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[–] Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago
[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 3 points 4 hours ago

All friends are transactional friends when you're that wealthy, which should be depressing to them, but they carry on and fuck the hollow models and that's that.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 20 points 15 hours ago (2 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.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 8 hours ago

The EU now has a digital wallet payment system in a trail run

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html

Would be neat if they integrate it

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

he can probably put quite a bit of weight onto the scale

Was that a cheap shot? If so, I approve.

[–] tan00k@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 35 points 18 hours ago

It's a Steam Deck, he has big hands.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 92 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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?

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 62 points 23 hours ago (2 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’.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I'm busy with developing a game. I don't want to be popular or the centre of attention should my game be succesful. I just a lot of people to play and enjoy my game. I can totally get that.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 23 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Ironic because Gabe appreciation is still kind of cult like.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I think that in itself is meant to be ironic too.

Also, people appreciate his lack of attention seeking and flashiness.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I think that in itself is meant to be ironic

Trump praise was initially ironic as well. There's a old hilarious episode of John Oliver begging him to run for President because he thought it was just so ridiculous. These things have a way of getting out of hand.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, I have had nothing but fantastic experiences with steam. Their support is knowledgeable, responsive, and has the power to actually help you. The index controllers are notorious for developing drift on the sticks and they RMAd mine several times no problem. The last one was a year out of warranty and they said that's all I get lol, but that's way more than they technically had to do.

Compare that to meta support where I had to talk to 4 different help desk lackeys who told me my quest was definitely on the way in another package (even after I showed them incontrovertible proof there weren't multiple packages under the same number and I received all the packages) before they finally escalated me to the "specialist" team, who took a FULL DAY PER RESPONSE. Fuck meta, fuck zucc, hail gaben.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I mean facebook is run by nazis, you got what you paid for on that end.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 23 points 15 hours 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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 14 points 18 hours ago

I'm sure that's why he doesn't seek attention, he already has too much.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can understand preferring scuba diving to doing interviews.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 199 points 1 day ago (78 children)

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

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 hours ago

not my friend, but not as clearly my enemy as many other wealthy people

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 206 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Class consciousness leaving my body when the money hoarder owns the store I buy treats from

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago (6 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.

[–] Ebber@lemmings.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Jacinda Adern as New Zealand PM seemed to be sort of that type

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 125 points 1 day ago (16 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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