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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 18:09:41 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   Academia just suggested that I might want to read a paper about Lovecraftian / cosmic horror narrative structures in games, and of course I do.

   And I don't dispute that it might improve, but it's a weak opener, with an oblique reference to some of my work writing about games, a highly speculative direct reference to a professional acquaintance's that they are clearly going to be all death of the author about instead of asking, and too many typos (please get someone to proofread your dissertations).

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   Also, please stop citing how many results your pet keyword gets on Google unless you're actually analysing search algorithm behaviour. It's a cheap rhetorical device.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 18:17:57 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     The basic problem with this paper is that it doesn't actually appear to understand either narrative design or literary criticism.

     Or Lovecraft. I hate to break it to you, but someone having a dad whose legacy looms large is not something you can compare to Lovecraft's fixation on miscegenation and bloodlines.

     (Okay, it's a seminar paper, not a dissertation, my bar was set too high, but stiiill.)

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     tautology (tautology@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 18:31:36 JST tautology

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     @HauntedOwlbear there are places for keyword searches. My degree's final project was on the similarity of exosolar systems to our solar system, and there's a lot of weirdo language used in academia.

     Though it was the child in me that put in a paragraph about why "Neptune-like" is preferred over "Uranus-like". I even ended the last sentence with an interrobang.

     Thinking back the last sentence probably dropped me a few marks, but it was worth it.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 18:31:36 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • tautology

     @tautology to be fair, after you've been working on the damn thing for that long, you're more or less entitled to a bit of whimsical pressure relief.