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I think changing game to video game would make the title less confusing.

vmception 5y ago
I think floating point would give the assumption that it has nothing to do with meatspace, but it would allow room for a fascinating surprise if it did! I vote for keeping it as is.
- hnlmorg 5y ago
  If we're following HN guidelines correctly, the title should be 'Dolphin Progress Report: August 2021' -- what has been submitted has been editorialised.
- minitoar 5y ago
  I was immediately trying to figure out if it somehow had to do with a stop watch being used in meatspace.
- chromatin 5y ago
  Counterpoint: I assumed real life scoreboard.
- Agentlien 5y ago
  I overlooked the URL. Seeing that or the original title I would have understood what this was. But now, my first guess was actually that this was about some much debated football match and that the floating point bug was present in some software used by the referees when reviewing replays.
  - tokai 5y ago
    Football referees didn't review replays in 2013.
    - samhw 5y ago
      I'm not sure what the point is of correcting a comment in which someone is _describing their mistaken former belief_. He knows it's incorrect. What does this, along with your other pedantic comments in this thread, really add?
      - tokai 5y ago
        Please lurk more and learn the culture of hn.
- thom 5y ago
  I can personally attest to creating and fixing floating point bugs to do with real life football games.
tegiddrone 5y ago
Ya, I initially imagined it was some passionate sports fans with a sharp eye for sportscast overlay graphics/animations noticed some subtle glitches that made it back to some rendering engine.
tokai 5y ago
Its a [football|soccer] match, not game.
- Cthulhu_ 5y ago
  It's either. It's "A game of football". It's "A football match". It really doesn't matter.
  - tokai 5y ago
    Ofc you can use words as you want. But match is the correct term. FIFA uses it exclusively, and the use is specifically to determine between the Game of football and matches. It is standard British English. It really do matters, as this whole thread proves.
    - samhw 5y ago
      You're right that 'match' would have obviated the ambiguity in this title, given the context, but I don't think it's the only 'correct' term in general. I'm British too, and I would have no objection to referring to 'a football game' - nor can I imagine anyone ever getting that confused with the abstract game of football.
      - hnlmorg 5y ago
        In fairness to the GP, I've never heard anyone call it a "game" in the > 20 years since leaving school (and even at school people only said it in reference to a friendly kick-about at break time). In fact you'll find a great many football fans get quite offended if you call their much loved sport "a game" as they think it belittles the importance of the matches. So I'm very surprised to read a fellow British-man advocate the usage of the term "game" in reference to football.
      - tokai 5y ago
        People are confused in this very thread. Even you are it seems as 'match' in the title would be wrong. Its a video game. You might think my comments are pedantic, but at least they are not useless.
vymague 5y ago
I agree. I thought it's a bug with a software used by the Japanese football association.

I think floating point would give the assumption that it has nothing to do with meatspace, but it would allow room for a fascinating surprise if it did! I vote for keeping it as is.

hnlmorg 5y ago
If we're following HN guidelines correctly, the title should be 'Dolphin Progress Report: August 2021' -- what has been submitted has been editorialised.
minitoar 5y ago
I was immediately trying to figure out if it somehow had to do with a stop watch being used in meatspace.
chromatin 5y ago
Counterpoint: I assumed real life scoreboard.
Agentlien 5y ago
I overlooked the URL. Seeing that or the original title I would have understood what this was. But now, my first guess was actually that this was about some much debated football match and that the floating point bug was present in some software used by the referees when reviewing replays.
- tokai 5y ago
  Football referees didn't review replays in 2013.
  - samhw 5y ago
    I'm not sure what the point is of correcting a comment in which someone is _describing their mistaken former belief_. He knows it's incorrect. What does this, along with your other pedantic comments in this thread, really add?
    - tokai 5y ago
      Please lurk more and learn the culture of hn.
thom 5y ago
I can personally attest to creating and fixing floating point bugs to do with real life football games.

tegiddrone 5y ago

Ya, I initially imagined it was some passionate sports fans with a sharp eye for sportscast overlay graphics/animations noticed some subtle glitches that made it back to some rendering engine.

tokai 5y ago

Its a [football|soccer] match, not game.

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
It's either. It's "A game of football". It's "A football match". It really doesn't matter.
- tokai 5y ago
  Ofc you can use words as you want. But match is the correct term. FIFA uses it exclusively, and the use is specifically to determine between the Game of football and matches. It is standard British English. It really do matters, as this whole thread proves.
  - samhw 5y ago
    You're right that 'match' would have obviated the ambiguity in this title, given the context, but I don't think it's the only 'correct' term in general. I'm British too, and I would have no objection to referring to 'a football game' - nor can I imagine anyone ever getting that confused with the abstract game of football.
    - hnlmorg 5y ago
      In fairness to the GP, I've never heard anyone call it a "game" in the > 20 years since leaving school (and even at school people only said it in reference to a friendly kick-about at break time). In fact you'll find a great many football fans get quite offended if you call their much loved sport "a game" as they think it belittles the importance of the matches. So I'm very surprised to read a fellow British-man advocate the usage of the term "game" in reference to football.
    - tokai 5y ago
      People are confused in this very thread. Even you are it seems as 'match' in the title would be wrong. Its a video game. You might think my comments are pedantic, but at least they are not useless.

vymague 5y ago

I agree. I thought it's a bug with a software used by the Japanese football association.