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²      Written by:Excel/Mad Elks
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Imagine  this:  You'r sitting as usual
infront  of  your  computer  when your
grandmother,  grandfather or anyone of
your  relatives  or friends walks into
your   room.    He/she   watches   you
painting,    composing,    coding   or
whatever  you'r doing.  After a minute
or  two  he/she  asks you:  - What are
you  doing?   Well  you  probably tell
he/she   that   you'r   painting   (or
whatever).   - Well, that sounds nice.
Well,  that went just fine!  But after
a  hour  or two you'r watching a demo.
And  then  your  grandmother (lets say
that  the  person  is  your grandma'.)
steps  into your room.  After a minute
or  two  she  asks:   -  What's this??
Gulp,  What  should  I  say  now??   -
Well.....   It's a demo...  - A demo??
what's  that?   - The thing you see on
the  screen..   - Yes, but can you use
it  to  anything?   - Hrhmmmm...  no..
not  really...  - Is these all demos??
She  looks  into  your  diskboxes full
with  demos!!   -  Well,  yes...  - It
looks   like   a  couple  of  hundreds
disks...   Now the situation is really
embarrassing....

I   bet   that  you've  been  in  this
situation  atleast  once!  You have to
admit  that  it  isn't so easy to tell
about the scene.  I once had a lecture
about  the  scene  in  school.  I told
them   about:    Groups,   the  scene,
coding,   painting,  swapping,  bbs's,
¶diskmags  and  so  on.   I even showed
them  a video with:  3D demo II, state
of art and so on.  But they didn't get
it.   When the lecture was almost over
I  let  the  class ask questions.  The
first  one I got was:  - Have you been
hacking  Penthagon?   -  Ehh?   NOOO!!
Didn't  you  guys  listen?  The second
one  came from my teacher:  - How many
hours  do  you spend every day infront
of  your  computer?   -  (Gulp!) Well,
almost  6 hours a day..  - SIX HOURS A
DAY??   She  almost screamed!!!  Well,
not  on school days I hope?  - Well...
yes..   She  looked VERY confused!!  -
Well,  I'm  sure  that  you  LOVE your
computer!?  - A bit maybe....

You see that they can't understand our
passion.   Well, look at it from their
view:   We  are  a bit strange becuase
we're  spending  very  much  time  and
money  on a computer!!!  They probably
think  that  it's just a computer they
can see on news on television, a black
screen  with  many gren numbers..  And
try   to  explain  the  handles  we're
using.....
 
Well,  some  guys I've been speaking
with  understood  me,  but  they still
think  it's  silly.   It's not easy as
you can see..

Anybody  out  there who has some hints
for us others?

Thanks for reading!

³  - Excel/Mad Elks