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Breakpoint 2009 - Everything is under control

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BP orgas are pros, Okki is a born consecutive translator and the party rocks! More when I find time to write a report.

Anybody has any idea what was all the drama thing about?
added on the 2009-04-14 20:33:17 by Fei Fei
What an awesome party and massive props to the bp-organizers and puryx for the danish-schranz-bus trip!

Cozy atmosphere and great ppl + danish ownage in the compo's ;)

4k was really the highlight of the show.

Too bad with the pc-demo compo. So many entries and so few worth looking at. There were alot of talent and nice effects in there, but the demos lacked themes and were not well put together and often used slow FX with no timing to fast paced music..

NeonEye: - yes HBC deserved the win, but us loosing was a highlight of BP ? :\

For the organizers: next time please please show the Final image first in the GFX compo's and NOT the 1. step of the picture. It really screws over the artists (esp. 2d stuff) when the first impression is a crude sketch.

Also alot of great artwork with no thumbnails really got owned in the voting there..
added on the 2009-04-14 20:47:12 by Trenox Trenox
This might very well be the best party I've ever missed ;).

Ah well... I won't whine. Everyone has to make their own decisions in life. Even crappy ones ;D. I'm glad everyone seems to have had such a good time! Sorry I didn't make it.
added on the 2009-04-14 20:51:23 by elfan elfan
we missed you, but B wasn't there, so you couldn't get kicked in the balls - so it wouldn't have felt right for you.
PUNCHED in the balls. There's quite a difference you know. Kicking is so impersonal ;).
added on the 2009-04-14 20:57:43 by elfan elfan
(although, I'm sure my charming personality could very well had made someone kick me in the balls too... I tend to have that effect on people... Especially when there's alcohol involved ;))
added on the 2009-04-14 21:00:05 by elfan elfan
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Also alot of great artwork with no thumbnails really got owned in the voting there..
exactly my thought. but then again, that's the artist's fault. but they may not know, so a gentle hint on the uploading page would be appreciated.

and yeah elfan, sad you couldn't make it. :(
Trenox, no. it wasn't a positive hilite. I had somehow hoped you would win in one of the categories.
added on the 2009-04-14 21:21:19 by neoneye neoneye
Yes, I had fun. It was, after all, pretty awesome, as always. But more than one Breakpoint per year would probably kill me. I.. am.. too.. old.. for.. this. The only sucky part about the party, with the exception of the inevitable hangover(s), was when *ahem* someone puked on my macbook pro and on some other stuff and I had to spend a bit of perfectly good intoxicating liquid to get the stains off. Please don't drink like that if you can't handle it. Thanks.

Also, the gfx card I won got me special attention in airport security. Happily not that special but.. (and I repeat my question from a few pages back, what exactly is the gfx card I got? It's big and mean and huge and probably consumes more electricity than the rest of my electrical appliances put together, but it doesn't say what it is)
added on the 2009-04-14 21:27:22 by Preacher Preacher
We gave out 3 types of graphic cards:

- Quadro CX (insane badass stuff, see http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_cx_us.html)
- GTX 295 (dual-GPU, worth ~500 Euros)
- 9800 GX2 (dual-GPU, worth ~300 Euros)

Google images will probably help to find out which one you've got ;)
added on the 2009-04-14 21:46:36 by scamp scamp
should be a GTX295, the others were labeled. and it should include one of our custom-soldered 2-pin "6-pin-to-8-pin converter" power plugs from the "don't ask" image in the package. :)
added on the 2009-04-14 22:15:58 by ryg ryg
neoneye: ah sry I misunderstood then :)
added on the 2009-04-14 22:26:04 by Trenox Trenox
Yeah, thanks :) I'm gonna try it out soon, just need to check that my power supply and case cooling is up to the task. That thing looks evil.

I wonder how many lines it can render per second..
added on the 2009-04-14 22:26:25 by Preacher Preacher
over 9000
added on the 2009-04-14 22:28:21 by xernobyl xernobyl
BB Image
added on the 2009-04-14 22:38:52 by gr9yfox gr9yfox
preacher: it draws around 190 watts under load, so yeah, better check.
added on the 2009-04-14 23:29:20 by ryg ryg
thx for all the orgos + all the people releasing that insane amount of good stuff - and also for the weather gods for the warm warm warm weekend
added on the 2009-04-15 00:14:41 by winden winden
The GTX295 is more like 300w (284 officially, but 320 in furmark). I'm also a bit concerned about testing the one I got with my 550w psu.
Hardware wise the QuadroCX is around a GTX260, but ofcourse much better in the applications the Quadro drivers are optimized for.

But anyway, thanks for a fantastic party (again).
added on the 2009-04-15 00:24:42 by Psycho Psycho
I really have to add my love and praise in here as well.

To all organizers, visitors and weather gods - This party was Awesome! Thank you so very much!
added on the 2009-04-15 00:37:37 by arcane arcane
[00:42:49] <Tomoyax> IF YOU WANT A PICTURE OF THE FUTURE, IMAGINE SCAMP, DRINKING WITH POLITICIANS .... FOREVER
added on the 2009-04-15 00:41:27 by ___ ___
bwahaha :D
added on the 2009-04-15 00:42:00 by Puryx Puryx
As allways, awsome party. Thanx again orgaz for being so civil when the idiot in us comes out ;)

my view of the party

+Best weather ever
+Awesome Amiga compos
+4K named after me (thanx again brite ;)
+Good German beer
+Stunning PC 4ks
+Danes
+Almost getting thrown out while stopping Hyde going mental :D

-Getting too old to booze the way I really want to :(
-Worst bartender ever (the old man..hehe....I laughed my ass off each time someone ordered anything but a beer from him. He passed over the work to the girl in the bar. Vodka redbull sure is a tricky drink to make.
(The other dude and the girl did a great job though)
-Small kids running around (seemingly somewhat unsupervised) amongst a bunch of piss-drunk sceners.
added on the 2009-04-15 01:55:44 by tFt tFt
+-Small kids running around (afaik constantly supervised) amongst a bunch of piss-drunk sceners
+Becks beer
+The weather, atmosphere, people
+"See you all at bp2010 !"
+Amiga 4k compo

-Amiga demo compo
-PC burned down after 4 hours at the party
-Not being able to dj in the tent becaus of the police.
-Too many sceners sleeping during the night. Tsk.

======+

Awesome.
added on the 2009-04-15 04:40:27 by numtek numtek
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That thing looks evil.

Feedback has been relayed to NVIDIA industrial design team :)

Again thanks to Scamp, all orgas, and everyone else at BP for putting together such an great party. It was really great to see a lot of sceners again and met a lot of people I missed last year who were all extremely awesome.

I also realize I whipped out my bottle of venezuelan rum too late, everyone was all boozed out by Sunday. Will *not* make that mistake next time.
added on the 2009-04-15 04:47:07 by temis temis
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Will *not* make that mistake next time.


You know what that means ;)
added on the 2009-04-15 09:43:59 by Puryx Puryx

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