This is not a SFW instance. NSFW communities will be tagged, and efforts will be made to keep SFW communities clean, but proceed at your own comfort level.
I’ve got a suspicion that this is one of those “say something intentionally stupid so that everyone jumps on the train to correct you and create engagement”.
That’s how everything in the internet works nowadays. I just can’t do it. Everyone (mostly bots I suspect) seem to want to get pissed off or feel themselves like correct or interesting.
There’s not all that much fact checking about something like that. It’s not like they claimed something and got one small detail wrong. It’s just a blanket statement that is unsubstantiated. Assuming they have common knowledge of the industry they’re in, it takes just one game that is not coin-operated and has some save functionality to make the original statement invalid.
I’ve got a suspicion that this is one of those “say something intentionally stupid so that everyone jumps on the train to correct you and create engagement”.
Next up: post a math problem with no right answers and watch the post get a million comments (where only 10% notice the lack of a right answer)
It’s Cunningham’s Law in action.
Sod’s Razor
I couldn’t find your reference on google, could you explain what that is and how it relates or corrects my comment of Cunningham’s Law?
It was an amalgamation of sod’s law and occam’s razor, to be purposefully wrong
lol
That’s how everything in the internet works nowadays. I just can’t do it. Everyone (mostly bots I suspect) seem to want to get pissed off or feel themselves like correct or interesting.
I try to “vote with my wallet” on these things whenever I can.
You can’t just call people on the spectrum bots :P
Or someone says something evocative of their meaning but not fully fact-checked and cited because they aren’t a clanker.
There’s not all that much fact checking about something like that. It’s not like they claimed something and got one small detail wrong. It’s just a blanket statement that is unsubstantiated. Assuming they have common knowledge of the industry they’re in, it takes just one game that is not coin-operated and has some save functionality to make the original statement invalid.