Good [insert fitting word depending on current location], GTAS!
At the time of writing this precise sentence the time is 1:25AM and the date is the 26th of June, 2013. The latest video by Wasteland Heroes ”Doperide IV” has now been out for about 16 hours.
Walking down my own Memory Lane I try to find my way back to the start of my stunting career. What a sentimental trip this is... I see myself beginning the school I just happily graduated from, I see the time I got a basketball kicked to the jaw, I see the first time I saw the girl I am now in a relationship with and all this is all well but a couple of blocks in front of me I see a trail. The trail turns right and continues along the road I just walked. I look down at the beginning of the trail and I see something on the ground, it's a letter. I open the letter and read this confusing message ”all you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ”.
Sentimental and nostalgic or dumb and pathetic but that event, picking up San Andreas, has changed my life. I remember the first time I tried to grind. I didn't even know stunting was a thing so I thought this new method of driving onto a fence with the NRG and then balancing by leaning was a genius move on my side! About a month later I saw my first ”proper” stunting video, Burning Out, a timelimited video organized by Shadowsniper. After I saw that video I knew I had a long way to go. After this debutwatch I stumbled upon several videos by TMS, XSA and GLS who at the time were the true masters of san andreas. My interest for SA was definitely the dominating part since I had never played VC and after some time in the world of stunting (mainly as a member on TheGTAZone) I released my first videos. They were released about a year apart and I am still proud of the finisher in The New Beginning.
CaBaDaBooM Stunts The New Beginning The time that followed is in my mind a big blur. I recall joining XSC, becoming friends with people. Seeing PtRvY's XSC audition where he used a modded VC bike. The memories, man... Some time after joining XSC I remember signing up to the place where all the pros hung out, at GTAStunting.net. This was the place. I felt like an amateur actor walking around in Hollywood dreaming of all the greatness that surrounded me. I would during this time grow in all kinds of ways. This forum showed me why the internet can be such a great tool for friendship but also a great tool for those constantly looking to spread their own hatred and suffering onto others. The tough competetition immediately increased my anxiety concerning my own level and I started to get high standards, maybe too high for the time being. So high in fact that the solo I started working on at the time (around 2007) was released as the video Plug & Play in late 2011. As I mentioned, most things in my memory just blur together and right now I'm trying to summarize this blur as much as I possibly can but somewhere around this time I joined SS (not the Nazis) and got an interest for VC a lot more than earlier after landing the finisher for Power Cut.
[SS]Power Cut (not muted anymore?) Plug & Play After Plug & Play I just stopped. The criticism for the video was pretty good and at times a lot better than I had expected so I was pretty happy with what I had accomplished. I had mentally quit stunting by this time. Fast foward a bit and I get a PM from Daffy inviting me to join WH. This PM ignited a spark that turned into a flame larger than I could've ever imagined. Wasteland Heroes... THE crew. Exodus. Gazuntei. Avalanche. Ethereal. I would be a part of all that. But the idealistic image I had quickly changed. Not for the better nor for the worse to be frankly honest but for a more realistic image. Wasteland Heroes were seen by many as modders, liars and well... douchebags. I couldn't fathom why. During my time on the forum I've never met such genuine people who shared a passion for stunting. The same passion I had. WH had organized a VC video and I felt that this was my time to shine. I started to frequently skype with Stevex and we shared spots and tried them together which completely changed my boring lonely spottrying to something social and eventful. We talk and joke and do whatever the fuck it is we do while trying the spots that 90% of the forum think are impossible.
The people who suspect me of modding probably won't change their minds but during my time in WH this far I have learnt how extremely underestimated the vice city engine is and how you when all variables align can get the hugest of airtimes or the sickest of grinds and it saddens me that almost none of you reading this will even remotely understand what I'm trying to say. Call me elitist but the only mod I've been using and will ever need is the internal mod in my head that keeps me trying a stunt for several weeks, months and sometimes years.
This text is in most ways just utterly pointless but for me it isn't. Stunting has always been a journey parallelled with my life and it bears great importance for me but the release of Doperide IV and the best stunts I've landed is met with either very positive criticsm which I highly appreciate or modaccusations. Believe it or not but I'm not one to express fury but this time I find it impossible not to. People claim stunting is dying and you, the constantly doubting community is the fucking reason. The people who push the boundaries are ignored and accused while the motherfucker who grinds a ledge followed by landing a fucking golfcart is praised. What in the fucking fuck are you doing, you stupid ignorant self-centered fucking cunts? When a stunt you can't land gets landed it's modded. You fucking disgust me. If you have a reason for accusing, good job, you qualify to the land of the living. If you just accuse because you just think it's a bit ”off”, go fuck yourself.
Funfact: At the beginning of this text I told Stevex on Skype that ”I'll tell them to fuck off but in a nice way”. That ended well.
You people haven't so much ruined my experience as much as you've made me focus on something else, on my own satisfaction of landing a stunt and that is precisely how I want to end this text, positively. I couldn't be happier with my performance in this video. Some of the stunts I've landed are even to me mindbaffling and I didn't think they were possible until I stood up there.
Many of you are fucking douchebags but many of you also aren't and to you I say thank you so much for the lovely time I've had and hopefully the time to come.
//Davve
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