Ymgve at 00:36, 30 June 2007

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here comes what you have been
waiting for ???

some people do not see the beam in
their own eyes, so we were highly
thrilled to see a mamba<-magazine
review in issue #006 of shock,
censor design's diskmagazine.

loading up the column called
'spotlights' (the column's name
was already flattering us), we
finally got to the review of mamba<
issue #23 (the latest issue)

surprise, surprise, gene (x-dom, now
deadline) tried to bless the dear
reader with his literary effusion.

a mamba< review by gene of deadline

oh yes, and the wiseacre did find
quite a few things to criticize,
mainly he pointed out how mamba< lost
its objectivity, sides with friends,
and that the editor has an 'attitude
problem'. (btw. i did not know that)

to back up his claims he quoted all
kind of people, quoted mamba<, and

gave lots of examples to make people
believe how much this magazine
changed during the last months.

here is a major argument that was
used:

(about 'month in brief', 1st column)

"this section had mistakes, some
totally uninteresting crap, and
some of the most stupid charts we
have ever seen"

sounds like omg in his best times...

now,gene backs up his words by giving
examples for this statement:

"sorceress never admitted that she
had phonesex with bod"

"the voting topic was totally
irrelevant"

we say, sorceress did admit it in a
released chatfile; we say, the voting
topic was appropriate, many people
told us so. "irrelevant" is only
shock's opinion, doesn't belong there

"...the most stupid charts we have
ever seen.."

gene asks about forgotten games in
the list of first releases:
"will you add it in the next issue ?"

genius gene is already able to give
us the answer by himself: "nope, ..."

then we stop and think and ask our-
selves what we have done when we did
add 'the power, by genesis' and
'j.w. compend, by ils' to the list
of first-releases, after forgetting
those games the month before ???

so try again gene :

"and to give a game from double
density the same amount of points
like a release from ocean is sheer
stupidity... ...diskgames should
not be counted"

okey, nothing wrong with that
argument, let us quote the same issue
of shock, column 'the us-scene':

"...terminator 2+ from ocean..."
(by tsm)

"...called snake mania +2..."
(by double density, by exc)

(same column, the charts: )

" releases

3. excalibur ... 5 (incl. snake m.)

4. tsm ... 4 (incl. term. 2)"

good work gene, you 'advice' mamba<
not to count magazine games, but by
the same token, in the same issue
shock does it by itself...cool!

we don't mind, another one:

(about the news & rumours section)

"gp & victims never were in a co-op"

genius gene wants to correct us, not
knowing that these groups really have
been in cooperation, any genesis
member can be asked for confirmation.

another one:

"kt left gp months ago"

"the blueboxing system did not only
change in germany"

we did not claim 'kt' left gp just
recently, we did not claim the blue-
box-system did change only in germany

so i honestly do not see the sense in
those statements, the more i could
ask why didn't shock mention roy as a
new member of genesis, as you listed
up all other mew members ???

again we can only say you should
spend the time correcting your own
mistakes before looking what other
people do...

gene is going to try another one:

gene complains about the cure's board
being in the mamba< board charts:

because...

"the cure said that nobody could vote
for his board" (quote,gene in shock)

ok, no problem with that, but is it
really our fault when there are
people who do not obey the cure and
vote for his board though ?
are we supposed to leave those votes
out then ?
wouldn't that be called a cheat ?

answer the questions by yourself,
'dearest' reader.

well, gene would not have taken those
votes into consideration, because he
says:

"...what that board does in the
charts when you knew the cure didn't
want it listed"

is that what shock does ?

isn't that called cheat ?

self-explanatory...

the "biggest mistake" we have done
by printing aycee's/tsm article
called 'same song, different verse'.

because "in this section aycee tells
us her side of the story"

yes, we did print that article by
aycee, and from our point of view
there is nothing wrong by publishing
'letters to the editor', lettertypes
that can be found in every newspaper,
magazine etc today.
on the other hand, we find several
(biased) comments in shock that do
not belong there.

here are only a few:

"the shadow decided to kill his ass-
kicking group"

"mystic cavern changed group again,
this time it's black reign+genesis,
but for how long ?"

"untill (now) they haven't proved
to be the leading force"

"i'd say this is a good point for
cosmos to stop, as they are probably
at their top right now"
etcetcetc

why not though ?!?!

another one:

in our 'did you know' section we
reported on a guy from israel called
keediz/the force, who was seen on
an us-board.

shock states: "...now, there is no
such guy as a keediz/the force
calling out at all, and at least not
from israel."

now that is really funny, genius
writes "no such guy at all", and he
continues "at least not from israel"

quite contradictory, first you say
'not at all', then you say 'at least
not from isreal'...genius doesn't
even know about it by himself.

he goes on: "i wrote that in our
'facts an not so factual' section,
you read it, and wrote it in mamba<
without checking if it was true"

genius gene claims mamba< is copying
news etc from shock.

we won't even comment on this, except
for the little remark that there has
been a guy called 'keediz/the force'
who was calling the excalibur hq,
mysts of avalon, and he did claim he
was from israel. everybody on this
board did see him, so did we...

no need to copy from shock's
excellent news-section.

there are more things shock wrote,
there are more things mamba< could
respond to.

what you just saw were some examples
to make clear how objective shock
did report on mamba<.

to sum it all up, genius gene writes
the editor of mamba< has an attitude
problem, and i still can't see it...
maybe other people do have such kind
of a problem...

be sure that you won't find anything
else about this matter in any further
issue of mamba< since we just wanted
to show only one time, as an example,
how easy it is to make other people
or their work look bad.

not our business, other magazines or
people might continue this.

and to gene, i want to say thank you,
because my doctor told me having a
good laugh once in a while is quite
healthy

mamba<

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Mamba 24 ch06 Black or White - Revision history

Ymgve at 00:36, 30 June 2007