Ok guys, i’ve opened this poll because I want to see if I’d get your support if I happened to post the HL Files / De’vo Behind the Scenes / Handlordz exposed / De’ vinci code / whatever, here in the blog.

I do this to cover my back in case I end up with a dagger stabbed in my neck or deadly bitten by a King Cobra.

I’m not sure if this is going to do me any good or any bad, i just happen to have the files as many other people do and i thought that it would be good to open people’s eyes.

I wouldn’t do this for any personal profit. I wouldn’t do this for revenge, i didn’t get banned or anything. I wouldn’t do this to ruin anyone’s career.

I’d do this for the pure and objective information about the history of our Art.

I want you guys to participate in the comments section of this post and encourage people that have been involved to do it aswell.

I’d also like to see some Handlordz / Superhandz people comment here in a friendly way.

I know these are private conversations and stuff but there are some articles that are interesting. To name one that caught my attention the “Pro XCMers vs Kutkiddies” thread.

I think this whole thing won’t end up splitting us more but can be the definitive way to join and unite everyone that share the love of playing card flourishing and manipulation, xtreme or not.

I’d like to see the big names contributing with their thoughts without disrespecting anyone and talking like if we were adults for once.

Of course if you are against this initiative i’d suggest you to contact me to thecuso@gmail.com before trying to hack the site or anything like that.

Let’s be friends and we will all buy your dvds and products in the future.
Having enemies doesn’t lead anywhere, keep this in mind.

Thanks for reading and now go post a comment.

Alejandro

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94 Responses to “Important Poll: Publish the HL files or not?”

  1. trash Says:

    I don’t think it’s appropriate to post a ton of private conversations, personal information etc – but if you think anything specific, like the article on ProXCM’ers vs KutKiddies, is interesting or thought-provoking, why not email de’ and ask if you can include it on your blog.

  2. Adam Says:

    Because it isn’t up to de’vo. Post the entire thing.

  3. Ineski Says:

    Post it.

  4. aris Says:

    I totally agree with Adam, this isn’t up to de’vo so post THE ENTIRE THING ;)

  5. cardclassics Says:

    It seems like the only reason people can give for not wanting these up is that it’s ‘personal information.’ Fine. Just leave out all the telephone numbers and email conversations, and leave the important stuff that needs to be seen: evidence of an overly-egotistical community’s wayward mindset from Day 1 to present day.

    -Ben

  6. Robin Says:

    Its not good to think about that so long there are 2 possibilitys : Do it or Not .
    I understand you dont wanna be hated by the xcm guys . Sure who wanna be hated.

    Post it.

  7. ShoeMan Says:

    It was suppose to be private information, if anything I said privately to someone was outed for the entire world to see, I’d be in big trouble, and everyone else here.

    ShoeMan says: don’t post

  8. scristian Says:

    DO IT !! FOR SURE .

  9. Seth Davis aka "thexcheat" Says:

    Post it.

  10. V4Viktory Says:

    Hi there, i´m a hl member at least 3 years, i think i never read that post ProXCM’ers vs KutKiddies, but i think it´s up to you post!!!

    I do not agree with warz.

    I don´t have much time to see what happens in all foruns,when i saw this blog for about 3 weeks ago, i´ve been learning a lot with the tutorials and interviews.

    Thnks

  11. Adam Says:

    Anyone who says that these shouldn’t be posted are misguided. Yes, these are “private conversations.” So were the Nixon tapes. Exposing these conversations – however “private” in nature only reinforces what everyone has been saying for years. It removes, with utter completeness, any doubt.

  12. TicaL Says:

    lol I like the idea of De’ vinci code xD

    btw. Would anybody be interested in an interview with the mysterious guy who had uploaded this thang?
    I mean “everywhere” could be anywhere and nowhere, but I saw him somewhere xD aaand as I was lookin’ in his face – I knew that it was him.
    lol
    ..should be funny..ok not thaaaaat funny as my commin’ interview, but still funny =P

  13. dimitri Says:

    i don’t think you should post it…. these are privat conversations, so it shouldn’t be released publicly. If someone wants it, he could ask for it in PRIVAT…

  14. TicaL Says:

    ohh noo – I’ve said “him” – I just gave the first hint =P

  15. YEAH Says:

    You should post it!

