Re:Games Done Quick “Ocarina of Time” beta showcase
by rkagerer on Saturday July 02, 2022 @04:29PM
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For anyone wondering, "Foot Heads Arms Body" originates from a Guardian headline purportedly run in the 80's when Labour Party leader Michael Foot traveled to Brussels to chair a European Parliament lobby group pushing for nuclear disarmament.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Michael_Foot#Foot_Heads_A...
Re:Games Done Quick “Ocarina of Time” beta showcase
by thaumasiotes on Saturday July 02, 2022 @05:38PM
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I still think "Iraqi Head Seeks Arms" is a better headline. ;D
Re:Games Done Quick “Ocarina of Time” beta showcase
by Waterluvian on Saturday July 02, 2022 @04:17PM
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The title is fine if you’re in the audience who knows the two proper nouns and then the common GDQ concept of a “showcase” and the tech concept of a beta. Which for The Click is most of their readers.
Re:Games Done Quick “Ocarina of Time” beta showcase
by jannyfer on Saturday July 02, 2022 @04:36PM
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The actual article’s title is fine for me, it’s just this HN submission’s title that’s hard to parse.
Reading the article helped unpack this particularly egregious title, yet it let me baffled because surely websites aren't limited by column inches like the papers of yore. While no doubt those past constraints have birthed wonderful examples of brevity like "Foot Heads Arms Body" and the like, these days I see no purpose in giving one's readers a mild sense of aphasia for no reason.