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Re:Paul Krugman Goes for a Knockout Against Scrappy Austerians by noobermin on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @12:39AM (#9769608)
Sheesh, am I the only one who actually enjoyed the visuals? The idea of having economists in an arcade brawl is basically parodying their usual blogpost battles and treating it as if it were real fighting, so I found it humorous.

The article itself, however, is queer--it ends in an unsatisfying ambiguity: apparently Krugman wins because he is both "ref as well as combatant". In fact, the article seems to imply he loses three arguments (there are three gifs of him getting hit) and wins two, although with Osbourne, it's a little ambiguous there who is right. So, 1.5/5...So he...wins?

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Re:Paul Krugman Goes for a Knockout Against Scrappy Austerians by overgard on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @12:53AM (#9769671)
> Sheesh, am I the only one who actually enjoyed the visuals?

Pretty much. The pixel art was well made, but the point of design is to convey an idea. The only point conveyed to me here was "I can't read this because things are flickering in the corner of my eye", and the parts I did manage to read did not seem worthwhile of the effort.

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