Asandir's interviews with Newgrounds forum users
This week's interview features the user yurgenburgen.
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When did you find Newgrounds and why did you join? Why did you choose the username yurgenburgen?
"Sup. It was in 1999 or 2000. I was bored on the internet while watching Robot Wars on TV. They had a robot called Sir Killalot, so I typed in www.killalot.com to see what would come up. The site was made by a guy called sheepfecker, and his page had links to various NG games like "Kill the Backstreet Boys" and "Kill the GAP kids". At first I thought he owned NG as well, it didn't occur to me that it was a different owner or anything.
The name "yurgen burgen" came from school. We were in English and had to write a letter to/from Polish prisoners of war and sign it with an Eastern-European-sounding name. The guy next to me wrote Yurgen Burgen and I thought it was funny so I stole it and started using it in chatrooms and so on.
In the past I have claimed to be the inventor of the name Yurgen Burgen but it was actually the guy I sat next to.
Also I am aware that "Yurgen" should begin with a J, not a Y."
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Do you think that you changed over the time you were here, as user, or also in real life?
"Not in any major way. Aside from the obvious changes that come with growth and just "getting older", but I am basically the same person now (age 26) as I was when I was a child.
Around the time I discovered NG (age 13 or so) I hated everything in life. I still do, but back then I had less of a say in the matter. So my only escape from the bullshit and torment of everyday shittery was through creative means. Animation has never been a talent of mine but I have always liked drawing and painting, and when I discovered NG it seemed to perfectly capture the rebellious teenage spirit that most of us have at some point.
So I suppose it stood out to me because of the creative DIY aspect of the whole thing. Like I said, I still feel basically the same way about everything in life as I did when I was a kid. You can call it immaturity or whatever but yeah."
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Are there any other users that you like, and how do they affect you?
"Slint and Natick have good taste in music.Bees and saqwert are hilarious. Amaranthus is a bro. I am in love with BoredLooney, one day he will be my bride.
I wouldn't say any of the users I like "affect" me in any way... I just like them. I get along with a number of people in the chat as well."
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Are there any users that you would consider enemies or that you just don't like?
"Chdonga.HollowedPumkinz.Insanctuary and his myriad alt accounts.
Reasoning: They post their nonsense in the forums and then avoid taking responsibility for it when called out. If you question their bullshit you are met with outright avoidance and logical fallacies. It's basically like talking to a government employee."
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What is your opinion about the forums? Is there one forum that you prefer? And is there another forum user that you want to see getting interviewed by me?
"The General forum is great because it has a mix of serious and ridiculous topics. It's basically a hangout for insane people. And there is usually something being discussed that I can reply to, whether it be serious or not. When I get home after a miserable day at work the first thing I do is go into the forums/chat and zone out. It's like going into a bar and knowing everybody that is in there.
I want you to interview saqwert if you haven't already done so."
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I guess that you have an opinion about the moderators of Newgrounds. Do you think that they do a great job or not?
"Most of them are great. I seemed to get banned a lot more often before the most recent re-design.EyeLovePoozy is a joke of a human being. Absolutely no respect for him or anyone remotely like him, in real life or otherwise. I encounter shitheads like him on a daily basis and they are all basically bone from the neck up."
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Would you like to become a moderator on Newgrounds? If so, what kind of moderator?
"No, that's not something I am interested in. I imagine it would take a certain kind of mentality to moderate a site like NG... something like supervising a load of deranged children. No thank you. I also don't think I could force myself to give a shit about peoples' trivial concerns."
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You were a member before the redesign 2007. Tell me how you experienced Newgrounds back then and what changes you liked about the redesign.
"Well I can tell you what I don't like: The absence of front-page chickens. Although they disappeared before the 2007 redesign I think.
I'd say that the main change with the redesigns is that NG gradually cleaned up its image for the public and became less of a "let's murder celebrities" site and more of a "free tetris clone" site. Some people think that this is unfortunate and that NG has lost its rebellious 'punk' attitude and aesthetic but personally I don't mind.
To be honest I don't remember much about what I liked about the 2007 redesign. I was unemployed at the time and experiencing severe depression. So yeah."
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You are an artist and create sculptures, paintings and other things. When did you start making art?
"For as long as I can remember. My grandfather on my mother's side is a talented painter so I probably got my interest in art from him. The first thing I remember drawing was an apple with some bite marks in it. I used to draw comics and show them to my grandparents and they would encourage me to keep doing it. So after school I would go round to their house and just draw and make things out of boxes until it was time to go home. I always just presumed that every other kid from school was doing the same thing. To me it seemed like 'making things' was something that you're just supposed to do. It was only about the age of 10 or so that I realised I could draw better than most other kids my age.
