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It isn't 'just fashion'. I agree with SPJ that what we are all here for, is the content of the education, not how it's presented. The problem is that a good font makes it easier for people to relate to the content.

Having a comedy font for a dead-serious funeral company technically communicates the required information, yet it's going to limit your audience to those that can tolerate the conflicting tones and the people who will choose to relate to what you're trying to say.

It's really so difficult to press CTRL-A and select a different font? Would it cost him so much to relate a little closer to the tried and true methods?

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There is no readability argument here with just short phrases and bullet points, so your stance is purely middlebrow gatekeeping.

SPJ and Tim Sweeney don't care about people who are only willing to listen when the other one does it "the right way". They put something out and if you don't like it, you can leave it unread.

I like good fonts, I have bought several "serious fonts" for private use that cost serious money. I would never use Comic Sans in larger texts. I wouldn't probably use it myself anywhere.

But this here is whimsical, and cool, and fun.

I agree no readability argument. The relatability and tone argument is what I wrote.

SPJ and TS don't have to relate to me, or anyone if they so wish. Just making the point SPJ's argument is quite poor, whatever "brow-level" it exists at.

I agree, it's like clothes, sometimes it is appropriate to dress up if you want people to view what you are saying through a certain lens, wether that is wearing gold cufflinks to your job as a banker or wearing a hoodie to your job at Facebook it all signals something. Computer games are a visual medium, where aesthetics is very important, I'm not sure I would want to signal that I don't care about aesthetics to my audience, presumably quite a few of whom will be designer/programmer/artists type people (whatever you call front end in game dev).

Tim Sweeney is a game development legend. He could put handwriting on these slides and people would read it.

Did HN's reverence for John Carmack drop because he dabbled in rockets, instead of doing "proper programming"? Stars can afford to be eccentric.

I wouldn't recommend slides like these to a normal game developer giving a speech. But it's preposterous to claim that it might hurt Tim Sweeney in any way.

Nothing is more "proper" to me than working on an AGI :)

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/john-carmacks-agi-startup-raises-2...

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