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What I want to talk about is the urge to render everything huge and with the highest antialiasing level possible and - a thing I disagree with even more - the pressing urge to monetarize fractal art. These two things are entangled since the first urge is mostly there to feed the second urge. I'm also not talking about something which is about my own artwork but I'm talking generally as a result of observations I made in a number of comment sections across deviantART.
You may or may not believe it - even if I don't *appear* active, I still browse galleries. I don't separate into "beginners", "potential talents" and "divine artists". I like all fractals and I think there is no real skill level in fractaling. Everyone has got the potential and everyone can render beautiful flames if they simply put enough passion into the matter. That's why I feel the urge to spit a constant, mile-long stream of steaming, green vomit into every face which emits the words "I wish you would render this at higher resolution and with more antialiasing" because it SIMPLY IS NOT RELEVANT how small and jagged the render is. What you see is what the artist wants you to see because the artist decided to upload it this way. If you can't see enough for your oh so fine taste then it's your fucking bad and you should either shut the fuck up and look at another fractal or render your own fractals which look exactly alike and are at the size of seventeen and a half football stadiums if it bugs you so much because appearantly you know it all better, you unbelievably arrogant, elitist dickface!
One step up on the ladder of annoying asshats are people who constantly disrespect an artists decision about monetarizing his artworks. It is art, for Christ's sake. Since when is art something which is ought to be sold? Some people just want to make art because it's fun and not because they want to generate money (or points, however you damn well please) And yet again, I'm not talking about my own artworks. Over the years, I've always seen people who simply don't want to sell their artwork. They decided so because they think it would ruin the spirit of their art if they would print it on T-shirts, mugs, posters, postcards or albino mooses. These people see their work as art and not as some sort of merchandise. Others don't have a problem with selling their art - me included. So now here is the question: if you sell your art (and maybe sell it quite successful, who knows), why do you think another artist wants to do it? I tell you why: because again, you are an arrogant dick. You think the way you see your art is the ultimate way to see all art. You're going to a person's gallery, you don't know the true intention the person has for their art and you simply imply that the person wants to generate the maximum profit out of their art. Congratulations for failing so hard in life that my ass hurts when I think about it. Of course, the same thing goes for people who run to galleries of successful printers and bitch at them because they are commercial dickbaits for selling art. This direction, however, is much less likely in the fractal art scene of today.
Concluding, I want to ask you to accept two things:
1. High-res =/= good. Low-res =/= bad. If you want big renders, go ahead and try to clone my fractal and then render it yourself as big as you fucking want and leave me the fuck alone.
2. If you print, I don't have to. If you don't print, I don't have to. I print whenever I damn well please or somebody asks me in a friendly way to provide one of my artworks to them PERSONALLY in a print form which is an absolute fine and legitimate question as long as both "okay" and "no" are valid answers.
Because it just occured to me: the same thing goes to Apophysis as well. Many many people were repeatedly asking for Linux or Mac versions of Apophysis. And I am always giving a friendly "no" as an answer and if the question "why" arises, I tell them, in a friendly way, that I simply don't enjoy programming for these systems because I also don't like to use them. Unfortunately, some like to enter bitch mode because they don't like this "no" so for everyone who feels addressed: there will be NO Linux or Mac version of 7X or anything I make and provide for free. If you want it so bad then do it yourself or pay someone who does. How dare you bitch at me because I don't spend my free time to serve you and your needs you dick! Everyone uses the system they like and everyone programs for the system they like. I don't give a cold, wet shit about why you think Windows sucks and Mac/Linux rule. Period.
That being said: good night 
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