Assembly '03

An anonymous reader writes "The world's biggest festival for computer enthusiasts, Assembly '03 starts off today. Four days of coding, compos, music, games and other geeky stuff. See press release (rtf) for more..."

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Modded as Troll? Shouldn't it be "Informative"?

[mykepredko]

Somebody hit the wrong button?

myke

"Festival" is correct

[tietokone-olmi]

Did y'all know that an event called "assembly" has been organised yearly since 1992? And that it started out as a traditional copy party at a school building, the likes of which were quite common back then? It subsequently transformed itself into a demoscene event in the years 1992-1995, after which it has started sucking with a vengeance.

This is to say, these days it's all pimply-faced thirteen-year-old windowshead would-be-newmediawanker quake-playing consumers sitting in front of their daddy-funded PeeCees, occasionally complaining about the loud volume during the actual demo compos (the vestiges of which the organizers are pretty much obliged to maintain). As a concession to the old-school demo scene folk, they stringed off an "old school" section of the party area and charged a premium to get in. For gods' sake, last year there was a fucking 3dmark competition and I fully expect that this year there will be some other sort of competition over seeing who can metaphorically suck a corporate sponsor's dick the best!

Then again, I hear there's only one of the original assembly crew still left in the organizing group. Which completely explains their controlled slide into corporate whoredom.

Fortunately I'll only be at the shadow-event, boozembly. There's far less in the way of corporate advertising there, and more boozing, at the very least -- so it can't completely suck unlike its parent.