Thread 106110752

>Dutch yard Oceanco – one of the world's leading builders of custom superyachts – has been sold to American video game developer and businessman Gabe Newell.

https://www.boatinternational.com/boat-pro/news/oceanco-yacht-builder-sold-to-gabe-newell

>Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve Corporation, owns multiple yachts, including the Oceanco "DRAAK," which is estimated to be worth $150 million. He also owns a Lurssen yacht named "Rocinante" valued at $100 million and is building a 364-foot yacht. His total yacht fleet is estimated to be worth over $1 billion

Anons?

Good for him

below temperature IQ degenerate with typical, predictable oligarch behavior

>>106111003
>low IQ
>net worth 10 billion

Pic only one you sour grape faggot

selling games>buying games

>>106111003
He funds a charitable organization that donates to children's hospitals and a organization that researches and discover wildlife in the ocean that hasn't been discovered yet or wasn't seen very often

absolutely based, look at that fuckin faggot chilling on his $100 million yacht playing a steam deck
I bet that faggot has a VR room
Anyways he put everything into Valve and almost went bankrupt as a result, so I'd say he deserves it
The work and ultimately the gamble paid off

wish I could do the same, sounds like a based life

why on earth would you need 3 yachts

one in europe, one on american atlantic coast, the other pacific? are these yachts immobile?

>>106111073
i donate to charity too
would that make it ok for me to kill someone? how about just maim them? or just break into their home and steal their dvd player after defecating on the most expensive-looking rug?

>>106111210
It's collecting dude, like you are collecting PCs or smartphones. Plus, there are different types - explorer yachts to go to the arctic, luxury behemoths for big ass parties and medium sized, faster ones for family or a small circle of friends, etc. It's the ultimate luxury and if you get the itch it's crazy. Abramovich has a dozen of them, all superyachts.

t. yacht connoisseur

>>106111232
So being rich is like murder eh? Leftist piece of shit kys.

Gabe is playing X4 in real life.

>>106110752 (OP)
>DRAAK
means Dragon in Dutch

>>106111258
They use them to move money from country to country and to launder it.

Its sad that even gaben has reached the age where he begins talking very confidently about shit he knows nothing about from atop his mountain of laurels

>>106111431
holy based

>>106111434
neat

>>106111431
I mean, if you had more money than you could ever spend, you'd start doing crazy shit as well, special projects and stuff. Me... I'd build airships for pleasure.

>>106110752 (OP)
he should buy a decommissioned oil rig in international waters, so no jurisdiction can fuck with his servers and services

dark gaben emerges from his superyacht

Sea levels aren't rising because of global warming, it's because Gabe finally has enough boats to take a trip on the ocean.

>>106110764
We could have had HL3 and he still can buy the yacht. NO, NOT GOOD FOR HIM. Never support greedy people and their corrupt matters.

>>106111073
No he doesn’t, those are false PR claims with no evidence. Hoyoverse makers of genshin impact, a real company that supports community projects like school, rockets and others help people. Valve never helped anyone, not once.

>>106111547
kek

>>106110752 (OP)
>fatass DRM kike does thing
not technology

Meh

>>106111210
he has more than 3, but the quantity makes more sense when you list their functions
>primary personal yacht
>backup personal yacht for when the primary is being serviced (month long endeavor, longer if being retrofitted)
>hospital yacht (covid schizo + a lifetime of 600lbs)
>research vessels for his foundations & support vehicles for his flotilla

>>106112035
>+Consoles
True only for PS3 gen and below
>+Games made before steam
Securom, keys, other DRM...

>>106112635
ok thats based

>>106111264
yes

>>106111018
Bezos' ex wife is a retard and has more than 10b.

>>106111232
Who did Gaben kill?

>>106114544
>my neighbour won the lottery that means everyone wins the lottery

retard

>>106114547
The Half-Life trilogy.

