Truly living the dream

We really should send him another card.

>billionaire has fun on yacht all day
Fuck him.

'eck on 'ick

>one chance in life
>get to spent it poor, middle-class if you work hard
artificial difficulty

>rich people
>>>>>working
Nigga talking people who suck you off ain't work

>>715841051 (OP)
>>715841240
why doesn't OP ever post a more recent pic of Gabe?

>>715841172
>man worked hard
>created products and services that millions willingly paid for
>now enjoys the fruits of his labors
Explain the issue?

>>715841336
Too bad ozempic couldn't shrink his ugly jew beak

>>715841336
assuming this is real, he looks better fat

>>715841425
>Gabe
>Worked
>Hard
Nigga he was a programmer back when you didn't have to compete for coding jobs, back when fizzbuzz was still a thing.

He has never had to work hard once in his life

Anons, how do you cope? I have several projects I work on, but I never finish anything. Always that gut feeling I was supposed to be something more. Even if I did finish, my niche shit more than likely wouldn't replace even a McDonalds job. If I could even profit to begin with.

I'm happy for Gabe because he's one of the few millionaire+ people I think absolutely earned it. I just wish I could have 1/100th his success story.

Unironically one of the most evil men on the face of this planet, however.

>>715841652
>programming is easy lole
post your w.i.p. game

>>715841740
Name three evil things he's done

>>715841754
Current video games are far more complex than anything he has ever worked on kek

>>715841740
>>715841652

The guy was a code monkey who started his own company. Nearly going under until the release of Half-Life. Then went into their own pockets for the developement of Half-Life 2. Created Steam which put PC to the top of the market, and giving PC gamers the respect we deserve. If it had not been for him and Steam, we probably wouldn't even get a tenth of the releases. He aggregated us, and brought new ones in.

Hate the guy because he's rich, sure, but be honest with your argument. The man has done a lot, and cares about the PC player more than any other rich fuck out there.

>>715841772
>>715841837
Wow. Just wow.

>>715841837
So he did something that current cs grads do to pad their resume, big whoop

>>715841941

To add, I like to think about all the streaming platforms. Had Gabe not been the first, some other greedy fucks like EA would have done it eventually. And that's who we'd have as our overlords.

Also, you didn't counter argument. Your whiny emotional outburst doesn't say anything other than you don't have an argument.

>>715841051 (OP)
Can't he do us a favor and make his own payment processor?

>>715841968

Sounds super easy. Let me guess, you're a fortune 500 company owner?

This is where your respond with your bank account screenshots and shit out of a desperate attempt to win an argument you can't

>>715841941
>>715841968
>>715841652

Still waiting on a response to why Gabe is such a lazy, horrible person. In a compelling argument that isn't:

>Wow
>Like omg, lol

>>715842175
>>715842086
Your reading comprehension is dogshit....

>>715842254

Anon, you're not saying anything. You're bumping your gums. Spit it out.

>>715841652
yeah back when having an infinite loop would fuck your ass. Programming was harder back then without jeetAI doing half of the thinking for you

>>715842290
What can I do if you can't speak the language and just put words in my mouth

>>715841772
>Popularized lootboxes
>Popularized full priced "game licneses"
>Artifact

>>715841652
He is a fag who ruined PC gaming as a platform, so i hope his love for going underwater ultimately ends with an implosion type event.

Commies who hate wealth itself, thinking theyre in good company because /v/ hates scummy corpos.
Its like the Muzzies hanging out in /pol/ because they also hate kikes.

>>715842516

You got a little outta hand and insulted me a little bit.

>>715841652
>you didn't have to compete for coding jobs
You didn't have to, because back then having a degree clearly meant you were qualified. You figured out everything yourself without the internet, and it was way more complex because it was all low level.

>>715841051 (OP)
Is the nature in NZ really that good?

>>715842763
>>715842450

And the devs during those days were pioneers. Paved the way for today's little snots. A lot of shit you didn't have a solution for, and had to figure it out.

>>715842450
Programming was piss easy back then, Half Life was written in cpp just like win95. Both used a single language, no bullshit attached. Meanwhile current iteration of steam amalgamation of different languages, APIs etc etc. Back when Gabe actually programmed shit the concept of agile, full stack etc etc didn't even exist, his job was simple and extremely straightforward.

