alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agoGabe Newell was an enthusiastic supporter of OpenAI in 2018, donating $20 million and even acting as the sole member of an 'informal advisory board'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1160arrow-down114
arrow-up1146arrow-down1external-linkGabe Newell was an enthusiastic supporter of OpenAI in 2018, donating $20 million and even acting as the sole member of an 'informal advisory board'www.pcgamer.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squarestoly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down5·2 months agoI love how everyone is so desperate to make Gabe to be a terrible person.
minus-squareSmaile@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down3·1 month agoIt’s crazy for people to take a stance against him considering how much he’s done to protect the hobby from less reputable corps.
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down11·1 month agoGod imagine the world we’d live in if he didn’t build modern child gambling with his own two hands
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month agoAre you mistaking him for the inventor of Pokémon cards, Richard Garfield, or the inventor of baseball cards, John Baseball?
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-21 month agoSaid ‘modern’ for a reason, but I guess telling someone they’re wrong is worth ignoring what they say
minus-squareThreeme2189@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoPokemon cards aren’t modern? They came out in the US in 1999 and aren’t considered obsolete or old AFAIK.
minus-squareSmaile@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 month agoGod your self-righteous
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoThings to say when you want to make being a piece of shit into a good thing
minus-squareSmaile@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoSaid the loser fighting a losing moralistic battle over nothing.
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoTwo weeks later and you’re still crashing out about how I said it’s bad to prey on children and be a parasite How do you reconcile having such a pathetic submissive personality and wanting to act big and tough on a forum like this? “Ew morals” A piece of shit by definition
minus-squareSmaile@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agohttps://www.tiktok.com/@smilingfriendstv/video/7579042465525583118?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc get a clue
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agolol fucking grandmother ass last word
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down8·1 month agoHe may be a middle man rent seeking on the entire gaming industry, but you can’t hate him because of all those great game series he never finished
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down3·1 month agoI can’t hate him since he broke Windows monopoly in gaming.
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down10·1 month agoAnd I can’t hate Elon Musk because he promoted electric cars. I love it when completely unaccountable industry monopolists make decisions for all of society when I agree with them. They’re so cool!
minus-squareBigJohnnyHines@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·1 month agoI hate billionaires existing but comparing Gabe to Elon seems pretty disingenuous. Elon has and continues to normalize some pretty horrific things.
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoSo compare them on the axis I explicitly compared them on. I wasn’t obtuse with my point.
minus-squareSmaile@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·1 month agoOh no he runs a buisness, grow up.
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down10·1 month agoA ‘business’ that doesn’t produce the thing that makes it profit. You sound like my landlord
minus-squaremnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoYou mean a storefront that enables tons of indie devs to be noticed and actually compete with AAA publishers?
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·1 month agoAre you asking because you’re confused what we’re talking about? We’re talking about Steam.
minus-squareThreeme2189@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoTell that to every business that sells products they don’t make in house. Go on, I’ll wait.
I love how everyone is so desperate to make Gabe to be a terrible person.
It’s crazy for people to take a stance against him considering how much he’s done to protect the hobby from less reputable corps.
God imagine the world we’d live in if he didn’t build modern child gambling with his own two hands
Are you mistaking him for the inventor of Pokémon cards, Richard Garfield, or the inventor of baseball cards, John Baseball?
Said ‘modern’ for a reason, but I guess telling someone they’re wrong is worth ignoring what they say
Pokemon cards aren’t modern? They came out in the US in 1999 and aren’t considered obsolete or old AFAIK.
God your self-righteous
Things to say when you want to make being a piece of shit into a good thing
Said the loser fighting a losing moralistic battle over nothing.
Two weeks later and you’re still crashing out about how I said it’s bad to prey on children and be a parasite
How do you reconcile having such a pathetic submissive personality and wanting to act big and tough on a forum like this?
“Ew morals”
https://www.tiktok.com/@smilingfriendstv/video/7579042465525583118?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
get a clue
lol fucking grandmother ass last word
He may be a middle man rent seeking on the entire gaming industry, but you can’t hate him because of all those great game series he never finished
I can’t hate him since he broke Windows monopoly in gaming.
And I can’t hate Elon Musk because he promoted electric cars.
I love it when completely unaccountable industry monopolists make decisions for all of society when I agree with them. They’re so cool!
I hate billionaires existing but comparing Gabe to Elon seems pretty disingenuous. Elon has and continues to normalize some pretty horrific things.
So compare them on the axis I explicitly compared them on. I wasn’t obtuse with my point.
Oh no he runs a buisness, grow up.
A ‘business’ that doesn’t produce the thing that makes it profit.
You sound like my landlord
You mean a storefront that enables tons of indie devs to be noticed and actually compete with AAA publishers?
Are you asking because you’re confused what we’re talking about? We’re talking about Steam.
Tell that to every business that sells products they don’t make in house. Go on, I’ll wait.