>>106111210
>>106112635
He has 6
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php

>Not a Saudi prince or an oligarch, but it is American video game billionaire Gabe Newell that has an armada of luxury yachts worth around $1 billion. Take a look at his 6 vessels that range from an research vessel, a 365 feet long luxury yacht and even a hospital ship.

He has 3 BIG ASS luxury superyachts (one under construction still). Then he has a support vessel that carries the boats, helicopters and other toys alongside his main yacht (one of the 3 mentioned) when he goes out at sea. Then he has a hospital ships with covid quarantine rooms and shit. That's 5. Last one is a research vessel with submarine and all manner of sensors he sued to ... well.. research the ocean and ocean floor and to look for old wrecks.

So when he goes out he picks one of the 3, has his support vessel alongside (toys, extra rooms, extra fuel, food, etc. for long hauls) and his hospital ship trailing (in case of surprise pandemics and heart attacks). A cute 3 vessel fleet. Must feel like a fucking king. Imagine cruising in the Caribbean with your personal mini-fleet.

>>106111073
>He funds
the retards who pay games with a 30% steam fee pay for this.
he also gets to pay reduced tax while he pretends to be a good person.
once steam got big, he stopped making games.
CS and DOTA2 are games that turn kids into gambling addicts, with lootboxes, loot keys, etc.

>>106114793
>CS and DOTA2 are games that turn kids into gambling addicts


...and?

>>106114779
I wonder big is his mercenary army. You can't go sail in open waters and without protection from pirates.

>>106114802
>based gabe,
>our merchant, you won't own anything and you'll be happy
fucking corporate bootlickers.

>>106114803
he has texan engineers building sentry gun nests inside. He also keeps big russians armed with miniguns in there

>>106114803
Oh he has several ex-special forces dudes protecting him. A couple on the main yacht, a couple on the support vessel. I bet they even have long guns with them despite international laws forbidding that and border patrol boarding parties checking for such things.

>>106114817
Why would I care? Why do you? If I could do the same I would. I have been pirating all my games/media/software for the last 25 years, why would I give a fuck, I don;t give him any money.

>>106111264
Yes.
You're buying a completely useless collection of super yachts when you could be saving hundreds of kids from cancer with the money.

>>106114844
Kill yourself you commie subhuman. It's his money, he can do whatever the fuck he wants with it. Why aren't you donating your salary as a dog walker to some cancer kid?

>>106111232
I mean if you donated enough to charity I certainly would look the other way on many things.
Hypothetically let’s say Gaben donates 100 million dollars to the world wildlife foundation. That kind money could genuinely recover the populations of several endangered species, it could revitalize entire regions of some countries in terms of becoming agriculturally efficient to use less natural land and protect environments of rare wildlife. One could fund entire international awareness campaigns with that kind of money for decades.
I wouldn’t notice a few strangled and/or eaten people in return, that’s none of my business.

>>106114852
It's not his money. It's money his employees made for him, mostly by taking 30% from every game dev for doing almost nothing.

>>106114870
HAHAHAHAHAHA idiotic kid doesn't understand basics of economy and society. Grow up, retard. Those people got PAID for their work and it wasn't forced on them. It's Gabe's money, deal with it.

>>106114832
because he has so much power, along with the other corporate cunts, that he lobbies to take down torrents AND pass laws to criminalize piracy.
you have to be 80IQ and above to understand that.
also you have to be in the first world to care about this. nobody cares about 3rd wordlies, because even if they have laws, it doesn't matter.
in the first world they are starting to discussing banning of VPNs.
I care because it affects me.
If you don't care, keep it to yourself, don't point to others what they should care or not.

If I had billions of dollars I would absolutely do stupid shit with it too.

Approximately 4.5 billion dollars could comfortably overestimate to buy
>every single Honda/Acura NSX ever made
And I mean ALL of them. I’d have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on transportation, maintenance and storage for a fleet of like 20,000 cars. I could get in a new NSX, and just leave it wherever I stopped driving, and pay someone to bring another one to me.
I could disperse them across the globe and up a world wide network of personal NSX delivery services to make sure at any moment anywhere on the planet with roads, someone could bring me one of my personally owned NSX’s with a full tank and a fresh wash, within minutes of me asking.