  16. woody Says:

    post it

  17. Rob Says:

    Posting them would be interesting however reading into them you find who de’vo is – name, address, and even a nearly full picture. Posting some of it would be alright but not all of the details.

  18. Unleasher Says:

    post it

  19. Cole Fritz Says:

    Post it… People just starting out (1 and 1/2 yr= me) I’m guesssing want to know the history behind the art, and how and why so many people who used to be so big are now gone.

  20. f1stzero Says:

    Post it, i too am a bit curious about what i do every single day and practice my heart out on

  21. f1stzero Says:

    Post it, i too am a bit curious about what i do every single day and dedicate alot of attention too.

  22. encaenmi Says:

    You should post it, there’s not any reason for not doing so, and there are many reasons for posting it. We shouldn’t keep those conversations a secret, because they could help the whole flourishing community.

  23. enigma Says:

    It will be enlightening, but I don’t see how it could really help the community. If anything, I think it would drive them farther apart.
    If you really think it will help, and want just the convos posted, you should erase the names and leave the convos, though for some of them it will be really obvious who said them.

  24. Abhinavan Says:

    This is my first comment on this site…screw de’vo…it is not his decision, so post it all.

  25. Aznnoob99 Says:

    Funny how most of them say post it.

  26. Andy Nguyen Says:

    Go for it
    Im interested

  27. Charfield Says:

    Post it!

  28. Blink Says:

    Honestly,

    My vote is to post it up.

    It removes any false claims, questions of doubt etc.

    Unless its confidential (Phone numbers etc) Post it up.

    Matty

  29. phore Says:

    Go ahead and post it if you want. I personally don’t see much point in it though. I think most of us have seen it already.

  30. Andrei Says:

    Post it, leave out “private stuff” such as phone #s and addresses if there are any.

    By the way, uploading this actually does help…it prevents this happening again in the future. Trust me when I say it’s happened more than once. Same techniques, same phrases, same style to get the people involved feel like they’ve done wrong.

    If one doesn’t want to see it…one is not forced but rather the public should have a choice. Those that don’t wan’t to see are afraid to come face to face with the sad truth.

  31. Suhel Says:

    I think this is just going to heat things up and spark a controversy.
    They used to make hate threads and alike way back man, now even De’ and his followers trying to clean them shits out , knowimsayin.
    We all in this together man, its our own shit.
    For all them haters, don’t be hatin on nobody man. iight.

    Besides this shit is the past, don’t be an idealist g.
    You know what idealism is? find out if not.
    Just live in the “now”, and the only way to live is in the ‘now’, not looking back into the past, not thinking about the future, because when you do you ain’t living at all, you sacrifice the now at the altar of tomorrow or past, and they ain’t even in the time frame.
    Past is the memories, future is your imagination.
    Some food for thought, knowimsayin.
    So there ain’t no need to dive in the old.

    Just keep it real ya’ll, we in this together.

    iight.

    Peace, One Love.

    Suhel.

  32. Dasuprememep Says:

    Post it. Other people deserve to know what happened, but just take out personal information.

  33. TheCuso Says:

    I’ve just got mail from De’vo.

  34. Blink Says:

    What did he say?

  35. David B Pedersen Says:

    These files shows that De’vo is a pretty big jerk who thinks quite alot of himself.
    Well I think you should post them just to tell him there we are not afraid of him and wont tolerate his behavior.

    Plus, it doesn’t matter if its “private conversations” or not. Imagine if we where running a trial and no one where allowed to use any material gathered from “private conversations”. Then it wouldn’t be possible to run any trials at all.

    I say POST IT!!

  36. Suhel Says:

    It’s no use man, i already told ya’ll.
    If its going to get good, i think its getting peaceful up here, don’t mess it up ya’ll.
    And we have to respect De’Vo. Whatever he maybe writing, we do know he is invaluable to our art.
    He has been doing it for years and years, almost whole his life he spent perfecting various artforms of manipulation.
    And we have just stepped into this world, on the other hand.

    Do a double take.

  37. blogga Says:

    If we all knew what our friends said about us behind our backs, none of us would have any friends.
    and thats your FRIENDS not people on forums that discuss cards.

