(appeared in DemoNews issue 90, May 14 1995) =----------------------------------------[Live from NAID]--[Multiple Authors]-= (an undirected journal from the night of Saturday April 15th) Its Saturday night here in Montreal and about half of the demo freaks here at NAID are fast asleep. What you are about to read is live and edited. In fact, I'm writing this introduction long after NAID has ended but for the sake of argument, I'll pretend I'm writing it at the party place itself. I'm sitting at the "Hornet Table" right now. To my left is GraveDigger. To my right and behind me is some funny guy [who I would later learn was PeriSoft]. The music competition has concluded and I am dead tired. However, sleep is my enemy and as such I must focus my energies on something... anything. I have a feeling that many people will be contributing to this log. Anything in []'s has been added for clarification. Here is the roll call: * Snowman > GraveDigger >> Ior >>> Katherine Poire (Jeff's sister) >>>> The NAID photographer >>>>> Perisoft Well folks, if you wanted to read something interesting, THIS IS IT! * Hello there, this is Christopher G. Mann, writing live from the NAID party place. With me here is GraveDigger. Say "hi" GD... > "Hi," GD. * Very funny. ;) Well, the two of us are just sitting here listening to some live kewl-rad band called Public Enema. > I don't think that DJ up there scratching the records and all, is real. But, its a nice touch, as is all of the smoke. * GD, I can hardly hear anything! I'm now looking at the MediaTrix representative here in front of me. He was a judge for the music compo. GD, who do you think will win the music compo this year and why? > That's a really tough call. Especially since I lost interest about halfway through. The music really was excellent, but I just got so tired. It was a very long compo. I liked the fact that Basehead and Necros did some really different styles than we are used to. I guess at this point I can't make any judgement because I really would rather hear it all again. :)_ Just when I'm more awake and alert. * Hmmm.... What if I told you that I was a judge for the music compo and could tell you RIGHT NOW who the winner was going to be? > I'd rather not know, I think. Even if it was dead obvious, I'd rather wait. Ok, then again, we'll just wait until we get away from this crowd and you can pass me the list. :) * Maybe I should keep the results to myself and just publish them in 01. That might boost the ratings! :) I'm trying right now to remember the distinction between o1art and hnews. One serious and one funny/informal. What kind of article titles ya' think we'll have in the next couple of weeks for each? > Uhh, which was which again? You confuse me. I'll just leave it up to you like I always do. :P Maybe you *can* enlighten us on how to get a prostitute [refer to o1fil.001]. Even still, I'm sure I don't have enough money. Hey, didn't you rip me off in a poker game or something? * You were drunk! How do you remember that? Boy, you look a lot younger in person than I thought you would be... but you're still older than that guy working on DNDM [Ior]. > Me? Drunk? You must have seen Necros and Mosaic stumbling in the first night. Anyway, I guess it is about time to stop sucking my thumb and carrying my blanket. Hey Snowman, where the hell did you go? Oh well, I guess it's time for another guest... >> Hey. This is Ior... (NOT Eeyore :) Believe it or not, I made it to yet another demo party... And I'll admit, although this doesn't live up to Asm '94 (it wasn't expected to), it's not a bad start for this continent. > I can't really say anything about past parties, but I'll take your word for it. I heard there are some 700 people here, but the capacity was 1100. Though I don't think I could handle any more people here. Ah, guess what, Ior? We have _more_ guest speakers! That means more arrow-brackets. :) >>> Hi! Here's Katherine and I'm Jeff's sister... Christopher just left and God knows where he is... >>>> Hello! Here I am the photographer for Hornet, I'm R.A.D. from Longueuil... > Hey, you get to take pictures, that's cool. Did you happen to get any pictures of females with exposed, well.. umm.. >>>> Not yet, but I'll try... There's plenty of them here... > Well, that's sure good to hear. There are more than I expected. And it seems someone is trying to take the keybosu6 n09s [???] >>>>> Muahahaha, this keyboard has been LIBERATED by PeriSoft.. :> today, Hornet-- tomorrow, the world!!! AAaAUAuuUAAUUAGH!! Actually, I'm just freaking out cause all these speakers are over-driven and made my piano samples sound like dying cats.. Oh.. SV RULEZ!! * What the hell! This is getting out of control. I leave for a second, and now there are like 5 people who have written stuff. I give up... >> Good. Now that he's gone, we can get back on topic. :) There was a little bit of controversy over the way the music compo was run, due to the fact that the audience had to listen to every single entry... And after a while it did get a little dull. :) But on the the more serious competition: The Demo Compo (and here is CCCatch pounding on the table due to his MUD withdrawal :) ... There might be a total of 5 (count that, *5*) demos here (Hey! Stop hitting me, Kenny! :) ... all from this continent! (Being America) Here's what I can count so far, from rumors, and from actually seeing them with my own eyes: 1. KFMF - Flight 2. Craw Prods. - Opticron 3. Night Vision - Figment 4. Necros - ?????? 