Gabe is absolutely an enemy, stop sucking this guy off… He doesn’t give a damn about you. The only reason valve even offers refunds is because they got sued multiple times for not doing so. Now you get a measly two hour window and people will actually defend that. Meanwhile gog gives you a full 30 day window but cultists only want to use steam.
Gabe intentionally destroyed physical PC games and therefore permanently drove up game prices. He did this using literally the same tactics we all criticize epic for using. But moron gamers will act like getting $10 off a AAA in a steam sale is some kind of crazy deal.
Quite a lot of people thought Elon was a decent guy once upon a time.
I just think Gabe is a bit smarter in what he says and does publicly. Most extremely wealthy people seem to be higher in measures of narcissistic traits, self-entitlement, and egocentrism.
So we should hate him on the off chance he might one day be a douchebag?
Why take away a motivation to be a decent person by punishing them for it? I would say give them every opportunity to be decent human beings, dont pre-crime their ass because you have a prejudice against people in their social class.
Elon had a full time PR team that was pushing that image since he wanted to be known and popular, then he started posting stuff himself and we all saw the mask fall off. I don’t think Gabe has the same thing since he seems to try and stay out of the spotlight as much as possible.
Elon also had staff who described their actual job as essentially jangling keys in front of Elon, because he has a tendency to just randomly have an insane idea and decide everyone is doing that now.
So, they had to distract him from making too many stupid decisions, fucking up workflows and procesesses. He’s just an idiot, who’s probably mildly aspy/autistic, and that got PR transformed into ‘quirky genius’. But look into what happened at PayPal, or Tesla, anything. He’s incompetent at anything other than corporate ratfuckery, he’s never coded or designed anything novel or useful.
This uh… was from Tesla, a decade ago. Now of course, its all sycophants.
Compare that to Valve’s odd, flat-ish hierarchy, ‘just work on something cool and be useful’ work culture.
Gabe has been known to occasionally bring the hammer down, but the vast amount of Valve’s style, intentionally created and maintained by Gabe is… hands off. Hire the actual best, they’ll direct themselves, kind of thing.
Ain’t perfect, but… probably a lot less of an insane tyrannical bastard than Elon.
He’s also not an enemy though. For an extremely wealthy person he’s a decent guy imo. Then again, I don’t know everything about him
Gabe is absolutely an enemy, stop sucking this guy off… He doesn’t give a damn about you. The only reason valve even offers refunds is because they got sued multiple times for not doing so. Now you get a measly two hour window and people will actually defend that. Meanwhile gog gives you a full 30 day window but cultists only want to use steam.
Gabe intentionally destroyed physical PC games and therefore permanently drove up game prices. He did this using literally the same tactics we all criticize epic for using. But moron gamers will act like getting $10 off a AAA in a steam sale is some kind of crazy deal.
Quite a lot of people thought Elon was a decent guy once upon a time.
I just think Gabe is a bit smarter in what he says and does publicly. Most extremely wealthy people seem to be higher in measures of narcissistic traits, self-entitlement, and egocentrism.
So we should hate him on the off chance he might one day be a douchebag?
Why take away a motivation to be a decent person by punishing them for it? I would say give them every opportunity to be decent human beings, dont pre-crime their ass because you have a prejudice against people in their social class.
Elon had a full time PR team that was pushing that image since he wanted to be known and popular, then he started posting stuff himself and we all saw the mask fall off. I don’t think Gabe has the same thing since he seems to try and stay out of the spotlight as much as possible.
Elon also had staff who described their actual job as essentially jangling keys in front of Elon, because he has a tendency to just randomly have an insane idea and decide everyone is doing that now.
So, they had to distract him from making too many stupid decisions, fucking up workflows and procesesses. He’s just an idiot, who’s probably mildly aspy/autistic, and that got PR transformed into ‘quirky genius’. But look into what happened at PayPal, or Tesla, anything. He’s incompetent at anything other than corporate ratfuckery, he’s never coded or designed anything novel or useful.
This uh… was from Tesla, a decade ago. Now of course, its all sycophants.
Compare that to Valve’s odd, flat-ish hierarchy, ‘just work on something cool and be useful’ work culture.
Gabe has been known to occasionally bring the hammer down, but the vast amount of Valve’s style, intentionally created and maintained by Gabe is… hands off. Hire the actual best, they’ll direct themselves, kind of thing.
Ain’t perfect, but… probably a lot less of an insane tyrannical bastard than Elon.