• errer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You’re not wrong, the downvoters are just sad because you are right. Just takes one personality shift from Gabe to turn him from beloved figurehead to shitty billionaire and being reminded of that sucks.

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      2 months ago

      “one personality shift”

      That’s everyone dude. “Bernie Sanders is one personality shift away from being a Maga tech bro.”

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        2 months ago

        Sanders doesn’t have control over (probably) thousands of the games you “own” or, if we’re honest, the PC gaming market as a whole.

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      2 months ago

      Pretty sure Musk has had a significant shift. Not saying he started out as a nice normal guy, but something cracked for sure.

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      I think despite the claims that Gabe is a Libertarian, first spread by some blogger named Yanis V(?), are floating around the internet: he rarely makes a political statement but did endorse Joe Biden over Trump lending to the idea that he is NOT some sort of anarcho-syndicalist Republican-lite.

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      If you just pay attention more than the average person you quickly realize that he’s already a shitty billionaire.

      Steam underage gambling profits him directly.

      He owns a yacht collection while his clients can’t afford to own the place they live in. How’s that for an environmental impact?

      His reaction to George Floyd’s murder wasn’t that Valve should release a statement as he considered that problematic (source), instead he gave each employee 10k to spend however they felt like. Where I used to work we used to call that a “shut the fuck up”. Employees are complaining about something? Here’s 10k each for them to shut the fuck up. Hell, they could spend that money to finance far right groups if they wanted, Newell didn’t care!

      Women employees with managerial positions at Valve? What women employees?

      Valve takes a 30% cut but Newell is a billionaire, which means they could afford to take a much smaller cut, he could have hundreds of millions instead and the devs could have more money in their pockets.

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        2 months ago

        I always get shat on for saying they do unregulated gambling, including to minors

        People be really defending Valve

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          People be really defending Valve

          They defend Microsoft and Windows for the same reason. It’s their beloved gaming platform