Term Scene stands for creativity. The MSX Scene is long since dead. All that remains is Robsy, KonamiMan and BiFi. Everybody else is either a collector, nostalgic dreamer, flamewar lover or some other variety of lamer.
Arian, what is wrong with you? Why on earth do you call nostalgic dreamers and collectors lamers?
I also wonder what on earth could move someone to write such a message out of the blue. Clearly someone who doesnât know many of the people around. Granted, there may be a valid point to using the word of âsceneâ vs. âcommunityâ, and I admit that I wouldnât count myself in with the very active scene at the moment :).
However why would you call people who are not using MSX creatively lamers? Arenât that exactly people the âcreativistsâ are being creative for? You give three names (out of so many who *are* active) - yet I cannot imagine any of those three sharing your views for the slightest bit.
To me, personally, the word âsceneâ stands for the group of people who actively share the same interests, in this case their MSX computers, and whom you can chat up when visiting fairs. Scene does certainly imply activity and enthousiasm, it also implies âhardcoreâ (basically everyone who still has an MSX is hardcore ;p), but most of all it is the group of people who call themselves the scene. I for one do, so I am part of the scene, period. It is not up to you to decide :).
This kind of flaming is exactly what reminds me on the times that this list was much used and comp.sys.msx was still the plac to be.
Naahh it wasnât... comp.sys.msx is boring :) (and has the usual lot of usenet spam). And I canât imaging a community place without the occasional flames, that usually happens when a large crowd of people gather in one place. When people discuss something vividly, give their views on certain things and defend their opinion, sometimes offense is taken. Itâs a shame (sort of), but as long as weâre human I donât think you can avoid it. That doesnât mean those particular discussion topics themselves arenât interesting. In the contrary, they must be, for people to have such strong opinions about them :).
So nah... the list wasnât like you make it sound... Iâve enjoyed myself on it in the past, and wouldnât mind it growing a little more active again.
~Grauw
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