It amazes me what billionaires don’t do

>>106114880
It's his money in the same sense that the blood a leech sucks is its blood.

Gabe contributes jack shit to society but sucks out an insane amount of money from it. He's undeniably a parasite.

>>106114897
um... based

Some people indulge themselves, but not the level you have in mind kek

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/whatsapp-co-founder-jan-koum-184927156.html

>including at least two separate mansions and a state-of-the-art, two-level detached garage that appears to span well over 10,000 square feet — in fact, the garage alone dwarfs some of the neighboring Atherton homes.

He has a big ass warehouse for all his cars in his backyard

>>106111018
Hi Gabe, can you focus on HL3 instead of shit posting here ? Thank you.

>>106114902
You should undeniably kill yourself. Commies cannot help themselves blaming others for their failed lives. Your failures are your own, you suck, it's neither the rich nor society's fault. Take some accountability, asshole.

>>106114918
forgot pic

>>106114930
There seems to be a whole lot of projection going on.
I live well. I'm not little Timmy from an old dead mining town who's dying of cancer and their poor parents can't afford to treat it.

>>106111003
no anons, oligarchs buy yachts.
Gabe bought a yacht builder.

that makes him 1 step above the food chain.

>>106114793
yeah opening loot boxes = gambling addiction incoming
meanwhile there's an ad break every 5 minutes in every single sports match telling them directly how awesome gambling. i mean i went to a baseball game irl not that long ago and when the home team won what did the fans get? a sweet a 10% voucher for a casino. shit is fucking grim, but i think csgo skins and dota 2 shit is really low on the list of shit kids are subjected to that encourages degenerate behavior.

Based Gaben

>>106114897
Cool, the first billionaire lolcow

>>106110752 (OP)
bro knows something we don't. Earth will be completely submerged in water by 2033.

>>106114779
It doesn’t matter how big they can build it, taxpayers with the Navy aircraft carrier owns the ocean and there’s nothing they can do about it.

>>106114902
>sucks out an insane amount of money from it
sucking money is leaving it doing nothing. He provides jobs for yacht makers and maintainers.

>>106114844
you could also clean streets if africa, why dont you?

Based thalassocracy chad.
In his shoes, I'd do the same and maybe lose some weight

>>106114844
I don't care about charity but yachts are the most boring thing you could do with billions of dollars

>>106116493
kek yachts are fucking awesome, there's noting cooler except spaceships

>>106116384
>he provides jobs for people doing utterly useless shit instead of something worthwhile like fixing the roads
Leeches do way more useful things with your blood, they grow and reproduce with it, providing sustenance for the fish and turtles that prey on them.

>>106116404
You think living as a street cleaner in Africa is the same as not having multiple superyachts?

Boats are fucking retarded lol. Rich people are so fucking gullible. You think because it happens to displace a volume of water that weights more than itself it's some how some insane tech.

>>106116505
Ocean is boring as fuck, would rather private jet from penthouse to mansion for 10x cheaper too

>>106116563
Why not all of that?

>>106116562
It's just for bragging rights with their rich friends.
>Nice super yacht, Mr. Bezos but have you seen my TWO super yachts?

>>106116614
oh yeah well MY gelcoat is matte black.. how heckin insane is that!?

>>106114832
>why should you care if someone corrupts the future generation
I'd say face the wall but you getting beat in a senior home by brownoids for your final years sounds way more fun to watch. Enjoy your future retard.

>>106116378
>tax payers
>own
Lol who points the gun when taxes aren't paid? Thats the owner.

