imagine if they had waited to invent lemmy until after reddit had shat the bed with the whole API fiasco. it’s better to have a backup ready to go.

here ya go!

but by that point, whoever the inheritors of the account were have probably been paying money and adding new games to it for decades. why would valve destroy their relationship with that customer just because they might still technically have access to some hundred year old games that either don’t even run on modern systems, or might even be public domain by that point?

*sigh* what’s BOFA?

all ya’ll admitting to ironing your clothes in the comments are a bunch of dweebs, just saying.

more like chimps are monkeys in the same way that whales are mammals

so, frequently people will conflate monkeys and apes, and use the terms interchangably (that’s the left end of the graph), people with a bit more knowledge may be aware of the common definition that monkeys have tails while apes do not (that’s the middle part), while those with more knowledge of biological taxonomy argue that, since new world monkeys and old world monkeys share a more distant common ancestor than old world monkeys and apes, if we want to define a term ‘monkey’ that encompasses both new and old world monkeys, it would have to also include all apes (including humans). so, according to the right side of the graph people, chimpanzees are apes are monkeys (though lots of monkeys are not apes, it’s a squares and rectangles kinda thing).

i definitely watched it when i was a youngun, but i’m always surprised to hear it’s still running tbh

i’ve never heard of this practice before, and it’s fascinating.

fun fact though (since i am a fan of linquistics and typography and such): jesus wouldn’t have been a capitalized pronoun user because capitalization wouldn’t be invented for over a thousand years after his death. and, he would’ve been speaking aramaic, which never developed a bicameral script in the first place. unless of course we’re to assume that he (and presumably his god dad) ghost-wrote the king james bible i guess and they wanted to update their pronouns with these newfangled upper and lower case letters.

the term i always heard was maltheism. reading the other comments though, i’m surprised how many other terms there are for this.

fun fact: renowned mathematician Paul Erdős referred to God as the SF, or Supreme Fascist, who kept all the best mathematical proofs to himself.