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Public-facing Valve dev shows why most Valve devs don't have much to do with the public: 'I'm just the only one dumb enough to be on Twitter' [<- then stop it or join Lemmy] (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's a completely different sentence, but I guess words don't need to have any actual meanings and we all just need to interpret things randomly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or you could interpret it in context of the rest of the article, but that'd require you to actually read it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I did. He still said what he said.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is English your first language?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That might be what the disagreement here is. The sentence is very ambiguous because its not literal, though it can be read literally as you did. The poster is saying "I'm the dumb one for being the only one working in valve who is reachable by the public directly through social media." Your interpretation isn't wrong, but without the wider context of shorthand speech patterns you get from English as a first language, it can be difficult to figure out the implied message. English has a funny habit of saying one thing, but meaning another thing.