this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Software Gore

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Babe, wake up. New lorem ipsum just dropped.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I love the Nintendo 64! My favourite game is ѓXѓ^Ѓ[ѓtѓHѓbѓNѓX64

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn’t get very far into it but is this saying that Plato wrote the lyrics for “Witch Doctor”, most famously performed by Alvin and the Chipmunks?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This was my first thought as well. Came to the comment section with the intention to paste the lyrics :)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

I was saying something similar at work the other day but this is way more poignant.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Looks more like vocalizing with all those vowels.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I expected perfection when I checked the transcript

[–] irelephant 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Apologies, but that perfection would be bad for people on screen readers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

my roflcopter goes soisoisoisoisoisoisoi

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Oh boy can’t wait to fire up my Kindle

CURSE OF RA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Everything is ISO-8859-1 right? Right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That's definitely not your story. Better chuck that book into the chasm and check the next one. Only 95^1,312,000^ books to go.