gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Valve having such a stronghold on the market is both:

  • amazing because of projects like this,
  • frightening because we’re one Gabe brain damage away from having PC Gaming enshittified.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I avoid buying from Steam and prefer GOG when I can because I don’t really want to have continued access to my games collection be dependent on Gabe eating his veggies, avoiding saturated fats and doing at least a 30m walk a day to keep the risk of a heart attack low and look both ways before he crosses a road so as not to be run over by a car.

    In almost 4 decades as a gamer and a techie I’ve seen plenty of good companies turn into evil companies and start to leverage whatever dependencies customers had on them to pretty much blackmail them into paying more, sometimes after the founders died, others when the founders cashed out or just lost interest in managing the company’s direction and yet others because they were evil all along and just hid it whilst they built their customer base - enshittification isn’t ust a XXI century thing, what’s XXI century about it is that many companies nowadays already have it as part of their mid and long term strategy from the start.

    Best avoid situations where you give power to some big company (for whom you as an individual customer are basically a nameless bacteria) over something you care about, unless you have no other choice, even if at the moment they’re basically a benevolent dictatorship.

    Better safe than sorry.

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  • CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Valve is set up as a horizontal organization. I expect that to continue after Gaben’s death. He doesn’t really do much at valve these days anyway.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, well, somebody is going to inherit his share of ownership, and even if he goes out of his way and sets up a Foundation for the purpose of preserving the founder’s vision that will inherit his share, such Foundations tend to over time end up subverted and doing the very opposite of what the founder would’ve wanted.

      Best avoid situations were your shit is hostage to the whims of a big company for whom you as and individual consumer are irrelevant.

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• tino@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TIL I built a Steam machine 6 years ago

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can someone tell me how do I recreate the guitar tone from Hazardous Environments (the Valve theme)? I want to do a funny thing!

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    single coils, reverb

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• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  GabeCube

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  • xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    GabeCube™, GabeGoggles™ and the GabeController™. Maybe we’ll get a GabeBoy™ next

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Maybe we’ll get a GabeBoy™ next

      steam deck

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  • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    sorry by dose is stuffed.

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• GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d call it the PlayBox.

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• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Looks familiar…

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Indeed

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  • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Off topic but the NeXT logo is my favourite logo of all time. If I get a GabeCube I’m 100% putting a NeXT sticker on the front

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Somehow I get NeXT vibes…

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• BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  this motherfucker looks beautiful

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Half Life^3^ confirmed!

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Might as well call it the billionaire cube

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Noooo!!!

    It is ok for Gabe to be billionaire and profit off predatory gambling practices on children and micro transactions and selling broken games and selling unfinished games and repeatedly trying to monopolise the pc hardware industry and being anti consumer and taking 30% of all game sales

    Because he monopolised the PC marketplace so I no longer have to leave the house to buy anime porn games.

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    • vapeloki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yes Steam is a defacto monopoly. But not through the actions of Valve but through the actions of it competitors.

      Valve does not behave like a monopoly, and it takes its money to improve gaming for all.

      I would get it if someone here would be really simping for Gabe. But may I remind you all, this is a shitposting community and this is a meme.

      If not for Valve and their openness towards Linux, Microsoft would long have followed Apple and made a walled garden out of Windows.

      If you want to make sure that gaming is not getting a walled of eco system be Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, that you need Valve.

      Just look at that release: NO AI bullshit, no walled garden, no vendor locking. No locked bootloader’s, repairability and consumer rights are in the focus.

      If course you can point out that this is a profit oriented company and everything they do, they do to make money. And I would not argue with that.

      But this? What is this? Why?

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    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      he didnt monopolise anything. the consumers did. valve does not enforce a monopoly, its just the competition shoots themselves in the foot all the time

      also for the 30% you get a hell of a lot of service as a dev, including but not limited: the biggest storefront in PC gaming servers provided by valve managing of transactions free advertising on mentioned storefront. and thats just a tiny part od what you get.

      and he aint trying to monopolise harware, nothing is preventing you from installing Windows on your steam devices, nor are you limited in peripheral harware choice (like controllers)

      valve aint forcing you to do shit, therefore they aint monopolising anything. the competition just kills itself by providing horrendous service

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    • BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not ok but that where we at.

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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They are all billionaires.

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  • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hoho! It’s because he made money hahaha!

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean you could do that with most all electronics

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Says the guy writing on a billionaire phone.

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    • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The OP comment is annoying but your comment gives this vibe

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    • BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just received my Fairphone LOL

      Cope harder and simp your fave billionaire as much as you want

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• Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Add another year.

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