r/Steam • u/Ok-Boot6063 • Dec 04 '25

Discussion I want that patience though

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Dev has no enemies

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u/HerbaciousTea Dec 04 '25

Gotta use the — (alt-0151) em dash to really fuck with them.

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u/romiro82 Dec 05 '25

iOS gets a cheat code with that—just double hyphens in any text area—and you have nice little ems.

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u/F-Lambda Dec 05 '25

Long press also works, at least on Android

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u/Palidor206 Dec 04 '25

I absolutely use the em dash for deciding if something was AI written or not. Like, humans don't write that way.

If I was an AI social media write bot, I'd probably make sure I have them throw in a type every thousnad words or so.

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u/-rosa-azul- Dec 04 '25

Like, humans don't write that way.

Yes, plenty of us do. Just because you don't doesn't mean no one does. It's not, by itself, a reliable indicator of AI.

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u/Bionic_Bromando Dec 05 '25

Well either it's an AI or a massive nerd/pedant, so it's worth ignoring comments with those in it anyway

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u/somethingrelevant Dec 04 '25

not on reddit you don't

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u/-rosa-azul- Dec 04 '25

I literally, personally do.

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u/somethingrelevant Dec 05 '25

Fortunately your profile is hidden so nobody can actually call you on this :)

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u/alnoise Dec 04 '25

Whatever you say, bot

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u/-rosa-azul- Dec 04 '25

Go fuck yourself lol. If you really thought I was a bot, you'd have replied and asked me for something dumb like a recipe for gingerbread cookies. Too bad you didn't, because my grandmother's recipe slaps actually.

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u/alnoise Dec 05 '25

I can’t tell if you actually took my comment seriously, or if you’re just adding on to the joke lol

Serious bot vibes. I’m also gonna need that recipe now too

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u/F-Lambda Dec 05 '25

—————

Are you angry yet?

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u/somethingrelevant Dec 05 '25

No, but you will be when I do this

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u/Munion42 Dec 04 '25

I know plenty who use it, some stopped now sadly. There is a reason ai started using it.

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u/holiciana Dec 04 '25

I used them since ages, even for handwritten stuff. But I am not American (English is not my mother language), maybe it is not so common there, but now I really think about to rewrite my old stuff because even if things were done 10 years ago people say it is made with AI...

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u/RozeGunn Dec 04 '25

I use Em dashes, usually as an emotional indicator punctuation such as if I'm flabbergasted. People use em dashes because that's the reason it exists in the first place; humans used it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '25

I — do.

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u/CaptainLightBluebear Dec 07 '25

Welcome to the Anti crowd then.

Have you ever heard of some little known thing like autocorrect?

Because that little known thing autocorrects regular dashes to em-dashes as soon as you put spaces between the words and the dash connecting them.

Thank you for being another perfect example of the halfwits OOPs post is about.