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"literally"?

• dasil003 11y ago
  Yes! I am not one who misuses "literally", nor am I one who chooses to be a pedant over every choice of words in order to willfully miss the point of any discussion. I literally could not read the article because my eye kept being dragged back to the gifs.
  • Outdoorsman 11y ago
    Agreed...the gifs were ill-chosen and distracting...added nothing...not a good fit for the thrust of the article...
  • bcook 11y ago
    Heh, sorry. I was trying poke fun at your post by doing what you did, regarding the article; focus on the wrong thing and disregard the the entire article/post because of a small, arguably unwise choice (gifs/misusing "literally"). The article is actually quite good.
    • dasil003 11y ago
      That's pretty meta, if anyone else got that I congratulate you. But to be honest, I did hesitate before posting because it was off-topic. However this is HN, not the author's comments section, so I feel it's my prerogative to comment on any aspect of the article not just the content.
      • bcook 11y ago
        I was hesitant as well. Thankfully, HN is usually quick to downvote crap posts like mine. Lesson learned. Honestly though, I do get kinda tired of looking in the comments to see so much conversation about off-topic things like the color-scheme or background images of the linked site. "Off-topic" is subjective, of course.