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?

The Mister part is what seems like hyperbole? Or the ramp? Or not having good offline options?

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