• palordrolap@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    On the one hand I like and respect Gabe for staying relatively down to Earth.

    But on the other Steam is the DRM that prevents people from owning what they bought and the dude has a fricking yacht. “But he eaaarned it waaah”, yeah, and how did he earn it? I refer you back to the previous point.

    • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      Games that dont use steam features (like steams multiplayer) arent required to use DRM (so games like Celeste still work without steam)

      I think there are way worse things he has done/allowed than DRM

          • scintilla@crust.piefed.social
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            What kind of garbage definition is that lmao. Not your fault I know you didn’t write the fucking dictionary but what the hell. Here is one that doesn’t use its own fucking root to define itself.

            • Digit@lemmy.wtf
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              24 hours ago

              If you click into it and read right through, you may find it a more sensible and robust definition than the cambridge one with all its “gooder” and “badder”. ;)

              Neither are great though.

              • scintilla@crust.piefed.social
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                22 hours ago

                Definition 2 is the closest to the way that relatively is used in most speech and it still uses “relation” in its definition. I don’t love the Cambridge one but it is better than the MW one.

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                Oh shit you weren’t just being an asshole throwing out definitions to prove a point, my bad for assuming the worst.

                He [Gabe] is relatively [in comparison to other billionaires] down to earth.

                Its not a high bar but he does pass it especially if you’re only comparing to the more well known billionaires.

                Some people can and have interpreted me calling their source bad a personal call out. I’ve done that before, honestly it’s not a great thing to do but emotions exist.

                • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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                  1 day ago
                  1. Why do folks assume I want to be an asshole in a community created to be silly and merry‽

                  I am an anarchist, for goodness gracious. I initialize all my conversations in neutrality until proven otherwise.

                  When I am in this community, I comprehend folks come here jovially, with the intent to entertain.

                  He [Gabe] is relatively [in comparison to other billionaires] down to earth.

                  Yeah HOW? He is a scumbag authoritarian. He sents talent to deathcamps. He drowns people in the Pacific. HOW does that compare to other “down to Earth” bourgeois oppressors?

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      Of ALL the billionaires in the world, Gabe Newell is possibly the least egregious.

      That said. He’s going to the guillotine with the rest of them.