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   Andrew Zonenberg (azonenberg@ioc.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 15:01:45 JST Andrew Zonenberg

   Imagine a video game about academic publishing. Your character starts out as an undergraduate writing assignments in a simple text editor with minimal formatting capabilities, then over time you unlock the skills to add pretty graphics, two-column format, citations, etc.

   You could call the mechanic...

   ... a TeX tree.

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     Ooze 𓁟 (ooze@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 15:01:44 JST Ooze 𓁟

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     @azonenberg And it could have a life force meter that slowly drops until by the time you have a PhD you have no will to live.

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     MortSinyx (cnx@awkward.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 15:02:32 JST MortSinyx

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     • Ooze 𓁟

     jokes on thee, @Ooze, i didn't have any will to live even back when i was an undergrad

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     Ooze 𓁟 (ooze@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 17:01:27 JST Ooze 𓁟

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     • MortSinyx

     @cnx 🫂

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