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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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> If the mere fact of being a billionaire is bad, which it obviously is, I don't think that's obvious at all. Becoming a billionaire just means you have a billion dollars worth of assets, and it doesn't say anything about how you got that money. There's a high correlation between billionaire's and being a bad person, but it's not 1:1.I'm not going to get sidetracked into that conversation. Especially when there is absolutely zero chance of us agreeing on it. The topic was whether or not that determination is relevant. Which again obviously it has to be.
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I'm not going to get sidetracked into that conversation. Especially when there is absolutely zero chance of us agreeing on it. The topic was whether or not that determination is relevant. Which again obviously it has to be.And I argue it's not a given that someone is a bad person just because they have billions of dollars.
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And I argue it's not a given that someone is a bad person just because they have billions of dollars.Cool beans dude, not what we were talking about. We were talking about whether or not that determination is relevant.
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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.
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He owns a lot of boats, both the RV6000 (currently being constructed) and the Pressure Drop belong to him - pressure drop does some very good science, and has for quite a long time. He *also* owns a fleet of pleasure yachts. The two groups of ships are conflated for... reasons I actually cannot understand.
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Would bet cash money this article was sponsored by Tim Sweeny, who is also a billionaire lol. Not saying this excuses Gabe Newell in any way, but this was made purely to attack Valve's newly announced product. They had no issue when a billionaire with an order of magnitude more wealth than both Tim or Gabe went around advertising his shitty Amazon MMO: https://www.pcgamer.com/jeff-bezos-heralds-new-worlds-success-after-many-failures-and-setbacks-in-gaming/ >It's impossible to say where New World will be in a year, whether it will be on the road to obscurity or finally giving World of Warcraft something to sweat about, but right now it's a huge success that validates the commitment and patience Amazon has taken with it. Bezos may not have had a direct hand in its creation, but as the person who greenlighted Amazon's foray into gaming more than a half-decade ago, you can understand his pride in it. 
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Okay yeah as a non gamer I wasnt sure of the problem. I had heard he has great employee benefits and people generally love the product so I wasnt seeing the issue with the success but thisnis a major issue. Obviously he should be taxed more and all that jazz too.
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No, I mean he _literally does not run those._ It's like blaming the bank for 'running a drug empire' when someone buys some weed.
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He's come a long way on the last decade. 
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Yes, he's the president of _Valve_, not the CEO of multiple online casinos for underage customers. Those generally are not based in the US in the first place.
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That's like arguing the guy who beats his wife isn't so bad because he used to cut on her too, but stopped. It should be 10% max for a store. And publishers all take too big a cut as well
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He bought that off the tears of teenagers not getting the knife they wanted over and over and over again. Scumbag.