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Urbit's documentation is like the Codex Seraphinianus but less understandable.

This is my first visit to Urbit... I feel like I stumbled into a parallel dimension. Currently transfixing me: The "Hoon syntax" page gives one-syllable pronunciations for all the ASCII punctuation chars. Wat.

https://urbit.org/docs/hoon/hoon-school/hoon-syntax

Geez, this seems like if Timecube was opensourced on GitHub. Is it a serious project or a parody?

It's as serious as Perl, but where joining the Perl community turns you into Ned Flanders, it's meant to turn you into a pro-monarchy NRX guy.

You might need therapy after, but whenever I've met someone who can't stop saying things like "grok" and "less than awesome" I've always thought they needed whatever the opposite of therapy is. They're so well adjusted you can't stand being near them.

NRX = neo-reactionary, for those not up to date with the latest political affiliation acronyms.

thanks, you saved me an urbandictionary visit. :P

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