> the offline option exists the way the wheelchair ramp exists at certain train stations: installed after the fact, satisfying a regulation, pitched at an angle no wheelchair on earth can climb. We are all expected to pretend grandma can make it up, and to act only mildly surprised when we find her at the bottom again.

It's hyperbole like this that breaks the illusion for the post. I'm not an editor, but if you're trying to make a valid point you need one man. Stinkeroo.

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FromTheFirstIn an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I’m not sure what part of this seems like hyperbole to you.

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sublinear an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm not going to play this dissection game only to later be "checkmated" by a bunch of nerds rambling about and dogpiling onto nothing who can't see the forest for the trees. It's also replies like yours that break the illusion HN isn't full of bots.

If you don't think this entire post is hyperbole, you can at least see that it's yet another blogspam ad for MiSTer, right?

	▲	FromTheFirstIn 5 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The Mister part is what seems like hyperbole? Or the ramp? Or not having good offline options?
	▲	dwedge 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's interesting about MiSTer. It was wedged into the article so awkwardly and suddenly that it felt like a definite advert, but it mostly said it was shit and only get it if you like frustratingly broken systems. I still think it was a reverse psychology form of an ad

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fnctrev 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

why make a point when the robot can spew out 1500 words of cliches and other nonsense