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Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers by netsharc on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:46AM (#23768394)
That giant "Mouse Lives Matter" image is a cheap and tasteless joke and you're distracting from whatever cool hack you did.

Sorry for sounding like the PC police, but for me it's comparable to showing off some plane autopilot system and saying "you can even program it to fly to the nearest skyscraper"...

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Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers by retrohax on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:08PM (#23773207)
I owe you an explanation. It was supposed to be a joke but looks like it wasn't good. I've removed it after reading your comments
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Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:35PM (#23773441)
Thanks for being sensitive to other people's concerns
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Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers by thunfischbrot on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:56AM (#23768433)
Struck me as weird. It's not really a play on words, it's not funny or witty.
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Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers by youngNed on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:10AM (#23768497)
agreed, its like a couple of years ago when slides and posts were titled 'make x great again' - absolutely tone-def.
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Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:03AM (#23769453)
Yikes. I don't see it, did they take it down?
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Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers by netsharc on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:57AM (#23769896)
Looks like they did. It was just a "lolcat"-esque (nowadays aka "meme pic") of a white mouse (the animal) with the caption as I quoted.
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Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers by spzb on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:57AM (#23768691)
Yep, I read the article that far and then came back here to ask if people think that's an OK thing.
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Re:Project mouSTer – Mouse adapter for retrocomputers by dillonmckay on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:36AM (#23768603)
Agreed. It is in poor taste.
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