• njm1314@lemmy.world
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          9 hours ago

          It’s not misleading, you’ve just purposely ignored the meaning of the words to instead imply your own.

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          10 hours ago

          I don’t think it’s misleading, “generating” implies gross profit, not net. It’s not explicit, but it’s also not misleading.

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              I “make” my gross pay. I don’t really talk about “making” my net pay. I don’t much think about my net pay, outside of actual budgeting.

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              Again, implying gross profit, not net. It didn’t say “makes” 50 million profit. You are inferring something that is not otherwise implied.

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                Nah he’s right. Nobody buys a widget for 5 bucks and sells it for 10 bucks and says, “I made 10 bucks”. By your rational I could buy a car new for 25 grand, sell it 10 years later for 12 grand and say I “made” 12 grand off it.
                “Make” has typically implied profit for as long as I can remember.

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                9 hours ago

                Considering that I’ve seen conflation of revenue and profit from actual journalists, I stand by my previous statement.

                • TheDudeV2@lemmy.ca
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                  8 hours ago

                  Buddy. Take a breath for a moment. I mean this constructively; it’s an opportunity to learn.

                  What you’ve just said here is essentially this:

                  1. Some journalists sometimes make errors.
                  2. Therefore I choose to make an interpretive error.

                  Please remember, we all make errors (myself included). The best of us learn from them.

                  • njm1314@lemmy.world
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                    7 hours ago

                    Not just that but I mean journalism geez. I can’t think of a profession that has had more of a fall from grace in the last 20 years. Furthermore the implication here is video game journalism, which has always been the lowest form of Journalism.

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      8 hours ago

      Then again, somehow I don’t expect Valve’s expenditures are that high, except download server costs.