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did i mention Maali falling out of the boat?

[may i add that somehow i ended up in the sauna of the finnish neighbours and saw a few nice naked finnish gurlz in front of me [kinda made me realize i was in the wrong sauna, there are no nice naked girls (not like THAT) in the demoscene at all] so after telling them what happened to me and that the sauna was too hot for me, i told them 'kthxbye' and went back into the RIGHT door where leia secretly observed me changing clothes!]

TEH DRAMA!

you are a lair, maali ;) -> see my comment on http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=37516
( yup, this is text which is IN_there ;) read and enjoy it aswell ;) )

uh?

if that is a pisspoor advertisement campaign for vandalism #1 you utterly failed, mister c0c00n ;)

best party_memoiree:

my first party ever: Sun´n´Fun-Conference II ( yes, it was in Hellenthal...to answer someones posting in here! )
i got shitfaced in age of 15 (maybe 14, cant rememeber the month it took place ) and just went straight into the orgas room to make some party with them orgas, which consisted of same-aged young-dudes mostly...no1 complained about me being there, they even let me use one of their computers and let me complain about their tooldisk-code ( which some1 of them handed to me to copy their UNRELEASED demo for the compo ( which won the compo aswell afterwards!) ) ,which i told em suxx against my tooldisk i did for my group-mates !

none of em knew me and evenso none of em asked at any time, they just have been very kewl all the time, helping where not needed at all...i brought the demo-disk to my group-mates back then ( we knew we wouldn´t release anything anyway ) and they kept asking the whole night and trip_back how i managed to....hahaha :)

also the toilets have been a lot of fun coz at some point it was flooded with (piss-)water about 2 centimetres high and when i tried to enter it to get rid of some booze i saw a porn-mag sailing/surfing into some shit-cabin slowly...

i went outside then only to meet some people very coked who bubbled to me all the time while i´ve been pissing next to em, haha...

the pron-mag must have been there because of all the pr0n being shown on the bigscreen...horny geeks all over ;)

nah, i just dont believe in your finnish_sauna_girls-story ;)
but lets talk about it heads_up on BP then ;) i wanna see what the face of some1 does, if talking :) haha ! ( pokerism is next to peekerism which could also be next to pukerism )

Noname: That doesn't sound like a "best memory", cause, well, uh.. It rocked seeing it on the big screen, and stuff.. ;)

I've really got too many party memories, so here's a few of the more bobbing to the top of my brain ones..

1. Most funny (recent): Felice getting amusingly shitfaced at the Alt Party '08 after-party. This was no mean feat as he'd spent many years being teetotal.

2. Most funny (ancient): Symp' 96 and an organizers appeal for help along the lines of the following. "We have a PC with a broken bios, is there a cracker in the party hall who can crack the password please?"(!)

3. Most traumatic: After a generally iffy party experience at Mekka/Symp '02, losing my passport on a badly planned trip to Amsterdam and topping that off by missing the ferry back because we left too little time to get to it.

4. Best party from a demo compo perspective: All of the Error in Line parties at Dresden. Yes, I'm writing from an Atarian perspective.

5. Most epic journey:. Five of us, overland by car to Sillyventure 2000 in Gdansk, from the UK. We fortunately had an overnight stop at Havoc's apartment in Enschede, it was the first time we met Havoc in the flesh. I'm pretty sure we crashed through a Polski police radar speed trap at twice the legal limit but nobody said anything! I'm pleased it wasn't my turn to drive at that point!

6. Best live act: Front 242 at Alt Party 08.

That'll do for now.

hurray, thread revival! had to read though it again.. and found this:


Oh, how long ago that seems..

This as well, phoenix. ;)

c0c00n: it really happened! but if you dont believe it... help yourself ;)

Ok, best moment is of course when winning a compo, followed by seeing the own production on screen. But that's trivial. Here are a couple of nice memories from random parties.

