[enthdegree]

>“What is this?” I asked. “It looks like hair.” Marshall chuckled. “That’s them — the cable bacteria,” he said. “If you watch closely, you’ll see them twitching.” I stared harder. The filaments shifted.

This schmaltzy student-teacher roleplay immersion-journalism feels false and infantilizing to me. It makes me mistrustful of the text and I avoid reading essays written like it. The facts are embedded in an artificial adventure narrative as one feeds a dog a pill by hiding it in peanut butter. Why? Would the non-sensationalized, plainly framed information content be too un-stimulating for readers? Are false narratives hidden inside?

>Obama chuckled. "You mean the Chaos Emeralds?"

[sgarland]

Speak for yourself, I enjoyed it. The immersion makes it more interesting.

[Demiurge]

I think it’s safe to assume every commenter speaks for themselves. I agree with the grandparent comment, this narration is cheesy and I couldn’t get through it, or figure out the point. If it’s fan fiction, it should be labeled as such. But, if there is news in there, I’d like a TLDR synopsis. Fortunately, there is a browser extension for that :)

[cwmoore]

"It's all stories."