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Valve boss Gabe Newell reveals daily routine in bizarre new interview: "I get up, I work, I go scuba-diving, then work some more" (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 53 points 1 week ago (4 children)

A huge chunk of that Linux development was paid for by exploiting child gambling.

Just because one does a few good things with their money, doesn't justify how they got it.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Child gambling? You mean like Android videogames and Google not caring about it for a while until some EU law??

I didn't knew that involved Valve too..

[–] msage@programming.dev 37 points 1 week ago

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

We can nitpick specific examples for everything you want, and we will be correct, but that detracts from the point that Gabe has helped to build things that took decades of slowly getting anywhere.

I wish we didn't need it, but we do.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Valve was making bank before lootcrates, and lootcrates have been available to kids since trading card games.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sure, we know loot boxes are bad because they exploit the psychology of gambling. But what about Steam sales? They’re exploiting FOMO, hoarding/collecting psychology. We know that Steam users are buying billions of dollars worth of games they never play.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Now you're being actually ridiculous. "Sales are bad"? Really?

[–] Nelots@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Regular sales are FOMO? Come on.

[–] crushyerbones@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This dude is 100% correct and I have no idea why people are downvoting him. Sales make people more likely to buy a product due to being limited. Limited time sales work better than lowering prices in the long term.

It's why indie games do stuff like release their new games with time-limited 10% off discounts.

[–] gaybriel_fr_br@jlai.lu 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes, paying less is bad. Viva capitalism. /s

Are you daft or dumb? Pick one.

[–] crushyerbones@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Paying less is good. I love sales, but they are still a psychological manipulation to get you to spend more money than you normally would.

[–] orochi02@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Then its a good manipulation

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

They hated him because he spoke the truth.