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slack... discord... ?

what next, microsoftskypianity?




Aha! I see you are one of today's lucky 10,000! [1]

Well, you would be, if I wasn’t too lazy to give a brief introduction to the American tradition of comedy Zen that both Discordianism[2] and The Church of the SubGenius[3] are manifestations of.

Unless including Wikipedia links counts. It probably doesn’t. Hail Eris.

1:https://xkcd.com/1053/

2:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism

3:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius


It's a conspi^W^W unlucky that neither Slack[1] nor Discord[2] the messengers got their names from those.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/where-did-slack-get-its-name-...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/4itsnj/why_did_...


Wow! I honestly thought they were references to the Church of SubGenius and Discordianism respectively. Odd how the names still make sense when viewed with the hacker sense of humour as if they were references...


Honestly I’m skeptical of both of this explanations for the names.




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