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Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs
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To be fair: the Emission free battery electric part is actually worse than burning diesel, unless taken from a grid or used in low power operations. If you use it to circumvent fuel Emission standards it's good. If you use it with regular fuel while entering a harbor it's good for the local environment while being bad for the global. (Overall probably good, in that case) Since a yacht would have a lot of idling while chilling at sea it's probably a net good.Well I'm sure that they can charge it when docked. Would be idiotic if they didn't factor that in, given how much time yachts spend docked. And marine diesel engines also usually run at a fairly steady speed, they don't really get revved up. The big ones anyway, I mean. In diesel-electric systems you can run the diesel engine at its most efficient speed to power the electrical system which is what actually moves the ship. So I think it's a net good... compared to a straight diesel yacht. But obviously the better option would be no yacht.
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They should be *reigned in as a monopoly*. That’s how it’s fixed. Nothing drastic either, just stop Valve from (say) dictating prices outside their platform, and do the same for Amazon and Walmart while they’re at it.How DO you force the competition to be better? Because EGS plain sucks. The price fixing part is an issue, but they don't technically do any illegal price fixing. They just say they don't want to see your game cheaper elsewhere - you can drop prices elsewhere AND on Steam though.
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> Leviathan has two gyms, a 250 square meter beach club with a spa and bar, diving platforms, and whatever a "dedicated drinks pantry" is. The cherry on top: a room with 15 of the finest gaming PCs ever assembled. Yup, research vessel."The yacht has a strong focus on team building and onboard scientific work; in 2023, the yard suggested the yacht's engagement in scientific research and discovery meant there would be "innovative technologies" as well as a convention-defying layout that focuses on bringing groups together."
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How DO you force the competition to be better? Because EGS plain sucks. The price fixing part is an issue, but they don't technically do any illegal price fixing. They just say they don't want to see your game cheaper elsewhere - you can drop prices elsewhere AND on Steam though.> The price fixing part is an issue, but they don’t technically do any illegal price fixing. They just say they don’t want to see your game cheaper elsewhere - you can drop prices elsewhere AND on Steam though. I mean, if Amazon or Walmart tell a supplier "we're doubling our cut, but you can't price any lower in cheaper stores. Don't like it? We will drop you," people scream bloody murder. ...Because that's *exactly* what Amazon and Walmart do! It's *awful*, and it's not okay if Valve does it either. EGS is a victim of Sweeney's absolutely *massive* ego, but still, I think they'd have gotten a lot more busiess of every game on there was 20% cheaper.
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Or taxes
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Everyone on here acts like Gabe is THEIR billionaire, and Steam is THEIR capitalist billionaire corporation. Gabe is a dirtbag and a thief by the sole virtue of being a billionaire. Nobody earns a billion dollars, you get it by stealing wages and time from the workers below you. Steam is a dirtbag corporation as well, no matter how many fanboys try to sweep Steam’s history of fuckery under the rug
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I never understood the appeal of anything rich people like. A yacht? An HOA? A supercar? These don’t appeal to me at all. If given them I would hate them. I mean it might be fun to buy a politician but otherwise it sounds boring.Same. I'd probably build a giant dog park, giant playground for kids, lots of natural trails, etc. make it all free. Build shelters for anyone to use, garages where people could work on their cars safely and out of the elements, bike repair stations, things like that. Fuck a super yacht. Tells you how selfish people are, completely unaware how they got where they are. They could spend 10k/day and never spend all their money, not even a dent. Just selfish pricks. Bring the guillotine.
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I dunno about every other country, but age of consent legally applies to US citizens while abroad. I'm sure it's easier to get away with, but it doesn't make one immune to the law.If you are rich enough, you get away with anything.
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Privacy and Security. You're out there where no paparazzi can take bikini pictures of you. It's easy to secure so that nobody can kidnap you. And take a look at the interior of those Yachts, they are not cramped. Look at this thing:  It's bigger than your home. It has its own helipad. It is 111m long.> It’s easy to secure so that nobody can kidnap you. *Pirates have entered the chat* Yar, hold me grog me matey. *Somali pirates have entered the chat* Look at me. I am the captain now.
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Dude, I thought you were cool. Owning a yacht is like the lamest thing you could possibly do! With the coolest things being feeding the hungry and housing the poor obviously.
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Solitary confinement or have Ol' Musky live like the underclass.
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Maybe he's planning to, or maybe he has, idk. We can only really evaluate him on what he does.
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Usually small, they have a trust company buy the yacht. As a company, it benefits from various tax optimizations and can be located in the mode optimal country. Then the company rents the yacht at cost to the rich person so that the company does not declare profits, the rich person does not declare the yacht in their personal belongings and they can deduce the rents from their declared fortune.
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I mean yachts seem to be his hobby, he has several. Idk, they can be kinda cool, but only in retirement and on vacations. Day to day, completely useless and cost a lot of money to maintain even when not used. And I don't think megayachts are as cool as smaller ones because part of the appeal to me is to get away from everyone. I wouldn't want 100 people on my yacht. Maybe 4-5 of my closest friends, but you can do that with a yacht costing two orders of magnitude less (and even that is if you want a passagemaker. Something that doesn't have to be able to cross the ocean can be had for well under a million I think) Supercars are fun IF you track them. Wouldn't want to drive one in traffic. Much prefer a luxury car for that if I was rich. Of course I think any rich person who owns supercars and hypercars, also has luxury cruisers to waft around in (or to be wafted around in). HOAs I'll never get. Fuck anyone who thinks they can impose rules on what I do with my own yard.
