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Comment by Narishma | Hacker News Reader

I think changing game to video game would make the title less confusing.

Ya, I initially imagined it was some passionate sports fans with a sharp eye for sportscast overlay graphics/animations noticed some subtle glitches that made it back to some rendering engine.

I agree. I thought it's a bug with a software used by the Japanese football association.

I think floating point would give the assumption that it has nothing to do with meatspace, but it would allow room for a fascinating surprise if it did!

I vote for keeping it as is.

If we're following HN guidelines correctly, the title should be 'Dolphin Progress Report: August 2021' -- what has been submitted has been editorialised.

I was immediately trying to figure out if it somehow had to do with a stop watch being used in meatspace.

Counterpoint: I assumed real life scoreboard.

I overlooked the URL. Seeing that or the original title I would have understood what this was.

But now, my first guess was actually that this was about some much debated football match and that the floating point bug was present in some software used by the referees when reviewing replays.

Football referees didn't review replays in 2013.

I'm not sure what the point is of correcting a comment in which someone is _describing their mistaken former belief_. He knows it's incorrect. What does this, along with your other pedantic comments in this thread, really add?

Please lurk more and learn the culture of hn.

I can personally attest to creating and fixing floating point bugs to do with real life football games.

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