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Gabe 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.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 64 points 6 months ago (33 children)

I love how everyone is so desperate to make Gabe to be a terrible person.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [+] -10 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    God imagine the world we'd live in if he didn't build modern child gambling with his own two hands

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Are you mistaking him for the inventor of Pokémon cards, Richard Garfield, or the inventor of baseball cards, John Baseball?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    God your self-righteous

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Things to say when you want to make being a piece of shit into a good thing

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Said the loser fighting a losing moralistic battle over nothing.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (2 children)

    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"

    • A piece of shit by definition
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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    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

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I can't hate him since he broke Windows monopoly in gaming.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Oh no he runs a buisness, grow up.

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  • [+] -8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    A 'business' that doesn't produce the thing that makes it profit.

    You sound like my landlord

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I'm a lot less angry at him than the ones who seemingly use their wealth exclusively to make our lives worse. He just has a bunch of money to buy boats. He's the last on the list for me

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  • [+] -4 points 6 months ago* (5 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Oh no, they lower prices sometimes. Whatever shall we do except buy, buy, buy!?

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  • [+] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Like Torvalds, Stallman and Wozniak, Gabe Newell had an idea of how he thought technology should work and has never let up on it, it's a shame they couldn't profit as much as Gabe.

    The yacht hobby is a bit much but compared to the standard billionaire hobbies, destroying the planet, rape, and murder, he's pretty mild.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    You don't call it a shame when it is a conscious choice:

    "Wozniak has discussed his personal disdain for money and accumulating large amounts of wealth. He told Fortune magazine in 2017, "I didn't want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values ... I really didn't want to be in that super 'more than you could ever need' category.""

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