Propaganda 07 ch07
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THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BY ROCKSTAR OF TALENT ROCKSTAR OF TALENT .. \/ SOME SOME of what you're about to read here will be a sort of a reply to the article in BRUTAL RECALL #10, written by a very intelligent man whom I share a lot of opinions with: BACCHUS of FAIRLIGHT. As I'm far too lazy to send an article to that magazine, I will just write it here... Besides, I wanted to do this efore, I just didn't know quite how to start and how to put it. So I got a perfect excuse to do it now,haha! OKAY OKAY,here we go... YOUR YOUR idea about making some kind of a scene history for the newcomers is not bad at all, it is indeed needed... But the problem is that no matter who would do it, there would always be a thousand guys who would say: "THAT WAS NOT THE WAY IT ALL HAPPENED! MY GROUP DID IT FIRST!" ...etc.etc... Come to think of it, I don't know if there is any other way to deal with newcomers than to ignore them and let them learn by their own mistakes. After all, that's pretty much what we all have done in the past, isn't it?! ABOUT ABOUT the budget labels.... Well in my opinion, it was a funny idea in the beginning. But when EVERY group started using those fake labels it soon became pointless. What I didn't quite understand was what you said about releasing crap versions of crap games, in this context. I mean, there is no time pressure to put out, say, a new MAGIC DISK Tetris clone called "SHITRIS". But I fail to see the point in releasing "SHITRIS+12+IFFL+HI" either... Although it's a bad game it doesn't mean it shouldn't be released, but why bother doing a great version when your efforts on a worthless game won't be appreciated anyway... ...So just let people have their stupid shitgames and if they even like'em,fine. BUT BUT now, on to the subject I wanted to write about in the first place,so-called GROUP-JUMPING!!!! Your opinions about it pretty much equal mine. But I'm in a little bit different position to talk about it though. See, one day I was reading some diskmag and reading about someone who left his old group/was kicked out and joined another one for the 2Oth time or so. Well, like always, I thought this guy was probably ...someone who got accepted to the group because he had promised them some- thing, or at least the reason he got in had very little if at all to do with friendship and equal goals. It is fairly easy to see right thru people like that. Then,suddenly I was horrified to realize that some people,especially those new- comers, might actually consider me, MOI, a group-jumper! Come to think of it,I have been in quite many groups, currently being in the 7th! God... Let's see... The 1st one was the mighty BYTERAPERS INC., I left after about a year or so to join my good friends in CONTEX CONTEX. I know CONTEX would still be the group I'd be in,if something dramatic hadn't had to happen... Well, this lead to a VERY short visit in FAIRLIGHT,then forming EXTASY with some of my old Danish CONTEX pals and only 1 Finn, TMB left. TMB put up a board local to me, we got a couple of good releases with help from SERVANT and everything was fine for a while. Until SERVANT got lazy again, TMB took his board down and again more people quit. Then we were at the point where I had to do pretty much everything in the group. A weak moment.. then ROY came along and allured me into forming a new group with him and some other Germans. Hartmut,don't get me wrong now, but looking back now it was a terrible mistake. In the end, I was again doing all the work in VICTIMS,despite the good start. And then... Ooooooh noy,the army! As I was quite occupied with carrying mines, blowing things up, shooting and other funny things, I didn't give the scene much thought during those glorious EIGHT months. However, at some point I was asked to join GENESIS, and with- out giving it much thought at the time, said yes as VICTIMS was as good as dead. When I finally got out of the army in February '92 and started cracking for G*P,it really seemed like a dream group! Everything was running so smoothly, everyone was doing something... UNTIL Murphy's law raised its ugly head once again and things started to go wrong. (Well, right for some!) To make a long story short, around the G*P party in Germany, it all came to the point I HAD to leave again. It was really sad, but the