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SURPRISE!
changed my
scene life!
Some time ago I read an article in
one of the major magazines about an
anonymous guy who was an unknown
swapper living the standard life of a
computer dude for years. After some
time he got an offer to join a famous
demogroup and it gave radical changes
to his scene career!
Well, to tell the truth it
perfectly reminds me my case. But
first of all now I will write about
myself to share my experiences with
you. With this stuff I'd like to help
those ones who just joined the scene
and want to point out my opinion to
the experienced ones too!
About years ago I was an average
Amiga swapper (still one of the best
in my country) of the Hungarian group
called Cerberos Designs. I had about
40 contacts which I got with very hard
work, hunting for hot Hungarian
releases to send, even doing a
papermag just to keep my contacts
impressed, writing long letters and so
on. Ofcourse it was not only a job,
arghh it wasn't at all, it was pure
fun at that time, including drawbacks
such as not getting back my
contactdisks , fighting with the lame
Hungarian post system and so on!
And then on a nice day I went to
Vienna to visit Reebok, one of my
first contacts! At that time he was
the leader of Surprise! Productions
of TRSI. I can tell, that I was
always attracted by the way he could
join so famous groups and being "only"
a swapper! As we knew each other for
a long time, about 2 years, I felt
brave enough to ask him if I could
join TRSI. Actually I did it for fun,
I didn't really expect a positive
answer! But he said yes (yo pal!).
So I was incredible happy about it.
My dream came true I was a member of a
world famous cracker and demogroup.
Nothing else than TRISTAR & RED
SECTOR! Well, Yeahh! and since that
day my whole scene life turned out to
be paradise! (I'd like to point out
that there are two ways to join a
famous demogroup; if you are extremely
talented on a special field or if you
are in close contact with one of the
important members.. In my case it was
little!! bit of both.. hmm one can
say I was "talented" in swapping huhh
what?). So as I told before, the
scene turned out to be paradise to me!
I sent out some advertisements and
after a little while I got letters
from dozens of dudes each day! I
even couldn't answer all of them, but
I tried it.. in the first year
anyway! I was somebody, I could write
my group in my letter (now it sounds
very ridiculous to me) I don't want to
lie, it was a good feeling, really
good! On the other hand my contacts
wrote longer letters. I don't blame
them, it's natural! I became as known
as a swapper can be. It was a very
good feeling to see my name back on
the RAW's chart "who's the most famous
in a group", and I was very surprised
to become the third best group in
Hungary in RAW 4 as I was the only
member of S!P in Hungary. I neither
want to point out that I am fucking
proud of it nor want to say that I
don't give a shit! If someone says he
doesn't give a shit about being on a
kind of chart, he's a liar! I just
took it as fun as it was! Anyway
thanx for voting guys!
So what about drawing a conclusion?
Doesn't matter how good you are if you
are a member of an unknown group like
I was one, you won't be successful, at
least very hardly, but if you are a
member of a famous also if you are
lame and unactive as I was last year
you will be wellknown, because people
only want to have famous contacts.
They think famous contacts are equal
with good contacts, but it's not like
this! In my case I became a lame
unactive swapper, because I had so
many possibilities! I could swap with
almost everybody, I got contact
letters from the most famous crews and
last half year I even didn't answer
them. So what? Where is the fun
anymore? If you don't have to fight
for something you will get bored of
it. So I became a bad, lazy, unactive
and laaaaaame swapper.
After all maybe it sounds a bit
like; hey I am a fucking lamer I
fooled out you all, I became fucking
famous and I am the best, but now I
don't give a fuck! Nooooo it's not
like this don't misunderstand me! I
had a great time in S!P, both in TRSI
and SCOOPEX, I gained a lot of
friends, not only so called friends,
but real good ones too! I had lotsa
experiences, e.g. to be close to the
fire. Why do I leave SCOOPEX now?
1. I don't care much about being
famous anymore I want to take the
scene only for fun and nothing like a
business. That's why I stopped
swapping. Since I did it (about half
year I had much more sparetime to live
my real life to work and have fun). I
can say that after five years swapping
I am a bit fed up copying the hottest
stuff to 100 of my contacts and
cheating with stamps, writing 40
letters a day! Argggghhh! I better
keep 5 of my best ex-contacts and keep
on writing to them!
2. No doubt SCOOPEX is or better
was a great group. Mostly nice and
legendary productions (some of the
latest ones are a bit exeptions,
aren't they?). So there is no need of
an unactive member like me! I just
feel it was too much pressure to be in
such a group. There was also very
limited possibility to meet the other
members, well every half year on a
party! Isn't it great? Yes it is,
but not enough for close friendship!
I can add that I will stay in friendly
touch with those guys from SCOOPEX I
know personally by meeting on parties
and visiting each other!
3. There is this friendly and
promising group called Absolute! which
I attended to join, because as I said
I don't care about being famous
anymore (well a little bit ofcourse).
(What's the relation -ed ;-) It's pure
fun. I know all the members, some of
them for 2-3 years now! Isn't it just
great?
I want to serve my country, and I
felt it was the best way to go!
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