Steve Dice

lol are legitimately saying this was not a joke?

Parenthesis consists of only two symbols that only require two keyboard keys and a single stroke of a pen to write compared to the four keys and varying strokes of the standard operators

The humble ( ), however, is very easy to see, and it creates neat little windows that don’t leave much room for misinterpretation.

2*7²+5*3³ = accessibility nightmare

(2(7²))+(5(3³)) = readable with clearly defined order of operations

I mean, I guess I have no reason to doubt your word so I’ll just believe you were being serious and respond in kind.

Time savings you might gain from parentheses being easier to write and requiring less keystrokes is lost on you needing to use twice as many since they come in pairs.

Furthermore, with the exception of *, which we don’t even write most of the time, you still need to use all of the other operators even with parentheses, so using them everywhere isn’t even a trade off, it’s a net loss. This also means that parentheses will not help you differentiate between the operators because you’ll still be using them.

Finally, the only reason you find the example I gave easier to read with parentheses is because I used a lot of multiplication, but you have multiplication to thank for that, not parentheses. In most cases, it would have fairly simple expressions like this:

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8

turned into this:

1+(2+(3+(4+(5+(6+(7+(8))))))

If you truly want to eliminate ambiguity, have a look at reverse polish notation. I find it confusing as hell but some people like it.

Bye.

Sorry that my mean words hurt you more than Valve abusing you.

Your search turned up nothing because you searched for nothing. Steam Keys are irrelevant here, you only keep bringing them up to derail the discussion to a greyer area where you can better defend your beloved corporate overlord. This was always about the price veto policy. Very telling how you flat out refuse to even address anything regarding that topic. Grow up.

No, it’s not. That’s an entirely different policy that you keep bringing up for no reason. That policy is also anti-consumer bullshit but I digress. What I’m referring to is the following shady wording:

Initial pricing as well as proposed pricing adjustments will be reviewed by Valve

I hope so but they’re already abusing cliffhangers so they’re not that far off from just completely stalling the narrative on every chapter except the last one.

I know you didn’t google anything or you would have said “nothing I found substantiates your point” instead of “these specific two articles don’t say what you said”.

But let’s assume you’re not lying and you did look up the situation. What’s your claim then? That Steam has no price veto policy or that they don’t abuse it? Because one is wrong and the other is incredibly naive. Talk about taking unfounded claims at face value.

Also, why do you keep bringing up Steam Keys? That has nothing to do with anything. Focus.

No, I think you deserve to be insulted because you are talking out of your ass about something you didn’t read. Again, this is about the price veto policy. This is not about Steam Keys (here’s me hoping italics help with your dyslexia).

And yeah, I thought you meant runescape on the EGS not on their site. It doesn’t matter because it has zero bearing on the discussion, I only addressed it because you didn’t read the thing you’re talking about.

It’s not safe from The Walking Deadification, though. And I’m sad to say, it seems like it’s already happening.

Ah, the classic spoon-feed me the answer or it doesn’t count as a source. Learn to use the internet, you’re not a child.

Again, this is not about Steam Keys, it’s about Steam using shady contracts to bully developers into price parity on completely unrelated stores. Yes, runescape is cheaper on Epic, the incredibly broad nature of these rules that allows for selective wishy-washy enforcing is also part of the lawsuit.

If you see something I am missing from the lawsuit please let me know, preferably without the hostility if you can manage.

The whole thing because you didn’t read it and, given that you keep bringing up Steam Keys, which is not what we’re talking about, I’m skeptical that you can read at all.

Yes, Valve enforcing price parity only when it’s convenient for them is also addressed in the lawsuit.

The rest of your comment refers to Steam Keys. That’s literally not what we’re talking about.

Yes. That is exactly the issue. It’s not only Steam Keys either as some of the cultists would have you believe. Valve does require you to offer Steam Keys on other stores at the same price that you offer the game on Steam but that’s not all. Now, while they don’t specifically forbid you to offer different prices on stores that have nothing to do with Steam, they do reserve the right (do whatever the hell you want with this one simple trick!) to veto pricing on Steam for any reason. This has been historically used by Valve to block games that offer better pricing on competing stores. It goes something like this:

1. I make a game and decide I want to make $7 per sale so I publish it on my site at $7.
2. I want the game to be accessible to a wider audience so I publish it on other stores.
3. Epic takes 12% so I price it at $8 there in order to keep making $7 per sale
4. Steam takes 30% so I price it at $10 there for the same reason.
5. Valve says $10 isn’t a fair price and refuses to elaborate why, reminding me that they reserve the right to veto any price on Steam for any reason.
6. I make my game $10 on all other stores
7. Valve magically decides $10 was actually a fair price all along and finally publishes the game on Steam.

Only if you are selling a steam key elsewhere

No. That’s not true. You’re spreading misinformation. Read the fucking lawsuit.

Oh, you’re trolling. Carry on, then.

Nobody said anything about Steam keys. They don’t let you sell games at lower prices, period.

Also, there is no mention of said policy in either the OP article, nor the separate article about the lawsuit it links to.

Are you being serious, right now? The source isn’t 2 clicks away so therefore it doesn’t exist? Lawsuits are literally public knowledge. You should inform yourself about a topic before you get into a conversation about it.

Here. Perhaps you can stop defending the billion dollar company now.

Following your logic,

2*7²+5*3³ becomes (2(7²))+(5(3³))

Talk about inefficient waste of time.

Charge 20-30% extra on Steam and call it done.

Steam doesn’t let you do that. This is literally what the lawsuit is about.

Here. For anyone who values facts over sensionalism.

Historical letter between two women: Spread your legs so I can eat your muffin

Historians: Here we have a letter that serves as evidence that women would often practice baking pastries to each other and would straddle on their chairs at the time of eating them in order to avoid soiling their garments so that they could make themselves more desirable to the opposite sex. Now let me tell you about the army general who had a very dear friend who was so good at raising chickens that he regularly sent letters to, voicing his desire to devour his poultry.