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-title = "culture"
-description = "the culture of murderu.us"
-+++
-
-# the game
-
-"""
-A game, The sole object of which is to not remember that you are playing it. As
-soon as you remember that it exists, you have lost and must start again.
-"""
-- [James Dunckley](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20game)
-
-Played in the halls of schools and on the walls of BBSes, the Game is an early
-cognitovirus that has drawn ire for its unwinnable nature; nobody who knows of
-the Game has won, yet nobody who's won has ever known of the Game.
-
-
-# glossary
-
-Terms come from murderu.us chat participants, usually originating in popular or
-hacker culture. Any word can be used as any part of speech. Spelling is not a
-priority on murderu.us; terms may not be presented in their canonical form or
-used in chat in the form in which they are present here.
-
-If a word isn't here it may be in the jargon file, on WikiWikiWeb (the C2
-wiki), or from another language.
-
-- *2hu* - Touhou.
-- *9* - Plan 9 from Outer Space, or related.
-- *aaron* - Aaron Swartz, prolific late hacktivist.
-- *ackshually* - an overenunciation of "actually", used when the user knows
-  they're being pedantic but still wishes to correct someone else.
-- *bang* - ASCII 0x21. Used in place of a full stop when the user is excited.
-- *bashism* - a feature exclusive to the GNU utility bash(1), which someone
-  probably tried or will try to use in a shell that doesn't support it.
-- *bit* - the atomic unit of data, or 12.5 cents.
-- *blackhat* - cybersecurity dabbler operating outside of the law.
-- *bwk* - Brian W. Kernighan, best known for his work on UNIX and for
-  co-writing K&R.
-- *catb* - The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the title of esr's influential 1997
-  essay. Taken from esr's domain name [catb.org].
-- *catv* - either the "random internet contrarian organization" [cat-v.org],
-  the presentation [UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful
-  ](http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/) after which [catv.org] was named, or the
-  option to the UNIX cat(1) utility that the presentation complains about.
-- *client* - the program being used to access a networked application,
-  typically hosted by a server.
-- *coc* - Code of Conduct. Most unpopular with the type of person that warrants
-  the creation of one.
-- *cw* - short for "content warning" and usually followed by a brief
-  explanation for the warning.
-- */cyb/* - short for cyberpunk or cybernetics, or an occasional cyberpunk
-  thread on /g/.
-- *drew* - Drew DeVault, best known for writing SourceHut.
-- *daraps* - Dylan Araps, best known for writing the shell script neofetch(1).
-  Now a farmer.
-- *dmr* - Dennis M. Ritchie, best known for his work with UNIX and C.
-- *dox* - expose personally identifiable information, typically location.
-- *eep* - sleep.
-- *esr* - Eric Scott Raymond, best known for writing catb.
-- *fuaark* - "fuck", but /cyb/.
-- */g/* - 4chan's technology board.
-- *gayming* - pejorative spelling of "gaming".
-- *good morning* - a greeting used regardless of local time.
-- *good night* - a parting used regardless of local time.
-- *grayhat* - person whose day job is being a whitehat but who also acts as a
-  blackhat.
-- *grok* - see the jargon file. Understand in a comprehensive way.
-- *impl* - implementation.
-- *interrobang* - Unicode U+203D; visually, a bang on top of a question mark.
-  Used in place of a full stop when the user is excitedly confused, or
-  flabbergasted.
-- *jwz* - Jamie Werner Zawinsky, best known for his work on Netscape Navigator.
-- *ken* - Ken Thompson, best known for his work on UNIX.
-- *larp* - live action role play; pose as a more grandiose figure.
-- *lions* - either John Lions, the professor at the University of New South
-  Wales, or the commentary on the UNIX source code for which he's known.
-- *metaspinoza* - former Instagram microcelebrity known for posting image
-  macros relating to philosophy. Now a farmer.
-- *nebraska guy complex* - the belief that one is simultaneously unknown and an
-  individually crucial figure for the continued working of the world's
-  computers; a reference to xkcd #2347.
-- *neet* - not employed, in education, or in training.
-- *netshy* - afraid of conversing in an on-line space.
-- *rabbit rabbit* - said upon waking up at the start of a month for good luck.
-- *rekt* - killed brutally.
-- *rms* - Richard M. Stallman, best known for founding GNU.
-- *rtfm* - read the fucking manual.
-- *sepples* - the C++ programming language.
-- *shiggydiggy* - like, but in a groovy manner.
-- *shill* - to advertise obnoxiously, possibly in exchange for payment.
-- *snarf* - snarf.
-- *subgeneral* - from trinity in murderu.us#subgeneral (2024-05-10T1942MST):
-  "way way way back when this xmpp server was a discord for myself and the
-  people in my high school, this guy i knew got shitfaced and started hitting
-  on everyone. i made a new channel named drunk tank where i put him to cordon
-  him off from the rest of people without being mean to him because i didnt
-  wanna huwt his feewings. drunk tank became subgeneral after i fell down the
-  discordianism rabbit hole, general was kinda meaningless so i deleted it,
-  channels collapsed, and now years later it is subgeneral and media on
-  murderu.us"
-- *terry* - Terry A. Davis, best known for writing TempleOS.
-- *torvalds* - Linus Torvalds, best known for creating Linux.
-- *uriel* - late founder of catv.
-- *vaxry* - pseudonymous developer best known for writing Hyprland.
-- *vore* - swallow whole. Usually used to refer to the fetish.
-- *vuln* - vulnerability.
-- *wagie* - pejorative term for someone working hourly for minimum wage or
-  close to it.
-- *whitehat* - cybersecurity professional who operates within the law, serving
-  Capital.
-- *wm4* - pseudonymous creator of mpv.
-- *wpd* - watchpeopledie.
-
-
-# the hacker's dictionary
-
-- [The Original Hacker's Dictionary](https://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html)
-
-"""
-This file, jargon.txt, was maintained on MIT-AI for many years, before being
-published by Guy Steele and others as the Hacker's Dictionary. Many years after
-the original book went out of print, Eric Raymond picked it up, updated it and
-republished it as the New Hacker's Dictionary. Unfortunately, in the process,
-he essentially destroyed what held it together...
-"""
-- jpd (The Original Hacker's Dictionary)
-
-The Hacker's Dictionary, also known as JARGON.TXT or the "jargon file", was a
-glossary of informal terms used by Lisp hackers at the Massachusetts Institute
-of Technology. Then it was commandeered by Eric Raymond and turned into a
-glossary of informal or formal terms used by Lisp or Unix hackers or suits
-wherever an Internet connection or a bookstore with a computing section can be
-found.

be/game/index.m4

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+define(`_DESCRIPTION', `a loss cause')dnl
+define(`_PAGE', `game')dnl
+include(`../wiki.m4')dnl
+
+_header(`Game')
+
+_passage(`_link(`James Dunckley', `https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20game')', `
+<P>
+A game, The sole object of which is to not remember that you are playing it. As soon as you remember that it exists, you have lost and must start again.
+</P>')
+
+<P>
+Played in the halls of schools and on the walls of BBSes, the Game is an early cognitovirus that has drawn ire for its unwinnable nature;
+nobody who knows of the Game has won, yet nobody who's won has ever known of the Game.
+</P>
+
+include(`../tail.m4')dnl