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For some irrational reason this article annoyed me. It came across arrogant with an attempt at being high-brow, and included too much fluff. Describing the foun
by shever73 6mo ago
For some irrational reason this article annoyed me. It came across arrogant with an attempt at being high-brow, and included too much fluff. Describing the founders as "foundering figures" was amusing - I don't know if the image of taking on water and sinking was the author's intent, but I think I've just become guilty of the same thing I've accused the article of.
- timcobb 6mo ago"weird pbotons"
- myko 6mo agomaybe trying to be too clever here but i think he was implying they were in over their heads and just really lucky
- uptownJimmy 6mo agoIt's not irrational to be irritated by bad writing.
- roelschroeven 6mo ago> It came across arrogant with an attempt at being high-brow, and included too much fluff. Seems consistent with the name of the website: "Literary Hub"
- gwbas1c 6mo agoI would have appreciated some pictures.
- clickety_clack 6mo agoI think that an actionable critique might be that there’s an overuse of “big word” adverbs and adjectives.
- jasonkester 6mo agoI found myself hoping to find signals that it was written by AI, so that I didn't have to feel embarrassed for an actual author. That's a first for me.
- futuraperdita 6mo agoIt feels like the output you’d get from an LLM if you had asked it to write in a literary style. It’s not well-written, and reads more pretentious than capable.
- deepspace 6mo agoI came here to say exactly the same thing. The writing is so bad I thought it must be an AI, but then I realized that AIs tend to write much better copy than this drivel.
- OhMeadhbh 6mo agoit's also wrong. Computer Space and Galaxy Games predated pong. And several non-coin-op games like Nimrod, Tennis for Two and Spacewar! predate pong by decades. A quick trip to the Wikipedia could have revealed this error. I really want this to be an AI generated article because it means AI has come a long way in emulating human fallibility.
- p_l 6mo agoAs some have noticed, US writing about games is very console-centric