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Not beating the whitest woman alive allegations (hexbear.net)

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[-] Egon@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I think so. You're the one who makes it that guitar, so as long as it is that guitar to you, then it is. Repairs and replacements are part of the life you live with it, the travels you have together. I would say it wasn't "that guitar" if you swapped it out wholesale. How do you feel about it?
The answer gets more tricky if we say you're a famous musician and when you die, society decides to keep your guitar, because then who is it that makes the guitar the guitar, and what if they disagree?
Or that we say it breaks in two and you repair the two halves into two seperate guitars (personally I'd say the guitar wasn't no more and you'd used it to fix up two other guitars).
I wrote out a bunch of the hypotheticals not too long ago, I'll see if I can find them, if you want

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I would say it wasn't "that guitar" if you swapped it out wholesale.

This is the joke. The body and a couple of plastic bits are all that remain from the original pawn shop find because I kept finding shit that was either broken, unusable, or in need of so much rework that it made more sense to just get new parts, resulting in an almost entirely different instrument from what I initially bought. I almost have enough bits to rebuild the original guitar and dump it off on some other sap with poor impulse control, but it probably has more use value as (carcinogenic) firewood.