It seems to me that the author never played a text based adventure game and is jut echoing whatever he heard
Indeed. And this makes his judgmental pettiness about people who like these games all the shittier for it. I don't know why extremely-online bloggers think unrequited snark is a glide path to being funny.
I loved text based adventure games when I was growing up, but I also thought this comparison was incredibly apt and also found it very funny. I’m a bit surprised people are so offended by this article, have we lost the ability to read something with nuance?
It's a bit weasel-y to refer to criticism as just "people being offended".
> thought this comparison was incredibly apt and also found it very funny
I'm happy for you, but I didn't.
To "read something with nuance" is to be open to nuance that is already present in the writing. This writing is not nuanced!
Perhaps you're asking us to make an effort to be more tolerant of weak writing. That's a fair request when the writer is acting in good faith. But to mock nerds for liking text adventures when you clearly do not like them yourself is not acting in good faith.
