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@Benjamin-Hall said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
Natural languages are not formal logic engines. Neither, for that matter, is human thought. It's full of ambiguity, redundancy, emotional appeals, and other anti-logical constructions and that's a good thing.
Proponents of Logjam would disagree with that.
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@HardwareGeek said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
Natural languages are not formal logic engines. Neither, for that matter, is human thought. It's full of ambiguity, redundancy, emotional appeals, and other anti-logical constructions and that's a good thing.
Proponents of Logjam would disagree with that.
Which means it must be a really really good thing if people who like Logjam don't like it. That's one of the most reliable heuristics around. Along with "getting involved in a land war in Asia is a bad thing" and "never bet against a Sicilian when death is on the line."
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@hungrier said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
Russian is the same as Polish: double negatives are expected, and it sounds wrong without them. I suspect other Slavic languages are similar
Yes, it's one of the characteristic features of the Slavic language group.
It's not double negative; rather, the negation is a boolean property of the sentence. When the sentence is negated, all verbs and qualifiers must be negated (ie anybody/somebody -> nobody). The result might be double negative, or triple negative, or quadruple negative... even duoquadragintuple negative, if you somehow manage to stuff 42 qualifiers or verbs in one single simple sentence (probably impossible, though).Note that this does not work for single words. The word "irregardless" is no more valid in any Slavic language that in English (actually, I would say it's not even possible to create such a thing in most of them, but my real knowledge is quite limited). Which makes this discussion
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
Along with "getting involved in a land war in Asia is a bad thing"
Does this fully subsume "war with Russia in winter?"
Area-wise most of it is in Asia, but both Napoleon and the Nazis failed still in Europe.
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@topspin said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
Along with "getting involved in a land war in Asia is a bad thing"
Does this fully subsume "war with Russia in winter?"
Area-wise most of it is in Asia, but both Napoleon and the Nazis failed still in Europe.You also want to avoid the two mud seasons.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
@error said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
That is, there's an enormous difference between a master
flauntingflouting the rules and a novice butchering them.
I just heard a US Congressman say "to flaunt the Constitution." So usage may be drifting on this one.
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@error said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
Actual score bombing is typically done by people who never played (and never will play) the game in question, but are protesting it in some way.
Sounds like it needs proof of purchase to leave a review or something. That way people have to spend money on their reviews.
Another thing they can do is measure hours played. Between these two methods, people have to pay money (easier with cheap games... I'm looking at you Steam) AND switch the game on for a couple of hours while they watch TV or something in order to cheat.
In any case, score bombing now becomes more time consuming and more expensive.
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@Shoreline said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
Sounds like it needs proof of purchase to leave a review or something.
Not as feasible when physical copies exist and the reviews site is not a retailer.
But if you only want to count reviews for digital copies... Sony doesn't seem to have a problem with fake reviews, since TLOU2 (as well as a lot of other games) had hundreds or thousands of "user reviews" on their digital storefront before release.
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@ChaosTheEternal said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
@Shoreline said in Bad reviews? Gonna hafta wait a bit...:
Sounds like it needs proof of purchase to leave a review or something.
Not as feasible when physical copies exist and the reviews site is not a retailer.
But if you only want to count reviews for digital copies... Sony doesn't seem to have a problem with fake reviews, since TLOU2 (as well as a lot of other games) had hundreds or thousands of "user reviews" on their digital storefront before release.
And thousands of copy-pasted 10/10 reviews on MC.
