This is such a well written story, and congratulations Ben, it sounds like it's been a lot of hard but ultimately successful work!

I know you'll deservedly get a lot of credit for all your work in remastering the game, but you should also get credit for how you've woven this narrative together, it's a lovely read. Thank you for taking the time to write it up, and good luck with the Steam release, and whatever project you take on next! :)

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benstopics 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Thank you sir and I'm glad you enjoyed the story! I hope it's successful but we will see.

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sho_hn 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I really enjoyed this article as well!

I'm still curious, however:

> That's not a marketing angle—it's a headline that writes itself.

Any ChatGPT assistance there?

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benstopics an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Claude actually! Yeah the content editing was heavily LLM assisted as I'm a terrible writer and I wanted the read to be enjoyable. So I compiled all the research and worked with Claude to build the article. I then attempted to go through with a fine tooth comb and write it in my own words. That is one particular sentence I missed with a highly recognizable LLM pattern which I will fix. I simply also don't have time to really market the game, I care more about the quality of the software. I know if the software is great then it will be successful. But I wanted to share the story in a compelling way. Apologies if it was distracting!

	▲	sho_hn an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Totally fine, thanks for the answer.

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grey-area 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder why LLMs do this so persistently (the ‘it’s not this it’s that’)? Is there really so much of this style of writing out there?

	▲	msephton an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Professionally typeset books. Designers have been typing it—and the other dashes—manually using Option+Shift+hyphen on Mac since 1984. You can type them—plus the bullet character—today on iOS by doing a long press on the hyphen key.
	▲	doctoboggan 43 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I think it comes from the RLHF. If you haven't interacted with LLMs enough to get turned off by it, I think that kind of speech is seen as powerful and confident.
	▲	alwa an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I wonder this too. Is there so much of this style, or does it indicate some aspect of the LLMs’ sensemaking?

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Aloha 20 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm only annoyed that I cant buy it right now!

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teiferer 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> This is such a well written story, [...] you should also get credit for how you've woven this narrative together, it's a lovely read.

Don't forget to give credit to the LLM too which wrote the story for him.

	▲	benstopics 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, it's 2026 I used Claude to write a lot of it. But tell me this. Do you know which paragraphs I wrote?