    It is totally wrong to post up this private information. People, (who should know better) are circling like vultures trying in vein to destroy this guy and his community. All it will do is make them twice as bad. I can garantee there has been just as much flaming behind closed doors from the other ‘communities’

  38. everywhere Says:

    I say go and post it up, of course. That’s Davids fucking problem, not yours. Guess what Dave, the internet is not a save place to chat about private things… And Cuso, since you got mail, don’t let him threaten you, he’s always trying to do that, though it seems he doesn’t know shit about law. LOL. Go on Dave, you da man!

  39. Wilson Says:

    Yes, I completely agree with Andrei and David Pederson

    Post it for sure but just take out the personal info

    -Wilson.

  40. trash Says:

    you should take the path of the buddist and not post them because it’s just something to try to get more n00bs into the HL vs whatever mindset.

    all the haters want to see it posted because then they feel like their hate will be more justified. and they wanna recruit more haters too

    state to state, bury the hate

  41. THECARDSTER Says:

    I agree post it… :D :D

  42. Dinos Dinou Says:

    hey,
    i’m Dinos from HandLordz forums.
    although i’m not a member here, i’ve been informed about this post, and since you are inviting HL people to comment i would like to say what i think:
    -as been said, these are private conversations, so i believe we should respect people’s privacy.
    -violating other people’s privacy and/or unauthorized publishing violates copyright law.
    -a few months ago De’vo apologized to the card community and a new era of friendship between card communities has began(collab vids entitled “United Card Artists” were made). So i don’t think that this nice climate should be ruined.
    -generally speaking, it doesn’t matter if some, love or hate De’vo. He is the leader of the XCM community and he gave alot of fights to separate XCM as an Artform, and nobody can disagree with that.
    -Personally, i respect all card communities, either its card magic, cardistry, flourishing, etc. I’m into XCM and i know this: if anyone wants to be respected he has to respect first :)

    these are my thoughts. hope i didn’t offend anyone.

    thanx.
    Dinos Dinou
    (Founder/Leader of the Cyprus XCM Club)

  43. Stein Says:

    I think it’s a pretty good idea to post it, to open up peoples eyes. And like many other have said before me:

    If u don’t know your past, it will happen in the future.

    And I really don’t want this to happen again.

    So please post it.

    Stein

  44. menik Says:

    aaarg, see, that’s the point. he is NOT the leader of the xcm community, or however you might call it. it’s a hobby we all share, and a cult-like leader is not what (most) people are looking for. and the whole apology thing was a joke nontheless, he hasn’t changed a bit as some recent events show.
    so, i think you should post those files cuso, though i already got them :)

  45. TheCuso Says:

    just got another mail from de’.

    I’ve added a subscribe to comments checkbox so mark it to get news by email.

  46. dave Says:

    now that it´s so hyped up i´m really interested in these files. post it. nothin more to say. :)

  47. Brad Says:

    If they wanted to keep things Private…they shouldn’t of had the conversations on the Internet.

    Nothing on the Internet is Private. Its their fault for screwing up.

    Even though I already have the files…I say….

    POST THEM!!!!!

  48. Brad Says:

    And If you don’t post them someone else will!

  49. SVillanueva Says:

    It’s up to you Alejandro, it’s your decision.
    If i was you … i think I’d post it.
    Good luck with your decision.

  50. Jim Says:

    Post them, just remove any personal information

  51. Joey Says:

    Release the files. I already read a few things out of it. I think the community should know whats happening there!

  52. aris Says:

    hey alejandro nos puedes decir algo de lo que de’vo te dijo?
    Creo que todo eso de que viola una ley es b*llsht, asi que no te dejes amenazar por el, si ese es el caso

  53. Darian Says:

    Hey, sup ya’ll. I think everybody on here (not HL) would like to hear what De’vo emailed you.

