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Sex Comes to the Micros (2012)

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FYI, the abstract for the New York Times article that is purportedly the first nude the NYT has ever printed (even counting classical art?) is here:

"Art and Science Proclaim Alliance in Avant-Garde Loft"

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CEFDA173EE...

The full article is behind a paywall so here's a screenshot of the spread...slightly NSFW:

http://imgur.com/3FfKlyM

This blog is an absolute treasure. In terms of capturing a sense of time and place, it's right up there with folklore.org.

As a person who grew up on graphical adventure games, and as a person who still misses the genre, I love getting to walk down memory lane with the author. I've learned so much about the games I loved.

I highly recommend reading through the entire blog.

and it continues...

http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/19/vr-porn-room-service-las-...

Mentioning text adventures without Leather Goddesses of Phobos? Unacceptable!

This is 5 years before Leather Goddess of Phobos.

And the blog also has a good post on LGoP: http://www.filfre.net/2015/03/leather-goddesses-of-phobos-or...

(and lots of other 80s adventure games and RPGs. I love this site and am very glad Jimmy Maher is out there researching this stuff)

Might be worth having a 2012 in the title.

Good catch. Added.

(Text Hidden, waiting for a explanation from dang on "Please don't do this here.")

Please don't do this here.

Please explain, thanks.

Your comment was "TLDR (look@pics)". That's the most unsubstantive, unwelcome comment I've seen so far today. You managed to be dismissive, glib, lurid, and stoopid all at the same time. And that's not even everything that was wrong with your comment.

If you don't have a thoughtful reaction to offer, please don't post here.

Realize you're a mod, beyond that, do not know you, your opinions, experiences, etc.

Given your not saying what was wrong, just calling me names, I'll expand on what I said.

(Re: TLDR) I personally dislike long-form, especially if it's on a topic I find interesting, but to me, not worth reading; clearly my opinion, but that I would hope is obvious.

(Re: Look at the photographs.) I found the photos interesting and worth looking at; if you have an issue with this, you need to explain why.

Please don't take my response as anything other than trying to understand how you feel and why.

(On a side note, which users are mods? Ask since I plan to follow them to get a better since of how mods deal with issues.)

Think about this way: Why would anyone care to read the mere facts that you dislike the longer form, or that you "found the photos interesting"?

Actually writing a "TLDR" is a fairly useless convention if you are attempting to have a useful discourse - but actually telling people that you found it "too long and didn't actually read it" is just insipid in nearly any context. You're saying you couldn't be bothered to read and summarize the article, and for some bizarre reason you want us to know that.

what you found interesting about the photos might be of value... or anything else substantive that you might add to the conversation - a demonstration, say, of how the point(s) could have been make more efficiently.

If you can't convince yourself you have something intelligent to add, just don't hit reply, it's a good filter. You'll still get false positives (or at least I do) but it's worth a shot.

Reflected on your comment and though had been my intent, it might not be obvious - that being, unless I'm missing something, it is not possible to downvote a submission; which in this case, I would have. To be even more clear, my comment expressed what I'm unable to due via the existing interface.

I didn't plan to be disruptive, but I don't mind it either.

I'll assume the "missing" downvote button is by design and will refrain from using comments as "expressive" downvotes.

You must be new here. The ability to downvote is given after acquiring a certain amount of HN karma.

Thanks, my rep is currently over 1000 and I do not see a downvote option for submissions.

At 500 rep, you get to downvote any comments that are not directly to a comment or submission; meaning you can downvote a comment to a comment to a of submission or comment you post.

If you know a source for rep related privileges, please let me know; tried to find info on this, but haven't seen anything yet.

What was wrong was that your comment dismissed everything intellectually interesting about the story, singled out naked pictures as its only worthwhile property, and added a formulaic "TLDR" to seem even less thoughtful. That's a pretty convincing simulation of the bottom of the Reddit barrel.

Even granting that you intended the comment to be more meaningful than it seemed, I'm not seeing any real information in your expanded version. If you don't like reading long-form articles, it would be best neither to read them nor comment on them.

Daniel, who're the other mods?

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