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i normally try to have some sort of info file. but eh, fuck a info file.

i have an editorial, of sorts. here goes...

if you read this month's issue of Tryone, everyone and their mother
was parading what they thought of the non-$ style that's become the next
best thing to an odelay trademark.

i got really confused after all the fanfare about it started
happening, and to this day i wish nobody'd said anything. it was sort of an
unconsious thing, y'know? i only started thinking about it after people
started talking about it. only then did i start being concerned. i wasn't
quite sure what to do.

initially, i tried drawing as many different styles as i could to
prove some sort of point, though i can't be sure of what it actually was. I
kinda got sick of doing that, so i tried going cold turkey on the shit. for
a while, i tried drawing with the $ character we all know and love. thing is,
though... when i tried doing that, it seemed so forced and contrived, y'know?
i just stopped drawing after that (this was around mid-september). for about
a week, i really contemplated stopping altogether. however, seeing as that
every plan i make inevitably turns out the opposite that i'd planned, i was
back drawing pretty quickly.

what am i trying to say? i didn't really care about styleripping too
much in the first place, because an ascii is an ascii is an ascii, right? i'm
smart enough to see the difference between a good ascii and a bad ascii, and
it doesn't matter what the hell characters you're using to draw it. what i'm
saying is simple. JUST DRAW. don't think about anything. trust me, you'll
only fuck yourself up.

personally though, i would advise most new artists to stick to $ and
like characters, because it takes a fair amount of skill to find equivalent
character sets with other ones. (i'm still scratching my head trying to find
one to use with the  char i started using this month), but so long as the
shit you're drawing is genuine and you're not trying to out-and-out bite
someone's style, you're cool with me.

with that out of the way... we got some new members this month. i
think they're on the memberlist somewhere. they're good, honest!

my musical pick of the month is 'IZ-US', a track off the forthcoming
'come to daddy' single by aphex twin. it's most plesant.

thanks once again to the people who like and support our little
group, and who kept me going (even though it was the first month of school).
evidently, ascii places higher on your list of priorities than school work.
what's wrong with you people? =)

I'd like to give a special greet to the folks from Tyrone, who gave
pack #10 a pretty darn decent review. though i must say that SOMEONE's gotta
find something bad about the group. =)

best wishes,
Neil (Prodigy)

protection@earthling.net

PS - I did a last minute clearing of the memberlist, so a LOT of people
who are(or were) in odelay are gone. if you have a problem with that, talk to
me. enjoy the pack, ascii viewing public.