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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: 1st HL2 game memories from 2004...
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:25:36 -0800
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On 11/26/2024 12:27 AM, JAB wrote:
> On 25/11/2024 19:22, Zaghadka wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:09:49 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I've
>>> never played the game but I saw a talking head on YouTube saying it's
>>> woke (whatever that actually means) crowd.
>>
>> "Woke" means, "You're tickling my well orchestrated cognitive dissonance
>> coping mechanisms. Stop that!"
>>
> 
> I just find it weird that people can be so rabidly anti something when 
> they can't really explain what it is beyond things I don't like. See 
> also labelling something socialist, or even Marxist, when they don't 
> even know what they are.
> 
> We even had our last government try and get in on the act when judges 
> were ruling that a country doesn't just become classed as safe because 
> the government say it is no more than they can pass a law that says the 
> moon is made of cheese. That's not how laws work but that only cost 
> £750mil so not a problem really.
> 
"My <insert deity of choice> says 'That's Wrong!'"

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.