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I did not get this, and appreciate you providing the context

It does require a bit of a PhD on gaming and Internet history.

Andrew Kelley even referenced this in the proposal:

> In exchange, Zig gains these benefits:

> - All our bugs are belong to us.

> - …

> but that's probably because people didn't get the joke.

It’s more that Hacker News tends to collectively frown upon posts that are only jokes, if I had to guess.