I’m usually totally against huge corporations on principle, but there’s definitely one that I can’t criticise and maybe even like, Even though I don’t buy any of their products.
Costco
Welcome to costco, I love you
Valve.
AMD also gets a free pass just for not being Nvidia or Intel. Other than that, if it’s Chinese and I know the name of it then it probably gets a free pass.
Nvidia is garbage and I hope they crash and burn.
None. I’m a Millennial, I will burn any corporate loyalty I might’ve had in a heartbeat if you so much as think of crossing me. Do you know how many industries my generation has slaughtered in cold blood?! Watch your step and pray I don’t notice you enough to decide your next.
I think Valve is one of the only companies I don’t actively hate. Steam is a pretty solid platform that hasn’t been too enshittified over the years, even though the gambling on there is kinda concerning.
The advances in Proton are usually attributed to them. And I like how permissive the family sharing on there is (I personally only own like 2 games and just leech the rest from my husband).But of course, they might just have a good PR team and be secretly shitty. I’m always down to just hop back to pirating games.
Oh, in that context, Humble Bundle seems pretty decent as well. That’s where my husband got most of his steam games from
Valve, by making proton, didn’t just benefit gamers. They made Linux a viable platform for most people with proton, and hence are actively fighting against windows and apple really effectively. I’d pick Valve over redbull
I love steam and valves hardware products, but the thing is, I’m not the primary customer in their business model. Steams product is digital shelf space in one of the most popular digital arcades, access to which they charge their real primary customers: independent game devs and publishers.
Whatever their activities are outside that, even the much appreciated proton and contribution to Linux gaming, is in the context of capturing more gamers on their platform, making their real product an irresistible choice for their real customers to release their game on, despite the steep per-purchase cut Valve takes.
That’s not an entirely…erhm…nice business model imo. It’s remarkabley like Amazon, but at least Valve didn’t put a bunch of local bookstores out of business becoming the juggernaut they are.
Well, there was the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
No.
Hell no, sports washing their sugary crap that none of their sponsored sports people ever touch is so transparent.
Let alone the abuse and racism of the F1 team and it’s constant infighting.
fairphone and framework off the top of my head
Hey guys! What’s your favourite cancer? I know, I know, it’s not fashionable to like tumours. But some of those little guys don’t mean any harm!
The LEGO Group are relatively un-evil
