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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by LarryMullins on Saturday December 17, 2022 @04:16PM (#34032322)
To be clear, you're joking right now, right? I think you must be, but given your previous comment I'm not sure. Dry sarcasm in text is hard...
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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by yazzku on Saturday December 17, 2022 @07:32PM (#34033803)
No, I am not. Linus is not exactly an average person; it seems perfectly reasonable to me that among his many eccentricities would be the belief that only some people play games on a PC.

Maybe I have been reading too many of his emails.

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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by ClimaxGravely on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:48PM (#34034617)
You're not alone. I wasn't able to discern that quote as humor either.
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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by LarryMullins on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:26AM (#34035945)
He's aware that video games exist, so obviously he knows some people play video games. I don't really see how you could confuse this.
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