• klankin@piefed.ca
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    2 days ago

    Why not? Hyperboles are a literary tool, and meant to be used.

    Unfortunately its as off topic as your random hate for companies and literary structure, so I’m a bit hesitant to continue this debate.

    That being said I’d assume it was in their test suite considering their haste.

    Doing things the wrong way will always be cheaper, Elon had the same argument as you when he used a padlock to secure a datacenter worth of confidential twitter data. It makes money immediately, but anyone with a 2and grade education realises time exists beyond the next quarterly report.

    Properly auditing and testing software takes time, looks like shit quarterly, and develops a long term following leading to stable profits. I see no reason for Steam to have changed from this path.

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      2 days ago

      Hyperbole using extremes at both ends to bias a point is a fallacy and not conversing in good faith. It’s a tool when used correctly, you have not.

      You’ve never heard of guerrilla marketing before have you?

      This isn’t something new that they’ve done, why do you think it can be called out, theres even wikipedia pages where you can see examples of other companies doing this. You’re not seriously thinking I’m coming up with this new novel never heard of thing before…. Are you…? Because that’s just clearly foolish.

      • klankin@piefed.ca
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        2 days ago

        Wait so its incorrect to say “its as hot as hell in here”?

        I’m explicitly implying it is truly hot as hell, while not even addressing the possibility its cold as shit as well. Hell I’m not even using it to describe the fallacy that it is, in fact, not hot as hell, as hell may not even exist physically - much less have an average atomic kinetic energy.

        Or maybe were both just being pedantic dicks cause were incorrect in our original claim?

        Damn I gotta get back to English class