It’s either written by an AI or I’m sorry, it’s just poorly written.
The article is obviously AI written in its entirety.
I mean look at this sentence which randomly contains the " - " pattern twice in a row, which is then not repeated once anywhere else in the article:
> Created after the installation of the station’s first peer-to-peer local area network (PalmerLAN), the game captures - through humor, satire, and surprisingly accurate mechanics - the daily realities of early LAN administration in one of the most isolated research communities on Earth.
Totally natural human writing!
I use that construction in my totally human writing often enough. Some of us missed a few English classes it seems.
https://alphapixeldev.com/what-is-a-mercenary-programmer-and...
The guys twitter account is full of LLM slop: https://x.com/alphapixel
Perhaps all these other posts from the same author in completely different styles are also not LLM generated? https://wildirismarketing.com/articles-and-blog-posts/
>I use that construction in my totally human writing often enough. Some of us missed a few English classes it seems.
I made no comment as to the validity of the construction.
Do you see me making that claim? My comment seems to be about grammar. Do you always jump to conclusions?
> I made no comment as to the validity of the construction.
See:
> I mean look at this sentence which randomly contains the " - " pattern twice in a row
They're called parenthetical dashes. They're not random. And it's one pattern, not two. You'll find it used with parentheses (obviously) and commas as well as dashes and perhaps even other punctuation[1].
As to whether or not the post was written by AI, I don't care either way. That seems to be something you care about. But you shouldn't base those conclusions on the use of parenthetical dashes.
1: https://editorsmanual.com/articles/commas-vs-parentheses-vs-...
> so Mark and Shane may have been Palmer winter-over reserchers.
There's a TikTok going around with a guy telling us about how his daughter stumbled across a "Weird AI" online, which takes popular songs and makes them funny.
> LAN-LOK is more than a forgotten DOS curiosity, it is a preserved moment in the daily life of Antarctic research stations during the earliest days of their local area networks. It captures the frustrations, humor, and personalities that shaped computing at Palmer Station as it transitioned from isolated standalone PCs to a shared (fragile) LAN.
It's frustrating, because this game absolutely has the vibes of a lot of old DOS/door games and I was kinda interested in learning about it, but this just sucks all the fun and interest out of it.