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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SATURDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 2008
You're "chronically online".
Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have a loading icon.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
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- Fortnite was free to play. It was not free to stop.
- You said "we move". You've lived in the same bedroom since you were nine.
- The best time to start saving was twenty years ago. The second-best time was…
- You wanted a mini-me. You got a tiny negotiator who has never once lost…
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