• kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    I feel like the author is being unnecessarily silly. The ancient ruined architecture could be PowerPC

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      5 months ago

      Yes if you remove all frivolity I’m sure the joke will be funnier

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        5 months ago

        Ah but you see, in the first sentence I was only pretending to be dismissive of the joke, because my comment had a second sentence (gasp), where I expanded upon the original joke with another observation of a particularly failed CPU architecture.

        It is funny because I used verbal misdirection and a relevant reference from inside the community. And now it gets objectively funnier in my second comment when you make me explain it.

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          5 months ago

          eh, i really did look for a joke. all i see is a “well actually” opinion that somebody here probably holds