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Dec 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There's something about #eurorack where people HATE seeing racks full of modules. For some reason, the fact that some people love eurorack as a hobby really pisses these folks off. And they all use the same language "no one ever wrote a hit with modular!" "Their music sucks!"
Do these folks hang out, outside Guitar Center, shouting at people coming out with guitars and synths? "YOU'LL NEVER WRITE A HIT SONG ON THAT!"
Hating someone else's harmless hobby is pretty insane.
You know sometimes I click on a eurorack video and it's all discordant glitches, because some people like that. And I think "ew gross." So...I just click on another video. I don't shit on the person for making music I don't like. What would be the point of that?

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