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Shao_Long · 05-17-2005, 02:09 AM

How cute. If the only thing you care about is money, it doesn't mean every other person only cares about money. You have to realize most MUD'ers/MUD admins/coders/whatever never did anything with MUDs for money, because it is ... I don't really know how to explain this, especially if you don't seem to understand the whole subject at all. Besides I'm not much of an admin or whatever myself.
For me though, the whole situation can be compared to the "music industry".

The "right" way - at least how I perceive it - is play for the sake of playing, for the sake of creating, bringing something to your listeners, sending some message of your own, some thoughts of yours, something that comes from your very heart - even if it doesn't go along with what the listener WANTS to hear or whatever; being sincere and being open about what and how you feel and think is the priority.
Such musicians rarely get much credit, aside from a few examples, and more often than not have full time jobs and their music is rarely even enough to pay for whatever gear and whatnot.

And then there are "musicians" - I put that in quotes for a reason - who play for money. They don't care much about the "message", they don't care much about being creative or about being honest - they only care about doing something that would sell well enough to pay their bills. You could say, if people listen to their music it has to be good. That's true to certain extent. But it's called "selling out" for a reason.

You can't be good for many, and the best for one at the same time.

And there's a reason why the "sell outs" are disliked; aside from going away from, I don't know, traditions of their craft, they also take away people from the works of others, those who perhaps put less time (since they have to work to pay for food...), but much, much more heart and much more real effort into their work.
For someone who was raised on boy bands and pop rock, it may be difficult to actually hear and understand more serious, much more beautiful - but also always so much more complicated - music of bands that choose to remain free from commercialism.

05-17-2005, 02:09 AM	#78
Shao_Long Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: belfast, UK Posts: 505	How cute. If the only thing you care about is money, it doesn't mean every other person only cares about money. You have to realize most MUD'ers/MUD admins/coders/whatever never did anything with MUDs for money, because it is ... I don't really know how to explain this, especially if you don't seem to understand the whole subject at all. Besides I'm not much of an admin or whatever myself. For me though, the whole situation can be compared to the "music industry". The "right" way - at least how I perceive it - is play for the sake of playing, for the sake of creating, bringing something to your listeners, sending some message of your own, some thoughts of yours, something that comes from your very heart - even if it doesn't go along with what the listener WANTS to hear or whatever; being sincere and being open about what and how you feel and think is the priority. Such musicians rarely get much credit, aside from a few examples, and more often than not have full time jobs and their music is rarely even enough to pay for whatever gear and whatnot. And then there are "musicians" - I put that in quotes for a reason - who play for money. They don't care much about the "message", they don't care much about being creative or about being honest - they only care about doing something that would sell well enough to pay their bills. You could say, if people listen to their music it has to be good. That's true to certain extent. But it's called "selling out" for a reason. You can't be good for many, and the best for one at the same time. And there's a reason why the "sell outs" are disliked; aside from going away from, I don't know, traditions of their craft, they also take away people from the works of others, those who perhaps put less time (since they have to work to pay for food...), but much, much more heart and much more real effort into their work. For someone who was raised on boy bands and pop rock, it may be difficult to actually hear and understand more serious, much more beautiful - but also always so much more complicated - music of bands that choose to remain free from commercialism.