Linux Air Combat (2019)

> What do you mean parody? This is really good.

What do you mean? I said it's not parody.

I think they mean in the original document where a lot of words and phrases are unnecessarily within quotation marks.

I'd suggest removing pretty much all of the quotation marks to improve readability.

Edit: In the post in the thread here, the quotes around the word underpowered are being used as scare quotes [1] but the more you do that the less readable a document becomes because you're putting the cognitive load of inferring the intention of the punctuation onto the reader! I would recommend using quotes for quotations/speech only.

Edit2: PS Grammatical quibbles aside this is a good post, thanks for writing & submitting it!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

I sincerely appreciate your humility! The other commented on the cognitive load of constantly changing contexts, and that was accurate. To provide a direct response, in all of the following cases, quotes should not have been used. There are likely more but these are the few I picked:

- can be run without a “gaming-class” video card.

- the three lower “graphic detail” levels

- -on ten year-old Intel “Core II Duo” or

- comprehensive “YouTube” playlists,

- well-known “AskMisterWizard.com” web site

- Microsoft "Windows"

- YouTube "PlayList"

This one is acceptable, because you're essentially defining LAC as an acronym for the first time, and a change of context is acceptable:

  LINUX Air Combat (or “LAC”) 

That's not to say it's' needed. I'd have written it:

  LINUX Air Combat (LAC)

or

  LINUX Air Combat (henceforth referred to as “LAC”) 

In another section, you wrote the following:

Overall, LAC’s features compare favorably with Windows-based flight sims from the genre’s “classic” period, like “Combat Flight Simulator 2”, or “Air Warrior III”, or “Aces High I”, or “Warbirds”.

It could have been written this way:

  Overall, LAC’s features compare favorably with Windows based flight sims from the genre’s classic period, rivalling such titles as Combat Flight Simulator 2, Air Warrior III, Aces High I, and Warbirds.

Although I do not claim grammatical perfection, It think the rewritten example is more readable. But, I've seen many native English speakers/writers who'd have done it this way:

  Overall, LAC’s features compare favorably with Windows based flight sims from the genre’s classic period, rivalling such titles as "Combat Flight Simulator 2", "Air Warrior III", "Aces High I", and "Warbirds".

Again, I do not claim perfection. I only care about grammar as far as it affects readability, and I'm known to take Creative License with it when I feel like it. (See what I did there?)

True, but since the author was not using them in that context, it's irrelevant in this case. :)