Why do they keep throwing their money away on it?

Hmm, I wonder why they’d do that… I guess we’ll never know.

No worries… Like I said, I was annoyed so maybe you’re not completely off base.

I didn’t think I was being passive aggressive, but I guess I was kind of annoyed so maybe it came through in the comment.

The thing about googling acronyms is that sometimes there are more than one. And yeah, I probably could have used context to figure out which one you meant, but I’m… just not going to do all that lol

SNL had a bunch of absolutely legendary writers. Jim Downey is another one

Yeah I’m aware of the game, but there was no fucking way I’m going to get that. It’s just common courtesy to spell an acronym out in parentheses the first time you use it. Pay attention next time you read an article on a news site that includes acronyms.

Nah, that was DARPA

DDLC

Nobody knows what you’re saying, you should consider spelling out an acronym the first time you use it.

I, for one, enjoy narrative-focused games, and would prefer if they didn’t go away completely

Yeah Monero is just cool, tech-wise

Monero allows you to make untraceable transactions. That can be useful.

The encryption schemes involved (or what I understand of them, at least) are pretty rad imo. That’s why it interests me.

Still, it’s proof of work, which is not great.

Holy shit do I not miss that lifestyle

You want some bipcoin to buy weed drugs on the slip road? Don’t bother figuring out how to set up that wallet shit, come to our nifty token exchange where you can buy and sell all kinds of bipcoins

Maybe I’m slow today, but what is this referencing? Most dark web sites use Monero. Is there some centralized token that people used instead?

Edit: Oh, I guess you’re referring to Mt.Gox? I mean yeah, people were pretty stupid for keeping their bitcoin in exchange wallets (and sending it right to the drug dealers directly from there? Real dumb). That’s always a bad idea. I don’t think they transferred it there instead of something else, they just never took custody of the coins after buying them on the exchange.

Tech bros just actively making the internet worse for everyone.

Tsk tsk tsk… No AI regulations, Ken!

I got the reference

BCH has been dead for years (even if it doesn’t know if yet)

I imagine Turing probably stopped being patriotic and willing to support the UK military after they, you know, forcibly chemically castrated him for being gay.