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1998 December 22

The Ten Greatest Couriers of Alltime.
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Netmonkey Weekly Report Issue XXVIII December 22nd, 1998 g#S$ d. ____ ascii by garflozzy ____ $$$: -- ,$b ----- $$$ ___ $$$$$s __ :$$l $',$$$$.`$$ :$$$._l$$: ,s#S$$$$: $$$"╚$$b.`╚$i $$$ ',$$'└$$,`$ l$$$T$$$$._ --------- l$$$$$$$$ :$$l b,`Y$$,`l l$$.d$P . └$$,` $$l" $$$▓T$S#g._ ----------- ░░░░░░░░░ :$$$$$$$l l$$: $$b.`Y$$, :$$$$' d$b └$$,d$$: :$$l ,.`"▓T$S# ░░░░░░░░░ $$$$$$$: $$$ :$$$$. Y$$.s$$$' d$$$b '$$$$l l$$: l$'.d$$' $$$$$$$. $$$ l$$$$$. $$$Sl$' d$$$$$b '$$$: :$$l .'.d$$' $$$$$$l :$$l $$$$$$l l$$::P :$$$$$$$b.`$l l$$: ~~~~~~~ ------------------ l$$: ------- :$$l.' ---------- `: ;$$l --------------------- $$$ ░░░░░░░ .l$$ :: ~~~~ │ $$S#s,$$$ ::: ``^"▓Y$$$ `Y$ [ n ] ETMONKEY [ W ] EEKLY [ R ] EPORT Merry Christmas boys and girls, our present to you is a HUGE jampacked issue of stuff. We have a new website sponsor in union.jaded.net hosted by our much ragged upon friend Union. So check that out and pick up the new issues. We will also be holding surveys on BlackAcid's page once in the coming weeks. So please participate in those so we can post the results here in the magazine. We are a little late this week and so we apologize for that, but I think the magnitude of the magazine will make up for it. Thanks for reading and please dont message us daily if NWR is late. It will be out when it's out:) -Lester [Co-Editor/Head Writer] Its beginning to feel a lot like christmas... Well dear readers, as i write this, i am something on the order of 37,000 feet in air, with my IBM thinkpad, and some FSOL (no shit!) on the airline radio station... Yeah. phear me, negroes... ;p The majority of NWR is being edited aboard an Air Canada 747-400... only 2 hours late after takeoff.. ;p Btw, Air Canada can officially suck me for all who care. Also, i am drunk on rum+cokes and white russians (--not a good combination for all who are keeping score at home) so if the issue is unnecessarily "nice" or "uncritical" then... uh... sorry.. (what can i say? i'm a happy drunk!) The Xmas season is in full swing now, with Razor1911 putting out a few very nice releases, finally giving Class a bit of competition.. Check out Prozac's Games Report for the full details.. Also, Bud is back with his (biased?) Utils Report for a third straight week. Coincidently, the in-flight movie is "Air BUD 2 - The Golden Reciever" Did i mention my love of Air Canada yet? ;p Also in the Xmas theme, Siege had a few problems last week with #SiEGEXMAS, but things should be all worked out by the time this gets released, so stop by there, and pick up one of SiEGE's 400+ 1998 releases... Well, we honestly never thought that our pics of JESS would be such a big hit.. likewise, we never thought that tdpriest's artwork would go over so well.. So, without further ado, we present you with jesspic3.jpg, featuring the artwork of tdpriest! This issue features an article we have been planning for a damn long time, the "Top 10 Couriers of Alltime"... We realize that no matter who we picked, there was going to be a hell of a lot of contraversy, so skip ahead to that section, and let the bitchin' begin! This could be our best issue ever, so go read the damn thing!! ndetroit [Co-Editor/Head Fatass] -----------[ index ]----------- I.) Intro a) Lester b) ndetroit II.) Quotes of the Week III.) Stats - Ndetroit's Weekly Stats, and comments on Sites. IV.) Lester's Biased Courier Report V.) Articles a) Prozac's Kinda Biased Games Report b) Bud's Biased Utils Report c) The Smurfs were a Communist Plot - raberts d) What It Takes To Be A Good Courier e) The Ten Greatest Couriers of Alltime f) Lesters Moview Reviews - Prince of Egypt g) The Return of SCUM VI.) Scene News - All the news thats fit to print VII.) Rumors! VIII.) Closing ---------------------[ Quotes of the Week! ]--------------------- -*** wishmastr changes topic to 'I guess we just race ourselves now' -<Nusb0t> New UTILS dir on 'e' - 'Command.Antivirus.v4.54.NTws-DIZ_ FIX-DOD' created by 'morbid' <Lester> go dod go -<RockmanX> someone in #risciso set a ban on *!*@*.risciso.com <RockmanX> and it all went to hell -200- 01 godbless -=[ DMS RAPE SQUAD ]=- 200- 08 mossyoak -=[ RAPE DMS SQUAD ]=- 200- 05 wishmstr -=[ DMS RAP SQUID ]=- 200- 05 gollie -=[ ANTI DMS SQUAD ]=- 200- 09 kruzin -=[ ANTI-PMS SQUAD ]=- 200- 04 Garoto -=[ANTI-PASTO SQUAD]=- 200- 04 eyedee -=[ INS SPERM BANK ]=- 200- 09 pixel BUY MY FURBY YOU ASSHOLES -<Pixel-> i have a wav of lester saying TRADE DAMN U, LAZY WHORE <clubber> Pixel-: you should trade like mad hell if you have that wav in the place of the windows error beep -*** Joins: cablegod (viper@*.*.wave.home.com) <cablegod> whoa <cablegod> i can probably think this is the only warez group on efnet that ain't +i *** duranged sets mode: -o+b cablegod *!*viper@*.*.wave.home.com *** cablegod was kicked by duranged (bewm) <duranged> yes but ur banned :) -<Alkivar> RiSC = Raping Iraqi Sheep & Cows -<j3ssbab3> I want the hp pavillion, that's a beautiful computer <cluba> I want a FAST, GOOD computer, not a beautifully curved goodlooking one <cluba> I think jess is confusing computer and gf(bf) <cluba> a common mistake in warez scene :D -<Lester> glen..didn't you retire?:) <glen> well.. my job doesnt start til wednesday <glen> and plus.. mnm kinda needs all the help they can get -----------[ ndetroit's sites and stats section ]----------- So.. big discussions this week... Why wasn't TV included in the Top10 sites section, if IC was? A lot of ppl that i have been talking to swear that TV gets shit 10x faster than IC... I watch both sites pretty closely, and i would call them about even. A lot of ppl say that TV's link is the best in the US, and owns IC's... well, not quite. It owns IC's, but its not the best link by a longshot. The best link in the US belongs to a site that we never mention in NWR, out of respect to the siteop's wishes. If you are on both these sites, i think you'll agree with me that the xfer rate on XXX2 is faster than TV. TV has better affils than XXX2..? probably. Better than IC? That is arguable. Unquestionably, IC has better traders supporting it (garoto, etc), but that doesn't mean that TV isn't faster. What is boils down to is: What is the best site in the US? At this point, its all a matter of opinion. But i can say that I am thoroughly convinced enough that TV warrants a spot on NWR this week, if only for the fact that we have ignored it for so long... and it damn well would have been there, had someone given me a f@#$king weektop for it! :) From what i hear, TOS (the site with the ass-kicking welcome ascii) also has a pretty unbelieveable link..I would love to wholeheartedly get behind this site, as it has a good pedigree, (DEV) and knowledgeable, experienced siteops... my only problem with it is: CLS/SIEGE/DEV... this is the same goddamned site as IC!#&%#!! ... something will have to give. Which do you think will win out? ;) Dreamland is back. The original DL was the best site in the US for a DAMN long time, and had been up for about 3 years before being narked. It's 2nd time around, it was just starting to get to the point where it was before, before another narking. Now its back, and the siteops are determined to make it last.. Its already damn fast.. my bet is that it will be top5 by new years. Well, well, well... Guess who has their CLASS affil back? That's right.. after parting with MGD, and welcoming home CHINABLUE, class took STH back.. STH = EHQ (i think?) While STH is a great site for any group to have, only time will judge Class' decision to (essentially) choose cb over mgd.... I am convinced that BHZ is not a real site, and simply a joke being purported by Eagle_1 in his old age... (the dude's always idling in the BHZ chan..) No, BHZ is not real.. Its E1, et al, trying to see if they can affil with as many possible groups as they can in the least amount of time. They are going for the scene record, formerly held by kruzin and koka (tie). Good luck Eagle_1!! CO... i don't know wtf is going on with that site, cause i don't have an account there! BAHAHAHAHA! In case you didn't understand what i was Very Damn Ready about last week, i will make it simple for you: the lake is back, and already kicking ass. Two scoops of raisons to those (*ahem*) bitches... Uhh.. RAY sucks, and i haven't heard much about NCT.. if someone wants to give me leech accts on either, i will check them out... BAHAHAHA.. ;) FS is still the #1 site