There’s a fine line between “this was a jargon term I’m introducing” and “this is a reference that helped me make sense of a thing that only really helps if you already knew the reference” and I think this was more of the latter.
Agreed. I think it can be fine to write in the language that comes naturally to you, with the references that are part of your native vocabulary, but it does confuse people sometimes. I usually put a wikipedia link to references that I don’t expect to be common knowledge but don’t want to stop to explain. (Videogames, or games generally, usually aren’t common knowledge; neither are technical or historical or literary references.)
There’s a fine line between “this was a jargon term I’m introducing” and “this is a reference that helped me make sense of a thing that only really helps if you already knew the reference” and I think this was more of the latter.
Agreed. I think it can be fine to write in the language that comes naturally to you, with the references that are part of your native vocabulary, but it does confuse people sometimes. I usually put a wikipedia link to references that I don’t expect to be common knowledge but don’t want to stop to explain. (Videogames, or games generally, usually aren’t common knowledge; neither are technical or historical or literary references.)