HUMANS BEYOND REALITY,
TRYING  TO ESCAPE FROM
THE PYRAMID OF LIFE...

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MAFiA JEOPARDY, ART AND CURRY!

RELEASE NAME ....... MJD-02.ZiP - RELEASE TYPE .......... ARTPACK
RELEASE DATE ....... 3o/11/2oo2 - RELEASE SiZE ........... 551 Kb

GROUP iNFORMATiONS:

Welcome to the second Mafia Jeopardy Artpack! It's  coming pretty
late,  as a lot of  time has  passed since we released  our first
package in August 2001, but we finally made it...

Firstly, we  would  like to  welcome Villeret, Acetone, Enzo  and
Prince  into  the family, thanks for joining  guys, we  hope that
you'll enjoy your  stay :) Memberlist  has  also been cleaned up,
all  inactive  members have  been  removed. They  are  more  than
welcome  to join  again if they ever  come back! We also  want to
thank the  following  guys for  guesting in  this pack, they are:
Infernal Flames, Simonking, Acid Brain, H7, and Talo (aka Merlin)

Secondly, we feel like  writing something about  the actual state
of the scene. Our investigation of some "art" group websites made
us do some "interesting" discoveries. Lets  start with this poll,
stats are from 28/11/2002, it was found on the website of a group
we won't name: SAC.

poll results : poll nr.18 (favorite ascii editor?)
here are the results ..
rank option                           votes            percentage

3. other, prolly lame tool ............ 34 ................ (15%)

The stats speak from  themselves... Most guys use notepad to view
ascii, talk  about lame... One  of the  tools listed  in the poll
retained our attention: Ascii Factory.
Well there  you have a program that looks exactly like these icon
designing programs  where you draw your stuff  by filling a grid,
though this one is for ascii. You only have seven different types
of blocks: ░ ▒ ▓ █ ▄ ▀ ■ (go  figure, the  author  of  this  crap
doesn't know  any single shit about  ascii, he doesn't  even know
all blocks used to draw block ascii) and once you've selected one
you can  start drawing your crap  like any kid could do  with the
good old "Magic Lights".
A  very  nice (HAHA!) set  of  F0sT's  "ascii"  comes with  Ascii
Factory, so you  can see the kind of ugly stuff you can draw with
this lame  program. About the program  itself, well it's coded in
Blitz Basic (coding  for dummies :), which  makes  the .EXE  file
400 Kb after packing, while it could be 4 times smaller if it was
coded in  a real language, and moreover  it takes 100% of the cpu
on an Athlon XP 2000+ ...
Unfortunately, the name  couldn't be  more accurate, as this tool
allow  you to produce  ascii the  way a factory  would  do: every
ascii will look  the same, and you can create 100 ascii  a day if
you  use it, maybe more! Of  course they  will suck and look like
gif2ascii stuff  if you view  them the correct way, but  remember
the  stats above.. Guys are watching  them with notepad, or Ascii
Factory... Ascii by the idiots, for the idiots!
We  tried to be nice, so we  contacted the author  on irc to tell
him that  his tool  is just stupid, but  he showed that  he was a
perfect idiot  and didn't want to listen to our arguments, saying
we  just wanted to flame  for nothing... So, dear kenet, ascii is
meant to  be drawn and seen  on 80x25 *TEXTMODE* display. It will
look like shit on other resolutions  and especially in your sucky
tool! If  you are  too stupid  to understand  that, then  you are
beyond help.
So mister Ascii Factory author, we at MJD senior staff advise you
that  as you know nothing  about ascii and coding, you  shouldn't
write an ascii editor! All you achieved by doing it is attracting
more  lamers into the  world of ascii, and helping  them kill the
ascii scene and even ruin the quality of your own group packs! We
really hope that it won't be necessary to write that kind of text
again in  the future, so accept your  errors and learn from them,
thanks!

About  the  future  of MJD now,  noone  can't  really  tell  what
tommorow  will  be made  of... This  pack  took a lot of  time to
collect since most of our members are now busy with real life and
are  not really  active anymore. So  about a third pack, we don't
really know, time will decide!

MAFiA^JEOPARDY Senior Staff .................... 29 November 2002

FOUNDER:  ▒  CLEANER

HiGH COUNCiL:  ░  SHENDO, THORiN

MEMBERS:  ▒  DRiNSANE, PHASiA, TYLAH, GUARDiAN, WOOBER
SLY, UNSEEN FATE, TRiBAL, DiPSWiTCH
ViLLERET, ACETONE, ENZO, PRiNCE

OLDSCHOOL RESPECTS:  ▓  X-MEN, DEFiANCE, NiTROPHUSiON

GREETiNGS:  ▒  AMN, DKN, EPS, PMC, ACiD, iCE

CONTACT:  ░  FIND UD ON THE BEST TELNET BBS!

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