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The Sacred Pre-Gaming Ritual

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1 month ago 64.8K views 0 shares

The Sacred Pre-Gaming Ritual

Remember when we actually needed DxDiag? That little Windows diagnostic tool was our sacred ritual before installing a new game. "Can I run Crysis?" wasn't a meme—it was a genuine existential crisis that required consulting the oracle of DirectX Diagnostics. These days, kids just download whatever 200GB monstrosity Steam is featuring without a second thought. Meanwhile, I still instinctively reach for Win+R and type "dxdiag" whenever something doesn't run right—like checking the oil in a Tesla.

Look How They Massacred My AWK

Bash Programming StackOverflow Linux

2 months ago 136.5K views 0 shares

Look How They Massacred My AWK

Remember when AWK was actually used for text processing instead of just being that weird command in Stack Overflow answers? The existential crisis is real. This poor utility is having a mid-career breakdown after realizing its entire existence has been reduced to "print columns" by junior devs who have no idea about its pattern scanning and processing language capabilities. Like finding out your PhD is only being used to open beer bottles. The robot's face at the end is every senior engineer watching new grads discover grep for the first time.