questions you are dying to ask but are too scared to b/c of music nerd cred?

[luka]

I genuinely think it's the best thread we've ever had. I really really like it. Very proud of it

 

[craner]

Incredibly, that is now the actual national anthem in Papua New Guinea

You bastard, I actually googled that.

 

[shiels]

You bastard, I actually googled that.

Me too

 

[shiels]

I genuinely think it's the best thread we've ever had. I really really like it. Very proud of it

I read it all last night. sometimes cruel and disappointing but very revealing and funny too. It’s nuts what a forum will have you say to other people. Craner taking long hard looks at himself was the best bit.

 

[craner]

I read it all last night. sometimes cruel and disappointing but very revealing and funny too. It’s nuts what a forum will have you say to other people. Craner taking long hard looks at himself was the best bit.

I didn't contribute to that thread, did I?

 

[luka]

It was a really good time for me. It's when me and Barty found our stride. Peak of the forum for me so far but me and Shiels will surpass it soon

 

[luka]

I really had to fight to create the space we have now. I had to use violence to establish this.

 

[luka]

And I'm really proud of the acts of violence and I'm really proud of what it achieved.

 

[shiels]

I didn't contribute to that thread, did I?

an insightful bit about the place being a ‘shrinking and increasingly personalised space for a hardcore cadre’,corpsey said chat room, I said lads WhatsApp. A shift from a topical forum about content to the posts and users themselves being the content.

 

[luka]

The users were always part of the content. That was what was so funny about kpunk. Everything was personal with him but he insisted he wasn't a person.

 

[luka]

You have to embrace it. It's part of human interaction. There are no ideas that aren't the product of bodies and embodied histories.

 

[shiels]

This happens with all human made systems without strict regulation. They’re eventually hijacked by narcissists who reshape in their own image (that’s us)

 

[luka]

Until they are hijacked they have no image. The hijacking is the whole point.

 

[luka]

Systems aren't human until they are hijacked. They are sterile up until that point, then they come to life,

 

[luka]

You have to humanise everything. That's the point of being alive.

 

[shiels]

There are larger forces at play too obviously. You see it in the rest of forums to FB and twitter. Our avatars, personal brands increasing in importance

 

[luka]

one if the things barty keeps saying is the content and the personalisation went hand in hand.

 

[luka]

Which is true.

 

[luka]

That's one of the reason I like you Shiels you're very pro personalisation.

 

[shiels]

I don’t know. I can understand the feeling of being boxed in (or out) by too much of all that. It has to be mutual doesn’t, and then it’s beautiful. I’m pro taking the piss out of each other and oneself as the highest form of love.