Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> >   There are two things that irritate me quite a lot when people write
> > prose, especially online:

> BTW, "fake" doesn't mean what you think it means. :-) A machine-assisted 
> speed-run is still "fake" even if everyone knows it's speed-assisted, just 
> like Star Wars had fake space ships.

  A movie is not a "fake documentary" because a movie is not intended to
pass for one. It's made clear that it's fiction, and hence it's completely
genuine fiction. Nobody calls a movie "a fake documentary".

  A documentary which fabricates events and claims them to have truly
happened, with the intention of fooling people, is fake.

  Likewise a tool-assisted speedrun is not a "fake speedrun" because it's
not made for the purpose of fooling people into thinking that it's one.
Calling it a fake makes as much sense as calling a movie a fake documentary.

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                                                          - Warp

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