by a longshot, but at least STH will start to make things interesting again. ET is great, (someone said to me the other day that PDM should only ever pre to ET, and i agree with them... thats what makes ET great) Earlier i mentioned a us site, XXX2 (you figure it out).. I feel as tho its only fair to say that it is not the only site that we exclude from NWR. Another site that could certainly be in our X3 row is also missing on a weekly basis. That site is DAMN private, and most ppl that i know that are lucky enough to be on it say that it is easily the (site with the) fastest link in the world. I don't wanna get in any shit over this, but if you know wtf i am talking about, then i think that you will agree that this site deserves including. As always, the wishes of siteops MUST be our single deciding factor. =--------------------------------------------------------------------------= Sites are rated on a 3X and 2X scale.. if you want to know why we do it that way, read an old issue. Couriers get 10 points per site they get #1 on, 9 points for 2nd place, 8 points for 3rd, etc, etc. Sites are rated by us. If you don't like the ratings, then.... heh... fuck off and die.. =--------------------------------------------------------------------------= The Top Ten sites for this week are: x3 FS -*- STH -*- ET -*- E -*- MDK x2 DLS -*- IC -*- HOL -*- ROC -*- MG ---=NETMONKEY COURiER REPORT=--- trader group FS *STH ET E *MDK DLS IC HOL ROC MG pts pos -------------------------------------------------------------------- godbless DMS 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 148 [1] insanity EQL 0 0 6 2 0 3 0 2 3 4 108 [2] wishmaster DMS 5 0 2 4 0 6 5 0 0 2 106 [3] garoto DEV 4 0 3 5 0 0 3 0 0 0 79 [4] tc VGN 6 0 5 6 0 0 0 0 8 0 51 [5] bootman DMS 0 0 0 9 0 7 4 7 4 0 47 [6] mossyoak MnM 0 0 0 3 0 9 0 3 0 0 47 [6] skuz THD 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 9 0 0 45 [8] darkwolf VGN 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 6 2 3 42 [9] leddy DEV 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 33 [10] * = no weektop this week. =--------------------------------=--------------------------------------= -----------[ Lester's Biased Courier Section ]----------- I traded this week, I think I showed up on 2 or 3 weektops. So fucking fear that, but in my mild trading I noticed one thing: restarters are fucking everywhere. It is ridiculous, there are about 20 traders trading at one time and maybe 2-3 of them dont restart 5 or 6 times a release. I watched Kruzin restart the same file 9 times on a games release. And tons of other people as well. Me and Morbid were having some laughs about it. Anyways let's check out the groups Dimension: Well DMS just pounced on everyone this week. Severely dominating every site by up to a gig over the next group. But at the end of the week, Godbless, #1 ranked courier the past few weeks, was whisked away to Devotion. So the stats evened up a little bit, but DMS still held it's top spot on all the sites. Some people asked me how it felt to lose the #1 guy, and it's not that big of a deal, in AMN I lost MGD when he was much more dominant than Godbless..so no big deal. :) DMS is still the top group in the scene right now. Whether it will last or not we shall see. Risc: Risc up to their old tricks? Deleting Godbless from HOL (he was #1 alltime) for "excessive restarting" now I'll admit, godbless does restart a hell of alot, but one wonders if Risc was a little upset that another DMS guy was dominating their sites. But oh well, either way, Risc is still highly fucked. Millennium: 2 pickups for MNM this week, trying desperately to prove to NWR they aren't dead. Moonsabre and Vylent joined up, we will see if they can spur some life into the group. Vengeance: Still sucking ass, Lethal going to Devotion is a downer for this near dead group. Devotion: The biggest moves of the week, grabbing Lethal and Godbless, also making the neccesary changes to keep Jaydee happy. Devotion makes a push to get back on track, we will see what happens. They still have Snakeeyes and shit like that who continually make dev look bad with their idiotic actions though. AOD: Currently the number 2 group, but they may lose that title to Dev now this week. They are quiet and don't talk shit. I also have to add that Nightsky is also AOD so I now know of 3 ppl. :) TFA: Man you guys are still on sites? Phoenix: I dont have the slightest idea who is in this group, so you need to do a tad better Ambition: Word on the street is they will attempt a comeback, if they can convince DM to trade again it'd be possible. Who knows..AMB was always a pretty decent group =----------------------------------=--------------------------------------= -----------[ Articles ]----------- =----------------------------------=--------------------------------------= -----------[ Prozac's Kinda Biased Gaming Report]----------- Prozac's Kind of Biased Gaming Report Part two of I don't when this will end gaming report is here, talking about all the games from Sunday, December 13th to Monday, December 21st. This week was not as interesting as last week, but several major games came out during the week by RZR & OGN, then the usual j0nx from the rest. Here's a weekly round up report about all the groups: Class- Another week passes, and the usual "stuff" just comes out from Class. Nothing too exciting, though Luftwaffe Commander was in stores for over 48 hours before Class put it out. Shows how little activity there is in store pickups, which in the past use to be fierce. Expect CLS to keep on bringing the usual mediocre games for the next coming weeks. I do have to say one thing to a couple people out there in the peanut gallery: FUCK YOU. Yes CLS did two hunting games in December, but one was by a company with a very prestigious name (Sierra, Trophy Buck), and another where the game was actually quite cool if you people actually PLAYED IT (Carnivores). NO, we are NOT releasing just so we can beat OGN for the month. If this was so, I could go out and do three games lying on store shelves FACTION APPROVED. OGN's Pinky and The Brain WC? Ppppplllllzzzz... Hot Releases: Carnivores - 15 disks Luftwaffe Commander - 48 disks Paradigm- With Drizzt gone, and the Germans & French on vacation, expect PDM to be slow for the next couple weeks. While they finally got some .au competition, it's not much. RUMOR: Zeus of PDM (Founder) has gotten pretty fed up with some certain "problems" outside of the scene, and will be taking a very long vacation. Hot Releases: N/A Razor- For the second week in a row, a group comes out of left field for an awaited game. Too bad RZR fucked it up. Many people are complaining about the speech & music ripped out, taking out a lot of the fun in the game that made the original rip an instant classic. RZR then turns around and does 2 lame games (Dupe PDM on a bad RTS game, then put out a gey darts game that I passed over). RZR should be quiet for a couple weeks until some people get off their asses and do something. Also, RZR displayed its pure immaturity when Smokey recanted from leaving CLS. Grow up people! Hot Releases: Starcraft: Brood War - 40 disks Elite Darts - 6 disks Hespian Wars *DUPE* - 12 disks Origin- Whelp money talks. OGN steals a potential supplier from CLS by paying him money for a game (Outrage), then manages to do a well-awaited US game (heh, the mag in action, yeah baby!) Starsiege Tribes, but got a lot of groans for being a multi-only game. Also, Cypher wrote the STUPIDEST .nfo ever for Starsiege Tribes, by writing up about Starsiege, the mech game! PENATLY BOX! The Christmas rush is slowing down, but it looks like OGN has the chance to win one month in Dec. (phear ][ce going to every channel boasting this, the scene has been fair warned) Hot Releases: Outrage - 23 disks Starsiege Tribes - 27 disks Divine- DVN is back to releasing crap passed up. Another bad expert game from DVN this Week. Hey where's Bow Hunter?! It's only $10, and not out! Expect DVN to go back to their old ways, inactive and releasing j0nx. Hot Releases: Mountain Game Hunter - 17 disks Last minute comments: If you don't know already after being in the scene for years, the day after Christmas to about the end of February is absolutely boring. Between then, usually only about 15-25 games are put out among major groups, while it picks up for the spring rush. I suggest finding those games you've been wanting to play but had no time to get them now, and play them in the first 2 months of '99, because if you don't, you'll be moaning