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platon42 information 165 glöps

• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Chris
• last name: Hodges
• portals:
• demozoo: profile
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: Blood Sugar Rises by AttentionWhore
• cdc #2: Desire FM by Desire [web]

• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Bacon of Hope by Desire [web]
• Thanks for the nice comments! Very much appreciated.
  
  There is now a write-up available (24000 words, about two hours read).
• isokadded on the 2026-02-27 21:16:49
• demo Windows The Box by Ümlaüt Design [web]
• For the 10000th thumb. Should have been a piggy for not calling it "The Böx".
• rulezadded on the 2025-12-28 22:13:53
• demo Atari XL/XE Unleashed by Radiance
• Copying data and porting code without giving credits? Well, there’s no excuse for such lame behaviour, not even running out of time.
• sucksadded on the 2024-12-10 23:45:51
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Is Real by Desire [web]
• So people blamed me for not mentioning October 7. Well, here's October 7 for you.
• isokadded on the 2024-04-09 18:30:35
• 32k Amiga OCS/ECS SpaceBoot Intro by Scoopex [web]
• Stuck in the 90ties, no-effort recycling of code. By photon's own standards, this deserves all thumb downs he is so eagerly putting onto other fine prods.
• sucksadded on the 2024-02-04 12:19:27
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Ordo
• Don't let the confusing negative comment by Photon distract you from your release being an excellent contribution to the demoscene and a milestone for you as one-man-production. This is more than a slideshow and it has more design to it than any Scoopex production, that Photon has been involved in, has ever had.
  
  Even if the "tools" for your effects were quite limited, the outcome is really great. That makes it deserve even more respect.
• rulezadded on the 2024-02-04 12:14:56
• demo Amiga OCS/ECS Is Real by Desire [web]
• I will make a one-time exception regarding not engaging anymore on pouet.
  
  
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  But if those relationships are less clear I find it troubling somehow, and imo demos/art/music/etc that do this risk trivialising incredibly important issues for unclear ends.
  

  
  
  My relationship is that I would like to think of myself of a humanist, a pacifist, and as my nick might suggest, I have been pondering about and studied philosophical questions more than half of my life. My bias is towards the weak, and I detest the rule of the (physically) stronger ("might is right") because it contradicts equality (within a society and law).
  
  So no, this is not a demo that would show "the other side" of the conflict. This is about civilians being murdered. There is absolutely no need to know the precursor to killing people (esp. children), because at least for me, there is no such thing as "just war" and it can NEVER be justified.
  
  
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  In this case, there are enough indications that the author's "take" on the topic could be quite superficial. For instance, use of crucifixes/crosses to represent murdered civilians in the Muslim world is at best grimly ironic, and at worst flat out offensive, depending on your personal level of sensitivity ;).

  
  
  Let me tell you that I have thought long time about this, but then sticked with the crosses, which are not a religious symbol for me in this case. It's merely a symbol of death. I could not have picked a symbol at that resolution that would have been understood likewise. The main audience is "the West" and the people are familiar with this cross symbol and its meaning. The audience are NOT Muslims whom I suppose already know exactly what is happening in Gaza and Westbank and not just since October 7th.
  
  I find it a bit underwhelming that you pretend to know if muslims would be offended or not about this depiction of crosses. Maybe that's one of their lesser problems? Let them decide for themselves.
  
  
  Quote:

  
  as long as the Palestinians are not respected and
  no agreement on an own state will be found (there have been
  negotiations and offers over the last decades but all of them were
  turned down by the Palestinian leadership if I am not mistaken)
  

  
  
  Find out if you are mistaken (or not) by researching this a little. The history of this conflict is long and heartbreaking and I cannot transfer this experience. There are plenty of resources out there (maybe try Scott Ritter or Chris Hedges).
  
  The best chance for peace came to a sudden end when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by his own people. Since then, ultranationalists have seized power and abandoned the two-states-idea.
• isokadded on the 2024-01-25 20:22:26
• demotool Windows Amiga OCS/ECS PreTracker 1.5 by Abyss [web]
• Quote:

  Replay is taking 10k *packed* and too much raster time on a 68000.

  
  
  Here's the cure: Raspberry Casket Pretracker replayer.
  
  Twice the speed, half the size (packed). Comes with source code.
• isokadded on the 2022-12-28 15:33:59
• 16k Amiga OCS/ECS Zapped In by Abyss [web]
• Ooooh no! More than gray screen without music, but clearly an offence to the unwritten no-exe music rules here on pouet. Bye bye.
• isokadded on the 2022-09-08 22:52:38
• 8k Amiga OCS/ECS Plastic Dove by Abyss [web]
• I am sorry, I guess the “exe-music is not worthy of pouet”-police will come soon to delete this prod.
• isokadded on the 2022-09-08 22:50:09