    ~Darian loyal Hler

  54. aris Says:

    just what I said but in spanish :P

  55. Darian Says:

    I don’t speak spanish, but I’m taking classes soon :)

  56. Narcissus Says:

    Hello, I am Narcissus from HL and thought another perspective from us (HLers) might be helpful. I understand the curiosity, I’m curious too and I’ll be honest, I’ve looked for the files. After several weeks of thought though I’m not sure I understand, in the grand scheme of things, how this is relevant to the history of the art. Do you really think that 10 years from now anybody is going to remember De’ for what is in these files? No, they will remember his work and contributions to the art and let’s be honest, all, if not most of you will buy whatever he puts out because we all know it’s the best of what’s out there. These files will be just a blip on the radar of history of XCM/Flourishing/Cardistry because regardless of what kind of person you all think De’ is, it’s his creativity, generosity, and gift for teaching that draws us (HLers)to his side of the community.

    I personally think you feel it’s wrong to post them, otherwise you would have done it already without asking others if they think it’s ok.

  57. YourMom Says:

    I don’t see why De’vo should shut you down for it. I mean, it’s just stuff that really happened. It’s not like you’d be lying.

    BUT it is his private conversations, so there’s the whole morals thing thrown in there.

    I would just email him.

  58. aris Says:

    hey is it legally to shut the cuso down for that files?

  59. Narcissus Says:

    Que importan las leyes? si el Cuso fuera un hombre lo postaria sin preguntar a nadie, todo esto es un circus y no tiene sentido. Si lo vas a hacer, pues hazlo y enfrenta las consequencias como un hombre…

  60. Suhel Says:

    menik Said:
    April 15th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    aaarg, see, that’s the point. he is NOT the leader of the xcm community, or however you might call it. it’s a hobby we all share, and a cult-like leader is not what (most) people are looking for. and the whole apology thing was a joke nontheless, he hasn’t changed a bit as some recent events show.
    so, i think you should post those files cuso, though i already got them :)

    —————————–

    Manik you a goddamn fool? Calling him a cult leader?
    Writing irrational absurd comments!
    Man i’m new on HL, but all i know is, please, don’t be starting something man. Aiight.
    Besides who are you to judge anyone? You just another misguided soul holding a deck of cards with probably no skill at all wasting your time writing bull on the forums. knomwisayin.
    This is reality ya’ll, and there ain’t no card war or something goin around here yo,
    but ima still represent .
    So ain’t no need for nobody to trip,

    Making This Thread Was Insane.

  61. cardmage Says:

    dude you dont even know what you are talking about Suhel. you have just joined HL and you nothing about what is happening. Go read up before you start to make BS posts online. And with your attitude they will probably ban you from HL. Go and decknique and read up on what has happened before you try to ‘represent’

  62. menik Says:

    haha! maybe I should argue with you, but I suppose it’s pointless taken the fact that you write like a drunken rednack. so just go fuck yourself you son of a blood pissing gypsy whore

  63. menik Says:

    … feel free to delete…

  64. Suhel Says:

    Hahaha.
    Ey yo lol whiteboi’s be writing up stuff like dayt?\
    Damn then, forget about the cards i’m strapped with my gat\

  65. Vampire Says:

    fuck De’Vooho lol

  66. Andrei Says:

    I don’t know if it’s just me or Suhel sounds a whole hell of a lot like Houdinez…like to a Tee.

    Anyway….

    TRASHMAN: ….Dude no joke…since when the hell does the public have to adopt a buddhist attitude after they put up with so much bullshit?
    …Say…if I went and committed murder and other crimes behind people’s backs while keeping it private then apologized for it…should everyone just be cool about it? I mean come on!!! SCREW IT! It’s in the past now! AND …you should be damn thankful I apologized because I DON’T do that often…I just swallowed my pride and since I’m the leading serial killer here…you should do as I say. Let’s just grow as human beings now…peacefully..because I’m done.

    …That’s basically what you just told me. (Now substitute all those words for our case and voila)

    On that same note…NO ONE..I repeat NO ONE has mentioned that this is HL VS whoever…VS never even came into the subject until you brought it up. You’re ridiculous man…you make me want to punch babies. I’m not even going to mention the fact that you’re calling people haters. I know I’m just wasting my time with you…or any other “hardcore” HL’er for that matter. Sick of this bullshit.

    That’s the liberal attitude we should all adopt. Way to go Trashy, way to go.