5. Pure Resistance - ????? I can't wait to see any of them (even though I've already seen some of them ) >>>>> Well, IOR has faced the facts and relinquished control of the keyboard to me.. :) actually, I'm not so sure how they should've dealt with the overload of music, since they obviously have to judge them all anyway... so they might as well play 'em all. I dunno how you pick the worst ones without hearing them.. :) unless you just take a dart board with the names of the contestants on it and toss darts until only those composers in Kosmic or Renaissance are left.. ;> >> Hahahaha... it seems that way sometimes... but I think all of the people in Ren that entered songs actually deserve to be in the finals. Their songs are just that good... BTW, did I mention that CCCatch actually TRACKED A SONG?!?!?!?! It's amazing! First one in... Ummm ... A long time. Uh oh. The boss is back. :) >>>>> Aauugh! Take cover! Grab the women and children! Take cover! Take--- (sounds of gunfire and shells exploding) aaaAuughhh..g.f,. (raising head from the sidewalk, spilling dark blood to the ground) Hmm.. GD has returned. damn. (head flops back down in a spray of blood) > Well, Christopher and I were fortunate enough to witness a new and yet unreleased tune being written by three people: Basehead, Necros, and one other we seem to have forgotten. Sorry dude, but the tune is killer and should be released in a short time. By the way, you guys _really_ screwed this damn thing up :) Touche. >> Bah. We stayed closer to the topic than you two ever would have. :) And see! Now that you're back, we're straying again. Go away. :) >>>>> Yeah... let's boot 'im outa here. Here we were discussing fine concepts of music ratings, here we are talking about issues affecting the ENTIRE DEMO WORLD (even finland! ;> ) and you just come here and say we're off topic. Disgusting. ;) Did I say that SV rules? :) > PS, we know that you have a Super Virus, and I think you need to see a doctor. Damn, I know that I probably made this keyboard wire a few feet longer. (That part was accidentally typed in all caps, but you of course won't see that. :) Nevertheless, all watching are laughing at my pathetic typing skills. Ok, though, I would like to ask both of you a question regarding this competition. Now, I could ask, "Who is going to win?" But, nevermind that. There will be a results report and all that good stuff. But, what I want to know is, Who's going to lose? :) >> Well... I'm assuming that you're talking about the demo compo... There will be too many losers in the music compo. :) >>>>> Yeah. We ALL know there are way too many losers in the music compo. Just quit talking about me, will ya? ;) >> Hahahaha... Okay... I haven't seen all the demos yet... Only the KFMF demo, the Night Vision demo, and I've heard some inside comments from the makers of Opticron, and also Necros, concerning their demos. The KFMF demo was coded completely by GooRoo (wow. :) and has music by Maelcum and Floss. It has some nice effects, and could end up high. The Night Vision demo is unfortunately being put together in a hurry, so it won't be as good as it could be... Which is too bad, since some of their effects are nice. I especially like the beginning of it. Opticron is supposed to have some good and hard to code effects, but I haven't seen it. And Necros' demo is supposed to be so smooth, that it almost appears to be animation. Not directly related to this, of course, is Dope. We got it in about mid-day today. It was amazing. I think it blows away all demos currently out there, and I can be fairly certain in saying that none of the demos from this compo will be up to par... Good job Jmagic! :) >>>>> Yeah... GD and I waltzed in about halfway through that demo, as we'd been observing some weird ray traced movie on all the TV monitors scattered throughout the hallways around here, and the DEMO was better.. :) In fact, it was so good that GD almost dropped his "Pepsi Max" :) Oh yeah. Question... well.. I haven't seen any of the demos yet, so I can't really generalize about who's going to lose. And just for the sake of argument, as far as boolean logic goes, asking who's going to lose because we're going to have a list of who wins is not good logic-- anyone who does not win will, by definition, lose :) and therefore, a list of winners will explain losers as well. So there. Pttth. :) >> Well, about my previous comment, I realize that some people could take offense to it, but I didn't mean it that way. I was just stating that the coders in Europe have much more experience with demos than the coders here in America. I think that answers GD's question, and as expected, he's gone again. Uh oh. That means that PS and I have free run of this document (But this will all probably be