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- Sham bam bamina!
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ƨtupid cat
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needs deerfingers
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Jan 29, 2015 12:08
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i'm cory doctorow
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probated as i was quoting, pro probation hail rotor
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Jan 29, 2015 18:00
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In the game, Matthew's characters killed monsters, as they did every single night. But tonight, as Matthew thoughtfully chopsticked a dumpling out of the styrofoam clamshell, dipped it in the red hot sauce and popped it into his mouth, his little squadron did something extraordinary: they began to win.
There were eight monitors on his desk, arranged in two ranks of four, the top row supported on a shelf he'd bought from an old lady scrap dealer in front of the Dongmen market. She'd also sold him the monitors, shaking her head at his idiocy: at a time when everyone wanted giant, 30" screens, why did he want this collection of dinky little 9" displays?
So they'd all fit on his desk.
Not many people could play eight simultaneous games of Svartalfaheim Warriors. For one thing, Coca Cola (who owned the game), had devoted a lot of programmer time to preventing you from playing more than one game on a single PC, so you had to somehow get eight PCs onto one desk, with eight keyboards and eight mice on the desk, too, and room enough for your dumplings and an ashtray and a stack of Indian comic books and that stupid war-axe that Ping gave him and his notebooks and his sketchbook and his laptop and --
which zack parsons piece is this from
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Jan 29, 2015 18:39
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also why would they need "a lot of programmer time" for that, that seems like a trivial feature to implement
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Jan 29, 2015 18:42
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nice opinion. shame if something were to happen to it innit
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