Ignoring the greentext and just looking at the screenshot, it is a very powerful image. Just looking at the background sign alone (I’m guessing it says “NO THINKING”) shows how antithetical the school staff is to the idea of learning and teaching. The clothing alone of the principle and the backwards hat kid has the same energy as the Nazi party and how the Nazis used clothing as part of their propaganda used to look intimidating and powerful, while also looking intelligent and orderly. How the principle corrupted the backwards hat kid to use as a political pawn against the entire student body.
Just a very powerful image overall.
Then its back to black jack and hookers, atleast those will be cheaper
I seriously doubt his son would not care about gaming. I’d have to hope Gabe has raised his kids to be as non-greedy as he is. He is one of the most ethical billionaires - probably the most ethical billionaire - that I know of 🤣
Edit: also if you’re that rich in one industry you should be investing into others or setting up new businesses - no?
There’s no such thing as an ethical billionaire. Just because you like his monopoly does not mean he’s a good dude.
Never forget that Valve is single handedly responsible for Lootboxes being a thing having introduced them into TF2 and then CS:GO
My guy.
They already profit on loot boxes
Child gambling
unfinished products
AI slop
Extortionate DLC programs
Pre orders
Season passes
How else has GabeN been funding his son’s racing career. Those Aston Martins aren’t cheap.
The point is that it could be worse, considerably worse. Yes, I know, the standards are low nowadays. I try to stay with GOG where possible but with Linux, you sometimes have better compatibility with Steam versions and you have the steam DB reducing the risks even further, even if that is not from Valve itself.
I’ve always pondered what should be the contingencies if, eventually, Steam enshittifies because Gabe is gone. I would need a huge storage data to locally store the installation files.
Support good competitors like GoG
Would there be a lot of roadblocks to installing them without the steam client?
Just for the young’ns here, the image in the post is from a late 90s cartoon called Recess. Show is about a bunch of elementary schoolers and the one thing they look forward to at school: recess. They basically have roving kid gangs on the playground. Preschoolers are depicted as godless heathen barbarians not to be messed with. It’s a fantastic cartoon.
Yeah… that explanation was helpful to me because I’m… young…
I am also super young, fellow kids. 6-7 or whatever, right?
I’m Juuuust old enough to remember this cartoon, but was too young to really watch it
Loved that show back in the day. Your link might be borked, tho
Whoops!! I thought I pasted an IMDB link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Newell
https://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newells-son-thinks-valve-needs-to-try-something-scary/It’s more probably Doug Lombardi or Scott Lynch (COO?) that would take the reigns. Or it would probably turn into a co-op to be honest.
Employee owned (like John Lewis and Richer Sounds) or customer owned (like the supermarket)
Too many customers to be customer owned
Not with a Steam customer lottery democracy. Randomly selecting like 10,000 Steam users transparently (that can be figured out later) and then have them work together to help run the company better than Gabe ever could. Also they would be swapped out yearly.
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So valve have spent their entire time carefully selecting co workers, empowering them to do whatever they want, and your idea is to give it to a random bunch of strangers?
Yes! It worked in Ancient Athens!
FYI it’s “reins”, not “reigns”.
Rain it in there buddy
multiplayer company ownership
funny but for reference : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
let’s hope they won’t turn it into an extraction shooter.
I think that would be best, like bobs red mill.
If it actually got bad - would physical media come back full-force? Or would GOG be the go too?
Oh yeah let me just pull entire factory tooling and logistical supply chains out of my hat.
GOG is always the go-to. Steam only if you can’t wait to play it or its multi-player.
Gog feels like it’s one step form becoming a enshittified corporate hellscape half the time. And only by virtue of not having a dominant market position keeping it in check enough to not let it self go to shit.
Probably GoG, itch.io, or just direct sales. A lot of companies aren’t set up for physical distribution, aren’t big enough to get their product into the retail channels, and/or would have a hard time selling internationally. Steam didn’t invent digital game sales, they just made it a little easier. I think the first game I bought online was around 2000 or 2001. It was DX-Ball 2 from Longbow Digital Arts (RIP Seumas McNally), along with a screensaver I loved that they’ve open sourced and I wish I could get it running on macOS and Linux. I was still in high school and didn’t have a credit card, so I paid using a postal money order. If developers were selling directly in the ’90s they can make it work again.
Forgive my ignorance, and I might come off as snobby.
I see itch.io referenced often as an alternate game store but all I see on there are games that are super amateurish like a few notches above 2000s flash games. Am I not looking hard enough or are people happy playing those kinds of games?
Everyone can upload their game to itch, so there are a lot of bad games, and some very good ones.
