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I get what they're trying to do, but did this read like a rant from a crazy person to anyone else?

Just the first header block read like they were creating some kind of videogame company... and then finally at the bottom of that text block, "Oh, it has something to do with interviews..." and then halfway down the next section, "oh, it's that kind of CTF".

Anyway, seems cool if they can make applying for jobs more interesting.

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I actually liked the style. For me it read as amazing, totally cool and definitely-want-to-participate-in thing - but that might be mostly because I know who patio11 and tptacek are and don't apply the typical --bullshit-filter=strong flag I do when reading other announcements.

Entirely insane, yes! After reading this article, I have no real idea what they are doing, but it appears that they are related to an entire genre of games I didn't know about.

I think it's primarily written to a different audience than yourself, then. I mean that in the best of ways. As an infosec sort, it came across pretty clearly what they intended. I think it's just a culture difference between information security, and the rest of IT.

Ah, infosec. Yes, it was clear that it came from some other part of the computer universe, but I had no idea which one.

Yeah, for us (infosec) hackers it can be easy to forget there are people in IT who don't understand our culture/terminology sometimes.

It reminded of how pickup artists market their books/seminars[0], which gave me a little chuckle. Nevertheless, I'm excited about this, and signed up immediately.

[0]: www.blueprintdecoded.com/

It read like an infomercial to me...I closed the page after the first two sections.

patio11's writing style seems to run that way. I find it difficult to read, but he's presumably tested it. Maybe he got stuck at a local maxima.

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