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I hate to add another "this is why HN is going down the tube" post so I'm going to try and be very constructive here. There are naysayers for every idea. For n

I hate to add another "this is why HN is going down the tube" post so I'm going to try and be very constructive here. There are naysayers for every idea. For new ideas there are more of them than when the ideas are established. Every new product sucks. All of them. Some suck less. But the good ones improve with time. I do not want to be part of a community that rallies against people trying to do great things with passion and change the status quo. To me as a gamer and a guy who learned to do basic HTML as a pre-teen because he loved games and learned to hack at games with others far more experience than me this seems like an absolutely brilliant idea. If I were 13 again, I would be figuring out how to build games for OUYA if for nothing else than to be cool among my group of friends. This comment comes from the gut and is not as analytical as some of my others but this post does not belong here. OUYA team, I salute you. I don't care about the shortcomings of your initial product, I think your idea is sound and it seems there are thousands of people who seem to agree.

maratd 14y ago
I'm sorry, but your impassioned and eloquent post is wasted on the garbage you're responding to. If it was a well thought-out critique, it might be warranted, but the author couldn't even be bothered to proof read. There are horrible spelling and grammar mistakes throughout the entire article. And I'm not being picky. If I have to stop and think about what words are missing from your sentence so that I can understand it, I'm not going to bother thinking about what ideas the sentence actually tries to convey.
- jdechambeau 14y ago
  I'm not seeing any typos or missing words. Could you point out a couple for me?
  - maratd 14y ago
    > They claim their console will "open" and "hackable". > ... speaker seems to say the word "television" a disturbing amount of time, as ... > How many existing Android games will be play well with this thing > It spend far more when it launched the original Xbox. > I can only hope the OUYA people do intend to make good on their promises, rather than just taking the money and running. A few choice selections that still remain. Not to mention all the mind crushing run-on sentences! I had a better writing style in the 5th grade. Look, I'm starting to sound like a grammar Nazi, but this guy makes me want to reach into the screen and punch him. Google Translate can do a better job.

maratd 14y ago

I'm sorry, but your impassioned and eloquent post is wasted on the garbage you're responding to. If it was a well thought-out critique, it might be warranted, but the author couldn't even be bothered to proof read. There are horrible spelling and grammar mistakes throughout the entire article. And I'm not being picky. If I have to stop and think about what words are missing from your sentence so that I can understand it, I'm not going to bother thinking about what ideas the sentence actually tries to convey.

jdechambeau 14y ago
I'm not seeing any typos or missing words. Could you point out a couple for me?
- maratd 14y ago
  > They claim their console will "open" and "hackable". > ... speaker seems to say the word "television" a disturbing amount of time, as ... > How many existing Android games will be play well with this thing > It spend far more when it launched the original Xbox. > I can only hope the OUYA people do intend to make good on their promises, rather than just taking the money and running. A few choice selections that still remain. Not to mention all the mind crushing run-on sentences! I had a better writing style in the 5th grade. Look, I'm starting to sound like a grammar Nazi, but this guy makes me want to reach into the screen and punch him. Google Translate can do a better job.