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Re: Fallout 4

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Post by jasonlotito »

nickysielicki wrote: post #26

Meta comment: I really dislike that this is on my HN frontpage. If you're sharing/upvoting this because you think the web design is cool (or in this case, decidedely awful), then that's cool with me. This site is god awful. It required me to unblacklist 6 domains to merely load, and that's especially terrible because it ended up becoming just a wrapper for a youtube video. I wish web designers would stop assuming I w…

> I wish that posters would indicate it in the title or in a comment.

A search for the username provide the context in seconds.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9652604

> I really dislike that this is on my HN frontpage.

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site."

> Probably the biggest reason I don't visit reddit anymore is because there is far too much native advertising.

Welcome, but please keep in mind the guidelines and take a few minutes to fact check yourself before making assumptions, and you'll do fine here.

Re: Fallout 4

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Post by mhurron »

nickysielicki wrote: post #26

Meta comment: I really dislike that this is on my HN frontpage. If you're sharing/upvoting this because you think the web design is cool (or in this case, decidedely awful), then that's cool with me. This site is god awful. It required me to unblacklist 6 domains to merely load, and that's especially terrible because it ended up becoming just a wrapper for a youtube video. I wish web designers would stop assuming I w…

> It required me to unblacklist 6 domains to merely load

I'm getting sick of it too. If I go to a site that doesn't show ANYTHING without javascript being enabled, I just browse back. If I have to turn on a bunch of scripts to press a button, enabling them for sites that don't have anything to do with the main site, I just browse back.

Ya, no one cares, but their content just isn't that important to do any work for it anyway.

Re: Fallout 4

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Post by rkangel »

nickysielicki wrote: post #26

Meta comment: I really dislike that this is on my HN frontpage. If you're sharing/upvoting this because you think the web design is cool (or in this case, decidedely awful), then that's cool with me. This site is god awful. It required me to unblacklist 6 domains to merely load, and that's especially terrible because it ended up becoming just a wrapper for a youtube video. I wish web designers would stop assuming I w…

The only way that I can ever summarise Hacker News to people is "a collection of things that are interesting to technology people". That is the (intended) effect of the voting system (assuming you're happy with the sweeping categorisation of the people on here as technology people).

Some of us like to hear about Interesting new science Attempts to land a rocket on a floating launch pad New releases of a bit of open source software New releases of closed source software (you might not like Windows, but a new release is still significant). etc.

Why not information on a new release of a computer game[1]? Lots of people on here use (play) them? Why is that materially different than a new release of an OS? My mentality with upvoting things isn't "plugging something", it's "this is interesting, you should all see this".

It's not advertising, it's like minded people communicating information of interest to them, in exactly the same way that you might be chatting to someone at the watercooler and ask them if they saw that Fallout 4 was going to be released.

[1] Obviously that would fit in the 'new releases of closed source software" anyway

Re: Fallout 4

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Post by Kiro »

The Vault jumpsuit doesn't look saggy. The number one thing that prevented me from playing Fallout 3. Hooray!

Re: Fallout 4

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Post by squeaky-clean »

nickysielicki wrote: post #26

Meta comment: I really dislike that this is on my HN frontpage. If you're sharing/upvoting this because you think the web design is cool (or in this case, decidedely awful), then that's cool with me. This site is god awful. It required me to unblacklist 6 domains to merely load, and that's especially terrible because it ended up becoming just a wrapper for a youtube video. I wish web designers would stop assuming I w…

If there was a post on the front page titled "Sublime Text 4", not submitted by the creator, would you still be upset? I'm sure a good portion of the HN community are fans of the Fallout series and/or are anticipating Fallout 4. There's nothing wrong with discussing things we enjoy, but aren't made by us.

The website does suck, though. Autplaying video, it doesn't load with uBlock enabled, and there's really no point to it, it's just a glorified youtube link.

Re: Fallout 4

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Post by obstinate »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #6

I hope the game itself is good. I enjoyed 3 and New Vegas, and I'll probably pick this up on or near launch. The thing that's bothered me with Bethesda Softwork's games is that they are stubbornly single thread CPU bound, and don't scale beyond 2 cores that well. Perhaps the newer consoles will force them to multithread better.

Why do you care whether the game uses more than one core. You'd need a truly ancient CPU for the game to demand more compute than a single core provides.

Re: Fallout 4

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Post by erikb »

nickysielicki wrote: post #26

Meta comment: I really dislike that this is on my HN frontpage. If you're sharing/upvoting this because you think the web design is cool (or in this case, decidedely awful), then that's cool with me. This site is god awful. It required me to unblacklist 6 domains to merely load, and that's especially terrible because it ended up becoming just a wrapper for a youtube video. I wish web designers would stop assuming I w…

If you feel this link is inappropriate you can click the "flag" button. It helps a lot in managing what should be on the front page and what shouldn't be.

Re: Fallout 4

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Post by brador »

nickysielicki wrote: post #26

Meta comment: I really dislike that this is on my HN frontpage. If you're sharing/upvoting this because you think the web design is cool (or in this case, decidedely awful), then that's cool with me. This site is god awful. It required me to unblacklist 6 domains to merely load, and that's especially terrible because it ended up becoming just a wrapper for a youtube video. I wish web designers would stop assuming I w…

You will either love or hate http://skimfeed.com.

No ads, fast loading, and nothing to blacklist.

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