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THURSDAY, 17 OCTOBER 1974
“Just one more game” of FIFA was the most dishonest sentence in the English language.
Then they renamed it. The sentence survived.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
- The loot box has a 0.5% chance of something good. The studio has a…
- You "can't do mornings". You also can't do afternoons, evenings or emails.
- You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up. Eleven kilometres later you'd caught…
- You're not a CEO. You're one person with a logo, a free email account…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
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