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Least buggiest? Are we just giving up on English, “journalists?”

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Our first public comment about Starfield being a polished game came from journalist Tyler McVicker, who’s currently under an embargo for the title.

Wow they name dropped a youtuber. Nevermind, went to my favorite source for gaming, Dexerto, aaaand it’s the same shit.

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I seems in general journalism has gotten worse and worse with their grammar. I honestly wonder if their editors even look at even the title before things are posted online.

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What are editors? — journalists probably

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I mean, an automated grammar checker should get this. Shouldn’t even require a human editor.

https://languagetool.org/

Plugging it in there catches it and suggests “least buggy”.

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When I used to do copywriting for junk SEO, I began to suspect that my editor didn’t actually read anything I wrote and just passed it through a content uniquness filter, so I started putting in random references to HP Lovecraft stories in the articles I got assigned.

They all got published, no questions asked. For a while if you searched “Homeopathy and the Esoteric Cult of Dagon” my content was the only result

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Alas, I just tried searching that and a few close variants, and find nothing but this Memmy post.

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For a while? So are other companies now hustling in on your game.

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I think the title is a joke about how Bethesda games are notoriously always full of bugs. Like, to the point that it’s just expected for any new Bethesda game to be a bug-riddled mess at launch.

Hell, there are still bugs in Skyrim that never got patched, even after they re-released it onto modern platforms. Not even obscure bugs, but things normal players will encounter in their playthroughs.

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He’s saying the “Least buggiest” is not proper phrasing. It should be something along the lines of “the least buggy/bugged” and it’s a pretty bad title for someone claiming to be a “journalist”.

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It doesn’t have to be “proper” if it works as a joke. It implies that a Bethesda game can’t be merely “buggy,” it must be the “buggiest,” even if it’s (paradoxically) less buggy. So, “least buggiest.”

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It’s crazy that they haven’t used things like the unofficial patch to fix their own damn game. Like they could pretty much just copy paste that shit and be fine. But no. More than a decade later and that shit is still around and even propagated to things like FO4 and FO76.

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Someone distributing it for free doesn’t mean they can legally just put it in their code and sell it.

If it is licensed in a way they can use it, they’d still have to do a bunch of testing and validation to actually do it.

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