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Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack by creade on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:01PM (#25214774)
Headline predictions:

-2024 Stewart Butterfield announces new MMORPG, "Cology"

-2025 Butterfield reluctantly shutters Cology after failing to attract playerbase

-2026 Butterfield announces public release of collaborative VR design tool first built for Cology, "Devival"

-2027 Devival passes 3 million DAUs

-2028 Devival announces IPO

-2029 Devival sold to Adobe for $35b

-2032 Stewart Butterfield announces new MMORPG, "Breviariam"

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Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack by avolcano on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:33PM (#25215032)
Don't forget the part where he sells the Cology domain and trademarks to another tech startup :)

(I have quite a few friends who have some fondness for what Glitch-the-game was trying to do. Always appreciated that they open sourced the art from it: https://www.glitchthegame.com/public-domain-game-art/)

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