You mean the guy that took millions of gamer's money for a series everyone loved and that allowed his company to survive, only to abandon that series in favor of making mountains of cash with another product, may not be the standup guy a bunch of fanboys thought he was? No way.

proton without newell is proton, but with maybe a different direction proton without valve's workers and WINE/DXVK contributors is nothing. it's literally nothing. the same goes for basically any projects. the billionaire CEOs are (sometimes, not even always!) the people who take decisions. everyone else does the work. without the CEOs, the same projects would have decisions taken in other ways. without the workers, there would be nothing. stop licking billionaire boots.

There's dozens of other people bringing that up in this thread. And to be fair, if Gabe put the money Half Life 3 development, those programmers, writers and artists would be getting paid.

He'll taste like chicken, too. Fuck these obscenely rich.

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

Or taxes

That or you won’t outrage against your god Gabe. “ Elon, trump, bezos, sure fuck those guys, but I don’t have the energy to say fuck Gabe! “

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.

Maybe he's planning to, or maybe he has, idk. We can only really evaluate him on what he does.

If anarchists could agree on a policy they wouldn't be anarchists.

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.

convince people of what, reasons why some people like yachts? this isn't fucking reddit, use your fucking head and recognize the difference between trying to argue a position yourself and suggesting reasoning for other people

Yeah, everyone is like "I wanna call it the GabeCube". I dunno man, I get that Valve is letting them work on cool shit but the people working on these things should get credit too. We don't know how big Gabe's involvement too and I don't to deify a billionaire for no obvious reason.

Million ain't as much as it used to be. There are actually tons of millionaire teachers.

I suppose it depends on if you count conservation as philanthropy. Like I said though, it's not that significant compared to his overall wealth.

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.

I mean I guess this is better than 500 million sitting off shore bank accounts. A big part of the problem is rich people don't spend their money.

15 gaming PCs, now that's just too many.

Here's another way you can look at Valve. They are a case study of how a privately held company, a company that does not have a boardroom of investors, demanding maximum possible short term profit, all the time... Can actually allocate capital more efficiently, and generally more fairly, and innovate better than a ravenous hoard of interest/rent seekers. You can look at them as essentially a counter argument to the modern American concept of a publically (stock market) traded company. While what they do, the tech, the platform, the games... while that's rather cutting edge... the way they do, that's actually old school, at the level of how a business fundamentally works, is legally defined. They are not 'beholden to capital' so much as they are ... 'beholden to Gabe.' You would think business majors and economists could look at this and go... oh, turns out capital markets aren't efficient, at all! We are at the point now where a privately held, effective monopoly is... actually less evil than basically every other major tech firm that is entirely investor-returns / capital-rent driven... where probably roughly 20%-40% of the people/orgs on all those other boards ... are just the same people, forming basically a de facto conspiracy. Basically, being beholden to a single, publically visible capitalist, who doesn't have to show you his internal books... appears to be objectively better than being beholden to many, obfuscated, invisible capitalists, despite them actually having to show your their books.

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.