Cat shit is not the same as elephant shit. Contents are different and there is a enormous difference in amounts. Would you rather have an elephant shit in your house of a cat shit in a litterbox in your house?

At this point Gabe has a fleet of yachts and a large knife collections. I've never heard anything about Gabe in connection with cars or large houses. Just knives and yachts. So I guess in the case if this guy he actually _really_ likes yachts.

Neither is you, or anyone except people he works with and is close to.

Frozen excrement blade on a scorching hot day. Might need a dozen or so blades to get halfway through his neck but the splat after each one will be marvellous.

Yup, that's part of the deal: cat shit is *preferable* over elephant shit. The other part is that cat shit is still shit, and it's still *undesirable*. Now look at the discussion in this thread. Gabe Newell is cat shit; some comments are trying to defend him as not shit, some trying to pretend his behaviour is exactly as bad as elephant shit (your typical billionaire). Between a billionaire like Newell spending money on a research yacht versus one like Musk fuelling some random dictatorship, Newell is *preferable*. And he's still *undesirable* as any of those money-hoarding psychopaths.

I too take to the seven seas.

>they are just required to contribute to the world more than they take They wouldn't be millionaires or billionaires then. You don't get millionaire without appropriating the labor of others.

Standards are low

Half Life 3 takes place on open sea.

Good comparison. Two billionaires that enjoy their yachts and private jets, didn't get rich by speculating with food or shelter, are well respected by their employees and mostly leave us alone. Better them than the chairman of the party, king or whatever.

Dota has a battle pass and micro transactions

No sarcasm, pure sincerity, that was a beautifully eloquent comment, kudos.

Also... banned substances. Among other less acceptable things.

It's not network effects (but slightly related), it's opportunity cost. Getting your app into yet another app store isn't hard, but takes time, so you need to make sure it doesn't cost devs more to add support for you than it earns them. The slightest fuzz and they'll drop you if you're small. But stores like Gog are able to exist just fine. They're big enough that many devs think it's worth it to support them. If you want more devs to do so, tell them that's what you want and show it will be worth it. And if you want to open another store, copy Gog & co

But the money from that goes to professional players that participate in the tournament and to organizers who organize the event. How much money from battle pass goes to Fortnite/Battlefield/COD pro players?

I can see how banning might be controversial, but I sure wish they'd tax the hell out of them. Make that yacht not a million, but 10 or 100, a billion. Give that tax money to services like healthcare or UBI. I can see unique perks to yachts, if you genuinely want one as a dream I'm not gonna stop you, just commit to that being the dream you want. In practise I can see how politicans would (or do) just use that money for themselves anyway...

Look up Wikipedia on how they got confessions out of people in the medieval times...

Elon Musk actively hinders his companies from succeeding. People need to stop glorifying his involvement in companies he paid to have his name on.

> The materials were also chosen with an eye on reducing maintenance and repetitive tasks for the yacht's staff, so traditional materials like teak decks and wooden handrails are out, and composite alternatives are in. The diesel-electric power plant works alongside a battery storage system that allows Leviathan to operate for long stretches with no emissions, and it also features an advanced wastewater treatment system. On the one hand, it's nice that mr Newell seems to be reducing the footprint of their luxury yacht above and beyond most of what I have heard happens in the rest of the luxury yacht industry. On the other hand, I shudder to think of what the footprint for the _manufacturing_ of this custom-designed, one-of-a-kind luxury yacht looked like. Not to mention 'composite' usually means some sort of plastic, so now there'll be one more thing spewing microplastics directly into the ocean...

Has Epic become profitable yet? I vaguely remember the plan being for it to become profitable later, and that it was living off Fortnite money. Steam could just charge at most 20% then though, I don't remember what the thresholds/conditions for different costs like 30% and 18% are.