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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Valve was making bank before lootcrates, and lootcrates have been available to kids since trading card games.
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The thing isn't that they have constant work to do, but that they must be available for work at any time, for any reason. Some random and unpredictable crisis waking you up at 3am for the 5th night in a row? Sucks to be you.
Sounds like your average IT infrastructure job.
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Greedily taking up an obscene excess of resources and producing crazy amount of emissions and pollution makes the planet less livable for the rest of us. Yachts do those things.
Spoken by someone who has no clue what those yahts actually do.
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Gabe Newell is not a usual CEO though.
There's no reason to idolize the man.
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I am literally a dev
Is that downvote the number of games you've released?
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Is that downvote the number of games you've released?
This isn’t a job interview I’m not obliged to give you my CV. I’m stating an opinion that valve and steam are not the friendly aw shucks corporation they’ve been whitewashed into.
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This isn’t a job interview I’m not obliged to give you my CV. I’m stating an opinion that valve and steam are not the friendly aw shucks corporation they’ve been whitewashed into.
wrote last edited by [email protected]You stated your opinion as a fact, and qualified it by saying you're a game dev.
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You stated your opinion as a fact, and qualified it by saying you're a game dev.
Back up that claim. Shouldn't be hard to do.Let’s connect on LinkedIn
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Let’s connect on LinkedIn
Let's not, and both know you haven't made any games.
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Let's not, and both know you haven't made any games.
Your opinion is your own, I’m not justifying myself to a loser online.
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What handheld is he playing in the top image? Looks too small to be a steam deck
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What handheld is he playing in the top image? Looks too small to be a steam deck
It's a Steam Deck, he has big hands.
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Ironic because Gabe appreciation is still kind of cult like.
I'm sure that's why he doesn't seek attention, he already has too much.
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Your opinion is your own, I’m not justifying myself to a loser online.
Ok, fantasy game dev lmao
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He said he's having fun 🤪
Yup, if I was worth an obscene amount, I'd still work, but the nature of my work would change. It sounds like he found something he enjoys that happens to make a ton of money.
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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.
Linus Torwalds seems to agree as per TIL post earlier this week.
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Ok, fantasy game dev lmao
Rts and sci-fi not fantasy
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Hey if Gabe wants to make Linux phones something to be taken seriously I’m all for that. Until then, Gemini creeps me the fuck out so no android. I can tolerate Siri being fucking dumb.
I think you missed the point. No one was talking about Android or iOS. We were talking about Windows and Linux.
Valve's investment in Linux began back in the Windows Vista days when MS tried to control Windows the same way that Apple does with iOS.
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Gabe Newell is better than many others, but this is true, the best man on Earth will become an absolute pissbag given power for continuous enough period of time to realize that.
And the best man on Earth is probably some volunteer medic in some African warzone, not a computer programmer and a tech businessman.
Power always corrupts.
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Maybe it's you!
Thanks, but I have my very reasonable doubts
