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- sudo_cowsay 4mo agoIs that why I can't access the site?
- albertgoeswoof 4mo agoYup. I was going to finally buy half life 2 today but now I’ve seen this I guess I won’t need to. Hard times at Valve, I suppose they’ll have to find more children to start gambling with them.
- m00dy 4mo agolooks like you forgot to add /s tag to your comment :swh
- fragmede 4mo agoBut what about the people who aren't idiots and can read sarcasm without the /s? I reflexively downvote ever comment I come across with a /s. People aren't idiots until you treat them like one.
- alt227 4mo agoBut what about people who are in different parts of the world and don't inherently understand your meaning? That is terrible behaviour to downvote the notation. Text is notorious for not conveying context. Sarcasm can easily be seen as serious by some people, why is why we have the /s notation to make it obvious. People aren't idiots, they come from different backgrounds, locations, languages, and all use English as a common tongue. Have some consideration and stop thinking you are so big and clever.
- account42 4mo agoThe best sarcasm is exactly the one where it could be interpreted as written and people misreading it is part of the fun. If you are going to add sarcasm marks to make sure that absolutely everyone gets what you are intending then whats the point of using sarcasm in the first place instead of clearly writing what you mean?
- baal80spam 4mo ago> The best sarcasm is exactly the one where it could be interpreted as written and people misreading it is part of the fun. Is it kind of a reverse Poe's Law?
- fragmede 4mo agoYou have a point when the situation is professional workspace communication. I'm able to code switch and drop idioms out of my language because e. g. "that's a home run" doesn't make sense if you're not American and have played baseball. But we're on a very nerdy entertainment website. It's not that I'm big and mighty it's that I hate having to dumb down discussion. This is why I call out people for throwing around words like scam to mean generically bad but not actually a scam and you pay for something that wasn't delivered. If you pay for something and you get what was ordered and it works, but the website to order on made it painful to make the order that's not a scam! Poe's law exists but I'd rather pull up in discussion and intellect because I want to believe that people are smarter than we assume they are, in this day and age.
- linzhangrun 4mo agolmao :)
- tmountain 4mo agoSomeone has to look out for the big guys! /s
- zamadatix 4mo agoI don't think they wrote the comment because of the impact to Valve. After all, they said legal rather than ethical and the page already seems to be gone (hopefully just a temporary hosting thing due to popularity rather than a takedown thing, but it will soon become the latter regardless). If you want these kinds of things to stay up long enough for many people to see/use them you have to work around the legal limitations (regardless of whether they make ethical sense). Most commonly, make the site apply as a diff to the original content/assets the user provides.
- haunter 4mo ago[flagged]
- charcircuit 4mo ago2 wrongs don't make a right.
- haunter 4mo agoAh yeah the famously equal acts of pirating a game VS promoting illegal unregulated gambling for millions of people (and that's just the tip of the iceberg). That's why corporations can get away with everything.
- zamadatix 4mo agoYou're the only one saying they are equal acts. More than one thing can be acknowledged as a problem at a time.
- account42 4mo agoAnd something being illegal doesn't make it wrong.
- charcircuit 4mo agoThe converse applies to. Just because piracy is illegal, that doesn't make it right.
- foresto 4mo agoIn which jurisdiction?
- hmry 4mo agoEvery signatory of the Berne convention or member of the TRIPS agreement, and most others too.
- koolala 4mo agolegality != morality
- gempir 4mo agoIt's only legal if you are a billion dollar AI company