Coma94/World of Commodore (my first party ever): We arrived with our almost finished demo (my first one, don't ask), had an Amiga, but no monitor. Luckily we could persuade a nice local Amiga guy that we really needed _his_ monitor right now to get the demo done. Started coding for the 9 PM deadline and couldn't make it ON TIME(!), so I decided that it's all not worth it and destroyed the master disk out of frustration. Meanwhile one of my friends checked with the organizers and it would have of course been fine to hand it in a bit later. Well, the master disk was gone and couldn't be reconstructed at the party place. Stupid me :)

The Party 4 (my first foreign party): One word: awesome! So big, so many great people and productions. I chatted up Chaos/Sanity who sat frustrated in front of his computer, because apparently his co-coder Pet didn't make it to the party and thus their demo Roots was a bit unfinished. Still got a copy of the demo from him and it even had an original printed label (seems like victory was really well planned and just didn't happen due to back luck). Also got a copy of Nexus 7 from Dr. Jekyll, who appeared out of nothing next to my computer and handed me the disk. Queried him about coding while the disk was running through and finally decided to really start looking into assembly language from now on.

Somewhwere in Holland 95: JCS won his first (?) graphics compo, putting Facet to the second place, and _really_ couldn't believe it. I mean in the truest sense, as he really didn't show any sign of going towards the stage. We finally convinced him that it was no joke and that he should go and get his prize.

Silliconvention 97: Overall a really nice, mainly Atari party. We released our first assembly-coded demo for the Amiga. Chatted with Axis and got carried away over the technical details of setting up a hires-interlace screen, mentioning how not even Azure/Artwork (the top-coder back then) would do it correctly in his demos. Literally while I was mentioning Azure's name, Axis started to giggle without any obvious reasons and told me to turn around, where I saw, of course, Azure, who followed the whole conversation from behind my chair. Hi!

Mekka 99: A dream came true and we won the Amiga demo compo. Biggest, bestest moment ever! Someone, apparently some girl from the US (San Francisco?) took the only picture of that moment, but I never saw it. Hey, anyone actually knows who that girl might have been, please?

Assembly 2000: Hellfire, XXX and me were flying over to Finland. I phoned the airline to find out about baggage and customs regulations. Ok, so they allowed 20 kg per passenger, and you could also import like 20 liters of soft alcohol, e.g. beer. Knowing the absurd prices for alcohol in Finland, we literally filled all our luggage with German beer cans and set off to make instant friends over in Helsinki. Thanks again to Droid for hosting us lot back then, it was really marvellous! Thanks also for providing us with the "magic spell", a Finnish sentence scribbled on a cut-out piece of paper that, when read out loud (and without actually understanding a f*ck), would instantly convice anyone in the immediate vicinity of your true oldschool roots. The spell came in handy at Boozembly, when Kraku of Byterapers tried to diss us Haujobbers as newschool scener. Well, not anymore, after I used the spell. Look at this picture to see how the spell worked on him. ;)

Fuckign at Hype, fuckign at bp, fuckign at asm, fucking at dh, fucking at cs etc

maali: piss on you too, you son of a bitch (I may or may not just have gotten home from downtown)

another good (recent) party memory:

kindergarden 08, watching the odd demoshow with the other guys, xerxes completely falling in low with the moose demos :)

cocoon: actually, maali going into the wrong sauna to dry up is true.. him staying longer than 10 seconds may not be though..

it just sounded like "wrong bragging", haha...sorry maali then ! i owe you some beers @BP ;)

With darklite present. All parties are "Best Party moment"

(Talking about the original darklite, not us new lamers joining the last year :)

I've been thinking about this thread a lot - it definitely needs a bump. Here are a few of mine. First, some overseas ones:

ASM'06: Playing my first 'international' football game with Gargaj, rainmo, and cTrix, against a bunch of 15-year old gamers. They beat us convincingly, and cTrix twisted his ankle a little, but those guys were lamers and couldn't code for shit. Also, trying to hack the HEX values of our musiccompo entry with notepad because our tracker threw a tantrum, and then declaring "screw this" and going to make pouet pig t-shirts with Topy44 instead.

