09-29-2013, 12:42 PM
I have never formed any kind of relationship based on someone's talent.
Hell I thought tSR was pretty crap when I first laid eyes on it (sorted by company, poor quality checks) and I thought Dazz was way too young and a bit of a douche. By god I was wrong (Dazz is a huge douche! - joking). The point is Dazz was a nice guy. I didn't give a rat's ass about his fancy pants ripping techniques or programs to get sprites. I just liked the guy. I still think he's sometimes less vocal than he should be in order to keep the peace here from time to time, but sometimes you have to hold back hen you're the admin.
The kid did alright, as they say.
The late N-finity amazed my balls off back in the day. And yeah his work was cool, his quality was high and his efficiency was just out of this world. But I didn't look up to him for that. I looked up to him because when I had a question about something, he answered. And he was always happy to talk, be it what secrets lay within the Metroid Zero Mission ROM (which always led to an argument of Robot Ripley Vs Robot Ripley, Mother Brain and Kraid - would wind him up to no end), other worlds, dreams or whatever. He was very set in his ways (if he knew I was still using MS-Paint to organise my sprite sheets...) but he was a cool person.
In fact most people who I talk(/ed) to here I seriously have no idea if they are any good at art, sprites - or well whatever. They are just good people to talk to.
The main thing I enjoy about the 'talent' here is when someone starts of crap but they listen. They accept that their early work sucks. That it's not just a bunch of guys telling him it sucks but that it actually does suck and they work their arse off. They work and listen and accept themselves as a student instead of the master.
And then there's people who this site helps grow personally. I forget his name (his avatar was a Jawa like thing back then) but he got caught for stealing sprites. I said to ban him, for good. He turned shit around, and I think we both learnt from that.
So yeah, you can look up to someone for their work, you can be inspired by it - but to be friends because of it? That's just bogus.
Hell I thought tSR was pretty crap when I first laid eyes on it (sorted by company, poor quality checks) and I thought Dazz was way too young and a bit of a douche. By god I was wrong (Dazz is a huge douche! - joking). The point is Dazz was a nice guy. I didn't give a rat's ass about his fancy pants ripping techniques or programs to get sprites. I just liked the guy. I still think he's sometimes less vocal than he should be in order to keep the peace here from time to time, but sometimes you have to hold back hen you're the admin.
The kid did alright, as they say.
The late N-finity amazed my balls off back in the day. And yeah his work was cool, his quality was high and his efficiency was just out of this world. But I didn't look up to him for that. I looked up to him because when I had a question about something, he answered. And he was always happy to talk, be it what secrets lay within the Metroid Zero Mission ROM (which always led to an argument of Robot Ripley Vs Robot Ripley, Mother Brain and Kraid - would wind him up to no end), other worlds, dreams or whatever. He was very set in his ways (if he knew I was still using MS-Paint to organise my sprite sheets...) but he was a cool person.
In fact most people who I talk(/ed) to here I seriously have no idea if they are any good at art, sprites - or well whatever. They are just good people to talk to.
The main thing I enjoy about the 'talent' here is when someone starts of crap but they listen. They accept that their early work sucks. That it's not just a bunch of guys telling him it sucks but that it actually does suck and they work their arse off. They work and listen and accept themselves as a student instead of the master.
And then there's people who this site helps grow personally. I forget his name (his avatar was a Jawa like thing back then) but he got caught for stealing sprites. I said to ban him, for good. He turned shit around, and I think we both learnt from that.
So yeah, you can look up to someone for their work, you can be inspired by it - but to be friends because of it? That's just bogus.