He couldn't hack it in today's world. Well, maybe he could since he went to Harvard but he'd never be successful. His claim to fame is being first in a uncompetitive industry before internet and remote work existed. He's a boomer, by all metrics he should at least be a multi-millionaire given his family background but instead he's a billionaire. If he was so fucking great and hardworking he'd run a semiconductor company instead

>>715841837
lmao zoomoids like steam lol

>>715842763
>>715842915
C and by extension C++ were both mature languages by the time Gabe started working, he didn't have to figure out anything.

>>715842971

A lot of your points are indeed true, but your dismissal of his achievements as easy-peasy-anybody-could-have done-it attitude reveals a lot.

The success of Steam would not have occurred without the success and high quality of Half-Life and subsequently Half-Life 2. It is a series of perfectly timed events. The amount of care and effort that went into both HL1 and HL2 allowed the successful launch of Steam (as thats why people installed it). The amount of features and convenience from Steam lead the shift from piracy, and brought in more PC gamers than ever. Also allowing a lot of indie devs to be successful without shitty predatory publishers.

What he accomplished was a Napoleon conquest that started with gaining lots of admiration and respect. It was not something anybody could pull off even if they had the knowledge from today.

Gabe Newell is a scammer and belongs in federal prison for fraud.

Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.

>>715841172
Eh, his company doesn't actively fuck me so it's no skin off my dick. If more rich fucks just provided good services and fucked off I'd have no problem.

>>715841051 (OP)
GIVE ME A REFUND YOU FAT FUCK

>>715841652
>Nigga
Get out.

>>715841245
You could get up, work, and then go scuba diving right now.

>>715843585
S-shut up

>>715842613
Yeah, bro, PC would've been way better if we had to go to individual game sites, amazon or various launchers like EA to buy our games

>>715843512
Yes he does.

In March 2018, Gabe Newell held a presentation on Artifact claiming there would be regular expansions, an eventual mobile release, and a $1 million tournament, all of which ultimately failed to materialize.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mERhtoD21rU

In August of that year, Gabe Newell repeated the claim of an Artifact tournament during the opening of The International: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X4xYOmUwad0

In March 30, 2020, Valve announced Artifact Beta 2.0, stating they planned for a closed beta (which happened), transitioning to an open beta and later full release (which didn’t).

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/583950/view/2102558993190369210

In December 17, 2020, Valve stated they would allow users to invite friends to the Artifact 2.0 beta in January.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1269260/view/2951510987408670526

In March 4, 2021, Valve formally abandoned Artifact. No expansions, no mobile version, no million-dollar tournament, not even something as basic as allowing users to invite friends to the beta in January like they said they would.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/583950/view/3047218819080842820

>>715842613
>He is a fag who ruined PC gaming as a platform
If he didn't "ruin" it, Microsoft would have ruined it themselves. You don't want that kinda future.

>>715841172
Maybe one day you'll earn something too.

>>715841051 (OP)
Gabe the Diver.

>>715842175
because any retard can start a game store and be successful back them, steam only succeeded because they had no competition and lucked their way into it.

>>715842530
Why are you people so dumb and stupid

>>715841051 (OP)
I find it just absolutely crazy how someone with unlimited money and 16 hours a day of free time can still be a fat slob. The guy created a good product and is obviously a very smart person but it means absolutely nothing when you have such weak character you let your body decompose to this shameful state

>>715841772
He continue working as a billionaire.

>>715843315
>The amount of care and effort that went into both HL1 and HL2
Imagine dicksucking two western slop games. Gabe isnt going to pay you jeet.

>>715842530
How is Artifact evil?

>>715844085
wasted resources on a gay fucking game when they could have just made half life three

>>715843315
>What he accomplished was a Napoleon conquest that started with gaining lots of admiration and respect. It was not something anybody could pull off even if they had the knowledge from today
I'm going to just argue that what he did was ultimately irrelevant and that proliferation of PC gaming was ultimately based on hardware and not software. A lot of zoomers don't remember how bad PC gaming used to be, when Oblivion came out in 2006~ the top of the line computers barely achieved 20-30 FPS while Xbox 360 reliably hit that benchmark for the fraction of the price. What's more the online aspect of Steam was fulfilled by other products, without steam you could still play video games online with other people and it took a long ass time for digital sales to overtake physical discs. After all you used to get a disc and a steam code in a box. Another thing is that PC games were already popular, the concept of PC gaming being non-existent is extremely American as PC gaming had been around since forever in Europe.

