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Code: zorke - farewell I'm not sure how to start this text, so I'll just plunge straight into it. As some of you may know already, I'm leaving the demoscene. I'm not leaving because I've had enough, and I'm not leaving because I'm no longer interested, but rather due to some permanent changes in my personal life, which I would prefer to keep private. It's the end of the second year I spent in the demoscene, but believe me : I started getting interested in this kind of thing several years before that. Those two years have been fun, and they have given me motivation to learn and continue learning ... for life. It was in the demoscene that I began to actually enjoy math, and it was in the demoscene that I began to learn and gradually perfect my programming skills. For these, I am grateful. But there is more to life than computer screens, code, chiptunes, demos, and IRC. When real life calls, it must always take precedence. In my case, it's a permanent calling. I must leave. From reading scene NFO's from the early 90's which I found on an obscure pubstro server (in 2011! 0_o) to coding my last intro (you'll see soon!), I believe I did devote all my time to pursuing it. I don't know whether that was a wise decision, but that was nevertheless what I did. Nerve, the artgroup, which I founded along with Peak, will live on. I believe that, as long as I had been involved in the demoscene, Nerve in particular, I had given it all that I had. But now it's time for me to move on. I would like to thank many people for making my demoscene wandering enjoyable, but I cannot remember them all. But here are some: I would like to thank Peak, Mr. Eeh, Drozerix, Rebb, Elpunto, Dark Fox, Ola Hughson, and eXOdus, the members of nerve, for joining, and I thank them in advance for sticking with nerve when I have left. I would especially like to thank Peak, Mr. Eeh, and Drozerix for joining Nerve when it was only a small group, with little to offer in the way of reputation or skill. I would like to thank Peak particularly for being my buddy during this time. Thanks Peak, for helping me out and encouraging me! I wouldn't have been able to come so far if you hadn't been out there. Good luck with your demoscene career and also in real life! <3 I would also like to thank Mr Eeh for helping out with Nerve when it was in its budding stages, and also for being a great friend : Good luck, and take care of yourself! <3 I would like to thank mudlord for the nice times we've had talking on irc, for helping me out with learning C and some other problems, and also for providing some services for Nerve. I would like to thank wysiwtf for providing us at nerve with our nice BNCs. and for helping our IRC chan to get started. Thanks also go to Irokos of Titan for being encouraging and understanding, even when I was feeling down, and also for some friendly chat :) Keep it up! and all the best for Titan! I would like to thank the numerous scene groups with whom I have worked with during my career, especially RNDD. I almost forgot : I'd like to thank MasterUploader/RNDD for giving me work to do when I was getting started, and also for the friendly chat. Study hard man :), and good luck with your scene career too! Some other people I would like to give a final shout out to : iks^titan, Jazzcat, Svenzzon, Dubmood, Rez, Preacher (for giving me some motivation), Sheep/AGES, STN, Smanettone83, Renan, and anyone I forgot, plus RNDD, Lz0, DVT, THETA, DJiNN, and any other groups I forgot :P Finally, I send out a great big "THANK YOU" to everyone on the demoscene : its a great place for geeks with an artistic flair to hang out in! May the scene not die for many years to come. I will probably not come back at all, but wysiwtf, if you read this far, you might as well keep my BNC there for a year. If I don't log on at all, you can safely assume I'm not coming back All the best for the demoscene in the future. Farewell Zorke^Nerve, December 20, 2013


I guess this is also available here : http://nerve.untergrund.net/zke-farewell.txt
added on the 2013-12-20 11:40:23 by zorke zorke
Farewell, Zorke. Maybe you will return one day.
added on the 2013-12-20 11:46:13 by Adok Adok
If you want to quit, just quit, or maybe make a demo about it. But these huge announcements just feel so damn pointless.
added on the 2013-12-20 11:54:28 by britelite britelite
It's more dramatic like this.
added on the 2013-12-20 18:21:30 by Optimus Optimus
britelite has a good point - though i get that it would feel bad if nobody noticed your absence.
added on the 2013-12-20 18:43:23 by msqrt msqrt
Sorry, i was too busy not caring.
If you quit too early, nobody will notice your absence either.