  67. TicaL Says:

    lol who da fuck is suhel…

  68. Luka Says:

    This is going way overboard…

    @Dinos: De’vo’s apology was a mean joke. He got everyone together but he soon went back to his old personality. He insulted DnD and some other guys on the boards just a couple of days after the collab thing.

    @Suhel: If you really are a new member, who are you to say?
    If you’re a Houdinez, then I understand that you’d like to keep your respect…

    Py point of wiew:
    Talking about personal stuff on the internet is the dumbest possible thing one can do. Especially if it’s a forum. It’s their own mistake and now thei might have to pay for it.
    Many people have allready seen the files but I think it would be fair for others to see them too if thei’re interested. If someone doesn’t want to see it, he won’t check it out.

    It would be good to leave out telephone numbers and stuff tho…thinkg like that REALLY aren’t meant for public.

  69. Luka Says:

    ^^ damn:
    My point of wiew*
    they*
    things like that*

    I hate the fact I can’t edit here lol…

    But yeah, I’d say you should post it for others to see. It might open some people’s eyes.

  70. ShoeMan Says:

    http://superhandz.yuku.com/directory check out the shoutbox at the bottom of the page and what “superhandz” (de’vo) wrote

    I would copy his comment here but then I might be violating his copyrights?

  71. Dasuprememep Says:

    Notice how no HL members support the posting of these files.

    From the superhandz shoutbox:

    …a bunch of haters illegally modified and posted files in their weak attempts to hurt the largest and strongest XCM community…

    Whatever respect I ever had for de’vo was just lost there. He’s almost acting like a f***ing dictator of Superhandz land who controls the press and distorts the truth.

    Largest and strongest XCM community?

    Sorry, but that’s not such a huge claim to fame, seeing that there are at least two larger and stronger cardistry communities.

  72. Jim Says:

    Lol, I wonder what “action” De’vo will be taking. Even if there is some way to copyright forum posts, which I assume is complete BS, the man is stupid for posting private conversations on a forum anyway. Serves him right if you ask me.

  73. TicaL Says:

    Yea yea – De’ was always good on talking..his rhetorical speeches are well known.
    He just knows that the blind nuhbe’s over there will believe that every single file is modified..and I know that he and mj weren’t laughing at all about dis lol
    I guess more they weren’t far away from crying. It’s always da same shit guys – when they get hurt, they act strong and pretend to have total control..not dis time De’..now we’ll have da last laugh!

  74. phore Says:

    “Whatever respect I ever had for de’vo was just lost there.”
    Never really had any, but same here. He’s acting like some dictator.

    I find it funny that De’ won’t admit that the stuff actually really happened. Shows some truth in the whole matter if you ask me. The part about copyright is BS:

  75. TheCuso Says:

    I’d like to see more HLers oppinions here.

    Thanks to everyone for contributing but try to keep the respect two both sides, again, the fight is not over here.

    Maybe some of you guys from HL can ask De’ to show up here and clear things up.

    No one can prove that these files are edited or intact, thats a fact.

  76. Darian Says:

    I think it’s quite comical how the HL have been the only ones acting mature

  77. uglyface Says:

    ^^ I take you can’t read english?

  78. caruso Says:

    well, many newcomers to the art that have merely seen De’vo and will find curiosity on finding out who he is, many opinions here probably do not even know what all this is about, i know little on the matter as well, but i want to know when where why how who… leave the private stuff out, publish it not to hurt HL but to open the rest of the peoples eyes

  79. caruso Says:

    sorry for the double post:
    Yes, post it… and i dont know if a picture of de’vo is good to see considering it one of his most Private objects: his face…. i do not intend to be funny..

    but everyone needs to think about the communities in general not just selfish curiosity, this WILL HURT HL.. is it really important to know?

  80. yelo Says:

    To be brutally honest ALL the hate I have seen in the past couple of months has been from Decknique and now here? wtf is going on?
    I havent even seen De’vo post for ages, certianly not any hate, so this all seems all seems like a pathetic sucker punch, that can only hurt the art.
    I know most of the replies this blog will get will be from angry teenagers who care more for an argument than the art (probably triple posters). Their voice will be loudest and this stuff will probably get posted, all it will do for thecuso is show him up as someone who
    spread the hate more than anyone else.
    congrats

  81. omri Says:

    don’t post it
    who cares what de’vo or other HL members said….