We see mobile outgrow PC and console markets.Well how the fuck do we go from people hating n-gage to loving Genshin? It's not the games, it's the hardware. Hardware is what makes platform popular, not how you buy games. Steam rode the hardware wave and secured a monopoly on gaming because for the longest time nobody put out a competing product, nothing more.

>>715843567
https://youtu.be/MFjVlxXE2Ts

>>715843790
A failed game isn't actively fucking me over, goober.

>>715841828
Total horseshit. Vibe coders can make video games now. The tools and hardware are what's complex but game dev is glorified lego. Carmack had to do 3D on a chip that wasn't even designed for floating point units. You'd be lucky to find anyone working in game dev today who knows how to work close to the silicon.

>>715844214
Artifact is not gay. It is excellent. Artifact’s expansions on Dota 2’s setting and lore were amazing. Peak soul. There were times I actually felt like I was commanding the epic fantasy battlefield the cards depicted. I’d never had that feeling from a card game before, not even Magic.

When I looked at the menu, saw Jolixia’s caravan in the distance at night while the music took me, for a fleeting moment it felt like I was home.

based Gabe. He fucking won literally everything but he also isn't a fat bald incel like Notch.

>>715844256
Also arguing that steam somehow made games more convenient is total bullshit since early on it was seen as DRM and downloading was slow as shit. Steam in essence was just bloat packaged to stop pirates and to inconvenience the customer

>>715841652
lol his company almost went bankrupt twice and some company tried to court rape him. im sure he was having fun

>>715844459
You are an insufferable faggot

>>715841051 (OP)
>you will never be a bottlenose dolphin gently nudging gaben's wet-suit bulge
why even live

>>715841336
That one is faked by AI, stop believing in the lies.

>>715841772
1) Stolen Patent from small company
2) German government demanding him to stop lying about games ownership
3) Australia refund lawsuit
They are not the good guys.

>>715843970
Gamespy, itch.io, GOG, wildtarget by Dell, Microsoft, etc. STFU newfrag Steam is not the best or was ever built for anyone to publish games. It was exclusively for the billionaire. They only just recently opened for everyone in 2012.

>>715841652
TRVTHNVKE

>>715844647
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4
Scammin’ Valve ain’t worth a Healing Salve
Scammin’ Valve ain’t worth a Healing Salve
Scammin’ Valve ain’t worth a Healing Salve
Scammin’ Valve ain’t worth a Healing Salve
Epic, can I buy some games at your sale? (At your sale)
Gabe Newell is a scammer and belongs in jail (Belongs in jail)
Did you know how they cancelled Artifact Foundry? (Fact Foundry?)
Even though, they should have sent more invites in January? (January?)
You know, Artifact’s fun to play now that it is free.
With good support it could be
The biggest game on Steam!
Scammin’ Valve ain’t worth a Healing Salve
Opening the beta’s what they lied about
Gamers, can't you see?
Valve lied to our community
Invites didn’t come out so
You should boycott Scammin’ Valve
Scammin’ Valve ain’t worth a Healing Salve
Scammin’ Valve ain’t worth a Healing Salve
Gaben, do you remember your March press conference? (Press conference)
You promised a million-dollar Artifact tournament (Tournament)
I could tell from then I wanted to compete (To compete)
For the money and the claim of
Joining the Artifact Elite (Tifact Elite)
And I know that you think the player count is low
But if you stuck to that logic
You’d give up CSGO!
Scammin’ Valve ain’t worth a Healing Salve
Opening the beta’s what they lied about
Gamers, can't you see?
Valve lied to our community
Invites didn’t come out so
You should boycott
Scammin’ Valve
Scammin’ Valve ain’t worth a Healing Salve (worth a Healing Salve)
Opening the beta’s what they lied about (check the roadmap)
Gamers, can't you see?
Valve lied to our community
Invites didn’t come out so
You should boycott
Scammin’ Valve, oh, oh (You should boycott)
Scammin’ Valve, oh, oh (For the long haul)
Gamers, can’t you see?
Valve lied to our community
Invites didn’t come out so
You should boycott Scammin’ Valve

>>715841705
you can at least work on stuff, If I can get my fat ass to even start something I usually just drop it a few days in...