for weeks, "I wanna play something new!" While Jan. might be interesting, it won't make up for the flow of games that usually come out all during the year. If your into the scene, invest into finding a gaming archive site, it'll help fix those boredom blues. Word up to Union & his scene web site, http://union.jaded.net. =----------------------------------=--------------------------------------= -----------[ Bud's Biased Utils Section ]----------- Bud's Biased Utils Report #3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back again! Last weeks report was a bit rough due to exams on my part. My editing sucked in that edition, this week it's much cleaner. And more biased! Starting with this issue I'll be listing the weeks releases from each group, instead of droning on about each of them... and perhaps some other changes as well. I'm also displaying the DIZ of each group reviewed now since they look so pretty. ;) For those of you wondering why this report differs so greatly from the one found in CWS, well, I feel that any ranking of releases should be based on quality - not quantity. I also tend to differentiate between cracks, regged shareware and utils - there is no fair way to compare a 10$ system monitor program to an app like Director 7, for example. Disclaimer: It's BIASED moron. My opinion. So don't send me a bunch of mail & messages bitching about this or that. If you don't like it... SCREW YOU =] Rankings: Groups get a score out of 10. Points are given for amount of releases, but QUALITY titles will give a group a much higher score. Nukes for duping, broken releases and just plain CRAP will lower a groups score. However on the occasion that a title is nuked which I don't feel should have been, MY OWN JUDGEMENT TAKES PRECEDENCE. Cuz I'm writing this. Groups can also get points for any other reason I see fit. Week: Week is based from 12/13/98 to 12/19/98. I'm in the EST time zone so dates/times run according to it. Groups: (In no particular order) ▄ ▀▀██▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▀█▄ ▀█▌▀█▄ ▐ ▄█▀ ▄▄██▌ A Group ▐█▌ ▐▌ ▐█ █▌▐█▌ ▄█▀ █ That Gives ▄██▌▄▀ ▄██▌▀██▌ ██ ▐▌ Slightly ▀███ ▀███ ▀█ ▐███▄▄ █ Less Than ▐█▌ ▐█▌ ▐▌ ▀██▀ ▀▄ A Fuck. ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ -XeN PIRATES WITH ATTITUDE: Releases: Microsoft.Windows.2000.Professional.Beta3-RC0.build.1946-PWA [31 x 10MB] Well Windows 2000 Professional is the new name for NT Workstation 5... but enough with the Win beta shit already! Do we really need more buggy software from Microsoft??? Some people will enjoy this... personally my system is fucked up enough from Win95. Oh and it was WAY over the limit. Some sites nuked, some approved, so I'll still give some points for it. Total: 4/10 ▄───── ▄▄▄ ────────── ▄▄█▓▄ ─── ▄ ─ ▄▓▄ ░ ▀ ▄█████▓ ▄▄███▄ ▄▀▀████▌ ▄█████▄ ▀ ▓███▀ ▀▄██████▄▀█▌ ▐████▐▓▀ ▀███▓ ▓███▌ ▐▓█▀ ▀██▌▐▓ ▀ ▀▓▀▓▌ ▐███▌ ▐█████▄▄▀ ▀█▄ ▄▓█▓ █▓▄ █▌▀▄▄████▓ ▀██▓▀▀ ▀ ▀▀▀▀ ▀ ■▄ ▐▓ ▀▀▓█▀ ■▄──────+ The Corporation +─ ▀▄ ─gas!─■ THE CORPORATION: Releases: Cognos.PowerPlay.v6.0.199.4.User.Edition-CORP [14 x 2.88MB] Disneys.A.Bugs.Life.Print.Studio-CORP [30 x 2.88MB] Datametrics.Viewpoint.v4.2.Win9xNT.FINAL-CORP [05 x 1.44MB] McAffee.Office.Suite.v.1.0-CORP [30 x 2.88MB] After the loss of points for D7 beta last week, Corp gets a fresh start... I thought A Bug's Life Studio was a joke when I first saw it - unfortunately it wasn't. Maybe your kids will enjoy it for Xmas. They released McAffee Suite v1.0, proudly stating none of the programs in the suite could be downloaded from McAffee's FTP - too bad every single program in the suite has already been released seperately. Seems quality problems are still abound. Corp picked up DL this week on the site side of things, and dropped RAY after some problems with Easy, who was then removed as a siteop... hrmm now wasn't he involved in the Entity/MDK thing? Sheesh. And has the parting of Semaj taken its toll? Corp certainly isn't releasing as much. Be sure to check out the Semaj/CORP logs on TCA though =) Total: 5/10 . )\_______)\__)\_______)\_______ . . __/ __ _/ _/ ____/ ___/ . . \__ / _\ \_____ \ ___/__ : . :/ \ \ / \ / \| : |\___/ /___/_____ /___ /| : | \_/_____/\____ /_____/___/_____/ | :...`---\_____\/----/_flr_/---/_p^D_/--' RISE: Releases: TAILORMADE.FLATOUT.v4.1.FINAL.CRACKED-RiSE [01 x 1.44MB] TAILORMADE.CAD.SERVER.HPGL.v2.0-RiSE [01 x 1.44MB] TAILORMADE.HP2DESIGN.v6.03.FINAL.CRACKED-RISE [01 x 1.44MB] COMPUTER.ASSOCIATES.INC.UNICENTER.TNG.FRAMEWORK.v2.20.FINAL-RISE [36 x 3MB] MAGIX.CORP.MUSIC.STUDIO.v2000.DELUXE.EDITION.CRACKED-RiSE [12 x 1.44MB] This week saw RISE releasing once again - wow! Since RISE is one of my personal fav's it's great to see that excellent cracking team at work. Again, I'd love to see some big name mainstream apps out from RISE. What else.. well these guys have more sites then I can fuckin' believe, and they picked up BHZ as AHQ. And RAY. And CO (which has announced no other affils besides SHK/RISE). Then BHZ went to CORP, and after a brief stay from CORP to ENT. I'm soooooo confused with that fucking site. Oh well. I just hope we don't see any RISE MEGA HQ's reminiscent of XF. This week also saw Drizzit & Bunter join the group! Total: 6/10 ▄██▀███▀▀ ▀ ▄█ ┌- ▓██ ▀▀ ▀▀▀ ────-──-─-─ ▀▀▀ -──-──-──┐ : ▀▀▀██▄▀███▀▀▀▀▀██▄ ▄██▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀██▄ ░│ ▀▀███▓ ███ ███ ▓██ ███ ███ ▓██ ▓██ ███ ░: : ███ ███ ███ ███▀▀▀ ▓██ ███ ███▀▀▀ . │░ ███ ██▓ ██▓ ███ ██▓ ███ ███ ███ ▓███▀▀ : ▓██▄██▀▄███▄▀██▄███ ▀██▄███ ███ ███ : ▄ ▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ roy███ ███ ███ ─┘ ▀▄ ███ ███ ██▓ ▀▄ ███ ▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀██▓ ▀█ SIEGE: Releases: WISEVIEW.1.6-SiEGE (Get the Virus-Free repack) [12 x 1.44MB] WISEMDS.1.1-SiEGE [04 x 1.44MB] CLUB.HOLLYWOOD.TRANSITIONS.FOR.HOLLYWOOD.FX.DECEMBER.98-SiEGE [05 x 1.44MB] CAYMAN.POWER.CG.PLUS.V4.0E.STANDALONE-SiEGE [04 x .144MB] CAYMAN.POWER.CG.PLUS.V4.0E.FOR.ADOBE.PREMIERE-SiEGE [06 x 1.44MB] CAYMAN.POWER.CG.PLUS.V4.0E.FOR.FAST.VM-SiEGE [08 x 1.44MB] CAYMAN.POWER.CG.PLUS.V4.0E.FOR.SPEED.RAZOR-SiEGE [06 x 1.44MB] SGE has taken top spot two weeks straight, and took the two best utils of last week - but it's doubtful they could have matched their previous performance this week. Still they're one of the most powerful groups around, and that's not going to change anytime soon. Ewww.. a virus! Oh well... I think every group's done this at least once. A good week overall. Total: 7/10 ──────────────────────────────────[XX/XX]─ ▄██ ▄▄▄ ░ ▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄ █▓█ █▓█ ▒ ██▀ █▓█ █ █▓█ ██ █▓█ █ ███ ██ █▓ █▒█ █▒█ █░█ ▀▀ ▄█ █▒█ ██ █▒█ █ ▄▄▄ ██▄▄ ▄██▀██▄ ▀ █▒█▀▀▀ ██ █░█ ██ ▄▄█ █▓█ ██ ▄▄ █▒█ █▓█ ▓ █▓█ ░ █▓█ █░█ ██ ░ █▓█ █▒█ ██ █▓ ███ █▒█ ▒ ███ ▬▀█████▀▄██ ▒ ▀█████▀ ▀████ ─── ██▀ ░ ──────────────── ▓ ───── sikos ─ X-FORCE: Releases: SHAKE_VERSION_2.0-XFORCE [08 x 1.44MB] Can we say fallen dynasty? Total: 5/10 /\______/| ___/\_ _/ ______ :|; . __/\ ____/\ __| // %%%\____ \ |__:_\__ \/ ~~ :\_ | __/%%%% iii_/ :| \\_ \ ;| \_ |____/ \iiiii :::\__ ; _/ | \\_ : // | \\_ | \\_::: \____/---|____/____/_______/-|____/kaz SHOCK: Releases: Web.Meta.Power.v1.0-SHOCK [03 x 1.44MB] Kiplingers.Small.Business.Attorney.99-SHOCK [03 x 1.44MB] ICaR.Expert.System.and.ActiveX.Component.v3.0.Personal.Edt-SHOCK [05 x 1.44MB] Speed.Surfer.v4.0-SHOCK [03 x 1.44MB] DragonScan.v3.0-SHOCK [06 x 1.44MB] Medical.Drug.Reference.v4.2-SHOCK [03 x 1.44MB] HyperACCESS.v8.2a-SHOCK [08 x 1.44MB] Small.Office.Scan.Tools.v1.01-SHOCK [10 x 1.44MB] The SHK crew released over 300 Megs last week, with no nukes or dupes and some good quality programs. This week saw a nice clean week of releasing, although nowhere near as many megs. Total: 7/10 _ ___________ _ ________ ___________ __ _ ____________ \_________ \_________ \____ _ _/_ / _ __/ / ____/ / _ __/ / ______//_ / /_ /_____/ _//_ _ \_ / /_ / \_______/ _ _//__/ _ _// _ _//mG(CiA) =[ENT]===/______/==/_______/_____/=====[ENT]= ENTITY: Releases: NOVELL.GROUPWISE.v5.5-ENTiTY [38 x 1.44MB] Despite the fact the some sites nuke all Novell software, Groupwise is still a nice title, and a lot of people have been waiting for it. Bones seems to be doing a good job holding the group together, so for all the recent problems, Entity has shown it's still in the game. The new site BHZ joined on as AHQ, and they also picked up Alkivar from TRPS. Alkivar was at odds with TRPS since he (then a TRPS member) nuked their 1000th release (See the log in NWR27). Oh and Warlord joined. Problem this week was in getting the releases out - they stalled after groupwise, due to finals week for Bones.. Total: 5/10 . ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ .▀████▀▀▀██▄ ████▀▀██▌▐██▀▀▀▀ --- .------. : ████ ███ ▐███ ███ . | ████ ▐███ ███▀ ███ : | ████ ███ ▐███ ▄███ ███▄ . : | ████▀▀▀▀▀ ██▓█ ▀███▄▄██▓▀ . .▄▓███▄ ▀███▌ ▀▀ PRESENTS : | : : [xx/xx]. '---.-------PENTIUM FORCE TEAM-- ---- - -' PENTIUM FORCE TEAM: Releases: OnTime.Enterprise.4.63-PFT [25 x 2.88MB] GlobalLink.Power.Translator.Pro.v6.41.FULL.CD-PFT [24 x 1.44MB] Where the fuck did PFT go this week? Well the week for PFT started with Maudib leaving to return to Premiere. Bah, thats not going to hurt PFT much. Two nice titles... slow week compared to last week, but it's been slow all around. Total: 6/10 ________ ________ | |_________________________|__ | | | _ \ ___/ | | | / \ \ | |________|_______/ [xx/xx]/\________________| ----------------/________/>bds!------------ LEGENDS NEVER DIE: Releases: LOTUS.CCMAIL.MOBILE.6.3.02-LND [18 x 1.44MB] LOTUS.CCMAIL.DESKTOP.6.3.02-LND [16 x 1.44MB] Can LND overcome the horrible reputation its had of late? Do you really care!? I rag on LND an awful lot... so this week I'm going to let their releases do the talking. Total: 5/10 .__________. [xx/xx/98] \_ ___ ) Da ToP oF Da LiNe! .___. ===/ _/ /=======================/ /===== .:/ _____/__./(___.____/\.______./ /_____. :/ /__/ . ) . )____ ) _ ) / __ ) /__/ / / / / // __ / /__/ / /___/: .:/ /__/__/__/__/(______\____ /__/_____ /MO =/__/========================\/========\/=== = THE PINNACLES OF RELEASING (C) PNC 95-98 = PINNACLE: Releases: Inovie.TeamCenter.v1.2.2a-PNC [06 x 1.44MB] Cybercop.Scanner.v2.5.WinNT-PNC [05 x 1.44MB] Media.Pallete.Plus.v1.5-PNC [05 x 1.44MB] DocuShare.v1.5.For.WinNT-PNC [10 x 1.44MB] OMG PNC released! After being completely idle last week, they finally put something out! Well it's nice to see Pinnacle releasing, but to be honest I'm not sure what kind of a future the group has left. Even when they are releasing, the titles aren't close to the quality of old. DocShare is ok, but MFD released the PRO version of Media Palatte 1.5 a day before PNC did the PLUS edition, and the PRO contains more features. Still, for the most part PNC has managed to avoid fuckups/dupes/broken releases, which has hampered other struggling groups such as HTG - but it's hard to fuck up a release when you don't have any. The rebirth of SCUM saw PNC take another blow as they lost members to the reformation. Total: 6/10 ─ ▄▄ ── ▄▄▄ ─────────░──────────── ─── ── ─ ░▀ ▀█▄ ▀▀ ▀▌ ▀ ■ ▐▄ ■ ▄ ▀ ■ ▀ ▀ ▄▄▄ ▀ █ ▐█▌█ ▀ █▄▀▄ █▀█▄▀██ █ █▄▀▄ ▀▀ ▄▌ █▄▀▄ ▐█▌▄█▀▐█▌ ▐█▌▄ ▐█▌▐█▌▐█▌▐█▌▐█▌▄ █ ▐▀▀▐█▌▄ ▀▓▓ ▀▓▓ ▀▓▓ ▄▀▓▓ ▀ ▓▀ ▀▓▄▀▓█ ▄▐▓▌ ▀▓▓ ▄ ── ▀ ─── ▀ ─ ▀▀ ── ▀ ▀ ──── ▀ ▀▀ ▄▀▀ ─░─ ▀▀ PREMiERE 1998 RELEASES WITH STYLE [xx/xx/98] ──────────────────────────────────────────── Premiere: Releases: Oasis.V6.0.Final.For.Win9x.NT-PREMiERE [08 x 3MB] Software.Remover.Plus.v3.0-PREMiERE [04 x 1.44MB] Family.Origins.v7.0-PREMiERE [03 x 1.44MB] ScanMail.for.Lotus.Notes.v1.8.for.WinNT-PREMiERE [05 x 1.44MB] Sound.Forge.XP.v4.5.57-PREMiERE [04 x 1.44MB] RealServer.Plus.G2.v6.0-PREMiERE [06 x 1.44MB] "They're Baaaccckkk!!!" (Think Poltergiest). PRM makes its return this week, with Fusion once again at the helm, and many of its former members have returned to it. Despite its rocky history PRM certainly has some releasing power, and this incarnation starts out with a clean slate. Oasis 6 was the "premiere" release for the reborn PRM, although I'm not sure it's one I would have chosen as a debut. OASIS stands for Operater Assisted Sewer Information System, and I'm not sure how many people would be interested in that, since most of us don't operate our own sewer system. Yes that's right, there was no typo - OASIS is an addon for MS Access which is for use with "wastewater collection systems." Bad news for PRM though.. shortly after the OASIS release, several people began complaining it was uncracked. I decided to test it myself, and during installation was given a message saying "You are installing the demo version of OASIS." The program reports that when you purchase you will be given an unlocking code... only no unlocking code was provided. Fusion and the other leaders acknowledged the mistake, and there's no doubt they'll make up for it. Releases such as Software Remover Plus 3 are much nicer, and should have been considered for the initial release... In any case they're back, they're releasing, and they had a decent week if you look beyond the bumpy start. They would have scored a 7 but the nuke cost them a point. As for other news.. MDK needs a utils afill... PRM returns... hrmmm. Could be something to that. Total: 6/10 _______________ ____________ ____________ \_ ___ \_ ___ \ ___ \_ _/ l/ / l/ / l/ / \______ / / / /____ / /| ======\________/\__________/[om]\________/== d(*)d D r i n k O r D i e 1 9 9 8 d(*)d ===================== [ DOD * xx-xxx-98 ] == DRINK OR DIE: Releases: Trados_translator_v2.01-DOD [04 x 1.44MB] Command.Antivirus.v4.54.NTws-DOD [05 x 1.44MB] Command.Antivirus.v4.54.NTws-DIZ_FIX-DOD [01 x 1.44MB] Cubase_v.3.6_Win9X-DOD [15 x 1.44MB] Cubase_v.3.6_Docs-DOD [31 x 1.44MB] I wasn't sure what to expect from DOD this week, after being fairly idle recently. Despite the fact that I personally feel they're a great group, I didn't think they'd do much of anything. Everyone was surprised to see Cubase 3.6 (tough dongle crack) from them (and a 31 Disk DOCS addon :P). Unfortunatly, the excitement was short-lived, as Cubase was broken (bad CRC in the rars), and there's been no fix as of yet. That leaves them with another Command Antivirus and Trados Translator. Total: 5/10 ___ _ __________ ____________ ____ _____ ___ \__\\_\_______ \__ _ ______/___ \_ __//__/ ;;;;;;; / \/ \\ ____/ / \\ mg/SAC -)--- _/ / \_ \_/ -/ \_ --(- ;;;;; \____/_ _ _//_ /______ _ _// ;;;; [xx/xx/98]/________/==\/====/________//[MfD] =[X]==][= MANiFEST DESTiNY RELEASE =][==[X]= MANIFEST DESTINY: Releases: Nuts.And.Bolts.98.v2.01-MFD [11 x 1.44MB] Media.Pallette.Pro.v1.5-MFD [06 x 1.44MB] G1-98.v2.0.6-MFD [09 x 1.44MB] Kiplingers.Taming.the.Paper.Tiger.v1.0-MFD [07 x 1.44MB] Dr.Solomons.VirusScan.v4.0.2.Corporate-MFD [06 x 1.44MB] C-More.v1.21-MFD [12 x 1.44MB] BullsEye.Pro.v1.0-MFD [05 x 1.44MB] Kiplinger.TaxCut.1998.2.Federal.Filing.Edition-MFD [05 x 1.44MB] MobileChoice.WinBEEP32.v3.0-MFD [05 x 1.44MB] PanHandler32.for.SAW.v3.2-MFD [01 x 1.44MB] PanHandler.v2.0.for.Cool.Edit.Pro-MFD [01 x 1.44MB] PanHandler.v2.0.for.Adobe.Premiere.v5.1-MFD [01 x 1.44MB] PanHandler.DX.Plugin.v1.4-MFD [01 x 1.44MB] WellCAD.v2.33.Win95-MFD [19 x 1.44MB] Nino.Contacts.v2.7-MFD [08 x 1.44MB] Ok MFD did quite a few decent utils along with some minor regged programs and cracks... good job on those but perhaps they need to choose a direction? As usual I'm not listing the cracks etc. Still, in an extremely slow week, they were one of the few bright spots. Total: 8/10 .· [xX/Xx]·. : [xx/xx/98] : : .__ .____ : |__l \._____.___\__/___ /^\__ /\___ .____ | l | \ _ l \__/ l__ \ \l _ \| l : | __/.:__| \ __/ | \ -- | __/l l _. | \ | | | \/\ _ | . | \ l__: |____/__\|___|_ /_:__|--: |\____/ ||||___/:::::::········\_/···:/_____/|[war]| |:·|-| HERiTAGE 1998 PROUDLY PRESENTS |-|·:| |||||||::::::::··············::::::::||||||| [HTG] Looking for a WHQ [HTG] HERITAGE: Releases: N/A Total: N/A _______________________________[xx/xx] \_ _ \_ ____/_ _ \_ ____/ |_\ ___/ / _/ ___)/ _/ ___) | \___ \ / | \_ | \ | \ | \ : \ : \ \___| /___ \____ \___ \___ \___ \ ====|__/===\__/===\__/==\__/==\__/==\__/ REBELS: WE MAKE ALL DAYS PARTY DAYS >> RELEASING WITHOUT PERMISSION << REBELS: Releases: Microwave_Office_v2.12_cracked-RBS [03 x 2.88MB] ViewPort.plus.7.0.FINAL-RBS [09 x 2.88MB] EJay.Special.Edition-RBS [27 x 2.88MB] Good week for RBS compared to last, no problems, some nice utils. Hmm Rebels is cool and I'll just leave it at that. Total: 7/10 █▄▓▄■▀░▄ Teknorage and Pirasoft Present: ▄░▀■▄░▄█ █ ▐▄ ▌ █ █▓▀cH/SAC ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄█▄▄ [xx\xx] ▀▓█ ▀ ▄▄█▄▄▄▄ ▄ ▄██▌▐████▓ ▄▄█▓█████▓▀ ▄█▄▄████▄ ▀ ▄▄████▓ ▄▄▄ ▀████▌█████▌▐████▐████▌▐████▐█████▌ ▐██████▌▐█████▄ ▓███▀█████ ████ ▀████ ███▌▐██████ ██████ ███████▌▐███ ▐████▌▐███▌▄████▌ ▀█▄ ▀▀▀▀▀ ▐████▌▐███████ ████▄████▀ ▄████████▀ ▄▄ ▐█████▄ ▄▓███▓▄▓██████▌▐████▌▀▓█▄ ▀███▓▀▀ ▄████▌▓██████▌ ▀▀██████▀ ▀████▀ ▀▀▄ ▀█▀ ▀██▀▀██████▀ █▄▄▄▓▄▄▄ ▀▀▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▀▀ ▄█ ▀▀▀ ░▒▓█▄ xx/xx/98 ······ Ratzhole WHQ ▀ ▀▓▀▀▀ TRPS: Releases: Mr.Photo.v2.0.Win9xNT.GOLD-TRPS [13 x 