[thundermuffin]

No, let's be fair to the author. It's a PlayStation in the sense it's named a Sony Playstation 4. Colloquially in the US (where the author is from), every generation is referred to as a PlayStation and has been since the PS2 days.

Nintendo's naming scheme greatly differs from the way Sony does it, and I don't think it's it's good faith to the author to act like they're being dense or stupid.

[masklinn]

> No, let's be fair to the author. It's a PlayStation in the sense it's named a Sony Playstation 4.

So in the sense that it says nothing interesting about the article. The PS3 originally supported alternative OS ("OtherOS" feature), in which sense doing advent of code on a playstation is no different than doing it on any computer from circa 2005.

[psychphysic]

Agree while I like the article the title is misleading.

Similarly PS2 Linux was official[0]. There was also an implementation of basic.

For the PSX there was the Net Yaroze[1]. Allowing game development and sharing.

The several of the Nintendo consoles have smileBASIC (petitComputer)[2].

Heck you can boot Linux and Steam on the PS4 these days...[3].

Finally, there are SDKs available for every Sony and Nintendo console of the modern era. DevkitPro is generally excellent[5].

This article should be called I did advent of code in Dreams.

But got to get dem clicks.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze

[2] https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-so...

[4] https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps4-linux-bzimages-for-all-versi...

[5] https://devkitpro.org/

[thundermuffin]

Do you consider calling a PlayStation 1 a PSX misleading since Sony released a PS2 + video recorder product actually called the PSX? [0] I don't, but the way folks in this thread are acting about naming conventions, maybe I need to, haha!

I can't believe how uptight and pedantic folks are in a fun thread where the author lays out exactly what's going on in the first sentence; it's like everybody was having a bad NYE and just wanted to take it out on this person who shared their fun, haha.

I get it that all the folks here want everything 100% right 100% of the time, but dang, I can't believe folks are so upset about it not being a PlayStation 1.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(digital_video_recorder)

[masklinn]

> I get it that all the folks here want everything 100% right 100% of the time, but dang, I can't believe folks are so upset about it not being a PlayStation 1.

It's not about everything being 100% right 100% of the time. It's about the title being complete bait.

It's not about doing AoC on a PlayStation, let alone on a PS1, which is the most reasonable assumption from reading the title. It's about doing AoC in Dreams.

[thundermuffin]

You're right, it should have specified it was done in Dreams. My initial reply was mostly meant that it didn't feel fair or in the spirit of HN to dress the author down as if he was just some 90s stereotypical sitcom mother calling everything a Nintendo.

I'm honestly surprised I was the only one that found that insulting not only to the intelligence of the author but also mothers and the larger group of women. I normally just lurk on HN, but that felt meaner than normal to me, haha.

[psychphysic]

People feel mislead and they are allowed to feel that.

Clickbait is very frustrating.

The thing about being mislead is either it happened or didn't. And a significant number of people felt mislead. No matter how obvious it was to you it doesn't change those individual experiences!

[thundermuffin]

I've never seen Ben's site on HN before, does he happen to post a lot of clickbait articles? If his site happens to be submitted a lot with of misleading titles, I'll gladly apologize and say I was completely wrong in giving him the benefit of the doubt of not trying to clickbait 90s gamers, haha.

[psychphysic]

I don't see why a pattern of behaviour is required here?