Honestly went to a concert for "the hu" Mongolian metal band... amazing
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Other billionaires setting up cults and trying to bring a new age to techno fascism.
Gabe's colleagues: " sometimes he sings in his office and it's a little annoying and distracting."
Other billionaires response: buy media companies and government lobby, manipulate the narratives. Make a mockery of the legal system while hiding behind corporate entity.
Gabe: "yeah I asked a trusted colleague for honest feedback and feel a little bad about that.".
It's really not hard to not piss everyone in the world off or high effort.
I hope there is a good succession plan for Valve, because losing them would be tragic for PC gaming.
Still a ridiculously and insanely wasteful person who's significantly greedy.
he's not diddling kids or sexually harrassing his employees, as far as we know. It's a low bar but I'll take it.
You set your bars too low.
Another shit stain billionaire that the gamer dudes fantasize about being.
Can we please transfer wealth from Elon Musk and Peter Thiel to Linus Torwalds and Richard Stallman. Unless, of course, you all want to distribute it all back
I don't think this guy needs a lot of money:

(Although there's a second desk in another corner, littered with hardware and a 3D printer.)
I'm not that sure about a guy who eats his own toe jam in public...
I'll take it over a guy who throws nazi salutes. I mean, the real answer is that nobody should have so much money, it can't do any good to anyone. But if the only controversy we can find about him is that he did that one gross thing to his foot that one time 20 years ago, I'll take it, oh how much I'll take it
I agree with you, extremely rich people are horrible for the world; but I feel that Stallman is just a disgusting person all around. He's also misogynist and I bet that if he was rich, he would totally act like Musk. He just doesn't have the money to do so.
Other billionaires setting up cults and trying to bring a new age to techno fascism.
Musk's colleagues: " sometimes he makes us eat mustard and it’s a little annoying and distracting."
I'm sorry, are you willfully or accidentally profoundly ignorant of the reports of what working for Musk is like?
Musk's colleagues: " sometimes he makes us watch him practice his roman salute and it’s a little annoying and distracting."
Ftfy
Mongolian throat singing is amazing.
You know, where I live, they have these guys coming out with leaf blowers in late April, making a racket in my neighborhood, and they just move street by street like a roving gang of crazed leaf blowers, and getting rid of all the crap that was accumulated under the snow when it thaws.
Every year, if I'm home at that time, I bring my big speakers to the window, open it wide, and blast Mongolian throat singing for them.
It mixes with the sound of leaf blowers extremely well. Whenever one of them starts wondering what the hell is going on and removes their hearing protection, I instantly mute it, and as soon as they put them back on I start blasting again.
It's a spring ritual for me.
AUUUUUUuuuuUuUUUUUuUuUuuuuurrrrrRrRrRRRRRRrrrRrrRrrRrrrrrarrrrRrRR-iaaaaaaaAAAaaaAaaaaAawwawRrrRRrRrrrRrrrrrrrrreyooooOoOOooOooOOOoOo
Sygyt is the style that sounds nasal-y but with a high pitched overtone.
Kargyraa is the really growly sounding one.
Source: im gabe newell
Remember when valve made games?
Who has made more games in the last decade: Rockstar or Valve?
Apparently the answer is Valve. Which says more about rockstar than anything about valve.
Valve have made games. It's just not the same type of games that people that love them for their most famous titles.
Also, even though they made a blockbuster, single player, half life game recently, the majority of the HL fans were not able to play it, so we are still disappointed...
Jesus fucking christ, the last game that valve made with me as the audience in mind was fucking 15 years ago (Portal 2). (Half life 1 was releaed 13 years before that. )
Everything else is multiplayer or hardware bound.
Alyx ils amazing ans the Lab ils also great i really wish they added levels to those games. Especialy the archer and thé slingshot games.
I fucking bet they're amazing but I don't have a spare $1500 nor a spare room to use as a holosuite, since I need that $1500 as part of a down payment on a mortgage.
I'm not saying it's easily accessible by any means, but you can definitely get a headset for a good deal less than $1500, and many (if not most) games can be played sitting at your desk in the same position you'd be in if holding a traditional game controller.
I agree it sucks that there's no non-VR version. I just wanted to say that it isn't exclusive to the obscenely wealthy or anything, if you already have a PC capable of running it you're likely in a position to be able to swing getting the gear for it.
if you already have a PC capable of running it you’re likely in a position to be able to swing getting the gear for it.
I have an 8 year old laptop with a muxing problem that can barely handle android studio.
I'm fucking cooked.
Well it's a good thing PC parts are so cheap right now.
Please take me to your alternate reality. What happened to the world after Bernie Sanders' second presidency?
I am pretty sure it was sarcasm, but it is crazy to realize how even things like this would be different if we had government that actually followed its laws.
Trump invested a lot in AI companies and removed all obstacles and made sure that regulators look the other way, creating this craze.
Now, once this collapses they will use our tax money to bail them out. It is fucking lose-lose situation for us no matter what happens.