My parents have a drawing I did when I was about three. I don't remember creating the drawing, but the story goes as follows: I was drawing a boat in the sea, and the boat was sinking. There were people leaping out of the boat and trying to swim away. When my parents asked me what the drawing was I explained it to them. It was odd because the day I was born there was a huge ferry crash in the middle of the sea near England."
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Can you name some famous artists that inspire your work?
"Dali Warhol Lichtenstein Duchamp Genesis P-Orridge"
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Tell me about one piece of art in particular that you especially like, the background story of it and how you made it.
"I haven't put a photo of it online, but I'll describe it: It's a sheet of black card with blue and yellow spraypaint streaks down the middle. There is a very crudely-painted rectangular man up the centre of the page with a smiley face. On his chest it says "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society." The reason I consider it my best work is that at the time of making it I was in a seriously lengthy depressed state of mind, and I had spent about three days staring at the computer doing absolutely nothing. On my last evening before going back to work I kicked over a sheet of black card that happened to be on the floor and noticed the spraypaint streaks. I had used the bit of card in the past to rest a canvas on while spraypainting, and the streaks were the excess spraypaint left over. For some reason it meant something profound to me at the time, about "not giving up" or something along those lines."
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Back in 2008, you published 2 short stories as newsposts. Have you since then wrote more stories and maybe even published some of them? If we ever get a literature portal, would you post your stories there and what features would you like to see in a Newgrounds Literature Portal?
"I don't write very often. I have no gift for writing. If we get a literature portal I might submit some of my insane writing I produced many years ago just for the fun of it. But I have no plans to write more in the future."
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You recently started to release Mario flash games that are similiar in nature to Kaizo Mario. Do you plan to make more games like this in the future?
"No. I'll probably make another game at some point which will be brutally difficult and irritating but it won't be a Mario game."
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You are currently living in Canada. How different is it from living in England?
"My main concerns in life have always been oriented around what kinds of people I am going to have to associate with. People ask me often if I find Canadian weather hard to get used to, but in all honesty I don't think about the weather at all because I hate being outside regardless of what country I am in.
Canadian life is more laid back. I don't have to work as hard and I get paid more. Canadians are easily manipulated compared to the British. British people are aggressive and confrontational. I certainly don't miss living in England. However, getting things done to a decent standard and within a reasonable time frame is not an option in Canada; people here are just idle."
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If you could live somewhere else, which place would you choose?
"Anywhere as long as I don't have to talk to humans in real life."
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In one your posts you stated that you have lucid dreams regularly. Could you tell us about the most interesting lucid dream you had?
"There are several, but the most vivid one was as follows. I work in a hotel (IRL) so I dreamt I was in the back of a taxi on my way to work. Looking out of the taxi window the sky was a strange orange colour. I realised that I could change the colour and hue of the entire sky by thinking about it. If you have ever played Final Fantasy VII, you can change the colour of the menus in the game by increasing/decreasing the different colours, and you end up with a strange yellow/green/red pattern. That is basically what I was doing with the sky.
When I arrived at work (in the dream), I knew 100% that I was dreaming and that I had full control over what I was doing, so I decided to go from room to room seeing what was going on inside each room. One room had two women smearing chocolate all over each other. I went in another room and looked at myself in the mirror. Someone IRL had told me that it's impossible to see your own reflection in dreams. I knew that this was bullshit, but in the dream I decided to prove him wrong. So I spent some time making faces in the mirror, and it was exactly like in real life.
I have lucid dreams all the time but they generally result in me sexing people up. The hotel dream happened to be one of the more vivid ones that didn't result in sex."
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Every person has secrets. Can you tell one of yours or something else that we didn't know about you yet?
"I strongly dislike being in/around cars. I can't stand driving and when I am out of the house I make a conscious effort to keep myself away from all vehicles, including ones that are parked and locked. If I have to cross the road I will often sit on a bench and wait until there are no cars at all before getting up and crossing the road, because I feel like someone will slow down to let me cross and then deliberately run me over."
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What can we expect from you in the future, yurgenburgen?
"Probably more drawings/paintings... I haven't done as much creative stuff lately but I'll get round to it. I am also dealing with some serious stuff in my personal life which will be revealed when it's over and done with. I can't go into detail on that right now but when it's done and dusted I will make it public."
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Now you are filled with more knowledge about yurgenburgen, dear reader.Feel free to leave a comment here, saying what you think about the interview, requesting users to get interviews is also appreciated. Tune in next week :3
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