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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My guess is, that we are used to digital games?

I don't know why someone decided to say "correct" on my behalf, but no, it's baser than that: "disks" is the ellipsis for "hard disks" and "floppy disks". "Discs" is the correct terminology for an optical disc.

The author already acknowledges what you did re: digital games.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I still don't understand what you mean by "PC Gamer, I know you know better.".

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I mean that I know someone writing for PC Gamer (the outlet whose article this is) knows (or should know) the difference between those words.


Edit: In case you didn't know, italicization is used to indicate (among other things) the name of an outlet. So for example, The New York Times, The Verge, and so on.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

omg apologies! I thought you were talking about the PC Gamer as in user of PCs. I didn't pay attention to the name of the website. I was so confused.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Haha, it's totally good. Maybe you got to learn a little grammatical tidbit from it, so net positive.