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This is written by a person (Iâm guessing a man) who made a slapdash decision and now is praying this all blows over so he can keep his job.
If if its the same guy as quoted in the NYT piece, heâs not following his own schadenfreudical advice:
Well, thatâs something, I guess. I would have prefered âharrassesâ rather than âdiscriminatesâ to make it obvious which group they were referring to.
Also:
Itâs mainsplaining 101: âI have no idea what I am talking about, but you need to hear my opinion!â. >.<
Sure there were. Youâd get a mag for whatever kind of microcomputer you were using (64, VIC-20, IIe or whatever), and type in the Basic code (with its long DATA statements) that followed at the end of the articles to play the games. (Typos were always so much fun⌠)
Mind you, you may be right about books or magazines when video games were those new things showing up in the pinball arcades⌠(Ooooooo! Shiny!)
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