I know he has a fleet of megayachts but i wasn’t awake he owns an entire megayachts business
Steam is a good service compared to the alternatives, but corpos will always be corpos. Having loyalty to any company, no matter how good they seem will inevitably lead to disappointment. That said…the vast majority of my game library is from steam, but I have been trying to get more of my games from GOG. Its best to be safe cause you never know when companies like valve will go mask mask off and become the next EA or Microslop.
I guess if they ever decide to go public, that would be the start of the enshittification process.
It’ll happen when Gabe dies and gets replaced
Hardly surprising, the dude fucking loves boats. It’s too bad he isn’t fascinated with the age of sail. Billionaires would be cooler if they sailed in treasure galleons and were assailed by pirates.
Billionaires would be cooler if their obsession was the bettering of mankind
Billionaires would be cooler if there were mythical creatures that don‘t exist but we tell stories about heroes who slay them.
What I’ve heard is he wanted to refit the yacht that he bought, so it could support a deep sea submersible.
So… to expedite the refit, he essentially just bought the entire dockyard, the company that owns it. Literal fuck you money lol.
And he does legit use that yacht/remote submersible to sail out to deep seas, exploring the hadal zones south of Japan, other places.
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/gabe-newell-inkfish-unclassified-ocean-creature/
As I’ve said in other threads, dude is just actually playing Subnautica IRL.
https://youtube.com/@inkfishexpeditions
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-explorer-vessel-08172025.php
https://www.vard.com/articles/inkfish-and-vard-signs-contract-on-groundbreaking-research-vessel
I think these are all … revolving around the same ship, not 100% sure.
Yeah he’s a billionaire, but he at least seems to be an old school tycoon in the sense of… doing actual philanthropy, instead of fancy accounting fraud / money laundering with a non profit happy face on top.
Also, barely anyone knows much about this, so… probably not a naked ploy for positive PR?
EDIT:
If he buys an entire island, or starts trying to do ‘sea-steading’, then we should be concerned.
That shit is… insane diamond hands crypto ancap fucking nonsense, unless or untill someone actually comes up with an actual well thought out plan… So far all I’ve seen is complete idiocy at being anything than an elaborate fraud.
If Gabe goes full Andrew Ryan/Cave Johnson, then yeah, we have a problem.
To my knowledge… he basically just has more money than he knows what to do with, so he tries to fund things that would be difficult to fund otherwise, that he also finds neat.
He’s also basically founded a seemingly much more legitimate than Elon’s neuralink type thing, that does novel research into BCI/brain implants, but like, targetted at actual medical breakthroughs, not like, trying to make a mass consumer general use product.
https://starfishneuroscience.com/
Judge for yourself of course, I’ve not deeply looked into these things, just apparently a bit more than most.
I can say that I haven’t heard of any pigs or monkeys being horrifically tortured, so that’s probably good.
Yeah he’s a billionaire, but he at least seems to be an old school tycoon in the sense of… doing actual philanthropy, instead of fancy accounting fraud / money laundering with a non profit happy face on top.
He owns a fleet o megayachts and one of the biggest companies making these who commissioned megayachts for bezos and russian oligarchs, he’s just a piece of shit like all the others. We are on the verge of a climate disaster, one of these boats consume in one hour as much you will do in your lifetime, stop wasting your time defending this idiot, he’s not a scientist.
To my knowledge… he basically just has more money than he knows what to do with,
To my knowledge you don’t end up with more money than you know what to do with by being a good person. Valve did a lot of shit such as promoting gambling to kids
You are insanely aggro for basically no reason.
Never said he was a scientist. Showed that he hires scientists to make use of his toys.
Yep, he’s a billionaire, thats bad, i’d prefer he’d just give every steam user a proportional refund with his excess money, that would do more practical good.
Yep, promoting/facilitating gambling to/for kids is in fact immensely shitty and should be stopped, victims should be compensated.
Yep, owning a small fleet of megayachts is very bad for the climate, very selfish, frankly ridiculous.
There, are you satisfied?
Done assuming my thoughts and positions?
Edit: I was being mean but it is a cool boat so I’ll give the benefit of the doubt.
Gotta spend all that monopoly money some way.
A megayacht is defined by the ability to fit at least one standard yacht within its swimming pool while still leaving ample room for maneuvers.
Fuck me that’s in my home town!
“Shipyard owner puts pirates out of business”
I have seen plenty of comments here trying to make Gabe out to be an ultra bad capitalist evil villain because he owns this company that, as far as I’m aware, pays it’s employees. And most of those arguments are around the fact that it’s a mega yacht company. All sounding like people shouldn’t have unnecessary luxuries. If we went down that route, nobody needs video games, nobody needs music recordings, movies or tv shows, nobody needs clothing that expresses themselves, we all should only have the basic necessary tools of work and the most utilitarian of clothing and homes. Food only to sustain, not enjoy. Tell me I’m wrong.
I won’t disagree that some people don’t need mega yachts, but I feel that having this company, maybe he could work on building better floating housing systems. Or maybe he is employing people and giving them good paychecks for working on these yachts.
So, I love boats and sailing.
Megayachts aren’t for people who love boats and sailing, they’re for rich people who love the privacy of having a mobile private island. In their operation (big diesel engines, fiberglass hulls made with MEK, dumping raw sewage and such), they pollute a lot more than basically any other method of travel/living.
The people at Gabe Newell’s company probably make decent money. But it’s a dangerous job working with extremely toxic chemicals (if it’s good for the boat, it’s bad for the environment, and it’s bad for the workers). A lot of them probably have to retire early with health problems.
I love boats and sailing, but this megayacht shit sucks.
Tell me I’m wrong.
You are wrong. Russian oligarchs and billionares shouldn’t have access to any sort of luxury the same way a pedophile or a rapist shouldn’t. They are criminals. You can be rich, even a millionaire but to get away with a billion you have to play dirty and be greedy. Valve did evil shit such as promoting gambling to kids. Owning multiples megayachts it’s not like watching tv or playing videogames it’s more like collecting elephants tusks. We are on the verge of a climate crisis and everyone is getting poorer, the megayachts business is a smack in people and humanity face.
Its a great example of why we don’t want to abandon calculated social services for the whims of billionaire philanthropists.
Even the best billionaire backed project is still taking their part of the pie, even if it’s just adhering to their vision.
EoD society generates value and we have right to collectively invest that value in bettering our own circumstance. Billionaires syphon that value from society and give it back to us pennies on the dollar.
What a weird parasocial position to attempt a sincere defense of… Really planning for the future huh, you temporarily embarrassed millionaire?
One daty you’ll get that sweet mega yacht invite, and you’ll be able to say, “don’t worry friends, I always had your back when THEY would try to disparage you” and they’ll say, “we always knew you were different, better… one of us, Stewart. We just had to wait until you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps, as of course, we all had before”
The amount of tankies on here is why, some of them just hate the fact rich people exists and not the fact a lot of them simply cheat the system and exploit legal loopholes and do shady deals. I don’t like that mega rich people exist but I don’t care if they do simply exist, I HATE that they influence legislation and law to suit themselves in spite or neglect of the average person, It’s childish to attack those who are simply successful.
Seems like a massive waste of time, skill, and resources.
