this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Software Gore

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[–] ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

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

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago
[–] teft@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Babe, wake up. New lorem ipsum just dropped.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week 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?

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Looks more like vocalizing with all those vowels.

[–] incogtino@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I expected perfection when I checked the transcript

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

my roflcopter goes soisoisoisoisoisoisoi

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Oh boy can’t wait to fire up my Kindle

CURSE OF RA

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Everything is ISO-8859-1 right? Right?

[–] Breadhax0r@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 2 points 1 week 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.