Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year

• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • errer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Entirely correct. That’s why we shouldn’t put anyone on a pedestal.

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  • Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He’s also one body shift away from being a giant dragon with adamantium scales…

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    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’re right next to each other on the monster table.
      Eat the Meat!

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sanders doesn’t have control over (probably) thousands of the games you “own”

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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 wasn’t that Valve should release a statement at he considered that problematic, 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!

  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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  • MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

    People be really defending Valve

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think being on a tech community instead of the gaming ones helps

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      • MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Eh, probably. They always state how competitors do this and that, and all the good Valve brought with Steam.

        Which is true, but they’re blinded by this. Google also brought a lot of good, and bad.

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    • const_void@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      People be really defending Valve

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

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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  • toastmeister@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We also spend dramatically more now as well and are on an unsustainable path according to the Fed.

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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