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here's my hot take on gacha games: they are the natural progression of electronic gaming under capitalism

the vast majority of gacha games have two tiers of players: whales, who can spend thousands of dollars on the game, and everyone else, who by and large don't pay but might be convinced into throwing ten bucks now and again

this mirrors exactly the structure of the real economy, where a small number of people have large amounts of disposable income, and everyone else barely scrapes by

The OS I use daily is turning 50, depending on how you define its start. #Unix50

On #Unix's 40th birthday, the IEEE's Spectrum magazine told of its start like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20190228090043/https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birth-and-long-life-of-unix/0

The 50th anniversary of Unix is particularly reminding me of my age because I was born within days of its manual's first edition: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/1stEdman.html

Thankfully, *that* anniversary is still 2 years off. :p

on june twenty first, two thousand seventeen, a user by the name of rock legend ninety six uploaded a video where he successfully installed arch linux in fourteen minutes and twelve seconds. and so began the arch linux speedrunning community

y'all i could use some friends in pkgo! 7948 5967 9553

Hey

If your "women and enbies" doesn't include AMAB enbies who still present very masculine

It's gross and you should keep it to yourself

Or admit that you just like girls, it's fine, nobody will judge you

ahhh, i fucking love making claims about human nature, which are unfalsifiable and based on tautological definitions of said "nature"

jesus, in like 30AD probably: "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"

some dipshit, in 2019: "anyways i think what this all means is our nation should be built on christianity"

Alphys knows a lot about computers. I guess that makes her a "monitor lizard!"

...Apologies.

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