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> vid3o g4mes Why do you type it like that?
by deaddodo 2y ago
> vid3o g4mes
Why do you type it like that?
- immibis 2y agoUsually people do this to avoid automatic censorship systems. HN certainly has censorship in place, but I'm not aware of any that targets discussion of video games.
- cubefox 2y agoOld habit. I'm a kid of the 1990s, and we were convinced there wasn't anything cooler than a) video games and b) replacing letters with numbers. It retrospect, we might have been a little biased.
- deaddodo 2y agoWell, just for future reference; if you're a kid of the 90s, you're well into your 30s now. It's weird/juvenile to be typing a phrase in a manner similar to a preteen, well after 20+ years have passed. Especially in the middle of an otherwise normal message/conversation.
- bitwize 2y agoWe thought that was dorky, skiddie shit even back in the 90s. It was even more stale by the time Piro and Largo turned it into a personality trait. Though I think this guy just did it the way a 2000s kid would say "vidya gaems".