Ingwit
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YOU JUST KEEP HITTING THE FUCKIN HOME RUNS VIDEO GAMES!
December 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
YOU JUST KEEP HITTING THE FUCKIN HOME RUNS VIDEO GAMES!
Like ten minutes later you reposted this, thereby showing me Nazi Charlie Kirk's hateful widow.
December 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Like ten minutes later you reposted this, thereby showing me Nazi Charlie Kirk's hateful widow.
![NEU! anticipated punk and post-punk: the DIY artwork, the experimentation, the simple beat, the guitar sound on the song "Hero"; in turn, the more interesting punk and post-punk artists cited NEU! as an influence. Did you have much interest in punk?
Not really. I liked some of the music, but in a distant way, and I didn't share the emotional side. The emotional connection was something that was true only to Klaus. I guess Klaus had quite strong frustrations about his life and a lot of anger at people. That's something that separated us also -- the way we reacted to rejection and things like that. Klaus had this attitude, in later days at least, that was like, "Everyone who doesn't love me hates me... and if you hate me then I hate you even more" [laughs]. I mean, that's putting it very simplistically...but I didn't share that approach, really. What I liked about the songs that may have influenced Johnny Rotten and other people -- songs like "Hero" -- is the powerful, strong forward rush of the rhythm, and I could put my guitars, my melodies, on top of that. It was much more the aesthetic of dynamic movement which appealed to me and not the emotions, like Klaus singing, "Fuck the company, fuck the press, fuck the program," whatever.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b52tnmj5doyt2izst5bzvliu/bafkreicepyw43f55khgidjzz5ui5g7sezsam6bv5b7hilzk3on3w5chnhu@jpeg)
![From a 2009 BLURT interview with Michael Rother:
As you say, you and Klaus had very different personalities and you weren't friends. How did you come together initially?
I met him when I stumbled into the Kraftwerk studio in Düsseldorf one day, in early '71. At that time, I was working in a psychiatric hospital, as a conscientious objector [in lieu of compulsory military service], and I was with a friend who was also a guitar player and we were in Düsseldorf demonstrating against something or other -- I can't remember what it was [laughs]. At the time, there were so many reasons to be angry. Anyway, after the demonstration he said, "Oh, I have this invitation to go into the studio of a band here in Düsseldorf. They want to do some film music or something." He told me the name of the band and that didn't ring a bell -- I hadn't heard of the name Kraftwerk at the time. So, I joined him and I jammed with Ralf Hütter in that studio. Florian Schneider and Klaus Dinger were sitting on the sofa listening and, obviously, everyone had the same impression that there was something happening musically. I got on very well with Ralf Hütter. He was also a big surprise for me because there was no need for discussions: it was just the similarity of our music, our harmonious, melodious ideas maybe -- something like that -- as opposed to the blues-oriented rock musicians playing guitar solos that were around all the time in the late '60s](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b52tnmj5doyt2izst5bzvliu/bafkreibofphjt7c4kh4vkxelsoqaf5qdmmgv4dgtcy2ms7vfmevdvjyus4@jpeg)
Quoting Carl quoting Cuban
December 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Quoting Carl quoting Cuban
once you get to know a website you develop a feel for which posters are always guaranteed to be Posting Through It
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
once you get to know a website you develop a feel for which posters are always guaranteed to be Posting Through It
Mom is well-meaning but keeps linking me to articles that hurt.
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Mom is well-meaning but keeps linking me to articles that hurt.
It's one of my favorite lines in the whole thing but this is definitely me whenever I hear it.
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It's one of my favorite lines in the whole thing but this is definitely me whenever I hear it.
Are the Streamer Award statues little Pepe frogs?
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Are the Streamer Award statues little Pepe frogs?
![@dyrr836
14 hours ago (edited)
While I agree with your sentiment and respect the work clearly put into this video (I left a like), I actually don't share your opinion on a lot of things regarding the game. I believe that what we got was so artistically compromised that it can never be divorced from its original context. I think anyone who goes back and visits the Fatal Fury series prior to CotW will be able to easily see that. It's not just the presence of real people with ties to the regime, but the complete disregard (or worse, disdain) the game has for the established characters and setting in favor of being nothing more than a whitewashing vehicle. I'll bring up a comparison similar to your Giotto one in the form of Richard Wagner. Wagner is considered one of the greatest composers of all time, but he can never be separate from antisemitism so odious even for the time period that he and his music influenced the actual Nazi party. Even after all these years later, it is impossible to disassociate his work from that. So too do I believe that history will look back upon every piece of creative work associated with any other totalitarian dictator, MBS included. The reason? Because information has become more accessible over time, and more of history is preserved.
@PhantomIchiban
A very well thought out response. I'm agnostic on the quality of the game, personally, so I won't get into that. But your Wagner comparison is interesting for a few reasons.
For one, that fits more into the category of art made BY bad people, rather than FOR them. Far as I know, Wagner's backers didn't stoke his antisemitism, and I recall reading that many of his contemporaries, even in a thoroughly antisemitic age, thought he went way too far. Wagner was a piece of shit entirely for free.
And second, even with as reprehensible as Wagner was known to be, his music is still performed. In an opera house he built, no less.
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I also like to be an idiot.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I also like to be an idiot.