1.44MB] SmartCD_RomMaker_v5.11_for_Win9x-NT-TRPS [04 x 1.44MB] Salvo_Server_4.00.228_Win98NT-TRPS [16 x 1.44MB] SmartCD_Recording_API_2.6.0_WinNT-TRPS [03 x 1.44MB] SmartCD_Recording_API_2.6.0_Win9x-TRPS [03 x 1.44MB] Minitab.12.v4.12.Data.Financial.and.Economics.Analysis.Win9xNT-TRP[09 x 1.44MB] NetG.Developer.v1.16.Win9x-TRPS [19 x 1.44MB] Crescent.QuickPak.v1.1.for.VB.J.PLUS.PLUS-TRPS [02 x 1.44MB] Distinct.Visual.Internet.Toolkit.v4.01.Win9xNT.Cracked-TRPS [21 x 2.88MB] Tiny.Term.Professional.Suite.WORKING.WIN9XNT-TRPS [08 x 1.44MB] Attachmate.RLN.v5.1.1.Win9xNT-TRPS [04 x 1.44MB] Tekno Rage & Pirasoft are back for the second week in a row. As usual I'm going to discount the cracks/regs of shareware/useless junk and judge only the releases that fit into the Utils category, since this is a utils report. TRPS saw Alkivar leave this week, taking his shellbox with him. Apparently he's given them a few days to find a new box before he removes their accounts, which is more than a lot of people would have done. I haven't tested Mr Photo yet, but I've had earlier versions and decided not to release them - the program is horrible! Perhaps there's been some improvements in v2.0 - lets hope so anyways. The GOLD edition contains some other apps - Presto! Photo Album & Presto! Photo Designer. On top of the cracks and other releases that I don't feel fit into the utils category, I decided not to consider WebHub Developer v1.683, as 1.670 was released the week before by TRPS, and I'm not going to give points everytime the group releases an extremely minor update. But TRPS still had a strong week. Total: 8/10 New this week: Premiere makes their return. Idle this week: Heritage Quote of the Week: <Toth> is idle: PRM is back.. toth ponders suicide =) Well the underdogs took top slot this week, MFD & TRPS sharing the lead with 8 points each. Most of the powerhouse release groups were hurt by inactivity, nukes or both. It was a pretty tame week as far as releases were concerned... SGE/CORP had an NFO war and then ended it, with Freakshow from CORP making a public post on TCA's message board apologizing for CORP's recent quality problems. Premiere makes its return with a shakey debut, but quickly makes up for it with some strong releases. A new group has arrived this week, IUC (Intelligent Underground Connections), and says it will be focusing on enterprise level applications. Not a good showing for them though, their first release was nuked for no DIZ. Plus there's the SCUM revival, so expect to see titles from them soon. They're yet another entry into a crowded field... at least one group will bow out soon. BHZ switched so many affils this past week that I lost count, so my apologies if anything is fucked up in that regard. - Bud =----------------------------------=--------------------------------------= --------------[The Smurfs Were a Communist Plot]-------------- Well, raberts is back... This has absolutely nothing to do with trading, sites, cracks, or pr0n... No, this is a political article written by 2-time NWR contributor, Raberts... enjoy! -editors According to this writer's theory of "Smurfian" Communism in the Post-War Era, the Smurfs television show was created as part of a Soviet plot to brainwash the children of the free world, as part of the USSR long-range strategy for world domination... Note that all the Smurfs look exactly the same. They are all blue-skinned with have white hats and white tails. This reflects the classless society the theory of Communism proposes, in which all men and women are comrades. Papa Smurf is the only Smurf who wears any clothing other than the standard-issue white uniform. Instead his outfit is red, which is, of course, the background of the Hammer and Sickle, and the color which insiuates communism. Furthermore, Papa Smurf's unique facial hair is clearly meant to conjure up images of Lenin, Stalin, and Castro. The Smurfs on which the show is focused are Hefty, the soldier, and Handy, the worker. On the other hand, the Smurfs portrayed negatively are Greedy, who simply eats all the time, Vanity, who contributes nothing to society and is lost in his own narcisism, and particularly Brainy, who is but a thinly veiled caricature of Trotsky, who thinks for himself too much and undermines the Smurf state. He is repeatedly thrown out of the colony. Trotsky was, of course, assassinated in Mexico. The prime enemy of the Smurfs would be Gargamel, and his cat Asrael. There can be no doubt that this duo of villan and sidekick are to represent the Jews, who were persecuted under Soviet rule. One may attempt to challenge this theory with the claim that the mid '80s introduction of the younger generation of Smurfs was an attempt at Americanization. Conversely, I submit that this addition occurred just as Perestroika and Glastnost took hold in the Soviet Union, and that openness was reflected in the addition of new characters. Luckily, the United States was able to win the Cold War, and the Communist message of the Smurfs has gone by the wayside. Of particular contribution in defeating this threat was the cartoon GI Joe, the real American hero. =----------------------------------=--------------------------------------= --------------[The Art of Good Trading]-------------- I had decided recently with all the people who believe they are great traders, and their misconceptions on how to be a great trader, that i would write and article on the subject. I would write about how to be a truly great trader and what that encompasses, I'll also get quotesand bits of wisdom from some of the alltime greats, and some of the newerguys who are true traders. Now some of you may already be confused and say, a trader is a trader, if your #1 then you're good. This is not entirely true for any number of reasons, and I will try to cover them all in this article. I'm going to start with some of the misconceptions about what makes a good trader, and then move into what really does make a good trader. Let's begin. A common misconception about traders is, oh well he's #1 on such and such sites, but that doesn't neccesarily mean shit. Anyone can be #1 on any given site at least 1 time if the circumstances are optimal. Now good traders are also not people who solely pre to get their #1 spot, I will go over pre'ing later in the article, as pre'ing AND trading is the perfect combo. Someone who trades only to 1-2 sites and dominates those sites, is not really a great trader. He excels at 1 specific area, which does not encompass much of the scene. This type of person is generally a proxy trader or just using a mirror script from 1 site to the other. The 2nd of which is cheating and they should be banned for claiming to be a trader. Proxying on the other hand, is part of a trader's skills. Most of the great traders I traded with or that I know now, only use proxy when it is neccesary, like say a release going pre to a slow US site that they can't compete on without proxy. But if you solely use proxy to trade, then your not REALLY trading, as the effort is reduced and it forces you to do less sites. Proxy Trading is the closest form of trading to real trading though. FXP is not true trading either, as it is simply point and click and all that nice stuff, and is essentially proxy as well. Usually if someone uses fxp, they will branch out to linfxp/pftp/nftp/riscftp, whatever the case may be. You also then have your screen traders, the true form of trading, but you have the people who restart excessively to win, or use riscftp/nftp or some other form of technology to improve their performance. They are all cheaters obviously, as the rules state, and should not be allowed to compete on sites. The second problem with screen traders, in the age of all the scripts, is that screen-traders have begun making macros with MacroMagic or just their own telnet programs. I am not in favor of this either. A few are almost a neccessity these days, if you compete on the major sites against the cheaters and the people of that sort. But macros that do essentially everything for you with just a few keystrokes,(ie. mkdir/cd on all sites when a new dir is made), it is getting to the point where it is just an idiot's script. ********** I stopped writing this article for awhile and now after some consideration I've decided to finish it up. ********** I had some conversations with people regarding cheaters. How it took real courage for someone to admit to cheating (I'm not going to use names for this article to avoid losing the points through bias), and therefore they should not