From: Dave Coombs <dcoombs@tourism.807-city.on.ca>

-Height, weight, age, location, name.

I'm Dave Coombs (DNA of Superiority Complex)... I'm 17, and I live in
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada...   I am just tall enough to bonk my head on
low ceilings when going down stairs, and I am just light enough so that when
I fall on the stairs after I bonk my head on the ceiling, I don't fall right
THROUGH the stairs.  :)


-Place you would like to live.

I'm quite happy where I am, actually.


-Favorite Movie/TV show, book, game, demo, music, meal.

Movie - Ah, Spaceballs was a classic... :)
TV Show - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Book - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Game - Don't play too many now...  but Star Control II was good stuff.
Demo - Heartquake had some neat effects...
Music - instrumental
Meal - Food.  Food is always good.  Food is my friend.  I LIKE food.


-First computer owned.

Commodore 64... wonderful piece of technology, that... (it was when it
worked, anyway...)


-If you could have three wishes what would you wish for.

Happiness, a better computer, and more wishes. :)


-How you discovered demos.

My friend Avery, who eventually became our head coder, EnigmaLogic of SCS,
magically found a copy of Cascada's Cronologia a couple of years ago.  (as
you can imagine, we didn't get too many demos around here until not long
ago...)  And we liked it.  A lot...  Then a month or two later, I downloaded
Unreal, and that's when I pretty much decided that hey, I LIKE demos. :)


-Group name, list of members.

Superiority Complex (SCS for short), 7 members:
    EnigmaLogic (Avery Pennarun), main coder
    DNA (Dave Coombs), musician, some code sometimes
    HCl (Marko Happonen), miscellaneous stuff, some code
    Tribula Nighthawk (Len Bougie), graphics, some code
    Quantum (Kurt Claussen), graphics
    Accidental (Jeff Thiessen), musician, some code
    Gogen (Paul Glinker), coder


-What do you like/dislike about the demo scene.

Well, first off, I DISlike that the demo scene is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY the heck
over there in Europe. :)  However, I do like that it offers demo-folks a
chance to be creative, to put good ideas into practice, and some friendly
competition. :)


-What is your opinion of the US.

Hehe, ask ANY Canadian... :)  No, seriously, it's not that bad.  In fact,
most of the people there are pretty cool...


-Career plans.

Haven't decided yet.  I'll work on that when I go into university... :)


-Biggest disappointment in your life.

OOOOooooooooog...I don't know.  I'm generally a pretty happy person.  It'd
take a lot to really disappoint me.


-Good advice for others to heed.

Whatever you do, never, EVER, stick the innards of a 3.5" disk inside your
CD-ROM drive and shut the door.  Oops? :)


-Tell us something we should know.

Mi tio es enfermo, pero la carratera es verde.


-What two people today would you like to meet.

Hmmmmmm, I'd certainly like to meet some European demo-people...  there are
NO demo people around these parts, except for us... (unless they're not
telling us or something...)


-What do you hope to accomplish in the demo scene.

Well, we know we'll never win anything, but we like entertaining people.  We
make our stuff as interesting as possible.  It's far from being technically
perfect, and it's hardly state-of-the-art, but heck, at least it's usually
funny. :)


-How long does it take you to compose a tune.

Anywhere from a half hour up to eight months.  Depends how dedicated I feel
like being.  Both extremes HAVE occured. :)


-What tracker do you use to compose music.

ScreamTracker 3.01beta.  Still waiting for FT2.... :)


-Demo plans.

Chickens, of course!  EVERYBODY needs chickens... :)


-Do you think most demo groups are too serious.

Quite often, yes.  Though it's certainly nice to release a totally serious,
mind-blowing demo with awesome effects and stuff, ...well, it's hard.  And
those demos can get old quite quickly.  Humourous and light-hearted demos
are a lot more fun to watch, and usually people will watch them again.  And
again.  And again.  That's our goal.  :)


-Personal life--what else do you do for fun.

Well, I play music, I write music, sometimes I even LISTEN to music, I love
Star Trek (the spinoffs, anyway...can't say I care too much for the original
series), ...and I like golfing, and modeming, and Internetting, and eating,
and sleeping, and watching TV, and talking on the phone, and...


-What does the future hold for you.

If I knew, that would ruin all the fun! :)


-Where do you see the demo scene in the next 10 years.

Unfortunately, way too serious.  The effects will keep getting better and
better and faster and faster, but the light-hearted, comical aspect of demos
might be altogether lost.  That would be BAD.  We need more groups who make
funny demos... :)


-What do you feel is missing from the demo scene.

CHICKENS!  Nobody uses enough chickens!  


-Will Virtual Reality ever catch on.

I dunno, I'm kind of fond of the REAL reality, myself... (sigh)


-How can we contact you.

Telepathically?  No, probably not.  Well, my Internet address is
dcoombs@tourism.807-city.on.ca.  If you feel like writing to the whole
group, you can write to scs@norlink.com.  (special thanks to Ken Owen of
NorLinK BBS for providing this service!  and I'm not even being paid to say
this!)  If you don't have Internet access, my SnailMail address is:
   Dave Coombs
   569 Cambrian Crescent
   Thunder Bay, Ontario
   Canada
   P7C 5C2

Thanks for listening...and remember our happy motto to lead you through
life:  "If it doesn't have a chicken on it, IT'S USELESS!!!"

<ahem>

