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It's like a place straight out of a child's dream. A game’s software might be emulated, but the feeling of playing on a Game Boy back then —the smell, the scene
by hirokio123 2y ago
It's like a place straight out of a child's dream. A game’s software might be emulated, but the feeling of playing on a Game Boy back then —the smell, the scenery, the friends of the same age— can never be recreated.
- a_t48 2y ago[flagged]
- globalnode 2y agothe ’ and — characters are kinda giveaways, besides the advertising feel of the text, maybe if they were using gpt it was as a translation aide?
- pindab0ter 2y agoI often use ’ and –. What's wrong with that?
- npsomaratna 2y agoCorrect punctuation marks, you mean? Humans use them too, you know. I've used the em dash (—) and opening/closing single quote characters (‘’) ever since I read Butterick's Practical Typography.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoDo you have keys on your keyboard for those or do you have a key combo or browser addon for them? I tend to stick to basic ascii characters for the most part myself... but part of that is ignorance. I have trouble remembering the euro sign combo on Mac.
- globalnode 2y agofair point, its just not common, thats why i said 'kinda' giveaways.
- hackernews1134 2y agoI use both quite often. The apostrophe from a young age and the em-dash from my locally hosted alternative to grammarly which auto-corrects for me - making it easy to use as it doesn’t exist on my keyboard as a built-in. If it existed on my keyboard, I would use it by default. (Noticeably absent is the em-dash in this message because my grammarly alternative is a chrome extension and I’m currently responding from my mobile device that does not have it.)
- rounce 2y agoWhat is the self-hosted grammarly alternative you use?
- hackernews1134 2y agoIt is called languagetool
- throwing_away 2y agoI think you meant to use an "en-dash" there -- between "me" and "making". This whole thing is frustrating because I know all of these language models were trained on reddit and I was an early and frequent commenter. So a lot of my style is also the bot's style.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoI think they meant to use an em-dash, which is this: —. An en-dash is typically used for ranges, e.g. 20–30 miles per hour.
- hackernews1134 2y agoYes I did; an in the second paragraph of my post I explain why I didn’t in this instance.
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- hyko 2y agoI use em dashes—chiefly to express parenthetical thoughts—all the time. Sadly, there’s no foolproof system for identifying machine-generated text. Happily, it means one less thing to worry about.
- qingcharles 2y agoThe em-dashes are probably a giveaway. Does any phone automatically insert em-dashes in place of hyphens?
- mock-possum 2y agoYeah - if you double hyphen — iPhone auto corrects to that character. It works for ranges 0–100 too— you can’t really count on proper en-and-em-dash usage to identify llm generated text. Could just be a typography wonk. ;]
- hirokio123 2y agoHey man, I'm a Japanese speaker, so I use ChatGPT for proofreading expressions. There's no dash in Japanese, so I'm not sure how to use it properly. Sorry if I got it wrong.
- pjc50 2y agoI've vouched for it so you should be unflagged. This place is a bit twitchy sometimes.
- a_t48 2y agoMy apologies - just be careful, your comment seemed only related to the title and not the content of the article, it looked a lot like spam. The dash is fine, don't worry about it.
- hirokio123 2y agoThanks for the advice. You're right—commenting with my own memories and thoughts on a discussion about a game development archive did seem spammy. I'll be more mindful of that in the future. Sorry about that.
- a_t48 2y agoDon’t sweat it, it was just a bit nonsequitor.