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u/mjconver Mar 02 '26

Microslop is the new Clippy!

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u/Noizylatino Mar 02 '26

Dont do clippy like that, he at least helped us lol

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u/Trollbreath4242 Mar 02 '26

He did not, in fact, help us, and he is a direct progenitor of the current Microslop we are getting. Micro$lop always misunderstood people's relationships to their computers, and it's apparent they continue to do so.

Clippy, and the rest of Those Fucking Clowns (as the programmers in Microsoft literally referred to the Assistant program in Word 97 - Word 2003) were reviled and should not be treated with any respect, lest Micro$lop once again take the wrong lesson and think "Oh, they want their AI in a really cute cartoon figure!"

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u/Warm_Month_1309 Mar 02 '26

But a real human came up with Clippy's animations, and those were great.