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![]() I think I didn’t often understand the meaning or the backgrounds of the songs very well but they still left a strong impression on me. I loved bands like « Ebba Grön» who were very very political, very left-wing, with songs like « Always red, always right» and songs about war and peace, the iron curtain, the Palestinian situation. Though this was the mid-90’s, when punk was considered long dead, we were very much inspired by the politically-minded (almost exclusively) Swedish punk bands from the 1980’s. But I don’t think our teachers really cared either, even the countryside was kind of liberal. We didn’t really rebel against our parents, more against some idea of «society» in general, I think, not based on what we had experienced so much as to what we thought society might look like. When I became a teenager, my friends and I became punks and satanists. Very egalitarian, stereotypical Swedish I think, but this isn’t the reality in most of Sweden, esp. I grew up there, very much countryside far from everywhere, where there were not real any idea of «social class». Eventually they moved back to Öland, where they had first met, before my older sister was born, then me, then 5 other little brothers and sisters. They married after a week and before the summer was over they had moved to Spain, this time to a small village on the southern coast of Andalusia, where my dad worked on-and-off as a fisherman. And that’s where he met my mom on the opening night, a 19 year old rather sheltered Stockholm girl. My dad returned to Sweden and moved to Öland and built, together with his younger brother, a ramshackle Spanish restaurant without a roof in a protected nature reserve, illegally without any permit. My father wasn’t good with money and soon both his wives left him, and he eventually lost all his money because as it turns out, owning a large medieval Spanish estate was quite expensive to maintain, especially on no income. He lived there with two of his wives – at the same time, for a while! – and at the time 8 children (because the first marriage hadn’t been annulled in Spanish court, he married his second wife on a boat on international water). ![]() In the 1960’s, he bought the big estate «Pedruxella Gran» on Mallorca with a fortune he had made smuggling Swedish securities/stock to Switzerland. My father was born in the 1920’s into a rich upper class Stockholm family but lived the life of a rogue adventurer, marrying 3 times, having a total of 15 children. I was born on the island of Öland in southern Sweden in the early 80’s. Biographical notes (origins, formation, influences…) ![]() If at any point you are stuck, I suggest that you check out the enclosed instruction book.Marcus Richert en un vagón de tren de Japón, su actual lugar de residencia. The point was to make fun of other games that limit the player's interaction by being easy, linear, or heavily controlled and jokingly ask at which point these games also cease to be games. You Have To Burn The Rope is, by formal definitions, a game since it has all the things that make up a game - besides losing condition which I regret not adding - but I wouldn't call it a game since it is hardly interactive in any meaningful way. Here's a pretty apt description of the game, according to its original programmer: This is a port of a Flash game from Kian Bashiri called "You Have To Burn The Rope". PICO-8 games are getting so hard these days.
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