[GeckoYamori]

Wow, that is super lame.

[bladiator]

Gotta love today's journalism. Spend half an hour in an interview with this chick, and then end up with:

"You're making music with outdated computers. You need a masochistic desire to have something difficult to do."

Glad we really cared about our article. Helllllllo, just a paycheck!

[Aninymouse]

Fuck Time Magazine and fuck all the entailed bullshit.

[Neo Samus]

It still sounds nagative to me. What did she edit this time?

[SoulinEther]

So... I don't think I'll be renewing my subscription.

IDK but it strikes me that half the article is BS anyway. Not sure if I wanna take Time seriously anymore.

[Dhsu]

Originally Posted by bladiator

Just have her change it from "Shnabubula hates chiptunes" to "bladiator hates chiptunes" and that will probably be the easiest workaround.

But then they'd probably change it to "bladiator hates girls."

[Liontamer]

Reader's Digest version, also edited into the first post:

To summarize what happened for the first post, Sam's purported statement in the TIME article...

Originally Posted by Claire Suddath

It's probably the most limiting form of music-making I can think of," he says. "You're making somewhat unpleasant music with outdated computers. You need a masochistic desire to have something difficult to do."

...was synthesized from this...

Originally Posted by Sam Ascher-Weiss

"mario 1 had great compositions but the actual textures are somewhat unpleasant in contrast to soundtracks that followed many of which are absolutely gorgeous just on a purely sonic level.. let alone as compositions. The intro to solstice is a good example"

and way later

"there are fringe elements of the community that take masochistic pleasure in doing things just because they are difficult, luckily though there are many methods available that are very intuitive and easy to use, all of us kind of bloop artists had tools that made things really easy and approachable, like famitracker developed by jsr, just a really excellent easy to use tool"

that's pretty much word for word what I actually said.. it's the only possible thing I can think of that she could be using in her mind to justify this.

...in order for the article's author to form her narrative, and the synthesized quote distorted Sam's genuine POV.

After banging his head though, Sam contacted the author, and eventually...

Originally Posted by Claire Suddath

"You're making music with outdated computers. You need a masochistic desire to have something difficult to do.

Originally Posted by Sam Ascher-Weiss

Okay.. I'm happy now, it's still not something I actually said, but it's no longer a viewpoint that's significantly destructive to the image of chiptunes as a worthwhile pursuit

Seems like Sam's satisfied with the article revision, but everything's still here for posterity.

[Monobrow]

This kinda stuff has been known to happen a lot, just because the person doing the article really doesn't care so much about the content as so much as getting the story out... I feel bad that anyone has to experience it. I mean, how many times do you hear a story and it just felt wrong, or the whole story just wasn't there, or you knew someone in the story and knew the content was misleading, or the article left you with more questions than answers? CHURNIN OUT STORIES LIKE FACTORY BUTTA! :(

I'm glad she at least revised this a little. Talk about a freak out, misrepresenting you to a huge audience.

[Sam Ascher-Weiss]

Thanks a ton Larry, andrew and everybody. IN other news..

ALBUM IS NOW OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC:

http://www.ocremix.org/forums/showth...=581953#581953

[Palpable]

Glad this got resolved to your satisfaction, Sam, but the whole thing still seems dumb of them. The publicity is nice though.