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2005-12-30 06:13
Wanderer
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How do you judge 2006 releases

Here's something I've been pondering.

When the clock strikes midnight, how will the first releases of 2006 be calculated? For example Australia releases uploaded at 00:01 on January 1, 2006 would be our Saturday, December 31, 2005

Should this go by the CSDB time zone as per entry creation time/date or per the time zone of the creator's country?

It's not a big deal I know, but I understand there is a bit of a race for the first demos of the year. How should they be calculated? Even NTSC demos come from different time zones.

My opinion is it should go by the time zone of the demo creator. Thoughts?
 
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2005-12-30 07:24
Style

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Thank you Jazzcat. If anyone else has any ON TOPIC responses, please leave them :)


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dickhead.... now I see why your demos are crap.

2005-12-30 07:47
Wanderer
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There are already a handful of anti-Wanderer threads to pursue. I'm trying to have a serious discussion here and I will continue to post threads that contribute.

So to those who don't care for me, please decide here and now:
a) to join in, on topic
b) to ignore it entirely (it's soooo easy)
c) turn it into another 200 reply heated argument that will end when people finally demand everybody involved stops.

I'm not going anywhere... so choose wisely because I think everybody is tired of the flaming.

Thanks
2005-12-30 08:20
CyberBrain
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I would say that in CSDb it's the time of the country where it's released that counts. If i add an old release i've found somewhere, i enter the date that the demo states as the release-date, i don't convert it to central european time first, and then enter that date.
2005-12-30 09:12
Jazzcat

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Also something to keep in mind is that VANDALISM NEWS and the chart "The List" (since 1991) doesn't include CSDB as the main reference medium for first releases.

The problem of time-delays between countries is usually not that big, as these days most of the first releases come from Europe as opposed to say the USA and Australia.

2005-12-30 10:44
Yodelking

Registered: Apr 2002
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Haha! I never thought about this... I made a "First in 89" demo 16 years ago. Maybe I wasn't first after all... I didn't think about timezones. And what does count? I counted when it was saved on my disk, and not the day my snail-mail contacts got the demo.
2005-12-30 11:15
Jazzcat

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"World First" is normally the terminology used for demos and "first releases" is used in the cracking scene.

Teehee ;)
2005-12-30 12:20
Oswald

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Wanderer, your acts has consequences learn to live with them. Guess how many ppl are sorry for you since you cant have a serious discussion.
2005-12-30 17:57
Wanderer
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Quote: Wanderer, your acts has consequences learn to live with them. Guess how many ppl are sorry for you since you cant have a serious discussion.

Jazzcat, that's unfortunate to hear because it means by mid-afternoon tomorrow is when all of the North American cracks/demos would need to be uploaded. However as Vandalism news is Euro, it makes sense and there are not a lot of North American releases.

Thanks for enlightening me on how it works, maybe I have a reason for asking or maybe it's just coincidence. :D

2005-12-30 18:34
Tch
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Thank God for North EAST Importers.
North WEST would be in quite the advantage. ;)
2005-12-30 20:53
Zyron

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Judging 2006 releases isn't an easy task. At first it takes quite a lot of time just looking through them all the first time, and to judge them correctly you must watch them at least 2 or 3 times. After that judgement day has arrived & all the 2006 releases will hopefully be judged fairly?
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