edited out by Snowman and GD when we leave NAID :) [Though I seriously considered doing so, I felt I should leaving the rest of this 'document' in for sake of accuracy.] It's about 1:30 AM right now... and as I guessed no one is sleeping. Snowman, GD, Floss, and Trixter were all threatening to go to sleep a while ago, but they didn't... Which is no surprise. You just DON'T go to sleep at a demo party. Not only is it a faux pas, but also nearly impossible by the volume of all the activities going on. Right now we have Public Enema blasting our eardrums to smithereens, and then we will have some sort of rave. We'll see how that turns out (I'm not one of those heavy ravers, but PS looks like the type, so I'll let him tell you guys all about that =) >>>>> Hahaha, I'm afraid I can't tell ya much about raves. Oh, currently Ior is attempting to kidnap CCCatch and make him type, but he's just too damn quick for us. :) Must be reflexes from all his MUDs. Ooh, now he's casting some spell on us.. ;) Well, back on topic, or this WILL be deleted.. Hmm.. There's a guitarist over there who looks like he has a weird tropical disease from the way he's weaving and twisting.. ooh.. poor guitar. But anyway.. the intro compo's been delayed, I guess in order to give some people time to write intros. :) It appears nobody did before this time-- but now it looks like we're going to have a "pisstro" from FUDD with music by necros--rumor has it that all the samples are ST3.DOC, ST3.SET and ########.ST3 files. We'll have to see how that turns out. :) In fact, I myself wrote a little 7k text mode intro in pascal this afternoon, but owing to the fact that more than three entrants are likely to take part, my chances of getting some fast cash are reduced, and it isn't worth the damage to my reputation to submit it now. :) >> Damage to your reputation? What reput- Oh! Sorry. :) It's true. I've seen PISSTRO ... It is hilarious. I can't wait to see it on big screen. :) Everyone's going to die laughing. :) I couldn't confirm anything about the samples, though. I'd have to take the 8 minute walk down to the Kosmic/Ren room to ask Necros himself. :) I do have one small complaint/suggestion about this party. Right now (NIGHTTIME!) they are having the bands play, and the rave happening. And they plan on showing the demos/intros in the DAYTIME!!!! What kind of reasoning is this? They do have the windows covered up (some of them) but a lot of light still gets through. Anyone who has been to any other demo party (ahem :) could tell you that you want to show the gfx compo, intro compo, and demo compo when it is dark! It is just easier to see the screen! I remember that at Asm '94, the demo compo was running a little late, and the sun started coming up (at 3:30 AM :) and that really made watching the demos hard to do. I wonder what the organizers are thinking. :) >>>>> Yeah, and also we're all probably going to be half dead by that time tomorrow.. :) amazingly enough, though, I'm still not that tired, even though it's now now 2:00am and I got up at 6:30 am yesterday.. Actually, I must agree with Ior that the compos, especially the gfx compo, will be somewhat hurt by the bright Montreal sun ;> >> Pyro just reminded me! It was snowing when the party started! It was the first snow I've seen in 13 years! After all, we don't get much snow in "sunny" Southern California. :) >>>>> Well, I come from wonderful upstate New York-- "Where seldom is heard, an encouraging word, and the sky is not sunny all daaayy" -- and the last time *I* saw snow was... last wednesday. :) >> Well, we seem to be wandering again, but that's probably because we've run out of things to say about NAID so far... We've only had one compo, and that wasn't too exciting (except for music from all of the big names on this side of the Atlantic - Oh! And Mellow-D :) ... Right... We did have a live "coverage" (or as close as you can get) of most of the music compo in IRC. I'm sure that someone got a screen capture of it, and will release it later. I'll try to do the demo compo, but the way that they have the Net terminals set up in relation to the screen, it will make it VERY difficult to see the demo and be on IRC at the same time. But I'll see what I can do. :) Hmm. Well, PeriSoft had to leave for some reason. and I've run out of things to say, and Snowman and GD will have a heart attack when they get back from flirting with women and see how much we've typed... So... Bye for now from NAID! >>>>> Well, you know me, I always have to have the last word :) I actually had to leave to get another root beer, which I believe (looks at the can) oh damn! No caffeine! Oh well.. it's the thought that counts. Hmm, maybe we could try here what they did in the 1890s when there wasn't any news--yellow journalism. Hell with the facts! =) Ok, here I go.. awww. Ior doesn't want me to do this. But that's just 'cause of what those space aliens did to him. Hey. Well--guess I gotta go. Elvis wants me over in the corner. Uh oh. Anyway--L8a ppl.. adioz---and remember-- sv rules. :) >> I wish you would tell us what this SV thing is, sometime. But not now. :) Bye all!