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Forget "Men Who Stare At Goats" - now we have "Thugs who Stare At Fountains" :D

But jokes aside, this is a really interesting and approachable article! It just suffers a little bit from the writer not being a native speaker. I'm German myself, maybe that's why I notice the German tendency to "concatenate" words (e.g. "surface-topology" or "cloth-simulation") even more when it is (mis)used in English? Just some constructive criticism, in case the author reads this...

...and of course it should be "Mortal Kombat" ;)

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Thanks for the hints! :) Yeah my English isn't that good. I use it sometimes to - often - to make sure its understood that the words belong together but let me look up the rules... ...ah, there is no rule :D It is recommented to check the dictionary :D

p.s. I've also changed it to Mortal Kombat :)

Getting a hang of when to use "its" and "it's" is more important, if you don't mind me saying so.

It's not like native speakers care for the distinction.

Thats a pretty low bar too set. in a informal context, native speakers will forgive most other grammatical mistakes as well.

I see what you did there, I think. It’s interesting: I don’t mind capitalization and the a/an substitution here, although I could see the capitalization being confusing in another context. However, it’s/its and to/too almost always take me out of the flow of the text and force me to read it again to figure out the proper meaning. As a native speaker, I would still say I forgive the mistakes, but they do undoubtedly hurt my comprehension of whatever I’m reading.

As a reader I think that distinction is more important than whether using a hyphen is correct, assuming the goal is to make oneself understood. That's all I meant.

I was just double-checking my text but I think "it's" and "its" should be used correctly. But if you spot a mistake, feel free to give me a hint. I would love to correct it :)

That was truly amazing fluid motion at the end of your video! with a couple of tweaks to hide the looping I can see this being used everywhere.

Yes, great video! As a non-German I found the author's accent and germanisms added to its charm =]

When I saw this I’ve thought the author used a dash to indicate irony or something along those lines.

I didn’t see any irony so assumed I lack context.

Nah, no irony :D Just a lack of English knowledge. The truth is often very boring :D

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