>>715841772
Gabe Newell unironically started the ball rolling for the collapse of social bonds between young people. The male loneliness epidemic? Thank Gaben for that one. Midnight releases for games at GameStop and other places where you found friends? Mostly died down thanks to Gaben. Digital distribution for games was a mistake and now we can't go back. The butterfly effect started by Gaben has brought western civilization into the stages of its downfall. Kids aren't going outside anymore because Steam and other platforms that were inspired by it have now "fulfilled their needs". No wonder zoomers have terrible social skills.

This is all putting aside the other massive issue: Gaben started the trend of people no longer owning the games you buy. What do you think is gonna happen if someone else takes over Valve and makes it public? Now all your games are held behind a subscription or something worse. Wouldn't have happened with physical games you actually owned. Valve made things too convenient. Too much convenience erodes us all. Now the corporations have stolen the very concept of owning a game. If that was Gaben's intent from the start, he is a truly evil human being who deserves prison time.

>>715845138
Counterstrike made a lot of highschool dropouts, than turned them into migatards a decade later.

>>715842971
>Programming was piss easy back then
It's piss easy now because game engines are made nowadays to be artist friendly.
>Meanwhile current iteration of steam amalgamation of different languages, APIs etc etc
And that's great for you because you only need to use one language, with someone else's work! They spent tens of millions to make it easier for the layman to use.
>concept of agile, full stack etc
Yeah... project management sure is harder than finding solutions to unsolved 3d graphics problems.
>Well, maybe he could since he went to Harvard but he'd never be successful
Colleges back then were an IQ test. Nowadays the average IQ of a college graduate is 102, basically the average person. Anyone can do it especially with federally backed loans. That's why your degree means nothing.

>>715841425
>fatass
>worked hard

>>715845138
>Gabe Newell unironically started the ball rolling for the collapse of social bonds between young people
it was messaging like MSN/Myspace/Aim/SMS that started the ball rolling on loneliness, it was inevitable though, someone was gonna make sending messages over a network a thing one way or another.
which you could argue: someone was gonna make telephones more convenient by inventing the internet one way or another.
I dont think you can really blame a single person for any of that.

>>715845470
>Yeah... project management sure is harder
NTA but according to every company I've worked at they still haven't figured this out.
programming is the easiest part of my job, Agile "rituals" and "linking up" and "getting on the same page" take up the vast majority of my time.

>>715841051 (OP)
What are the chances he dies before getting senile/retarded and starts funding some virtue-signaling project that stinks of "billionaire is afraid of dying without being remembered as a hero" type bullshit?

>>715846208
>stinks of "billionaire is afraid of dying without being remembered as a hero" type bullshit?
He invests in brain chips and transhumanism

>>715845470
>It's piss easy now because game engines are made nowadays to be artist friendly
That's true, however it's way harder to create successful games due to increased competition. The lack of barriers of entry makes succeeding harder, not easier.
>>715845470
>And that's great for you because you only need to use one language, with someone else's work! They spent tens of millions to make it easier for the layman to use
And they spent millions to make cpp work.... Point is that the current tech stack now is has more depth and breadth than 40 years ago. Here's a real life example, if you wanted to learn C in college you'd read the same books Gabe did, you'd do the same exercises and more.
>Yeah... project management sure is harder than finding solutions to unsolved 3d graphics problems.
But 3D rendering was a mature technology when Half life came out, he didn't have to solve "unsolved" problems, first voodoo card came out in 1996 and PS1 released in 1994. It was cutting edge but again, that's just hardware. Technology and math behind it was textbook material.

