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[โ€“] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How can you tell ?

Is it the em-dashes I left in ?

Or is it when I said

Ok Machine, convert this schizo-ing document into Ratheon Cybernetic Auditory Telemetry & Echolocation with Anisotropic Reception (CAT&EAR) engineering requirement draft document

If I wanted to, believe you me, I could have gotten the Gepetto taste out of this
But I'm not here to play cat and mouse games, I'm here to make the best goddamn cat hear you've never heard of.

[โ€“] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It was the emojis used as bullet points, some that were not situationally relevant.

[โ€“] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

BTW I made those spoiler tags because the bullet points are categories of design requirements and the list would have been annoyingly long for anyone scrolling past