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Chris -- 2025-05-10
To game a system is to gain some advantage, or even cheat as long as rules are not broken, and has been described as malicious compliance. The term was first used in 1975 which, perhaps significantly, was the same year ‘Pong’ was released for home use.
Playing the system would have much the same meaning, and I suppose Gameboy could have as easily been named Playboy but for misleading connotations – some billionaire philanderer ignoring the casino to drool excitedly over a small plastic console.
Granted it would be an in built method for gaining the system which some would use, however given that cheaters are rarely punished, and …
The intention may be to prevent developers from ‘gaining the system’, but representors unanimously argued that a 65% blanket ratio is too …
They won’t let you see a progress bar on how far your in rank because they feel like we would be gaining the system.
Issue: the customer may try to gain the system by taking advantage of the fact that bitcoin price always fluctuates.
This is how you gain the system. This is how you gain the economy. This is the CEO way (wasted my fucking money on gorbinos quest tho)
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A relative of mine, last name Booker, was going to name his son “Mark” until he thought about what that might mean for a 12-year old. Do people who coin phrases never think about obvious eggcorns?
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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