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		estebank on Nov 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The sound of the dialup, pictured (2012) > Somewhat ironic is that KDE3 splashscreen showed low-levelish looking messages that had nothing to do with what was really happening in order to cater to users with this approach to computing. "Reticulating splines"

dfox on Nov 7, 2017 [–]

Maxis' games (ie. "Reticulating splines", but SimCity 4 does that to) and KSP also comes to mind for this, but in these cases the messages are obvious nonsense, which is not the case for KDE.

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