Great write up. I am a maintainer of a project you opened a PR on, but the diff is large and seems to include unrelated changes. Maybe you based of a fork and the opened the PR to upstream? If the bot had worked as intended I would have thought it was cool, but given that it opened a large PR with an incorrect description I found it harmful. I guess the problem with these bots is that it is easy for you to make a mistake which takes a lot longer for people to deal with than it took for you to make, so github needs to ban these to prevent this.
Thanks for reporting this. Firstly, I am sorry for the inconvenience of receiving a broken pull request.
I have looked into the pull request and discovered that this is a variant of "Bug #4" from the blog post.
It happens when the third-party renames their forked repo. At this point, the names don't line up and my bot doesn't realize that the two repos fork to the same location.
I have manually fixed my merge request for your repo and will be writing a script to look for others that might have had a similar experience.
Ads are there to convert (sell stuff). Low income users buy less stuff. Also less expensive stuff. Ads catering to high income users tend to budget more for ads because they can be more lax with cost per user acquisition - their product has the margin to support it. All this leads to more income for twitter.
Many games (by common definition) are strictly execution based. For example, most rhythm games (e.g. Osu!, Beatmania, DDR, Guitar Hero, etc) do not have any element of randomness or strategic requirements, yet some people find them very fun.
I can see the art being preserved as a critical feature for adventure games, but with StarCraft remastered it seems everyone loves the new art. The most important thing for that game was to keep the gameplay exactly the same while supporting newer displays.
SC:R's art direction was "It should be like putting your glasses on."[1] It's about as conservative an art direction as can be had short of changing nothing.
Lack of detail can often create stronger imagery because the reader/viewer's brain fills in the textures. With a lo-fi King's Quest I imagined gallant heroes on trusty steeds. The same way that cartoons can be more expressive than live action and how books can have more vivid imagery than movies. Who could possibly do justice on screen to the character of Ignatius J. Reilly?
I had some difficulty with SC1 due to the graphics. I couldn't judge depth very well due to the weird perspective and blurry sprites. Sometimes I mistook passable terrain for impassible terrain, or misjudged the size of buildings.
Redoing the graphics doesn't actually fix the awkward perspective, but I think it will help mitigate it. You want people to fill in the details that don't matter, but the details that are important to the gameplay should be clear.
I've never heard of a Reality TV character who is as trashy as Ignatius but has also read the Great Books and earnestly believes himself to be a Great Man
The main problem with Monkey Island is that the narrative of the art has changed. If you fill in the details of the original artwork, it was in the realm of realism - not this modern cutesy mobile game semi-cartoon scourge. The protagonist has also been completely changed.
I didn't have the patience to push through these games as a kid; even as someone who doesn't have the usual attachment to Scumm games, seeing a masterful work of art changed makes me uneasy.