be punished because they admitted to it and said no i wont do it again. I find this incredibly ridiculous. An extreme comparison of this would be: if someone killed a dwarf and then admitted to it, should we not send him to jail? He still committed the crime, and this trader STILL cheated. He broke the trust and honor (what is left of it anyways) of being a trader and a part of this scene. During my conversations I also began discussing bad disking (restarting) and how a large number of people seem to think that it is OK to do so. What the fuck is that? If you're incapable of winning without timing the release properly or having the best resources to win, then you SHOULD lose. You shouldn't win simply because you can hit your mput *.zip macro a bunch of times. Accidents will happen, EVERYONE will restart now and again. But repeated restarters are just as bad as scripters and other forms of cheating. There is not enough action taken against restarters in my opinion. People argue that if all these methods were removed then tons of people would be removed from sites. My response is simple: So? Why can't we remove these people and work with the real traders and start building a tighter-knit net community again? What are siteops afraid of? I imagine it has to do with their affils not backing them up in removing the people. Or they worry about losing that split second of speed that determines #1-#10. But that can be rebuilt, siteops are being narced daily, and it exists because of the amount of shit that is allowed on sites. Tighten up your belts siteops, bring down the thunder. Group leaders, kick the cheaters or teach them the error of their ways. Stop worrying about public opinion and whos gonna be #1 if you kick your best trader for cheating. Start worrying about siteops lives being ruined and the scene being quickly flushed down the toilet. But enough dramatics and downers. Let's talk about how you go about being a great trader. First thing is first, don't do any of the shit I mentioned above. Then get yourself a nice shell and learn to use screen. Make sure you get setup on all the good sites where the pre's go so you always have a chance on any race. Lock up a games/utils affil to give you some pres to boost your stats in those down weeks. The perfect courier will have pres (not an overabundance, but as many as he can get as long as he's still trading hard), screen trading with proxy ability and few to zero macros. The ideal courier should also be willing to support sites that may not be the best, but are significent to their group or themselves personally, whatever the case may be you cannot forget the litle people. It's not only about being number one. I see alot of people tossing around the "Best Courier" title to alot of different people. To me, that title belongs to one person and one person only: Darkhosis. But, to be considered one of the greats, you have to be able to RACE releases. A large number of these couriers today that are consistantly on weektops, aren't neccesarily racers, they just get pre's or trade small shit or whatever, getting raped on big releases. If you trade enough hours a day and move 1-3 diskers all day your gonna be high on a weektop. You have to have the total package guys. It's just too bad that package doesn't really exist anymore, because of the way the scene has changed. But most people dont even have part of the package. You veteran traders need to spread the word and teach the gospel about trading. Enough bullshit! Teach the young guys how to Trade! -Lester =----------------------------------=--------------------------------------= --------------[The TEN Best Couriers of Alltime]-------------- Well, this is it. This is probably going to be our most contraversial article ever. No matter what, i don't think that it will be easy to find anyone who will agree 100% with our list. I guess that doesn't matter much, since we have been a biased magazine from the start, and will remain that way till we quit publishing.. #1 was pretty damn easy. #2 through #10 were sweated, shouted, and fought over between Lester and I. Don't agree with our selections? Come up with your own list, and... show it to someone else, cause we don't care.. ;) Having said that, i'm sure that there are 2 or 3 ppl that we DID forgot, and someone will approach us, and say "what about so-and-so?" and we will kick ourselves, and say, "SHIT! we forgot about whoever"... If we have grossly omitted someone, then we apologize.. Also, keep in mind that our list is simply the 10 best NET couriers of alltime.. We will probably do a BBS list at a later date, for all your newbie kids out there who want a history lesson.. ;) Enough talk. Lets get to the goods... Top 10 Couriers of Alltime 1. Darkhosis 2. Prozac 3. MGD 4. HR 5. Shatter Star 6. Lester 7. Dark Druid 8. Fronthead 9. Garoto 10. Darkside 1.) -Darkhosis- (by lester) Well, where to begin really, he could do it all. Sure he would be labeled a cheater these days, and he did plenty of underhanded shit to win. But he did it all, he was able to proxy before anyone even knew what it was. No matter what kind of lead you had on him during the week, before that weektop reset, he would make sure that he had pulled ahead of you, either with pre's or just faking releases to get the extra megs. I remember one time, on a Risc site I needed like 8 megs to pass someone and I was talking to Hosis and he says to me, hold on lemme see what I have in my windows directory. He finds some demo and zips it up and has me upload it to pull ahead. This is the kind of stuff he would do just to mess around. The scene wasn't so stupid back then and there were only a handful of really good traders so what Hosis did was never a big deal, he was respected for his resourcefulness if nothing else. I can also recall the countless headaches he gave Druidkin and the Razor net team. We would be ready to put out a release and all of a sudden it would be (Dupe Darkhosis) and we would all scurry around and try to figure out where the fuck he got it. Either by hacking a shell or he would go onto BBS's and d/l the release and get it to the net first. You have to respect that. I'm supposed to limit this to like a paragraph and I've already run past that, but hey, the #1 guy should get a little longer right? The other thing about Hosis, was despite the fact that everyone knew he was the best, he wasn't an outrageous dick about it. Sure he knew he was the best. But he had fun, and we all had fun racing him, even if it was frustrating. So in closing, I say *BOG* to the whole scene and remember Hoser. 2.) -Prozac- (by garoto) There are a lot of true stories floating around the net about prozac. I never had the pleasure of trading against him, but i remember when i first joined RTS, there was something called "prozac.txt" on the RTS bots. (editors note: included in this issue, as 'netcurry.txt', in the NWR.zip) Anyways, this text bascially said something like "not to become too passionate about couriering", and it was written by him. I was just starting out, and i read it, and i msged him saying "dude, i would like to be like you", and all he said was: "good luck, don't take it too seriously" I have a lot of respect for him. 3.) -mgd- (by ndetroit) Well, the thing about mgd, is that he has done something that not a lot of other couriers have done, and that is to be successful in TWO separate eras.. He used to dominate a few years ago, before he retired, and he used to dominate QUITE well, during his AMN days. I never traded against him back then, but i remember reading old RCN's, and they would have the courier rankings, and week after week mgd would be there.. #1... Then the dude retired.. This year he came back to help lester with DMS, and romped all over the NWR rankings. #1 on STH for many many weeks running, breaking most of its records there.. I can't really explain why he was so good, he just WAS good, and he was good for 2 lifetimes worth of couriering.. thats some pretty decent work. A LOT of ppl hate the dude. Massive ego. Has pretty much always been like that, i think.. But hell.. trading isn't a goddamn popularity contest. 