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This article is written in an unnecessarily extravagant style, IMO.

Also, I appreciate anonymity, but, to my point

> I live by myself in a remote mountain cave beyond the ken of civilised persons, and can only be contacted during a full moon, using certain arcane rites that are too horrible to speak of.

Okay.

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>>I live by myself in a remote mountain cave

= I live in California, and the nearest Starbucks is more than 20 miles away.

>>can only be contacted during a full moon

= As a night person, I am awake when the streetlight outside my house turns on.

>>certain arcane rites that are too horrible to speak of

= In order to contact me, you must install Microsoft Teams.

Overall, it's not that bad, except for the MS team thing. ;)

The man is south african, we are geologically blessed and have a lot of pleasant remote mountain caves =)

Okay, I will revert everything. The cave, the moon, and the rituals are all real. It's impressive how much reality is based on location :-)

That's the spirit!

True!

I don't literally live in a cave, but fortunately not everyone is so allergic to whimsical language :D.

The moon thing might still not be literal, similar to "once in a blue moon" i.e. rarely.

Perhaps the writer is a fan of Grothendieck who did almost exactly this - lived in a remote village in the Pyrenees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck#Retirem...

"Local villagers helped sustain him with a more varied diet after he tried to live on a staple of dandelion soup." - like most people would.

As always, HN has no sense of humour...

Writing like a wanker isn't funny.

Why not just say to yourself, - "I don't think that's funny" - instead of generalizing on behalf of others with a word that is in essence, meaningless or rather, it means what you personally want it to mean for any particular occasion?

The account is 9 years old and has 166 karma. I presume it's an alt account used for less acceptable opinions.

Some people do!

Humor is banned here.

I don't think the commenter was saying anything about the quality of humor in that statement. Rather, they were attempting to relay that the style of writing is overly verbose, even on the contact page. Also, isn't the parent comment attempting to be humorous as well?

It does, but it has to be particularly funny, and the author has to tike on the risk there. Otherwise, there are too many people who think themselves humourous, but otherwise have little to contribute. The result is current-day reddit. It's beyond cringe, it's just low-effort repatative humour. some think it's just dead-internet/botted-to-hell, but I suspect even bots can make a better effort.

Agreed if I had saw that first I wouldn't have clicked

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