>>106116384
thats what the modern economy incentivizes the most. the more of a net negative you are to the society the more you get paid. at this point the people maintaining essential infrastructure are just morons. they should quit and show what really matters

He has always been weird. During the great plague of covid, he secluded himself in New Zealand (above Australia on the map) and didn't went to valve HQ in Seattle for more than two years. Instead he was using a webcam or a tablet mounted on a Segway to visit the offices and talk to his employees. He's also much more aware of tech than you think; his mom was an engineer at Bell Labs and worked on UNIX with Denis Ritchie and Ken Thomspon. She taught him how to code in Algol60 when he was ten.

>hmmmmmmm
>I should buy a boat ........... -manufacturer!

>>106116761
He is a fat fuck and is getting old, he could die from the flu

>>106116562
the boats the ultra rich are using are amazing. Literal modern mansions that you can bring everywhere in the world. You should see the Monaco bay during the F1 race, it's like a modern city on the sea.

>>106116761
So he's a nepo baby?

>>106111018
>>106111003
>>106110752 (OP)
poor guy doesn't have enough money for a spaceship company he has to make do with boats lol

>>106116809
yes.

>>106116761
he has chinese boywife?

>>106116802
I've never really got the point of luxury mansions either.
Why do you need twenty different empty rooms?

Just give me a neet cave, a workshop, and an indoor pool and I'd have nothing more to ask for.

>>106116836
yes.

>>106116836
It's a random chink waiting for the bus you autist. Gabe fucks 10/10 whores on his yachts snorting coke out of their virgin anuses not some androgynous chink garbage like Zuckerberg.

>>106116802
Yeah.. no. It's a fucking RV with a hull instead of wheels. What it LOOKS like from 500 feet away on a shitty broadcasting camera and what it actually is inside are two different things.

They are not anything like an actual mansion, lmao. This is what I'm talking about. Sheltered poorfags who have never been inside anything who think these boats are floor to ceiling windows and cantilevered concrete and italian marble and walnut cabinetry like my heckin mangas!1

it's a fucking bayliner but 10 times bigger. a trawler is more interesting.

>>106116873
he needs an androgynous figure to top him

>>106116936
Retard there are entire channels on jewtuibe dedicated to doing tours of yachts. What you are talking about is Uncle Jimmie's fissing boat. We are talking about 250 feet super yachts that cost 300 million.

>>106116936
a boat is liberty, is freedom, you go wherever you want.

>>106117015
Shit is pretty regulated.
Just go fastman if you want freedom.

>>106117061
Not if you are a billionaire

>>106110752 (OP)
Lots of money makes an evil greedy little nigger of anyone it seems

>>106110752 (OP)
wtf is he trying to do with all those yachts? A city in international waters?

retards thought they could relate to a billionaire lmaoooooooooo

>>106111210
superyachts are not really sailed across oceans, but transported in bigger yacht transport ships. it is too much wear and tear to sail a yacht from teh caribbean to the med sea and back every year. a yacht transporter would cost a million per trip for a 100m yacht, so at 2 million dollars plus 3 to 4 months no yacht action per year, you might as well buy another yacht because you can borrow the money against your equity in order to finance the new yacht and basically pay nothing. if you have several hundred million in equity you can borrow free money that your kids will sort out after you die. if you are a billionaire, you can borrow enough to buy a new $500m yacht that you won't even need to think about. your kids can sell it and pay back the loan with a little bit of your wealth. basically the new yacht is free.

>>106117786
you are a fucking idiot mate

>>106114793
>CS
maybe Global Offended but CS:S and Half Life 1 are both sold and at least CS:S is still fairly active last I tried and 1.6 and Source are both great tactical shooters with games that are short and don't impact other games so it resets to a pure skill game every few rounds rather than encouraging you to play more games to unlock the pinkgold supergyattlynn3000 and make following games easier (which just encourages addiction over raw skill, and if it's bound to lootboxes rather than xp or achievements it's also gambling). CS is a great game, truly the industry's last hurrah after the great Quake-Unreal wars we grew up with.

>>106117392
Gay Ben was always an evil greedy little nigger.

>>106116821
>poor guy doesn't have enough money for a spaceship
Neither do either of the fags you posted.