4.) -HR- (by lester) The Two Lettered Couriering Machine. HR, my partner in crime. Many accused us of being one and the same person, and we split our sites and traded to certain ones only, letting the other one dominate the certain sites. He was consistantly #1 or #2,(depending on if Darkhosis was trading that week:)) and also managed to be a cornerstone in the famous 1995 DOD team. I can't say enough good things about him, and I guess I'm biased, but he was a solid courier. Using the netcom shells and screen only, he was still one of the fastest around. Only drawback being he didn't trade for a terribly long time as DOD got to be too time consuming. The easiest way to show the domination of our tag team was our linkup as TheForce on ScumSite. Making it to #7 alltime in the span of 2 weeks, roughly 2.7 gigs, this in a time when 2 gigs didn't come out every week.:) But most of the credit goes to him in the early days, he was a trader and then a utils buff, I was the other way around. 5.) -Shatter Star- (by prozac) Shatter- Ah, he can't get away from being chinese. He's always riled in DoD & RiSC for being "different", but that doesn't mean he wasn't pheared by the scene. He teared up all of the major RiSC and major sites between 94-96, and topped the charts. In '95, RiSC was a major force of the scene, and Shatter was a major part of this. Always #1 or #2 weektops for months at a time. While he took the abuse, he left people in the dust. 6.) -Lester- (by mgd) Err, where to start? Lester has always been there to help me whenever I've needed him, even though his ass doubted me when I first tried to join AMN. Lester was always the dude who could get anything done, from trading to being a leader in two top groups on more then one occasion (AMN and DOD, DMS and LND, and now DMS and SiEGE). Lester was an on and off trader for many years, longer then I can remember, as he was already an AMN Leader and Founder for when i entered the scene. Before that he had already accomplished being a senior in Malice. All of that has little to do with the fact that he has traded over such a long period of time against every single one of the other greatest traders ever, and he did well against them all. From never using macros up until recently (since now everyone is a macro whore), Lester always kicked ass while running the best groups and doing his best to keep everyone happy. After being around for something like 5? 6? 7?... god knows how many years in the scene, two of his greatest accomplishments ever were: founding and leading the first real group that could challenege and defeat RiSC (AMNESiA), founding NWR, and just recently he single handedly killed MnM (THANK GOD THEY ARE DEAD). I could literally go on forever about all the things Lester has done, but I tried to keep it as short as possible covering what needed to be covered. 7.) -Dark Druid- (by mandrake) When i was asked to write a short paragraph on who i believed to be the alltime best courier, many names came to mind. Penstar, Shatter Star, Darkhosis, darkside, kang6902, colt45 (now mrsandman), mgd, garoto...... so many great couriers names came to mind, i wasn't sure i could choose one that could be "the" best. In the end i had to go with Dark Druid. Sorry to everyone else mentioned above, you were/are all incredible. My view may very well be biased though. Seeing i live in aus, i missed out on most of the early bbs trading that took place in the US. Though, Dark Druid, who was then in RiSC was still known and revered over here. First time i ever saw his name was on probably, Sydney's most well known and arguably the best board sydney has ever had: "Tombstone". After that i saw his name on a few boards here and there, most of which i can no longer remember. The untouchables, park central.... most overseas boards i only had the opportunity to call a couple times so it is hard to remember things vividly. Though back to the point, Dark Druid was damn good in the BBS scene, and when in 1995 (maybe late 1994 i cant remember) i came over to the net scene he was here and seriously kicking arse once again. Then while i was in Empire, Vengence was formed, and anyone who was trading at the time of the first week of vgn's opening will know exactly how much almost every top site was seeing DDruid as no.1. I remember having a conversation with a few people at the time, seeing this was when i has just come back to trading after my first "retirement" not being able to believe how unbeatable he was. I was simple replied to as "dont worry so much about, when ddruid wants to trade he is just too damn good". Only spoke to him a couple times, but from his personality, which i find to be quite oldscene, and his ability in both the net and old bbs scene, ddruid you in my eye's are the best courier this scene has ever seen. I apologize to Darkhosis, but i never knew all that much about you. Most of what i know is rumour, and i cant make a decision up on other peoples views on you. 8.) -Fronthead- (by mgd) Fronthead was one of those traders who came from a euro based groups called Rapier. He wasn't much of a trader, yet he always found his ways to get the megs to put up the numbers. It was like he would do almost anything for a "pre," and was the pretty much the scene's first prewhore. He would do what ever it would take to get the pre, kissing as much as ass as possible of any given group leader or simply group hopping over to the release group that was performing the best. 9.) -Garoto- (by silent joe) A lot of people ask: How the hell did he weektop 6-12 sites regularly? Even more ask: how did he get time to curry when he has a full time job (yes he does have full time). And most of the people say: is he cheating????? During 1998 we have witnessed him dominate like bizzy/dragoth/ frozenwater used to do. They all had the same skills: fast hands, good memory, and kick ass shells ;-) Garoto owned in 1998, being in dod/rzr and curry under devotion. As you all know he didn't get any pre as he would have had last year when razor/dod were dominating. That aspect makes it even more amazing how does what he does. When bizzy owned the scene he had all the xforce pre's he wanted, and at that time, risc sites were the best! Garoto never had any pre's. (maybe some seiko) and he traded truthfully and he managed to get on alltimes on MANY respected sites such as ff/fs/et/sth/ic/e and others. He has been doing it day after day, not for money or hw or anything else not to be greedy saying how he has owned the sites but FOR FUN... Many know that he is in class/siege/devotion these days which would place him along elite couriers like ones i have mentioned above. With the help of pre u can see him in a few month being at top 3 on repsected sites and it's all done in about a year Many people dont get 1/3 way to his greatness while curry much longer than him! 10.) -DarkSide- (by lester) Darkside, the brazilian stud. Somehow he mastered speaking proper english and trading at the same time. Just before he resigned, back in 1995 or 96. I'm not sure. He resigned at his peak, you gotta give him that. In fact he was a good trader, dominating the scene at his peak. Time's a blur, I think this was 1995 or 1996. Always ragging on me to ban all kinds of personal enemies of his (lester, mgd ;) ) he kept on threatening to ban the siteop who would not budge to his 'arguments'. All through his career he was risc, even though he never made it to council, senior, or leadership. I haven't spotted darkside for like forever. He must have a real life now, who can blame him with brazilian temperamental beauties all around him? Darkside did seem to play fair though, when it came to trading. His outside-trading methods werent that refined, but he could simply beat his competition straight on. Well, that about wraps it up... Like we said, if you disagree, whine to someone else about it: we don't wanna hear about it.. There are about another 10 ppl that we could have just as easily included here, like frozenwater, jess, hurricane, nine, asmodeus, bizzy *cough*cheater*cough*, crueger, etc, etc... the list goes on... needless to say, that was the Ten Best of Alltime.. May they live forever.. =----------------------------------=-------------------------------------= =---------[ Lesters Movie Reviews ]----------= Sure he's a prominent scene member, leader of the #1 courier group, and former "Miss Scene 1995".. But did you also know that in real life, Lester's real name is "Roger", and he hosts a popular syndicated television show, where he plays a big fatass who has nothing better to do with his time than go to every single movie ever released? Well.. now you know.. Movie Reviews Ok well small week for movies. The Prince of Egypt Dreamworks Pictures Rating: 4 out of 4 stars Katzenberg has definately pulled it off. He wanted to show Disney who was the shit in animation and he did it, stealing some of the biggest names