[shever73]

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.

[jasonkester]

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.

[futuraperdita]

It 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]

I 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.

[uptownJimmy]

It's not irrational to be irritated by bad writing.

[OhMeadhbh]

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.

[p_l]

As some have noticed, US writing about games is very console-centric

[roelschroeven]

> 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"

[clickety_clack]

I think that an actionable critique might be that there’s an overuse of “big word” adverbs and adjectives.

[gwbas1c]

I would have appreciated some pictures.

[myko]

maybe trying to be too clever here but i think he was implying they were in over their heads and just really lucky

[timcobb]

"weird pbotons"