silver lining in this case was that it all became much easier for Deb & Oliver,I guess... (More about that elsewhere in this issue I guess.) So, for the 1st time really, I then was groupless for about a week,receiving offers from practically Top every --- group. And finally joined the 1 0 BEST, hehe! ** \/ THE THE point I'm trying to make here, is that every time I had to leave a group, it was NOT about being a restless soul always looking for something better,or need for change or anything like that. It just happened that sooner or later I was always caught up in a situation I had no other way out of! ONE ONE of the main reasons for this was the country I live in and the almost non-existant 64-scene here, the cracking scene in particular. There always were a couple of good coders,but when it came to crackers and people at least in things involving cracking, there never were that many... At least no-one who could reach my standards,heheh! (Modesty? What's that?) Just look, the person I talk to the most in the scene NOW is a Dane!This drifting from group to group started when I for the 1st time found myself in a group that did NOT consist of Finns mostly. I feel that if I'd live in another country, not that I'm not perfectly happy living in Finland, all this would not have happened. I never planned to form or join a group just to test it or just for the hell of it, I always wanted to WORK HARD for each group and STAY, keep doing it. Everyone who's been in the same group with me knows this. I'm a very loyal nature. IN IN each of these groups there was always a person or persons with whom I very much wanted to work with, who literally drew me along with them. Maybe that's my problem, I try to please everyone and stay out of trouble and in the end there is always someone who feels offended and causes trouble. Also I cannot help hating people who refuse to improve their skills at all and who refuse to change their opinions on someone although they knew they were wrong! I hate pretenders... But never talk about it in public. HOWEVER HOWEVER, I have learned to live with being somewhat rootless in todays scene. I'm aware of what I'm capable of doing and that some things I do better than anyone else. And THAT's what is driving me. Still, the day I find no fun in what I'm doing and no friendship and great times with my allies I will most definitely say "Fuck It!". WELP WELP, I didn't exactly plan to write a 12-page BOOK! But this thing really bothered me lately so I guess I just needed to spill my guts a bit. And at least it's something for Debbie & Oliver to fill the mag with, hahah! I I am not asking for anyone to respond to this, on the contrary. I just wish this made certain people realize that things are not always what they seem(like owls? erhm.), even if they usually are.... ROCKSTAR OF TALENT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT COULDN'T BE PRINTED IN THE LATEST GOSSIP SO WE PRINTED IT HERE... ........**........ ></\--\/\/\/--/\>< DID YOU KNOW DID YOU KNOW... DID YOU KNOW THAT DID YOU KNOW THAT... ...THE SORCERESS has a little bird named Oliver. ...ANTICHRIST is afraid of mirrors and spiders,and can eat 5 quarter-pounders at one time. (Burp!) ...TYREE's last words before he left the scene was "I should have thought before I typed!". ...HOK's job in ARCADE was "quitting the scene and re-joining". ...JIHAD's job in ARCADE was "supplying personal problems". DID YOU KNOW THAT DID YOU KNOW THAT... ...RADAR calls the SWAT Team because he likes tall strong men in tight uniforms. ...COLDRAKE left the scene because his blow-up-doll had an affair with THE SHADOW. ...EMPIRE was making a message for the BURP label on their VMB. They were all trying to see who could burp the most times. CRUMBSUCKER did it so many times he had to run to the bathroom because so he burped so much he got sick. ...when you put P-F-T-H together you get "Pffffffthhhhhhh"... DID YOU KNOW THAT DID YOU KNOW THAT... ...MASTER KRACKER's tapes are also available on CD now! ...ROCKSTAR won't tell us what a Jeep Beet is. ...NEI don't fix puzzle-games anymore. ...BOD looks just like Mr.Bean! ...THOR spends his weekends on all-male conferrences because he has nothing else to do and nowhere else to go. ...MASTER KRACKER is always with him. Kind of makes you wonder... Errrhhmmm?!? DID YOU KNOW THAT DID YOU KNOW THAT... ...GENE was too lazy to type "Spotlight" this month? ...TYREE