that Disney had and putting together this 50 million dollar epic. The fact that he did it so quickly is also a reflection of his talents. I give him alot of credit for that and I personally like Dreamworks Pictures as a whole. But let's talk about the movie. I don't think I really have to say what it's about. It is the story of Moses, from the book of Exodus. There is some comedy, but not a great deal. Lots of singing and the typical cartoon style, but the animation is far superior to that of your run of the mill Disney flick. Though the preview for Tarzan shows some nice animation on the Disney end too. It's almost 2 hours which is quite long for a cartoon, but you don't really notice it, the story is obviously quite good and unless you get tired of all the singing, you wont be bored in it. Check it out, and if you are a religious person and can't get your kids hooked on the bible, this is an easy way to get them to learn about it.:) =----------------------------------=--------------------------------------= -----------[ Return of the SCUM ]----------- The Return of an Icon in Utils Releasing. SCuM has announced they will attempt a comeback, with a large number of the original members returning. Not all of the members and staff have been announced as of yet, but the leaders promise that they will break out with a huge title or a large number of releases at once. I believe this comes at a perfect time when the scene truly needs an old-fashioned utils group. No group has been able to establish the dominance that DOD/PWA/SCUM had established in the past years. The talent is spread so thin and cluttered with webwarez and cracked shareware that no group has been able to efficiently dominate all major titles. It may be too much to hope that SCuM can change all of this, I may just be extremely optimistic, but I do know that it can't hurt. The scene needs to remember the great groups that have come and gone and been forgotten so quickly. So despite the fact that it brings strong competition to the utils scene which I am actively a part of, I welcome Scum back to the scene. Best of luck to you guys. -Lester =----------------------------------=-------------------------------------= -----------[The Scene News]----------- All the news thats fit to print... and then some... -Ok, even i have to admit (and i'm pretty fucking impartial..BAHAHAHA) that DMS did ok on the sites this week. At one point 9 of the top 10 ppl on FS that i saw were "[DMS Rape Squad]". Now, the weird thing is that DMS has only really gone through a trading resurgence ever since JESS joined, which of course accounts for the rumor that we have published in our rumors section. -PREMiERE is back. Love 'em, or hate 'em, you gotta admit, the fuckers sure can produce.. They are both a couriers and siteops's dream. Now, no offence to the staff of MSV, but MSV used to be a pretty weak site.. until they picked up PRM, that is... Remember how damn good that site became, very very quickly? I'm not saying that i'll suck-off fusion any time soon, but... -TRPS cards releases? bleh, oh well.. They got the release out first, and it worked. Stop bitching ppl. I said the exact same thing last week, and i thought i would repeat myself here... (of course, they ARE a crack- ing group) <g> -Apparently Chinablue agreed to come back to CLASS on the condition that mgd wasn't in the group.. Everyone thought CLS would be in trouble after she quit the first time, (or at least not dominate as much as they did during her reign), but the group managed to do pretty well in her absence. However, for the good of the group, mgd volunteered to step aside, if thats what class's leaders truly did want. They did, and he is gone. I'm not too sure yet wtf i think about all this... like him or hate him, mgd is good at what he does for the groups he is in, so... time will fucking tell (it always seems to) whether or not class made the right decision.. -On the same theme, Garoto jumped ship from the blade, and hooked up with class. Don't look for rzr1911 to be sending any xmas cards to garoto this christmas: it wasn't an amicable parting.. No word on where mgd is headed, if anywhere.... -godbless and lethal both joined DEV.. gb cited the fact that "his DMS shells were too fast, and he was bad disking everywhere", as his reason for leaving... BAHAHAHAH.. godbless, do i ever have the PERFECT fucking shell for you... <g> -no word yet on whether or not the ORiGiN legal dept has had a chance to pursue their lawsuit again www.avault.com (see last week), but good luck to them!! -group moves: fusion formed prm, dragoth joined prm, blackacid joined prm, semaj joined prm?, etc, etc. mgd quit class (or was he forced out?), youthx joined DMS (wtf?), moonsabre to mnm from ins, vylent to mnm from int, bonhz to MnM (after being caught for cheating on TD) and lethal and godbless both joined DEV. -is AMBiTiON making a comeback? Would be nice to see. -thank-god BLACKACID removed those damn porn-window things on his webpage... lotta ppl were accusing the guy of "selling out".. Dude has to pay his bills somehow, i guess, but... bleh, we are pirates, he should be STEALING his web-hosting, goddamnit!! -www.yellow5.com/pokey owns every single one of you. go there. -dasker/EPT is still about the worst goddamn curry i have ever seen.. bleh. -i guess that shit i wrote about ndt being mad about the cocksucker that broke into his house did the trick... no breakins this week.. it was either that, or the $140 in re-enforced steal bars that he bought to put up over his windows... BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA -I saw a quote in a channel the other day about some Esprit dumbass going on about how RAY was a Top5 site... WTF??? Hello??? wake the fuck up, you stupid shits. EPT has about 1 good trader, and that is ragger, and i can't remember if he cheats or what, so... ;p -Lester, you suck. Trade once in a while.. -Fluke put out a little "Note.to.the.scene.from.FLUKE" or something in the middle of the week. I have no idea what it said, because it was nuked on every single site before i had a chance to DL it.. BAHAHAHAHAHA.. -RiSCISO got taken by (apparently) members of DMS/AoD... blah, takeovers are lame. -and finally: Scientific.American.Surgery-RiSCiSO Another quality RiSCiSO title -sky masterson =----------------------------------=----------------------------------------= --------[Stories from the Watercooler]---------- Ahh yes, rumors, we all love them even though we love to say how much we hate them when they are about us. And these are some of the better ones circulating around this week. Email us or find us on irc if you have a good rumor you'd like entered, your name will not be included, but we do not add rumors like that say "Tdpriest is having anal sex with Fusion" because we know that Fusion is only having sex with Xtremist and therefore there is no hard evidence of that rumor, so if you have real rumors, let us know. Let's begin! -Rumor has it that AoD uses some sort of trading script, a la RiSCFTP, or nftp.. No AoD members were available for comment at press time (press time was 3am PST, on a 747), but lester had earlier been quoted as saying: "I don't believe its true" -Rumor has it that the reason why DMS has been doing so well is because JESS has promised each DMS member that weektops 1 hour of cybersex... it will be a busy week indeed for her. -Rumor has it that mandrake is set to go into fulltime trading mode soon, eschewing his lover GEORGE, and once again falling in love with his hut.fi... good choice, mandrake. -<mgd> rumor has it that pixel is starting a furby collection :) =-------------------------------------=--------------------------------------= Well friends.. Thats about it. If you've read this far, we sincerly thank you. We like to know this thing gets read, so if you get the time, drop one of us a quick msg, and tell us what you think, give us suggestions, tell us it sucks, or just say "hi" to us!.... Greets fly out to: jaydee, mgd, stix, tdp, hr, eci, jamili, raptor, skill, mandrake, zeus, speedy, subzero, superfly@okcomputer, dee, sj, paledeth, dur, tech+his crew, Kusa, ssava, acidapple, and all the rest of you that we love... Find us on IRC in #nwr, (channel commands: !nwr 23, or whatever issue you want), or email us at our phearsome address: (that may or may not still work!) [email protected] Please Support This Emag And Collect Weektops And Send to: [email protected] take care.. peace. -ndetroit + lester. NWR 12/22/98
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