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Re: Thinking to change to the dark side (blue)
« on: April 03, 2004, 03:11:55 PM »

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If your main motivation in using your computer is to belong to a certain 'camp', you're using the computer for the entirely wrong reason.
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Just some additional thoughts on this statement:

For wide parts of the (amiga-)computerized parts of my generation (I popped out in '77), I'm sure the demoscene was the main motivation for using the Amiga. For many, and while the Amiga was a top notch mix of electronics, wrapped in plastic ("she's dead; wrapped in plastic"), games was a good motivation too.
Now, understand this: you play a game, and you use a computer, but you belong to a demoscene.
You live within it. For a lot of us who have been called nerds in our youth, it was the feeling of belonging to this big everpresent aura of the demoscene, that made us use the computer. That's why, you had a "scene-life", and always refered to real life as "real life". I say had, because today it's more like an abandoned ghost town, the amigascene.

Anyway, the main motivation I have for turning on my Amiga nowadays, is for tuning in with this community I feel that I belong to. I've always gone along with the Amiga, for that reason, to belong. Je suis à ma place, I think in french. I suppose that's why people still spend time with their C64's too, and Atari's etc. It's just another hobby with its hobbyist community, and if that's ones motivation for using a specific computer, I think it's an entirely legit reason.
 

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Re: Thinking to change to the dark side (blue)
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2004, 08:53:11 PM »
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