Who the fuck buys this shit? I mean nazis, obviously, but this is so fucking tacky and cringe I shudder to imagine the sort of sad sack that feels the need to mod their 20-year-old game console to affirm their obsessive wehraboo tendencies

These were the among the first suggestions that popped up when I searched for Xbox 360 controller button replacements, btw what-the-hell

  • brainw0rms [they/them]
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    7 hours ago

    cringe post, and plenty of cringe replies. "nazi bullet casings" lmfao. sorry but badposting is that way

    these may be tacky and not your thing, but nazi it is not.

  • nothx [he/him]
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    9 hours ago

    Maybe I’m not seeing something, but what makes them Nazi bullets? Is it the fact it’s a German brand?

  • ObamaSama [he/him]
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    12 hours ago

    Looks like typical gun fetishist stuff, what makes them Nazi bullet casings specifically? 9mm Luger is just the name for “normal” 9x19 rounds as opposed to 9mm Makarov. The big one is a .50 AE which is only used by chuds overcompensating with the largest possible pistol

    • AnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]
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      11 hours ago

      OP owes it to themselves to learn more about guns, and to keep in mind Marx's statement about arming the proletariat.

      AliExpress may indeed be full of Nazi shit, but this is not Nazi shit, this is just gun fetishism.

        • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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          10 hours ago

          "Luger" is just the name of some guy who designed guns and died in 1923, is there anything specifically Nazi about this besides that his name is German sounding?

          Another one that sounds really Nazi is Heinrich. Except that Karl Heinrich Marx died over 30 years before Heinrich Himmler was even born. This is just a case of everything German automatically sounding Nazi. Which, like, safe bet in general, but it's a disservice to automatically associate anything German with Nazis, you'll probably find a lot of cool John Brown Gun Club and adjacent folks swearing by 9mm Luger, because it's pretty much unilaterally the best handgun cartridge in the world.

          • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
            hexagon
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            10 hours ago

            is there anything specifically Nazi about this besides that his name is German sounding

            I hear "Luger" and I think of the handgun heavily associated with nazis that wehraboos cream themselves over

            Another one that sounds really Nazi is Heinrich. Except that Karl Heinrich Marx died over 30 years before Heinrich Himmler was even born. This is just a case of everything German automatically sounding Nazi. Which, like, safe bet in general, but it's a disservice to automatically associate anything German with Nazis

            You'll notice that the names I associated with nazis were Speer and Luger, not Marx or Heinrich

        • AnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]
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          10 hours ago

          You should know that the presence of a German name does not indicate it's fascist.

          Especially not if you're going to claim to have read Marx.

          • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
            hexagon
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            10 hours ago

            It was the Speer and Luger combo

            And I didn't know 9mm was widely called Luger anyway. I thought it was parabellum

            • Babs [she/her]
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              10 hours ago

              Yeah 9mm Luger, 9mm Parabellum, 9mm NATO, and 9x19mm are all names for the same common 9mm round everyone uses.

              Also Speer is an American ammo company iirc.

    • Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      12 hours ago

      .50 AE is a toy round, there is nothing interesting about it except BIG and because the Desert Eagle is chambered in it, so only gun losers like it.

      • TheVelvetGentleman [he/him]
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        11 hours ago

        https://www.speer.com/bullets/handgun-bullets/jacketed-handgun-bullet/19-4495.html

        Speer is a very popular ammunition manufacturer.

  • ReadFanon [any, any]
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    8 hours ago

    Bit Idea:

    Start a dropshipping site that sells all manner of far-right tchotchkes. Turn a profit. Collect customer data and "leak" it to Unicorn Riot or similar online antifascist orgs.

  • Procapra [comrade/them, she/her]
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    9 hours ago

    ngl, i wouldn't have noticed they were nazi bullet casings had you not told me. I imagine a good amount of people who bought them don't know that either.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    12 hours ago

    This is just kid stuff. Young teen boys love this customised controller shit and making your buttons into bullets is mall ninja shit for teen boy freeze-gamer

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      12 hours ago

      The 360 is 19 years old though, though I don't know if these have been kicking around for like 15 years

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        edit-2
        11 hours ago

        These mods have, this one specifically? No idea, doubt it since ali isn't that old. But the mods have.

  • beef_curds [she/her]
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    11 hours ago

    Are these the same casings that would have been left behind when Hitler offed himself?

  • Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    12 hours ago

    Do you know, that 9x19mm is know specifically as 9x19mm Luger or 9x19 Parabellum? The pistol cartridge adopted by NATO and one that is most prevalent in the western world? The one Glocks shoot? I don't see anything specifically nazi about this except for being tacky and stupid.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      12 hours ago

      adopted by NATO

      I don't see anything specifically nazi about this

      Are you sure?

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      12 hours ago

      What about the Speer casing? I see names like Luger and Speer intersecting with both "guns" and "gamers" and my Hitler particle detector starts going off hitler-detector

      • buh [she/her]
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        12 hours ago

        Speer is the name of an ammo brand founded by a guy named Vernon Speer in the US

        I will agree that this is tacky as fuck but I don’t think it’s a nazi thing

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    12 hours ago

    Yeah, if you look for any communist stuff on Aliexpress the Nazi stuff pops up right along side it, and often in greater numbers. doomjak

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    8 hours ago

    I'm sorry they're nazi coded cause those look very therapeutic to press as buttons. A fighting game box with big ass fucking buttons yes please. Give me one of those spinning balls like an old mouse and I'd pick up Tekken just cause

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    12 hours ago

    I'm guessing (hoping) that mast people that buy them don't realise that they're Nazi bullet and just think they're generic bullets.

    If not, I hope they all get aluminium poisoning

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      12 hours ago

      I'd use mine if they weren't all broken. The wired ones all have broken cables and the wireless ones have random broken buttons, also they don't use Bluetooth because MS were being greedy little assholes so you'd need a receiver dongle

      Still, I occasionally think about fixing them

    • antmzo220@lemmy.ml
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      10 hours ago

      Hey, I still use a 360 controller for gaming on my PC.

      Who runs out and upgrades controllers all the time

      • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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        10 hours ago

        That's a good point, but personally I couldn't imagine dealing with that awful D-pad now that there are much better cheap alternatives.

  • Lussy [any]
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    11 hours ago

    I sometimes wonder if the rise of Nazi imagery and iconography hides the very real fascist entities existing today by providing a false target to people who are against such ideals.

    But then I think, shit, there’s so many fucking morons who want to adorn the ‘I am literally an evil child diddler, please beat my ass and smash my skull’ flag that I guess we should be grateful for the target practice