Probably my favourite ASM'06 moment was in the hallways of Hartwell Areena at about 1am on a Sunday. It was kind of croweded and I was chatting with Tomcat and Truck when TBL's "Ocean Machine" started playing on the various party televisions. Suddently, everyone in the hallways slowly went quiet, and squished together to be close to each of the TV sets. The entry wasn't even part of the compo, but it was a moment where hundreds of otherwise strangers finally "got it" and shared a moment of appreciating something amazing.

Evoke '06: Getting up on stage with cTrix after winning one of the music compos. Having XXX look us both in the eye, give us a deadpan look and say: "congratulations, now fill out these forms. We are Germans!".

And some Aussie ones:

Syntax '07: The first demoparty we'd run in Melbourne in... lord knows, maybe forever. We weren't sure how successful it was going to be, until the party doors flew open and three dudes in sunglasses and black trenchcoats sat down in silence, took out their computers, and started coding. That was our first experience of The Trem Trio :)

Beach Party '08: all of the beach partys were a bit ridiculous. Someone (I can't remember who) jumped out of the tree, blind drunk, and started yelling "I'm on fire!!". Clearly they were not :)

Syntax '09: This was just an amazing party. It was Melbourne Cup weekend in Melbourne, and we'd sweet talked a CBD cafe owner into allowing us to have a demoparty there. Small venue but it was rocking - also having dolled-up racegoers look awkwardly at us and cross to the other side of the street was fun. BlackBeltJones did an amazing track this year... also wonderful to see Colwyn return with The Force.

Syntax '10: Jimage setting off an alarm that woke an entire university residence. Spoony recording it and turning it into a music entry

Syntax '11: DilDil^DA almost setting Melbourne's most expensive highschool on fire, due to an overly-excited barbeque

Flashback '11: Sydney's first flashback. Watching some bananaman animated gif with Ozzie for about 7hrs. cTrix turning a busted faucet into Tapcore. Jimage strapping a monitor and an amiga to himself as a wild entry.

Flashback '13: Partyhacking like a boss. Sampling the fridge in my hotel room because I couldn't find the synth patch I wanted. Not sleeping for two days and then sprinting across Syndey CBD with a USB disk to submit my entry with 4x minutes to spare. (it was a firstprod!). Also, everyone being really happy and singing "Skippy the bush kangaroo" thanks to Offence & Prosonix's demo with "aussie mode" :D

Flashback '14: Working out that I'd been in the same demogroup with a mate for six years, both under different handles!

Haha, my memory slowly returns on that. Owned!!

1997 - thats a fucking long time ago. Good old days...

I don't know that I really have one yet, as I've only been in person to two years of the same demoparty. The "best moment" may yet come. (I do have a worst moment, not the fault of the demoparty, but that's another story.) However through my laser cutting stuff--badges, awards, etc.--I've sent to or done for various demoparties I would hope that even if never noted here, as I think it's quite enough to even be mentioned in a closing ceremony even though they don't have to, that it's contributed at least in a small part to someone's good time at a demoparty. (This is not fishing; I enjoyed making the stuff regardless.)

I don't know if it's a best memory but the KG15 prizegiving is gonna be something I sure as hell remember.

...and the KG14 even more so.

:D

Too many to specifiy really.

Well, maybe meeting Stil for the first time at SE2002 and immediately flying into his arms and him lifting me up :D (not gay at all, right?) Oh and the battle we had throwing full 0.5l beer cans at one another. It was crappy German gas station beer Ile bought.

Mekka 2001, when I first stepped into the hall and got a grasp of the hugeness of it all. Or the year after when I sat on the edge of the stage while I saw the crowd responding to my unfinished hack (TPB-02).

That BCNParty in Barcelona, great trip.
The Playboy Mansion Party in 2005.

Last Outline was terrific, but all of them were.

Also had a lot of fun at last years Evoke, and basically all of them I attended (97, 98, 2002, 2005).

And many more.