hung his disk with "No Deeper Meaning" up on his wall and kisses it every night before he goes to sleep. ...FORBIDDEN still pees in the bed. ...SOLAR is not wearing a horse hair wig,all that stuff on his head REALLY is HIS hair. ...AIRWOLF applied for the role of the monsterous ape in the movie King Kong, but Hollywood turned him down as he was not able to learn the text in time. DID YOU KNOW THAT DID YOU KNOW THAT... ...XXX loves Madonna. ...X-FACTOR is the secret ingredient they use in Pepsi. ...whenever SNACKY called up TYGER, TYGER's brother answered the phone. SNACKY would greet him and then ask to speak to TYGER. This went on a long time until SNACKY found out TYGER doesn't have a brother. Hahaha! ...it was even funnier when SNACKY tried to get TYGER back! ...the G*P family is known as "Jolly Ollie and the funky bunch". DID YOU EVER WONDER DID YOU EVER WONDER... ...why questions like these have never been used in an interview: 1) If you could be any key on a keyboard which key would you like to be, and why? 2) If you were a tissue,who would you like to have blowing into you? 3) If you were a shoe,would you like to be the left or the right one? 4) If you blow your nose do you examine the tissue afterwards? 5) How much weight do you lose after you used the toilet? 6) Did you ever pee on an electric fence? 7) If you could be any question in an interview,which question would you want to be? LET'S TEST YOUR INTELLIGENCE LET S TEST YOUR INTELLIGENCE... 8) What can you sit in,sleep in and brush your hair with? (THIS TAKES BRAINS!) ANSWER. ANSWER. A chair,a bed,and a brush. (YOU IDIOT!) AND HERE IS ONE MORE INTERVIEW WITH YET ANOTHER GREAT GUY... JACK DANIELS OF THE DOMINATORS JACK DANIELS OF THE DOMINATORS ______________________________ WE PUT IT IN HERE SINCE THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH ROOM IN THE INTERVIEW-CHAPTER AS BOOZE'S INTERVIEW WAS SO LOOONG... GIVE US A DESCRIPTION! Well, I'm 18 years old, 6' 3" tall, have dark blond, short hair and blue eyes. My weight is something about 15O lbs. Since about three months I have a steady girl- friend and her name is Renate, her phone number is: Na,I won't let you know!Hehe! TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF! I still go to school and will pass my final exams next year. Afterwards I'd like to study something like Sports Management/economy. I spent most of my spare-time with Renate, but when there's some time left,I meet other friends,play soccer and tennis or simply relax (that includes reading good books or listening to good music). I usually spend about one hour a day in front of my computer, mainly with calling out. But when COR- RUPTION has to be released, it takes me at least a whole weekend. Then Deff comes to my place, we buy a box of beer and so it is much easier. But on the other hand, our girl-friends aren't that satisfied with it... TELL US YOUR WILDEST FANTASY! It's not my wildest fantasy, but it's at least a big wish of mine. I would like to take Renate with me to the beautiful island ISLA CIES in Spain, where I have already been last year. It is a small island infront of VIGO, only a camping- place and a ferry gangplank on it. The landscape is so great and romantic... I enjoyed it very much with my friends last year, and would like to spend some weeks again there with her. WHAT WAS THE CRAZIEST THING YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS EVER DID? Hehehe... That was when I've been to a recording of a TV-Show (Wie Bitte?,RTL+) with a pal of mine. Before the recording started we went to the VIP-tent and had some beers. After entering the studio, a stupid guy tried to entertain the audience,as the show-master was delayed. He annoyed all with stupid questions and then came up to us. He asked us if we had ever thought of being a candidate in a TV-Show. Only to fool him,we replied: "Yeah,sure! Tutti Frutti." The audience laughed and this guy was shocked. After being quite for a few minutes he said: "Oh well, then come up to the stage and have a try!" A woman,who was working for Tutti Frutti as well, and a camera-man came to the stage... and we started stripping in front of the audience and they recorded it. They were really convinced that we were willing to do this casting for Tutti Frutti. Hehe... I don't have a clue what they did with this film-material, so don't be sur- prised when you see an advertisement for Tutti Frutti