Comment by jerf

Game text is highly patterned. And since gamers generally can't be trusted to read long text, it's easy to extract the actually important parts, by design, if you practice it a lot.

It reminds me of one of the things I consider a secret programmer skill, which is the ability to watch logs streaming by at a fairly fast pace and still stand a reasonable chance of picking out the one log message that stands out and means something. This also depends on the fact the logs are highly patterned.