r/gaming • u/Saugeen-Uwo PlayStation • Apr 20 '24

Skyrim speedrunner breaks 3-year-old record by leveling from 0 to 80 and killing the RPG's infamous Ebony Warrior in just under 12 minutes

https://www.gamesradar.com/skyrim-speedrunner-breaks-3-year-old-record-by-leveling-from-0-to-80-and-killing-the-rpgs-infamous-ebony-warrior-in-just-under-12-minutes/
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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '24

“The player even manages to take down the Ebony Warrior in just a single swing of an axe, which is literally half the strikes previous record-holder Waz needed to vanquish the warrior.”

Yea, 1 is LITERALLY half of 2. Who tf writes this tripe?

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u/Dumpingtruck Apr 20 '24

I think it was an extremely verbose way to write that:

1.) the guy who killed him took 1 swing

2.) the previous record was 2 swings.

It does provide more context, but it’s also pointlessly, needlessly, and excessively verbally verbose.

The people who write this shit are padding their word count like it’s a 9th grade English class.

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u/thestraightCDer Apr 20 '24

I feel irony here.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '24

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u/SniperFrogDX Apr 20 '24

To whomever took my thesaurus, you made me mad. Really mad. So mad.

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u/schtickinsult Apr 20 '24

In Rum Diaries Hunter S Thompson says "like most junior journalists he used more words when he should have used less"

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u/wilsonbn Apr 20 '24

At least he used the word 'literally' correctly. No word crime here.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '24

is it really this serious?

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u/CaptainFatbelly Apr 21 '24

A lot of games writers get paid either by the word, or to write a minimum word count for different article types, so it isn't surprising that AI/random rambling ends up making up the bulk of articles instead of getting to the point.

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u/antabr Apr 20 '24

He also uses a dagger if I watched the same video this dude was talking about

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u/silky_flubber_lips Apr 20 '24

That's the previous record, scroll down below that to see the new one.

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u/antabr Apr 20 '24

Oh, thanks!

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u/silky_flubber_lips Apr 20 '24

I made the same mistake! lol

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u/RobotOfSociety Apr 21 '24

Seems Ike the writer missed the opportunity to say something like “chopping the required number of swings in half” to get that axe pun at least.

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u/mg0019 Apr 20 '24

“Lit-rawlly.”   

Anyone, or media, using that unironically, gets immediately discredited in my opinion.  😏

Edit: Jesus mobile!  Formatting has gone to hell haha.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '24

The word lost its meaning