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Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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Re: Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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They should change the name! It's a terrible name and it's cost them an inestimable amount of users.

They who place shallow attributes above merit, deserve neither.

If they gave it a stupid name, why would they be any smarter in the development of the system itself? The name clearly indicates a lack of wisdom.

First impressions matter.

Re: Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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Came here to say the same. Someone needs to tell these people that Twitter is not a blogging service...

One or two people have mentioned it to him before. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1127083480674750465

He has a blog: https://foone.wordpress.com/

He uses twitter for shorter, quick posts. A "micro" blog, if you will.

Re: Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

#143

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They who place shallow attributes above merit, deserve neither.

If they gave it a stupid name, why would they be any smarter in the development of the system itself? The name clearly indicates a lack of wisdom. First impressions matter.

First impressions matter mostly to those who are influenced by them. Many scams have been successful because of exactly that.

A stupid name might do well on search engines for example (as in, those names could be easily searched)

Furthermore I don't really consider the name to be stupid. I don't quite really know of many other ways of succinctly highlighting resilience as a property in a name.

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