It was silly in 1975, and it's silly now.

Video-game art directors, I beseech you: Stop speckling your beautiful creations with boorish, on-the-nose graffiti. You've crafted your worlds so carefully; sit back and let them talk to us on their own terms. A room can tell a story without writing it on the wall.

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