Who the hell is Tua Xiong and why is he respected?

He stole the ASCII dragon I designed for a friend's BBS called Benden Weyr
(FidoNet 1:140/22.0, sysop Ken Read) back in the 80's.

I just discovered that this person has taken my dragon and put his own signature
and a little added knight in the lower left corner.

Well, he's a damned plagiarist.  He didn't even steal the final version, sans
spikes on head, back, and tail (it was based on a spiky dragon from a calendar,
Forgotten Realms or something, I don't remember... might have been Smaug laying
waste in a Tolkien calendar now that I think about it).  I removed the spikes
and tail to make it look more like Michael Whelan's Pern dragons.

"His" version is lacking my signature ("BF 89" I think it was) and the tagline
for the BBS on the left.  Alas, I lost my copy with the Commodore 64 it was
designed on (via Screen-80) and I dunno if Benden Weyr is still around.  Heck,
is FidoNet still around?  So...

Here's "his" version.  I think there are some spaces missing at and above the
dragon's eyeline, his eye is in the wrong place.  He probably munged it to make
it fit a narrower screen or something.


                                             _   __,----'~~~~~~~~~`-----.__
                                      .  .    `//====-              ____,-'~`
                      -.            \_|// .   /||\\  `~~~~`---.___./
                ______-==.       _-~o  `\/    |||  \\           _,'`
          __,--'   ,=='||\=_    ;_,_,/ _-'|-   |`\   \\        ,'
       _-'      ,='    | \\`.    '',/~7  /-   /  ||   `\.     /
     .'       ,'       |  \\  \_  "  /  /-   /   ||      \   /
    / _____  /         |     \\.`-_/  /|- _/   ,||       \ /
   ,-'     `-|--'~~`--_ \     `==-/  `| \'--===-'       _/`
             '         `-|      /|    )-'\~'      _,--"'
                        '-~^\_/ |    |   `\_   ,^             /\
                              /  \     \__   \/~               `\__
                          _,-' _/'\ ,-'~____-'`-/                 ``===\
                         ((->/'    \|||' `.     `\.  ,                _||
           ./                       \_     `\      `~---|__i__i__\--~'_/
          <_n_                     __-^-_    `)  \-.______________,-~'
           `B'\)                  ///,-'~`__--^-  |-------~~~~^'
           /^>                           ///,--~`-\
          `  `                                       -Tua Xiong  <-- Liar


I just had to discredit this fraud.  This pisses me off.  I found all sorts of
web sites honoring "his" art, most of which included *my* artwork.  How many
other pictures did he steal?  Adding a little (badly-drawn) knight is not
adequate to switch signatures.

BF (haven't signed my real life initials in a decade but it seems appropriate)

PS: To anyone with a web site showcasing "his" work, I would appreciate it if
you would remove this image, as it is NOT his, not to mention that he broke a
few bits of it, and it isn't the finished version either.

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