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Yup. 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.

looks like you forgot to add /s tag to your comment :swh

But 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.

But 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.

The 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?

> 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?

You 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.

lmao :)

Someone has to look out for the big guys! /s

I 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.

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2 wrongs don't make a right.

Ah 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.

You're the only one saying they are equal acts. More than one thing can be acknowledged as a problem at a time.

And something being illegal doesn't make it wrong.

The converse applies to. Just because piracy is illegal, that doesn't make it right.

It's only legal if you are a billion dollar AI company

Is that why I can't access the site?

It works on chromium-based browsers at least

Works in Chrome, Firefox, & Safari from my testing (well done). If there is an site access problem it's probably something on the network side.

legality != morality

In which jurisdiction?

Every signatory of the Berne convention or member of the TRIPS agreement, and most others too.

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