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

    • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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      3 months 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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        3 months 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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      3 months 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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        3 months 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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          3 months 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.