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Re:Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus by lobster_johnson on Saturday May 28, 2016 @12:46AM (#11790607)
Deserts is an archaic word meaning "reward", i.e. a kind of noun form of "deserve".
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Re:Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus by LogicFailsMe on Saturday May 28, 2016 @12:03PM (#11792119)
"Just Desserts" would be a great name for a bakery, no?
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Re:Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus by EliRivers on Sunday May 29, 2016 @06:16AM (#11795808)
http://www.justdesserts.com/
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Re:Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus by Grepsy on Thursday June 02, 2016 @03:30PM (#11825349)
It's been a while since I've seen the marquee element in action.
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Re:Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus by madaxe_again on Saturday May 28, 2016 @04:21AM (#11790960)
It's those things left for you - which have been deserted.
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Re:Growing Rift Between Valve and Oculus by mrec on Saturday May 28, 2016 @08:40AM (#11791418)
No, that usage has a different etymology. Compare:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desert#Etymology_1

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desert#Etymology_3

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