alt Hacker NewsFor 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.
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It's not irrational to be irritated by bad writing.
> 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"
it'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.
I think that an actionable critique might be that there’s an overuse of “big word” adverbs and adjectives.
I would have appreciated some pictures.
maybe trying to be too clever here but i think he was implying they were in over their heads and just really lucky
"weird pbotons"
I 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.