with me and another guy on TV! Hehehe... But the audience was enthusiactic... Hehehe. ** \/ LIST YOUR FAVOURITES! FOOD...................Junk Food, Steaks DRINK........Beer, Malibu, Jack Daniels' GAME................I hate playing games MOVIE...Silence of the lambs, Top Secret ACTOR.....Anthony Hopkins, Danny De Vito ACTRESS......Julia Roberts, Kim Basinger MUSIC....Runrig, Dubliners, Techno House MAGAZINE. .Corruption, Shock, Propaganda BOARDS.....Dream Park, Terminal Obession COLOUR..If there is a fav one,it's black IF YOU COULD BUY ANYTHING UNUSUAL AND MONEY WAS NO OBJECT,WHAT WOULD YOU BUY?! If it is valid for things, you usually cannot buy, I'd probably buy a new world without wars, pollution, extremists, taxes and schools on it. IF YOU COULD BE A PET, WHO WOULD YOU WANT TO BELONG TO? To a multi-millionaire, that would assure me a good life and I would have a female pet for my own use. WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE YOUR BEST AND WORST THINGS ABOUT YOU? Well, my best thing is for sure that I'm 1OO% reliable and do nearly everything for my friends. Do I have any bad character trades ? Hmmm... Probably that I like to live too excessive sometimes. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT YOURSELF? Tough times never last, I do! HOW DID YOU GET TO BE IN DOMINATORS? After we (me+3DK) got kicked out of Genesis Project (I won't spend any more time on this topic, as I really do NOT care any longer!) we got offers to join several groups, but wanted to wait some more days to see what's going to happen. After one more week or so, we agreed to join a group, but before we could tell them that we agreed, Cosmo asked us to join the Dominators and that's what we did immediatly, and so we had to refuse this other group. TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE GROUP! Well, there weren't that much releases from us in the previous weeks, as Dog- friend moved appartments and had no phone-line for one month or so. Moreover there have been some changes within the group and there will be even more very soon. DOMINATORS are now only: Dogfriend,Cosmo,Jack Daniels,Animal, Deff,Slayer,Idol,Twist,Cyborg,Pavarotti, and Grizzly Adams... TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF "CORRUPTION"! It all started back in 1988, when 3DK and me came up with the idea to give out a disc-magazine. We got the name from a computer-magazine. The first issue was released in March'89 under the ATG-lable And in the 12 issues till now, we used 6 different outfits and these 12 issues were released under 4 different group labels (ATG,Paramount,G*P,DOM). That should explain that we just made it up to 12 issues in more than 3 years. But you can already start looking out for issue 13, which will be released very soon and AGAIN with a new, amazing outfit! WHAT DO YOU THINK, WHAT MAKES CORRUPTION DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER MAGAZINE? We are the most progressive magazine in my eyes. We have always been inventing new ideas like the Birthday-Corner, the Champions ect. and have mixed them with approved topics. All in all, we try to write the magazine so it is enjoyable to read. Compare for example our interview style to others, it's individual, never the same boring questions. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT TODAY'S SCENE? The only things that make me stay are my friends in the scene and probably my mag and calling out, that is fun. The times I cared for games are over since ages, but still, there should be more games to give the scene a new kiss of life. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE FIGHTING GOING ON? Well, I was involved in some of them as well, but after a short time it gets annoying. Too many guys take the scene too serious and forget that it is a hobby. I feel awfully sorry for the guys who let the computer dominate their life... They miss a lot. WOULD YOU LIKE TO GREET ANYONE? All in DOM,Gabriel,Weasel,Tyree,Cyborg, Rough,Scorpie,Emerald,Tyger,Arrogance, Jihad,Lazyness,Jerry,MO,Antitrack,1stein Gene,Hero,Psycho,Goldrush,Morpheus+Per, Brego,Con,JRC,Duke,DMC,Mr.Wax,Freestyle, Chipster,3DK,Transfer,you and especially the ones I forgot! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD ANY LAST WORDS, FEEL FREE! Call the Dominators Boards : Dream Park XXXXXXXXXXXX Tunnel of Wares XXXXXXXXXXXX And keep in mind that computing is a HOBBY ! Have fun... |