going ape shit press #20 by edicius tom!! stop submitting shit to me!!! get out more often! 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 urg. well, first off, i know i really haven't been in the scene as long as most people. hmm. just counting, i've offically been in the `scene' for 7 or 8 months now, even in this short time, i've seen a major change. there's a few things i'd like to say. i know i might piss off alot of people, but i don't care. this is what i want to say, and if you don't like it, write up your own text phile and release it. its your choice to read this, if you don't want to read it, hit control-c, alt-q, or whatever, and stop reading this. its your choice, freewill, i didn't force you to read it, hence, you can't get too pissed off at me now. this will be seperated into three parts for your enjoyment. I) groups. II) talk. III) literature. IV) misc stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- part I - groups. firstly. if i see someone start another art group, i mean, standard-wise art group (ie: normal ansi/lit/vga/etc group). i'll shoot someone. i haven't seen a group formed within the last four months that will do good. its no use, there's a thing called supply and demand. here's a little scenario. - in a tightknit community, there are five ansi artists, two are `top notch'. group A is formed, and all five artists to to group A. - group B is formed by a sucky member of group A who wants power, and takes the other two sucky members from group A. - people who run boards want good ansis. - people who run boards want good ansis from group A. - people who run boards know that group B sucks. - group B dies because it has no support and a member leaves to go to group A. (OR) - group B is merged into group A, thus, dies. see? how simple is that. people DEMAND good, or at least, decent quality ansis. the "art scene" only SUPPLIES a small amount of good artists. the more groups, the more people are brought into the scene, weeding out the quality of the ansis and making the scene "lame". supply and demand. pick up a high school economics text book. read about it, or get a history book and learn the results of BAD supply and HIGH demand. also. leadership is something that is slow in coming. people are starting art groups with little experience, or bad experience. here's two examples. (this is bound to piss off more people). bad experience: spastic studios. eerie, in my opinion, isn't a good leader. what, 5 groups in the last 4 months? undergrown is the only thing that he has been semi good in, but that has its downpoints (see below). the first pack had too much hype, and it wasn't impressive at all. also, narcolept ripping ansis, or whatever he did, well, isn't good after only 1 month. i give this group no more then 3 packs before eerie leaves, or the group dies. hey, lord jazz left bleach after only one pack, and i applaud him and maestro for going solo. little experience broken productions well. this one is bound to hit and hurt alot of people. broken was based in 908, gasp is based in 908. the master, well, in my opinion, didn't have enough experience in the "art scene." dreldragon wasn't around much, and at least tm had some sense in getting grey hawk to do some work for the group (as far as leadership goes). the master was stuburn, his board didn't make an impressive world head quarters (in these days of the "scene", thats all alot of groups have (whq)). he didnt do much for the group either. so, thats why this is a classic example of little experience. the group did very well, it merged with cia, and although grey hawk and i are painted as bad guys for the merge, it has been good for cia, broken, and vor (who all merged at the same time). alot of people start groups for the affil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- part II - talk. i've been on boards for over a year now. i've seen alot of "fads" come and go. all of them have pissed me off, to an extent, but none to the extent of the current "fad". letsee. first, you had the `elite talk of last year', iE CaPiTaLiZaTioN oF CoNSTaNaNTS aND LoWeRCaSe VoWeLS. it was kinda cool. but it got lame, when people would write entire messages in this. i read messages. i write messages. you get a headache when you read messages like that. (although, along with this, you had/have (in some cases) the replacement of 0's with O's and 1's with i's, i only use it in bbs ads (ie - aneurysm 1.9O8.27O.8i98 (nup:vortex) plug cheap plug :)) i don't see anything wrong with THAT.) next, somewhere after it, you had the phase of just tYPING lIKE tHIS aND bEING pHUNKY cOOL g (more on this to come). variations of this included tYPiNG liKE tHiS, tYP1NG l1K3 t41S, etc. see above. reading messages in this are ANNOYING. the "current" fad that i hate the most is all of this `nigger' talk. i am not prejudice in any way. i myself am white. i am irish (yes, red hair and all). but i see people calling each other `niggers', `muh nigger bro', `my nigger homie', etc. most of this is due to #ansi. if i were black, i'd slap all of you. i know there are people who are black in "the scene", but i doubt all of you (all of you who talk like that) are black. i know for a fact that alot of white people talk like that. its just a shame because, well, this is america. in the 60's we passed a thing called the cival liberties law, and in a way, you yourself are putting down black people by calling them `niggers'. i have alot of black friends, and know for a fact, that if you called them a nigger, you'd be slapped. also. this is taken too far in alot of places. read a e:mag, ie: undergrown. in the latest issue (#7), there is a section entitled, "IRC Quotes (Various Niggas!)". urg. and also. bitches. i use the word myself from time to time, but i was raised to watch what i say, and "bitches" or "niggers" are two words that shouldn't be said too much. and again, bitches is a word that is said too much. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ part III - literature lit <-> art. literature has been around forever, and yes, it is art. it is the most beuatiful form of art, only because it revels the inner self of the writer. literature requires a certain level of maturity to read and understand it, and those people that say "lit sucks, lit isn't art" are the same 13 year old ego maniacs that call themselves "niggers". if you can't undertsand lit, tough. go to school. read a book. get educated. learn something and get off the computer once in awhile. literature can make you laugh, it can make you cry. it can make you see yourself and others in a whole new light. it can teach you alot about life, the world, or anything you wanted to know. it is not just 13 year old drivel. if you read it over two or three times, you can learn alot. try it once in awhile. get off your bitch slapping, nigger chasing, ego tripping, power trips. read. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- part IV - misc stuff. if you start a board, take a look at the boards around you first. if you're in the local calling area of harvest moon, don't open up a strict art board. that is, if you want to do well. look at my area code for example (908). here we have eternal insanity, which is one of the best obv/2 setups ever, and also the blade whq. the north star, one of the best rg setups and cia ehq. and also prayer, chromatik (of blade)'s board. nuff said. i run an text/art board, with some elite. i do fairly well within te local crowd. use that for an example, be original. (anyone in 908 that runs a board not mentioned above, take that advice). well. i gotta cut this short. there's other stuff that i want to say, but i don't have the time to say it. its 10:35pm right now. the storm that hit my area tonight (new jersey) wasn't as great as i thought, and thus, i have school tommorow. so. good byte, i hope you enjoyed this. or at east, i hope it opened your eyes. ta ta. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- where to find me - if you want to find me (gee golly gee, you want to contact me?), find me on irc as `edi'. on channels #cia, #ansi, and time to time, on channel #lit and #gasp. e:mail at `edi@crow.cybercom.com', or call my (and tut's) board, aneurysm. gasp whq. 9O8.27O.8i98, nup: vortex. e:mail me, have fun. talk to the whole aney crew. later. -- 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 someone's pissed off maybe?