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Valve boss Gabe Newell reveals daily routine in bizarre new interview: "I get up, I work, I go scuba-diving, then work some more"

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  • M MolochAlter
    > taking 30% from devs by doing nothing. LMAO tell me you are not a dev without telling me. Steam does a shitton for devs, the 30% is literally only for sales through their storefront, I can get any amount of keys and resell them wherever I want and give valve nothing, and they'll still host all my shit, check ownership, handle copy sharing in family libraries, handle patching and beta tests, all for a one time fee that is even refunded if you ever get past a certain amount of copies sold. You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
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    I am literally a dev
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      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 7 total videos uploaded ever. WTF is up with that?
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        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 7 total videos uploaded ever. WTF is up with that?
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        I can understand preferring scuba diving to doing interviews.
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          I wonder, is there good equipment available to go scuba diving with a full beard?
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          • skullgrid@lemmy.worldS skullgrid@lemmy.world
            >Man that has poured shitloads of money into turning linux into a more mainstream desktop platform is rich Wow.
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            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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            • ? Guest
              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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              I would 100% still work if I were rich. The only thing that would change is when and what I work on.
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                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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                They hated him because he spoke the truth.
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                • tal@lemmy.todayT tal@lemmy.today
                  I can understand preferring scuba diving to doing interviews.
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                  I can't imagine how you read my comment and determined that the thing that confused me was why he doesn't do many interviews.
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                    hperrin@lemmy.ca
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                    Sounds like a pretty good life.
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                      I am literally a dev
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                      If you're a game dev, then you should also know how valuable every service steam gives is, if you're just "a dev" then it's not really relevant beyond understanding how much setting up all of that infrastructure would cost in terms of time, effort, marketing to actually get discoverability, and actual server costs once you need to scale. Either way you should know enough to get that 30% is absolutely worth it.
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                      • M MolochAlter
                        If you're a game dev, then you should also know how valuable every service steam gives is, if you're just "a dev" then it's not really relevant beyond understanding how much setting up all of that infrastructure would cost in terms of time, effort, marketing to actually get discoverability, and actual server costs once you need to scale. Either way you should know enough to get that 30% is absolutely worth it.
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                        Gaben is a billionaire many times over, he owns half a dozen yachts, and valve has like 100 employees. They could take 5% without changing a single thing and still be fabulously wealthy. Greed corrupts
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                          I wonder, is there good equipment available to go scuba diving with a full beard?
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                          Lots. You just need a little vaseline in that mustache and boom.
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                          • I iamthetot@sh.itjust.works
                            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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                            Some billionaires are ok.
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                            • skullgrid@lemmy.worldS skullgrid@lemmy.world
                              >Man that has poured shitloads of money into turning linux into a more mainstream desktop platform is rich Wow.
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                              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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                                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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                                  I can't imagine how you read my comment and determined that the thing that confused me was why he doesn't do many interviews.
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                                  I know right and why Zoom? Surely they could have used something better.
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                                    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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                                      I wonder, is there good equipment available to go scuba diving with a full beard?
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                                      The regulator has a bite mouthpiece, so no fit issue there. Mask fit covering nose might require some shopping around or upper cheek shaving depending on growth pattern.
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                                        Isn't diving good for arthritis? Gabe's no spring chicken.
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                                        • I iamthetot@sh.itjust.works
                                          I do, that's why I said something.
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                                          You've got bigger issues if all you care about someone is their monetary wealth.
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