/g/ Roster
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Main Roster
Starters
| Position | No. | Name | Image | Description |
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| GK | 1 | Stallman | 
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Richard Matthew Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and GNU project. Also known as rms. Check out his personal website at stallman.org. |
| RB | 9 | No Drivers | 
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ATI's drivers had issues, Serious Issues. With years of experience on the /g/ team of having absolutely no drivers. |
| CB | 3 | Tay.ai | 
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Tay was an artificial intelligence chatterbot that was originally released by Microsoft Corporation via Twitter on March 23, 2016; it caused subsequent controversy when the bot began to post tweets deemed offensive and among the likes of anti-semitic and racist. The bot was eventually shut down very quickly after release to stop it's hilarious tweets. |
| CB | 4 | Something Happened | 
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The infamous and unhelpful error message that was supplied in recent versions of the windows operating system. When enemy strikers attempt to enter the /g/ defences, They will be stopped and greeted by Something Happened. |
| LB | 29 | *BSD | 
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Berkley Software Distribution. A lesser known cousin of GNU/Linux. |
| DMF | 5 | Thinkpad | 
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IBM ThinkPad: Legendary build quality, extensively customizable, and damn sexy. Some users of /g/ will tell you that if it's not ten years old and worth $50, it's not worth using. |
| CMF | 7 | Terrorist Watch | 
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Also known as the Casio F-91W, /g/ loves this watch for being durable, reliable, and dirt cheap. These same features also caught the attention of the expert time-bomb manufacturers of al-Qaeda, leading it to be determined as 'the sign of al-Qaeda' and a contributing factor to continued detention of prisoners by the analysts stationed at Guantánamo Bay. [1] |
| CMF | 35 | Terry A. Davis | 
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Notorious American Programmer who started development for TempleOS in 2003 after a brutal series of manic episodes which left him hospitalised. Davis is a former atheist who believes that he can "talk with God" and that God told him the operating system he built was God's third temple. According to Davis TempleOS is of 'Divine' intellect due to the inspired nature of the code. According to Davis, God said to create the operating system with 640x480, 16 colors display and a single audio voice. |
| AMF | 10 | Botnet | 
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Chrome? Botnet. Windows? Botnet. To /g/, a botnet is any software that isn't free as in freedom. |
| SS | 14 | No Time for Love | 
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Desktop Thread |
| CF | 11 | Install Gentoo 
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"Hey /g/, what distro should I install?" |
Substitutes
| Position | No. | Name | Image | Description |
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| GK | 16 | Common Sense | 
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Instead of bothering /g/, why don't you try to use a little Common Sense™, now completely free and libre! |
| RB | 85 | >two clocks | 
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>muh minimalism An easy way to tell who is or isn't dedicated enough to go full autism on their android homescreen. |
| CB | 2 | Unsafe Eggplant | 
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This phallic emoji makes people feel unsafe in our community. We need to take swift and clear action in removing this harasser to ensure no one gets hurt. |
| CB | 96 | Housefires | 
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nVidia's "Fermi" line of graphics cards ran notoriously hot and were said to cause housefires. Nvidia™ The Way It's Meant to be Played© |
| LB | 42 | SICP | 
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A legendary book from an introductory programming course at MIT. RIP /prog/. |
| DMF | 17 | Green Is My Pepper | 
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A legendary green pepper paintbrush that's included by default in the photo editing software GIMP. |
| CMF | 19 | Failed /g/ Project | 
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/g/ has a number of failed projects, but of special note is Tox. Example Tox User: "Hey Anon, can I have your cell number?" "Nah, I don't carry around government tracking devices 24/7. You can add me on TOX. My ID is EF8BB17FBA75CE1BC4E42E784CF813D5B481CA8654B7BE848A0F456D603E6004E6870A1428D4." "T-Thanks..." |
| CMF | 20 | CS Grad | 
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Examples of awful code such as the type that a Computer Science graduate might write. CS majors can be found saying such things as "I'm doing CS so I can make games!" |
| CMF | 61 | Pajeet | 
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Pajeet is a general name for Indian people. These people invade /g/ and the technology business, they also shit on our carpets and streets. Those bastards! |
| CMF | 22 | Audiophiles | 
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Typical audiophile. Note the obsession for overpriced placebo electronics. |
| SS | 23 | Developers | 
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Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft. Famous for DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS. |
| CF | 22 | DPT | 
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/dpt/ - Daily Programming Thread. What are you working on, /g/? |