>>106110752 (OP)
>Scam people by selling them licenses to play games instead of games
>Pioneered lootboxes and microtransactions
>Allows kids to gamble
>Refuses to fix and update games that still make him millions upon millions (tf2)
>Forced everyone who played csgo to transition to cs2 which to this day runs like shit and has missing features

Reminder to buy on GOG and to not give money to that jew, anyone who praises him is a retard

>>106118741
yeah thats how you make money. being fair and honest doesn't pay the bills

>>106118757
I rather live in a dirt shack eating cow shit than to make billions by being a faggot

>>106116485
It seems like he actually did lose some weight, looks a lot thinner in recent images.

>>106118757
get lynched valvenigger

>>106118844
not a supporter but i notice the reality. its all about huge exploitative corporations and youtubers and of thots. real honest work pays like shit

>>106110752 (OP)
He's not even going to be alive in 5 years

>>106118889
Man, I really hope Valve gets sold to a company like EA after he dies to make all the Steamniggers really lose their shit.

>>106118844
please cite an example of the bottom half

>>106118885
Because the world is overpopulated, and there is no incentive to pay you more, when there is 100 other people in line for your spot. Resources meant for 1 person are now spread out across 10.

does he mainly live out in the high seas where there are no jurisdictions where he can basically act as his own state? I was looking into this a few weeks ago, but you need a supply line for food and probably the hospital boat as well to make it viable.

>>106118944
Hire some people to fish and farm algae directly from the boat.
And keep a few chickens on the boat.

>>106118944
Your boat will get fucked pretty quickly if it's stateless.

>>106118838
Ozempic doesn't count

>>106111491
That's what the Republic of Minerva thought until they were invaded by Tonga. Turns out countries with militaries can create their own jurisdiction over you if they want.
>but Sealand
Not annoying enough to warrant a government attack.

>>106114852
>>106114880
>anon suggests it might be nice to share wealth
>boomer gets hissy fit and starts pissing and shitting and crying
Every time. They can't help it. Just the mention of not being a destructive parasite shatters their whole world view and personally offends them. Can't wait till they're all dead soon, rotting in old folks' homes that they themselves downsized into neglect ridden torture chambers. Exactly what those failed capitalists deserve. Imagine melting down because not everybody is a selfish psychopath. GenX aren't much better either

>>106114880
>HAHAHAHA
you're not fooling anybody, i can smell your tears from here. Whats worse than a parasite? A parasite dicksucker like you

>>106116809
>if your parents weren't drug addicted welfare users you're a nepobaby

>>106118929
Literally all of /v/

>>106120092
Unuronically this is how I feel. I hate my life.

>>106120109
They have to defend Steam since they're so invested in it.
All the money for they poured into, all the friends they made on their and communities they found. People automatically get defensive when all that gets threatened.

>>106110752 (OP)
Belongs on >>>/biz/

>>106120109
well then it sure would be easy to find an actual example of it

How about investing in Half Life 3 fatty

>>106120139
its amazing how steam somehow developed a culture about people bragging about how much money they basically donate to steam but games they'll never play
I always thought this was just insane everyone joking about how they waste money on steam sales
quite culty

>>106110752 (OP)
I have more respect for gaben than other rich people but I still firmly believe anyone hoarding more than a billion dollars in wealth and assets without taking major steps towards solving all the world's problems must be a genuine psychopath in need of mental help.

>>106122475
Governments sling around trillions of dollars and get nowhere to solving any problems. And to solve those problems would require you to go up against governments. Looking at how retarded elon looks when he gets into politics, I can't blame rich people for wanting to sit on the sidelines.

>>106114844
Fuck that boats are cool

>>106122027
>people bragging about how much money they basically donate to steam but games they'll never play
I don't think it's bragging.
I've spent at most $100 on steam over the last 10 years, and even I have games I've barely played.
I picked up Darkest Hour for a buck or two in 2018, and I've still barely played it.

>>106111210
need a yacht to yacht to my mega yacht