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This seemed so pointless and uninteresting to me. It's obviously a blindspot for me, since it's so heavily upvoted and liked by many. But for me, mindlessly clicking the prompted location, after sitting through some pointless into logos, leading to absolutely no payoff at all, just ending credits, was distasteful. Can someone who enjoyed this experience articulate why, so that I can reflect on my own personal failing in this regard?

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That’s the joke. This is parodying patterns found in many high-budget (AAA) video games.

Also, if you hold off on sweeping all the mines, you’ll hear more dialogue over time that parodies other aspects of these games.

if the parent poster is not familiar with the state of AAA games from the past decade, then this whole parody would look like nonsense.

I cant determine whether this comment is metairony or not..?

The beauty of Hackernews, no way to determine whether it's a clueless boomer from old-tech days or a high IQ individual layering the joke even further.

Poe’s Law

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