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Goronmon@kbin.social to Games@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad

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Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad

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Goronmon@kbin.social to Games@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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Activision and Xbox have teamed up to release full screen ads for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on the console's homep…
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    How do you know someone is a Linux user?

    They’ll fucking tell you.

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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      No, that’s just Arch Linux users.

      I use Arch, btw.

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        NixOS users too

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        We just need the rest of the Linux gang to experience the glory of pacman+AUR, it’s not our fault they don’t listen.

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      You know, that saying doesn’t work nearly as well when the conversation is actually about people’s experience with operating systems.

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        I mean, go to any tech related post and every thread quickly becomes about Linux regardless of what it was about.

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          almost like linux is really important and what an absurd amount of devices run, regardless of the task they ultimately perform.

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            Concrete and steel are really important but construction workers don’t tend to rant about it off the clock.

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          It’s because Linux is the solution to everything including issues like world hunger and war.

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      “pc has ads too!”

      “No thats just windows, other operating systems dont do that. Linux has no ads, for example.”

      “AAAAAAHHHHHH LINUX USER LINUX USER!!! AAAAAHHHHH YOU SAID IT THE DEVIL WORD LINUX AAAAAAAAHHHHH MOMMY MOMMY HOLD ME AAAAAAAHHHH THEY TOLD ME THEY USE LINUX AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH OH GOD OH FUCK OH GOD”

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        Lol exaggerate much?

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          Yeah bud, thats kinda the point

          “Exaggerate for comedic effect” is one of the oldest comedy standards.

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      Cry harder

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        Am I crying? No, I’m laughing at you.

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          Laughing, but just in the pauses between each ad you’re reading or dismissing, I imagine.

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      Truly the vegans of tech

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