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O tempora, o mores 46 July, 2026
I was tempted to grab an old info file and simply add some gray mush
and pink highlights to it for this pack since that seems to be
completely acceptable when it comes to submissions for ANSI
competitions nowadays.
Or maybe I should set up an LLM, train it on info files, and between
packs I can have it spit out crappy blurbs full of nonsense and
half-truths about ANSI groups and copy them into the group information
in the 16 Colors archive.
And instead of gathering actual ANSI artists into a group I could come
up with yet another pixel to textmode converter, and because its still
just as crappy as the rest of them, ask others to manually fix the
converter results for a pack release so that I can pretend its actually
useful.
Must be nice to not do the actual work and still pretend to matter in
some way, right?
Alas... this is not what we are. Here in Fire we still get our hands
dirty and stack those blocks the right way. And if that seems outdated
to you, then you just dont get the love we still have for and pour into
every ANSI and ASCII piece we create.
We should feel sorry for you, but were busy.
Joining us with a guest submission this time around is our old
Blocktronics pal Zeus II, who regularly releases his work with
Mistigris nowadays. His logo also happens to be one of three pieces in
this pack that competed in the LayerOne ANSI competition and werent
just a crappy remix of an ANSI submitted to the same party seven years
prior.
And finally... since we didnt get any solution attempts for last
packs riddle, I can only assume that nobody needs free ANSI anymore.
Heres the list of Fire members hidden in the riddle anyway:
abstrakt, aesthetic, arrogance, cleaner, eerie, enzo, fever, filth,
gig, godamonglice, grimlock, gunthar, h7, halaster, iodine, ize,
kyp, leonardo, misfit, nail, necro, noize, nosegos, oned, panacea,
riddler, savage, shaft, sniper, tainted, tetanus, toongoon, ville,
winbee, zir.
Also included, even though theyve never been Fire members so far:
burps, maestro, propane, radman, trip.
Thats it for now. Enjoy the pack, and one of the last hopefully
mostly bearable summers of our lives. Well be back in November.
/nail, 2026-07-07
P.S.: This month happens to be Gunthars 30th Fire anniversary. Even
though hes been out of touch lately I figured itd be fitting
to at least give him a nod by using the diz he drew back in 1997.
Happy anniversary, buddy.