[00:48] > but there is a power to our :x
[00:48] > one that i'm sure you've noticed
[00:48] > an addictive quality
[00:48] > it takes over the very soul
[00:48] > and removes all competitors
[00:49] > until, in the end, it is the last one left standing
[00:49] > the DD community used to be a varied sort
[00:49] > with XD and :D and :P and :) and all in between
[00:49] > but then we discovered :x
[00:49] > and everything else fizzled away
[00:49] > #slackdev was founded around the concept of :x
[00:50] > and it branched out
[00:50] > kav adopted it from similar roots
[00:50] > and it branched out into pyro
[00:50] > and when they took control of rmvx.net
[00:50] > it branched out there
[00:50] > it went from me to TREG
[00:50] > to andy
[00:50] > to the rest of #rmvx
[00:50] > er
[00:50] > #rmxp
[00:50] > and when we took control of rmxp.org
[00:50] > it supplanted all others
[00:50] > you see how prominent it is?
[00:50] > but you also see how misused it is
[00:51] > atemu in particular
[00:51] > with ":x;;"
[00:51] > that was an affront to God Himself
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[00:51] > that was the day we realized we needed to protect it from misuse
[00:52] > for if not us
[00:52] > then who?