X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d4bb81a8a04f28a9 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: bodom@cs.indiana.edu (brian odom) Subject: Re: WHERE'S MY AKUMA?!! Date: 1996/06/24 Message-ID: <4qmmr9$r7s@piano.cs.indiana.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 161885612 references: <4qh0bh$9eh@primus.ac.net> organization: Computer Science, Indiana University newsgroups: alt.ascii-art "Pamela G. Tadlock" writes: >I've been patient with you people. LISTEN. well, damn, you just can't DEMAND that we DO SOMETHING FOR YOU! get off your high horse! >Street Fighter Alpha is the world's best game. i disagree. sf2: turbo was much better. >Akuma is a character in it. >I WANT HIS PORTRAIT AND WIN POSES. i know he is a character in it. yeah, so what? >I'll be waiting. with an attitude like that, you'll just have to wait for a long time. it's all simple... there are x number of ascii artists out there. there are 100000x number of requests. and there are probably x/10 ascii artists who even know who akuma is. so your chances of getting your akuma drawn for you is about 1 in a million. and your attitude just made that number even worse. and when you WANT something so badly, what do you have to do? you go out and GET it. and to GET it and GET IT DONE RIGHT the way YOU WANT IT TO BE DONE, DO IT YOURSELF!!!! we do not get paid to do ascii art. many of us have school/jobs/families to deal with everyday. we don't have TIME to devote ourselves to answering every request. so just calm down, relax and try. you say you suck. that's a cop-out. at least try. you'll get more requests if you at least ATTEMPT to draw something. people are more reluctant to clean art up rather than having to do it from scratch. i draw what i want to draw and sometimes i do requests on that rare occasion. you can draw what you want to draw. call your own shots. put yourself in the ascii artist's shoes. would you like for us to scream at you to draw something and if no one replies, start whining and screaming at you like a child!? i don't think so. -- brian odom