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Windows 10 automatically trying to restart programs whenever I turn the computer off and on again. No, I don't want to reopen everything. Every session for me is a standalone one.
 
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There are some people who type in this way that seems very twitchy and almost seems like their hands are having spasms. As a result, their typing is a lot noisier than most other people's.
 
50 billion gazillion posters on signposts when an election or referendum is coming up, especially ones that try to make you feel guilty.
 
In the past years, I've seen morons on message boards use the term "revisionist history" to talk about opinions they don't like rather than like, actual revisionism, and it drives me nuts. "Donkey Kong Country didn't sell well and wasn't well-received by critics" or "Donkey Kong Country wasn't influential in the adoption of pre-rendred sprites" would be revisionism. Someone not liking DKC that much and puittting it somewhat low in an opinion-based list isn't. Before this was adopted by low-IQ neogaf posters desesperate to give an air of legitimaty to their opinion about children video games by using Big Words wrong, it was a term most used in referal to holocaust denial. No matter how much you like Donkey Kong Country or how well it was received at release, thinking Donkey Kong Country is a good game is an opinion and not a fact forever etched in the stones of time.
 
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In the past years, I've seen morons on message boards use the term "revisionist history" to talk about opinions they don't like rather than like, actual revisionism, and it drives me nuts. "Donkey Kong Country didn't sell well and wasn't well-received by critics" or "Donkey Kong Country wasn't influential in the adoption of pre-rendred sprites" would be revisionism. Someone not liking DKC that much and puittting it somewhat low in an opinion-based list isn't. Before this was adopted by low-IQ neogaf posters desesperate to give an air of legitimaty to their opinion about children video games by using Big Words wrong, it was a term most used in referal to holocaust denial. No matter how much you like Donkey Kong Country or how well it was received at release, thinking Donkey Kong Country is a good game is an opinion and not a fact forever etched in the stones of time.
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It's not technically wrong, I suppose. Revisionist history just means to argue for a different narrative than what is the mainstream narrative for a certain history, even if it's wrong. I mean yeah the success of a video game vs. a catastrophic event are two completely different scales but it's not an outright incorrect usage of the term.
 
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It's not technically wrong, I suppose. Revisionist history just means to argue for a different narrative than what is the mainstream narrative for a certain history, even if it's wrong. I mean yeah the success of a video game vs. a catastrophic event are two completely different scales but it's not an outright incorrect usage of the term.
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"Super Mario 64 got good ratings in gaming magazines and was well received by players" is a part of history. "Super Mario 64 is a good game" isn't. I've seen Neogaf-types dismiss this extended critique of SUper Mario Odyssey as "historical revisionism" because apparently, not liking a popular videogame is objectively wrong.
 
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I'm not disagreeing with that but the term itself isn't incorrectly being used since historical revisionism isn't necessarily rooted in fact. There have been many "historical" writings that are outright wrong but they would still be considered "historical revisionism".
 
Yes, but as Glowsquid said, opinions aren't facts. Saying 'People like this game' could be historical revisionism. Saying 'I like this game' can't be.
I didn't even know what historical revisionism was before reading these posts, but Glowsquid's reasoning is quite clear. ;)
 
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