*inhuman screech*

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seeing a youtuber go "i have embarked on the monumental task of writing the ultimate history of video games" without even thinking to check The Ultimate History of Video Games: the book WHICH ALSO HAS SOME INACCURACIES AND METHODOLOGICAL FLAWS it pushes a very specific button

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i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm trying to be less mad online but i studied this stuff. i partly teach this stuff. i've published about this stuff and i recognize i had big flaws in methodology even while working with university professors as cowriters

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"Well then, how are you supposed to see how popular certain genres or games were" you collate data! you gather sales chart! you track down game stores sales! "but it's ridiculous to think a single person could do that!" WELCOME TO THE ENTIRE FIELD OF HISTORIOGRAPHY

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“Pong was the first sport game in history” when Pong isn’t even the first Pong game AND Tennis For Two was created in the freaking FIFTIES made me so mad I had to close the video right then and there

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