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[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the joke is more he figured out just enough to get it to do what he wanted it to do

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doom is also a cursed piece of software that compels people to make it run everywhere even when it should be physically impossible.

[–] troutsushi@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

Your turn to shine.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I couldn't find any, but someone that's a better writer than me should definitely write one.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Doom "needs to run everywhere" otherwise cyberdemons will manage to materialize within that machine, thus making Doom 2 a prediction of what would happen if we fail

Yeah, I'm a shit horror writer, sorry.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

That's the essence of computer science and computer programming.