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[–] 216 points 1 year ago (54 children)

Casual reminder that Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion and that he is not your friend.

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  • [–] 101 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Man that has poured shitloads of money into turning linux into a more mainstream desktop platform is rich

    Wow.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    A huge chunk of that Linux development was paid for by exploiting child gambling.

    Just because one does a few good things with their money, doesn't justify how they got it.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

    Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

    We can nitpick specific examples for everything you want, and we will be correct, but that detracts from the point that Gabe has helped to build things that took decades of slowly getting anywhere.

    I wish we didn't need it, but we do.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Not sure exactly what you're trying to say here but I guarantee 0% of that wealth came from his investments in Linux support. Their investment in Linux is mostly a way of keeping MS in check, as in "if you try to fuck us the way Apple does with iOS, your customers will leave Windows because they'd rather have something where they can play their giant library of existing games".

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  • [–] 90 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Gabe Newell is better than many others, but this is true, the best man on Earth will become an absolute pissbag given power for continuous enough period of time to realize that.

    And the best man on Earth is probably some volunteer medic in some African warzone, not a computer programmer and a tech businessman.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I just dont understand miney obsessed people. Why the hell do you need multiple yachts? Why even work at this point when you could just .. not? You would still afford everything you ever want without ever checking your bank account. I just dont get it.

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    [–] 129 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    "Bizzare"? That's pretty much what I expected of Gabe. I don't imagine he has to work particularly hard. Most CEOs try to hide how much they don't do.

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    [–] 101 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    This man never does interviews. Then the one interview he does in the last 30 years is trash-tier editing of a vertical video of a laptop screen in a Zoom meeting from 20 feet away, that's only uploaded as Shorts, by some guy who only has 4 total videos uploaded ever. WTF is up with that?

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    From what little I know about Gabe, it’s seems he doesn’t want to be the center of attention at valve. He wants Steam to the center of attention. It’s a smart play as we are seeing more and more people turning on techbros and their cult leader status’.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Ironic because Gabe appreciation is still kind of cult like.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Honestly I think the reason for the pseudo cult think is three parts he doesn't want it, he keeps his head down, and valve generally produces decent services and products. If any of those disappeared folks would probably stop it to a large degree.

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    [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Gabe the Diver.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I hope that he decides to work on a neutral payment processing system. Cooperating with the EU's Linux initiatives, he can probably put quite a bit of weight onto the scale, making a digital Euro into a thing.

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    [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Clickbaity title. Daily routine stuff is kinda memeish thing to ask successful stuff, and he's trying to be honest about it. He gets to do the light touch management on a lot of fascinating stuff, so it's natural that he wants to do it daily, and he seems to be mixing it up with stuff he does for fun, so it seems like he does it throughout the week, and he seems to have a good attitude about it and looks at it realistically compared to regular work/"horrible job"s.

    Note he doesn't specify times or meals; it's just a rough sketch.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nothing bizarre about that. Scuba diving is nice for some people who are shall we say neuro spicy. Nothing I enjoy more than going to the bottom and just chilling in water.

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What handheld is he playing in the top image? Looks too small to be a steam deck

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Isn't diving good for arthritis? Gabe's no spring chicken.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I read part of this interview elsewhere and it quoted him as saying he enjoys hanging out with people on his boat. My first thought was that those people are paid to be on the boat.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    so no different then normal people go to the gym on their lunch break. scuba is just a different kind of workout

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I wonder, is there good equipment available to go scuba diving with a full beard?

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