  82. Andrei Says:

    You’re still stuck on the hate trip aren’t you? I think it’s cute how you ignore every post above you and just continue with the “hate” justification.

  83. Mike Goyke Says:

    I’d say post it, and like others have said leave out the private info

  84. Captain Feathersword Says:

    I agree with the hate issue and that it’s rediculous, but I think the cuso is causing more problems here than anything else. Maybe you had good intensions with this but it’s just causing everybody to act like children (or maybe they are children).

    Darian is right, the HL people that have posted here are being cooler about it than the majority of you (I said majority not all of you) which is surprising given the supposed reputation that HL has.

    Here’s the thing, sure De’ might have said some pretty bad stuff, might have done some pretty bad stuff but that doesn’t mean that all of the HL guys are shit or are mindless cult members, most of them are just focused and don’t feel it’s necessary to deal with all of this bullshit because it does nothing to further the art.

    Go ahead and post it, I don’t think it will have the reaction that some of you want it to have though.

  85. trash Says:

    @ andrei – it is a bad analogy to associate private forum posts, with committing a crime like murder. I did LOL at the punching baby comment. I know you and a bunch of other guys got hella beef with de’vo, from stuff a couple years ago, but that doesn’t mean ya’ll should try to mess with the mind of n00bs.

    like shoeman says, can you IMAGINE if we had our private conversations released for the world to see? I know my girlfriend would probably kick my ass first… Then I’d probably be assigned a psychatrist.

    I think theCuso started this thread because he likes to get comments and readers on his blog, LOL it’s not like he didn’t know what most people would say.

    Just because a bunch of kids want to see them released doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do… look at what has HL done for the community: (to name just a few)

    Jerry’s routining clinic, World XCM tournament (getting XCM on T.V. to millions of viewers!!!), DVDs like XB to bring the next n00b generation to XCM, etc.

    Now what have YOU done for the community and the art of XCM? would releasing files like this help, or hurt the community?

  86. trash Says:

    sorry to clarify, that last question was aimed at the Cuso, not anybody else in particular (although it might be a good question to ask yourself)

  87. menik Says:

    sweet how you catch on to davids number-uggling. millions of views, thousands of downloads a day, tons of emails, billion pageviews an hour. yadayada… and the routining clinic. isn’t that just a thread in the forums giving advice? shouldn’t that be an everyday thing to do? Oh I forgot, Pros with 400 years of experience making millions a night performing … Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate all those thing, but I think it’s nothing that makes ‘em untouchable. well cuso gotta decide what to do after all …

  88. cardclassics Says:

    Half of the people talking about these files haven’t actually seen them themselves.

    It’s self-induced ignorance.

    -Ben

  89. blogga Says:

    Why are some people trying to exacerbate a problem they were recently campaigning to eliminate??

    From an ‘older’ manipulator and lurker and a complete nuetrals (is that allowed?) point of view- I don’t know all the details of the past, and will not waste my time in researching it even if this ‘info’ is posted (I’m here to develop as an artist, not to pick sides, or find out who called who ‘ghey’ first)-
    I have sadly witnessed a real lack of integrity from several esteemed proponents of this art, people who should be spending their valuable time developing their fine talents rather than acting like well.. dicks..
    these people surely know these actions will only cause more conflict within THEIR art. It does not matter who started it guys, really.
    This kind of needless drama is making the art look like a laughing stock. Don’t we get enough shit already guys?

  90. cardmage Says:

    come on Cuso what are you gonna do?? I think that their are plenty of opinions for you to decide from.

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  92. Sean Says:

    What happened with this, obviously de’vo can’t actually do anything if you post it… I think you should.

  93. johnsoleimany Says:

    Sean please learn to read the blog. Cuso posted that if he published these files then devo would do a lawsuit on his candy ass. He would also shut this site down. Besides why get so worked up about something that happened over the internet. Is it that hard to get a life?

  94. sean Says:

    yea but further comments showed de’vo can’t actually do that, and is full of shit.

    another member threatened to host the files somewhere else and de’vos response, in essence was “aww, c’mon, please don’t”

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