Dark Souls Comments for the Internet

Thoughts from readers “Why is it always DNS?” “Behold, message!” “Ahh, HTML...” “Seek Pentium” “Sorcery considered harmful” “Stakeholder is temporary, feature is eternal” “Root is all you need” Behold, Emacs! Send thought

A dark-themed reader-comment interface presents ordinary internet and programming phrases as cryptic, solemn Dark Souls-style messages, complete with voting gestures and a dice icon. The joke is that replacing free-form comments with a limited “message construction” system would make online discussion feel like solemn in-game messages, while the selected phrase “Behold, Emacs!” parodies the format. EN: A dark-themed reader-comment interface presents ordinary internet and programming phrases as cryptic, solemn Dark Souls-style messages, complete with voting gestures and a dice icon. The joke is that replacing free-form comments with a limited “message construction” system would make online discussion feel like solemn in-game messages, while the selected phrase “Behold, Emacs!” parodies the format.

• @ithueti / 18487 2026-07-09