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On several occasions Hackaday called the fad of freaky badge design "demo scene". I'm not a purist and accept the wildest things, but somehow this makes me cringe. Other than being a case of grumpy old man being unhappy with the colour of the grass nowadays, what could be the reason for that?

I mean if...
- You are a community of people, a "scene"
- You make stuff that demonstrate things
- You have never heard of the demoscene, and/or heard the word but never really cared to find out more
...then I don't see why you wouldn't end up calling your community that, 'cos it's a cool word.

I would say Hackaday articles make a lot of people cringe - not only demosceners.
That might be - among other things - due to the quality of research behind some articles.

That plus the rather obvious phenomenon, that as soon you are an expert for something, you notice the little mistakes from non-experts trying to talk about your field of expertise.

Some people think that the demoscene is about political demonstrations.

Things like this:

Literally noone thinks that.

Gargaj: I run into quite some people who asked if a demoparty is about politics.

See? Not everything I say is rubbish.

Well that's an admission and a half...

So you are actually self aware? Great. Now, what about not posting things that you consider rubbish in the first place?

:D

It seems you could certainly write demos for a lot of those badges and some of them have interesting hardware configurations. But there are so many of them and you would have a hard time getting one if you didn’t attend any of those (North American) conferences so much of a scene is not likely to emerge/last long.

(I left out that Belgrade badge because I’m a dick.)

@Gargaj it's nice that you're seeing it in a positive light. Demoscene is of course cool and it's flattering. I'll try to lighten up too.

But they are not doing it because they have never heard of the actual demoscene. In some of the previous articles they were much more blunt with this misappropriation, got a bit of kickback in the comments, but obviously weren't convinced otherwise.

I'm questioning myself though, what is it there that I think that I do understand that they don't. Since I'm unable to put it in words well, maybe I'm wrong and they are right? My feeling with this is similar to the famous "BBS: The documentary". I watched it, very interesting, but to me it was like uh? such were the BBS?

Re: the quality of HaD articles, it varies greatly. I mostly name-browse rather than title-browse.

I'm relatively indifferent about it because there's not much you can do about it; as long as the word "demoscene" generally stands for what we understand to be the demoscene, anything else will just have to eventually adjust to it. Just gotta make sure we don't go down the path of "machinima".

Oo, a soap opera! What path went the machinima people down? Any links or tl;dr's?

Just make a demo on it.

Nothing saucy, just that the company Machinima has gotten way more popular than the genre machinima itself, so at this stage if you mention it most people think of the company; the company itself used to be a forum / resource who used to make machinima, but then when they turned corporate they basically dropped that focus.

and meanwhilst in .nl -> http://www.thedemoscene.nl/cms/?lang=en

How indeed?

just steal her bike, that'll draw her attention!

slightly ot, but all that badge-pr0n on badgeaday gets on my nerves. It feels like every single friggin badge of every conference is praised and dissected. bit too much for my taste.

and, yes, all valid demo platforms, but probably nobody will run it on the real hardware (if that mattered nowadays anyway)

lol badgeaday. The badges annoy me a bit as such too, they're having fun wrong.

So this is not the Depeche Mode fanclub-page? Not true! :O