>Colleges back then were an IQ test. Nowadays the average IQ of a college graduate is 102, basically the average person. Anyone can do it especially with federally backed loans. That's why your degree means nothing.
It's way harder to get into Harvard now than during Gabe's time kek, just goes to show how of ignorant you are. Oh sure, you can go to some shithole community college or Hustlers but to get into Harvard you're competing against chinks and jeets who study 24/7

>>715841652
I guess you're all the more retarded for not doing it first

>>715843824
Nta but I didn't even think about that elephant in the room when I typed >>715843721
Microsoft having a hegemony would've been a fucking disaster

>>715846313
>>It's piss easy now because game engines are made nowadays to be artist friendly
>That's true,
False, wrong. Game engines are content manager system, which means they have preconfigured settings and things you are able to do, limiting what you are able to do, in the process, ruining video game creativity since they corral devs into the content that was made for that content manager system. It makes it increasingly hard to make good games. Do you see any new good games despite how "easy" it is to create games? No there are less than before, because before the devs didn't have to deal with the engine's pre configured restrictions. It's even part of the reason why female models are so ugly, because UE5 default female model is made to be ugly and that affects games made with that slop. You can't really escape this problem if you are using a content manager system, you trade convenience for art and expression.

>>715846295
Based

>zoomers think Gabe invented 3D graphics
Grim

>>715846208
>>715846295
>>715846754
Yeah, bro, Valve is widely regarded as an evil company

>>715846916
I've been here all summer and don't get the zoomer hate. Sage vote!

>>715846295
>brain chips
God I can't wait until everyone starts doing this so I can torture chipheads with magnets, radio signals, and microwaves.

>>715847249
Why?

>thread is full of crywhiners that don't do anything to improve a situation
why bother even posting in this engagement bait anyway

>>715841837
>spending your own money on a project is somehow impressive or admirable
wealth inequality mindrot is super interesting to see in the wild

>>715847452
But spending your own money on a project is impressive and admirable, Diago.

>>715848053
no it isn't, it's what should be expected

taking venture capital money and watering down your control over your own product is rat shit and you should kill yourself

>>715848091
LOL, ok poorfag. Stay mad.

>>715842613
Fag.
His only error was not understanding the value of physical in a world where jews exist.

>>715846313
>Point is that the current tech stack now is has more depth and breadth than 40 years ago
Cool but unless you're the one implementing it, you're only reaping the rewards.
>if you wanted to learn C in college you'd read the same books Gabe did, you'd do the same exercises and more.
I can just google solutions to college assignments. it's especially easy to find answers to decades old questions.
>But 3D rendering was a mature technology when Half life came out
Yes a lot of it is just implementing research papers, but it's not going to magically run at 60fps on current hardware.
>It's way harder to get into Harvard now than during Gabe's time
What I'm saying is graduating college meant you were smart back then. I'm not saying anything about Harvard.

>>715848208
i already knew what you were when you sucked off gabe for using money to achieve a goal

>>715848208
He isn't wrong thoughbeit

>>715848287
No, I don't get the Gabe blowing either. Im just a millionaire private investor from biz who hates poor uneducated brown people who've clearly never taken an econ/finance course in their life.
>>715848364
In retrospect yes but you just never know before hand.

>>715848596
holy cringe

>>715848857
Thats some top tier uneducated poorfag cope, lol.

>>715848998
>all these assumptions and mental brain damage
you definitely are rich because you were a pedophile before crypto took

>>715849067
took off*

it's okay to be rich but acting like you got there by being a "4chan investor" is pathetic when in reality you're just a pedophile that had crypto for that same reason

>>715847363
They deserve it

>>715849067
We both know you are poor, mullato at best, and never went yo a good university. No assumptions, just facts. Explains why you are so miserable and unhappy.

>>715849285
i'm white and have blue eyes and blonde hair, i retired at 22, your assumptions are the only thing annoying me enough to reply to you
>replies with seinfeld pedophilia
yeah you definitely have csam on your hard drive and it's the same reason why you're flexing about being crypto rich, kill yourself rat

>>715841837
>and giving PC gamers the respect we deserve
you are worse then any console fanboy god your a faggot and I know your pc is weak as piss

>>715841051 (OP)
I like Gabe but a purge of the 1% is coming, they raped society way too fucking hard

>>715851050
gaben isn’t jewish, he’s fine

>>715842826
>Is the nature in NZ really that good?
It's pretty good, he does a lot of scuba diving in Aus as well. His flotilla basically just goes back and forth between Aus and NZ and occasionally stops off where I live.

t.norfolk island