Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Game Over" Pin. Do you know why retro videogame designs always had such jagged edges and corners? It's because Republicans banned round digital shapes in 1987, fearing it was a slippery slope to virtual breasts and buttocks.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BCMXZKP/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_apa_gl_i_251P9ANA29SZ897YBTN3?linkCode=ml1&tag=lowqualityfac-22-20&linkId=e1224cefa88d5605fb951676f0cbf627&gaOptInStatus=true
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This policy was abandoned in 1989 after a federal study concluded that gamers can still be turned on by straight lines and corners.
@lowqualityfacts Thank you for the confirmation of what I suspected, that I only narrowly averted you getting me with this one.
(After living through the Satanic Panic, I wasn't completely sure it was a LQF. 😅)
@lowqualityfacts This almost feels like an invitation to reply with 1990s ASCII art haha
@lowqualityfacts I knew it!