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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • and every forum had rules against bumping, typically only once in 24 hours, and only like once or twice. It was never a problem, much less as egregious as you try to paint it to be.

    and I’d still take that any day, over the toxic miasma of gamification, advertising, and multibillionaire control we have now.

    Honestly, I dont know how anyone can say that the days before gamification, before adpocalypse, before billionaire hijacking of the internet for their own personal ends, is worse than what we have today. It borders on either lunacy, or propaganda.


  • You would get a floppy disk that had a virus buried in it in addition to the game/software. Often via trade of copied software, I think there were one or two instances of officially released floppies having been compromised in the factory, too, so every floppy sold of that particular software came with the virus.

    It’d infect your computer, then embed itself on every floppy you’d make, some of which you’d inevitably trade with friends or whatever, thus infecting all their systems, so all floppies they’d write were infected, and they’d eventually trade with others, and so on and so on and so on.





  • People don’t like being proven wrong, and often try to dismiss it with some variation of “Im not gonna sit here and be told the whatfer by some random idiot”

    Like, excuse me sir, you are the random idiot, because you were the one that was wrong.

    So when it came to registering on Lemmy, that popped up in my head and bobs your uncle.

    Real nice honeypot too, every time someones wrong and backs themselves into a corner instead of admitting they are wrong, they inevitably give some variation of “living up to your user name, huh”, which just continues to prove that the actual idiot is the one lashing out like that.