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there are people within the chipscene who have polar oposite views on the matter, me and glenntai had a pretty long debate about it on facebook. It didn't turn sour, but I imagine it might cause issues if it was discussed here

wasn't there some post on a yahoo board about LSDJ from about 2004 where they were talking about how VSTs were killing chip?

when aren't we as a subclture having a melodromatic existential crisis?

the chipscene is really weird, because everyone is so close, yet so far away at the same time. Pretty much everyone is a friend of a friend, either in a literal sense, or as an actual friend of a friend on facebook. There's also a genre divide kind of thing as well, there's been this whole "chipmusic isn't a genre, it's a way of writing" or whatever, and it's true, compare treyfrey to moby to anamana. You have people who write different genres, all on outdated hardware, and it kind of doesn't work. I can't really see guitar.org being a good place to have a discussion about music when you have people who write country music, and people who write melodic death metal.
The chip scene isn't big enough, but it isn't small enough either, I see it as being quite bloated and awkward. There are fucking tones of people who write chip, and a fair few more that listen to it, but there aren't enough people who write it to even have an irl scene in most places, not even an underground one. It doesn't really help that the last time I checked, where I live doesn't have a great electronic music scene anyway.
All this "oh we're mainstream now" isn't really true though. Yeah, some people know about anamanaguchi, but that's about it. There's loads of videogame references and nostalgia shite in popular media because the people who grew up playing games are now doing things where they can have nostalgic throwbacks or whatever. It's kinda not fair for the chipscene to take credit for other people's childhood memories.
There's also the weird relationship between writing chip, and writing VGM, some people try and distance themselves from one or the other. It's pretty toxic really, you have people who write "music" and get all snobby about how "it's not from a videogame" even though that's what it sounds like. DUMB PERSONAL BIAS AHEAD, imo the reason that chipmusic isn't very mainstream is because when you say chipmusic to a gamer (let's face it, they're the primary audience of chip) the first thing that tends to come to mind is "low budget indie game." All these kids who want to learn programming tend to get a pretty standard response "oh, so you want to make a "retro" (see:lazy) indie sidescroller with a chiptune soundtrack."
The more and more I write, the less I understand chip, why write any genre of music in a format from a computer from the late 80s with massive limitations? Surely it would just be easier to do [chosen genre] with less limitations on modern kit. Is it bragging, rights or nostalgia or what? To quote sabrepulse;

tl;dr chipmusic is dead and for nerds anyway

probably going to give this a shot, I do love compos

all caps and with a title like that makes it sound more like a bot than the current title

facebook retoast

>post a cool video
>turns into a discussion on weather or not people who watch anime are pedophiles

assume between 13-16 until proven otherwise
+3 years is her age is she was a human

this is what I go on to remove guilt