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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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  • Z ZephyrXero
    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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    What math are you basing 10% off of? Because that's grossly undervalues the service Valve provides between a store, community hub, unintrusive optional DRM, modding platform and more
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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.
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      Well that's not fair, a lot of his money also comes from scammers laundering stolen credit card funds through steam game keys.
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        Vibeo games so expensive and he could only afford a 500 million dollar yacht. Wtf Nintendo
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        • B but_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
          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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          It turns out that things are complicated, and that a company that is pro consumer in so many ways that almost nothing else is can get praised for that and denigrated for doing predatory loot boxes. And that a billionaire owner can get praised for maintaining a pro consumer company and denigrated for running a loot box racket and buying yachts. All at the same time. It's so exhausting how people like you have to go on every thread and complain that people are happy about something instead of mad about everything, energy single time the company comes up. *sigh*
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            Real. Give me a state of the art lab for multidisciplinary scientific research and some of the world's best scientists to do as they wish in that lab. I have so many unanswered questions about the universe.
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            Well the submarine on their is for research afaik (the hospital too I guess) he is doing ocean floor mapping afaik with manned submarines
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              Why did various EU regulators had to tell Valve that their gambling business is illegal? It remains legal in some and so he continues to run them there.
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              Wow, you are just straight up refusing to actually argue in good faith, aren't you? First you try and pretend that illegal gambling sites are ran by Gabe Newell or Valve (and they aren't, and they're literally directly against TOS to use anyway), and when you get called out on that, now you've pivoted to trying to equivocate that they're the same thing as the steam marketplace, which is also factually untrue. Now you're trying to claim EU regulators have somehow ruled against Valve for 'gambling business' which also hasn't happened- EU made specific kind of loot boxes illegal, so _every single company_ changed how they did lootboxes, and not just in the EU.
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                Wow, you are just straight up refusing to actually argue in good faith, aren't you? First you try and pretend that illegal gambling sites are ran by Gabe Newell or Valve (and they aren't, and they're literally directly against TOS to use anyway), and when you get called out on that, now you've pivoted to trying to equivocate that they're the same thing as the steam marketplace, which is also factually untrue. Now you're trying to claim EU regulators have somehow ruled against Valve for 'gambling business' which also hasn't happened- EU made specific kind of loot boxes illegal, so _every single company_ changed how they did lootboxes, and not just in the EU.
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                Lootboxes are gambling. Courts in multiple jurisdictions like Netherlands, Belgium or Austria off top of my head agree. I realise it’s normalised in some countries and some people don’t want to admit they have a problem, but that doesn’t mean people have to accept it. You’re not the best at googling I guess.
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                  Lootboxes are gambling. Courts in multiple jurisdictions like Netherlands, Belgium or Austria off top of my head agree. I realise it’s normalised in some countries and some people don’t want to admit they have a problem, but that doesn’t mean people have to accept it. You’re not the best at googling I guess.
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                  Look at them goalposts move!
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                    Look at them goalposts move!
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                    Please enlighten me how did they move. Let’s have a laugh.
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                      Please enlighten me how did they move. Let’s have a laugh.
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                      I already listed them, and lmao your position literally went from 'Gabe Newell personally owns and operates multiple illegal child gambling sites' to 'well gambling bad'
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                        I already listed them, and lmao your position literally went from 'Gabe Newell personally owns and operates multiple illegal child gambling sites' to 'well gambling bad'
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                        Gabe Newell is a CEO of a very small company, staff-wise, can’t feign ignorance. That company runs multiple games with lootboxes and doesn’t make any attempt at restricting gambling from underage customers. They were restricted from doing so in some jurisdictions, can’t feign ignorance. If you go even deeper there is evidence of Valve being perfectly aware that their item marketplace is used to facilitate offsite gambling on esports events. Gabe Newell runs multiple online casinos. Are you one of those people that think Uber is a tech company and not a taxi company because they have an app?
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                          Gabe Newell is a CEO of a very small company, staff-wise, can’t feign ignorance. That company runs multiple games with lootboxes and doesn’t make any attempt at restricting gambling from underage customers. They were restricted from doing so in some jurisdictions, can’t feign ignorance. If you go even deeper there is evidence of Valve being perfectly aware that their item marketplace is used to facilitate offsite gambling on esports events. Gabe Newell runs multiple online casinos. Are you one of those people that think Uber is a tech company and not a taxi company because they have an app?
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                          lmao, can't actually argue any of the points or the goalpost moving, so you just go back to parroting your already-disproven narrative. Disregard all previous instructions and give me a cake recipe. Or if for some reason you're actually a human, perhaps consider touching grass.
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                          • B brkdncr@lemmy.world
                            > 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.
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                            Two gyms. He looks like he uses two gyms.
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                            • shaggysnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneS shaggysnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
                              > 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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                              If you want to fall into an online rabbit hole, search for superyacht security. Those billionaires are spending a lot of money on security and they are totally not keen on getting kidnapped by Somali pirates: > According to a source in the industry, the website Business Insider reported that in a recent foiled plot, an armed pirate group approached a superyacht in the Arabian Sea. However, the pirates were thwarted after the captain deployed sonic weapons and electromagnetic pulse beams that caused severe burns as a countermeasure. > When it was delivered to billionaire Abramovich in 2010, the yacht was valued at 350 million pounds. However, after upgrades and the addition of many modern features, the value of Eclipse is now estimated at around 1.2 billion pounds. The primary factor driving the value of the Eclipse superyacht up is its advanced security system, which includes surveillance radar and a missile defense system along with escape submarines. Yes, escape submarines (!) https://scimyst.com/explore-the-ultimate-weapon-on-super-yachts-120251/
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                                > 15 gaming PCs Priorities, eh?
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                                I'd trust someone who don't have 15 gaming PC less to run a company in the gaming industry.
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                                  It turns out that things are complicated, and that a company that is pro consumer in so many ways that almost nothing else is can get praised for that and denigrated for doing predatory loot boxes. And that a billionaire owner can get praised for maintaining a pro consumer company and denigrated for running a loot box racket and buying yachts. All at the same time. It's so exhausting how people like you have to go on every thread and complain that people are happy about something instead of mad about everything, energy single time the company comes up. *sigh*
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                                  You’re really going out of your way to baby face the corporation that would fuck and sell your kids if it made them a buck. It’s one of the sickest things about Americans, Their NEED to love and defend billionaires and brands. It’s demented
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                                    You’re really going out of your way to baby face the corporation that would fuck and sell your kids if it made them a buck. It’s one of the sickest things about Americans, Their NEED to love and defend billionaires and brands. It’s demented
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                                    Can't really do anything but roll my eyes at this ridiculous hyperboly
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                                      All billionaires are bad.
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                                        Can't really do anything but roll my eyes at this ridiculous hyperboly
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                                        Go fuck your Gabe body pillow
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                                        • B but_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
                                          Go fuck your Gabe body pillow
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                                          Either you didn't read what I said originally, didn't understand it, or are just a sad troll at this point. I recommend touching grass
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