something good, and maybe along the way you earn some of the benefits that come with it - like compo prizes, or a ticket to enter something like the intel compo. yes, i said earn.
"1337ness" isnt an exclusive club where you need to know the right handshake and pay the membership fee to get in. everyone has the chance if they make something good. whats stopping those who aren't in it is time, effort, skill, experience and talent, not money and hardware.
whats the flip side? "i deserve a demobox more because ive done nothing good whatsoever!"? "the prizes in the compo should be for the shittest demo!"? no. it's like me showing up at real madrid and demanding to be put in the first team immediately, and when they say no going "its not fair! football is so elitist! if they put me in the first team im sure i'd get a lot better as a player!".