To be fair a brand new desktop tower can also barely handle android studio, I've never had a good experience in it not once
Shitposts aside, this laptop is only recently beginning to show its age, and because I'm demanding more and more of it. I can hardly expect it to run CUDA AI shit or not expected it to work as a fullstack server and have 2 copies of VS code and Pulsar (another Electron based editor) , play YT videos with its fucking muxing issues AND run KDE at the same time.
I thought there was a mod to play Half Life Alyx without a VR headset.
I wouldn't be surprised is someone recreated in the Source 1/2 engine, but is there much gameplay if you remove the VR stuff?
Replaying the original Half Life 1 and 2 games, I realized there's that HL2 onward got crippled by the devs making it too much about the Gravity gun. The fan community have made much more interesting combat engagements without the Gravity gun and adding a more varied weapon set.
but is there much gameplay if you remove the VR stuff?
Good question. The gameplay blends very smoothly with the Index and doesn't feel gimmicky, it's hard to say how much would feel "missing" playing on mouse and keyboard.
Guess what motherfuckers, we missed out a shitload more by watching HLA as a lets play instead of playing it as an FPS.
Valve: We need a way to sell our high end VR headset. Let's release it with a long time fan favorite title; we can use Half Life to get people otherwise not interested in VR games into the ecosystem, and maybe they'll get other games too!
Half Life fans: watch someone else play the game for free without buying Half Life or an Index
Valve: surprised Pikachu
I saw people drawing penis in glass. I read a plot summary and wasn't impressed enough to watch a playthough. Also, I already know I'll be in the minority because I think HL2 is gimmicky gameplay because if you remove the gravity gun and chores associated with it, the combat is weaker the HL1. Try Singularity if you want to see what combat that actually integrates a Gravity Guy into the combat.
Drawing a penis on the glass in the opening scene is like dropping the baby penguin off the map in Mario 64. It's a compulsion. The thought enters your head and, once it does, must be executed for the simple goal of seeing if you can.
And what about reconning the ending to episode 2? I already explained that I didn't fine the gameplay of HL2 to be very good, so if I played it through for the story, why would I be happy about that? I stopped expecting to get what I want out of a Half Life game when Marc Laidlaw explained the circumstance of why he left.
They make way more money managing a game store. Why would they ever need to make another game? /s
But in all seriousness, Steam makes them a ridiculous amount of money. If I was Gabe, I'd slow down game production as well.
I figure they don't want to make a game and it not be at least a 7/10. So they keep one or two working on something while everyone else keeps the servers up, builds compatibility with Linux, and whatever hardware they are working on.
They have a flat structure so employees self-assign work. If a game idea interests them they work on it. If not, no worries there’s plenty to do on Steam.
That is the benefit to making ridiculous money. You can really take your time and produce a quality game instead of rushing and cutting corners to meet an arbitrary deadline.
I'd ramp it up, but focus on quality, experimental, and artist games that don't have to make profit immediately. They were doing that with Portal, but Gabe got more interested in owning yachts.
Deadlock is pretty cool
Deadlock is awesome. It combines some of the things I love most about playing boomer shooters--the movement tech and fast-paced gunplay--with the stuff I love about DOTA2--the build flexibility, character variety, and ability to coordinate timing spikes throughout the match. Unfortunately it also includes some of the stuff everyone hates about DOTA2, like inconsistent matchmaking and rude bigots with microphones.
Half-Life: Alyx is 6 years old. CS2 is only 3 years old. They're still publishing games, just not HL3.
That's hilarious. It was a niche viral trend online, but this guy really ran with it lol
Was it annoying because it was loud and out of place for an office, or did he sound like a cat being strangled? 🤔
gotta be both.
as cool as throat singing is, it's gotta be a hell of a thing to witness the immense amount of practice that has to happen before good throat singing is achieved
or really, any singing now that I think about it
...or any music really. My partner is an enthusiastic amateur musician in several instruments, and it can get painful 🙃
At least it wasn't doing unspeakable things to kids.
Good example, but from what I can hear, it doesn't much showcase an important feature of throat singing: emitting two notes at the same time. That comes in properly only at the very end.
P.S. Here's a good demonstration of various styles of throat singing.
This one was my first exposure that I can remember: https://youtu.be/VTCJ5hedcVA
Buy this concert one is my absolute favorite to put on repeat: https://youtu.be/i0djHJBAP3U
Hm, they're getting to the age where I should probably download them before they succumb to link rot.
This my favorite tune.
Love how his mother sits off camera, with equal measures pride and silent condemnation over his less-than-absolute-perfection performance.
I dream about being the kind of rich that allows me the mental space to get hyper fixated on stuff like that.
Never heard it until I watched a video just now. Sounds like a jaw harp. I can see why people trying to concentrate would be a little peeved, though if someone were paying me good money to do something cool like make games, I’d probably happily put on some headphones and ignore it.
Genghis Blues was a great documentary. Cool to see Paul Pena popping up again. Didn't expect GabeN to be obsessed with throat singing.
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