NULL mag Issue 08 03 No more FUEL!

eZine lover (@eZine)

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 · 3 years ago

  

 

 
    i was going to write something about the Sauna pack, that was released 
    earlier this year, but i was caught by suprise when i read at ArakNet  
    that Fuel group is disbanded :( it's a very sad thing for the whole bbs 
    and ansi scene, cause Fuel, was one of the last and "big" (not by size)  
    groups that still drew ANSI stuff. 
     
    i found the info below, from one of their packs...  

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                 Welcome to another quality release of FUEL. 

 

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                             No boring tales here. 

                                 Subject: FUEL 
                        Born in Belgium, December 1994. 
              Founded by Brainbreaker, Ben Hurry and Super Droopy. 
                                  Name : FUEL 
                  Adapted from former c64 group by The Knight 
                    Boost given by Deep Freezer & The Knight 

 
                        First production: January 1995 
                      Biotic Pain joined FUEL: March 1995 
                        First member sweep: April 1995 
                      Second member sweep: October 1995 
                       

 
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    i don't know the story behind this and even if i am curious to learn,  
    the whats and whys on how this decision was taken... honestly i don't 
    care and i don't want to know. i am sure that either something happened 
    between the members or had something to do with the fact, that we are 
    getting older, we don't have much time to do ansi/bbs stuff etc. either 
    way, the fact is that a great group like Fuel is no more! 
     
    immediately after the dismantle of Fuel, a new ansi group appeared, which 
    leads me to some conclusions of my own. i don't know if this new group is 
    formed by previous members of Fuel. i hope it does, just for the sake of 
    ANSI art in general. even if most members of Fuel, are part of this new 
    group, i don't think that it will be the same. 
     
    i really like Fuel packs and i always waited for a new one to come out. 
    each pack has unique pieces of art, that in my personal opinion are more 
    "oldschool", in compare with packs of other groups. lately ANSI art  
    became more about the ART and not about the scene and the BBSes, but Fuel, 
    IMHO was keeping that feeling. also Fuel was one of the groups, that had 
    the most nude pieces, which was another reason why i was waiting each  
    pack :) hahaahaha 
     
    so reading the following short sentence in Fuel's website at  
    https://fuel.wtf/ was very disappointing...  
     
    """ 
    FUEL was an ANSI artscene group active between 1995-1998 and 2017-2019.  
                           Our packs can be seen here* 
                                                                          """ 
                                                                           
    *https://16colo.rs/tags/pack/fuel 
     
    shutting down a group, usually results in other groups to appear, from  
    members of that group. i hope that the same thing will happen also here 
    and from the "ashes" of FUEL, we may see more groups coming out and even 
    being more competitive with each other. who knows :? 
     
    but even if this happens, the "loss" of such a great group is big,  
    specially in a time that bbs/ansi etc. are on their decline. we can't  
    afford to loose people from this hobby of ours. 
     
     

 
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