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But there is more to life than computer screens, code, chiptunes, demos, and IRC. When real life calls, it must always take precedence.


Strange that demoparties are not mentioned. I wonder how many demosceners he met face to face.
added on the 2013-12-20 19:10:22 by ham ham
Yeah, a goodbye demo would be great https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=10456
added on the 2013-12-20 19:28:23 by Serpent Serpent
ha damn, that kind of news are still a bit sad.
btw for me demoscene is more "real life" than the life itself :D

well, i take this news more like a "brb" than a sad "farewell", you know, nobody never quit the demoscene for real :D
added on the 2013-12-20 19:35:37 by rez rez
code is way cooler than IRL btw
added on the 2013-12-20 19:40:34 by msqrt msqrt
I tried that "real life" outside the demoscene during the period 1996-2004 or so.. my most booring time EVER
added on the 2013-12-20 20:16:15 by _Chucky_ _Chucky_
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by msqrt:
britelite has a good point - though i get that it would feel bad if nobody noticed your absence.

In a few months someone would have started a new Pouet thread asking if anyone has seeb them.
seen*
I'm not going anywhere, but I'd like to thank everybody for everything. I've had a good time, and I particularly enjoyed State of the Art, Extension, Second Reality and Dope.
added on the 2013-12-20 20:46:23 by yzi yzi
or not, there are just much less threads of that case so i cannot link them so convincingly :(
added on the 2013-12-20 20:49:09 by msqrt msqrt
i also totally second yzi
added on the 2013-12-20 20:50:40 by msqrt msqrt
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by msqrt:
or not, there are just much less threads of that case so i cannot link them so convincingly :(

Check my post again. I found four. I stopped looking around page 50 or something in the BBS thread history. I passed a few dead people threads* and a few looking for people of interest / geographical area.

* :(

However even if there were more such threads, I'm not sure it necessarily change anyone's mind who decided to go (especially if there's good reasons why don't know) ... However I think it sort of proves you can check out of the demoscene any time you like, but you can't ever leave! ;)

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by rez:
well, i take this news more like a "brb" than a sad "farewell", you know, nobody never quit the demoscene for real :D


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@Zorke,
Not that you don't already know, but I think it should be obvious you're welcome back at any time. :)

Maybe show up at a demoparty in a few years, even if only for a few hours, surprise some people, and share a beer. ;)

Good luck on your new ventures.
I also tried to quit. Even did a goodbye demo. Look what happened :)
added on the 2013-12-20 21:20:54 by xTr1m xTr1m
No one can quit the scene. You may try, but you won´t succeed.
added on the 2013-12-20 23:29:06 by T$ T$
Can't you just quit the scene between releases? That, and coming back with a "<group> dead? pah!" demo is how it's always been done ;)
added on the 2013-12-20 23:29:54 by Photon Photon
It's like trying to quit smoking. You quit when you finish one cigarette, but start smoking again 10 minutes later!
added on the 2013-12-21 00:08:17 by xTr1m xTr1m
Epic. Maybe a demo about quitting? Damn, I am a scener for over 20 years. Should I quit now to much more famous or so?
added on the 2013-12-21 03:17:57 by V0yager V0yager
As T$ said above.
Is it really necessary to write a whole wall of text just to say you're gonna be out of the scene for some time, after only 2 years on it? I don't really get this.
Anyway, here's my token of attention. Now good luck on your personal life. I'll keep on carrying on mine.
Nobody ever really "quits" the scene. They just fade away.

Posting these kinds of things is just attention-seeking. And attention-seeking is what the scene is all about, really.
added on the 2013-12-21 07:30:09 by sol_hsa sol_hsa

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