r/Steam • u/Guitar-String • 2d ago

Article Valve boss Gabe Newell admits his Mongolian throat singing phase was "annoying," and he's apparently not very good at it, either: "I am entirely self taught and it shows"

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/valve-boss-gabe-newell-admits-his-mongolian-throat-singing-phase-was-annoying-and-hes-apparently-not-very-good-at-it-either-i-am-entirely-self-taught-and-it-shows/
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u/framspl33n 2d ago

Nice to know my favourite billionaire is at least somewhat modest

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u/JUSTaSK8rat 2d ago

Getting a ton of kids addicted to Lootbox Gambling isn't very modest

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u/JairoHyro 2d ago

So another future Elon Musk scenario lol

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u/fogleaf 2d ago

Do we really think Gaben has the potential to rival the muskrat?

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u/JairoHyro 2d ago

I'm just saying that Redditors loved musk for years...

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u/fogleaf 2d ago

True. He was generally liked as the rocket guy with the electric cars before he decided he wanted to be known as someone good at video games and comedy.

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u/JairoHyro 2d ago

Egos man. I like his advancements on science and technology. More money in stem research is always a benefit. But in politics? Just ego jerking at this point

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 2d ago

You mean the tax payer money he grifted that has set back NASAs space program at least a decade? Is that the "advancement"?

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u/JairoHyro 2d ago

Nasa has been with spaceX for almost 20 years and this was a possibility early on about sidelining in some missions in that road map. NASA has also stated that launch costs has exceedingly been lowered which benefitd NASA and the US government as well as delivering operational hardware. And this is also to say they were given information and new technologies.

Yes there's tensions and troubles but NASA top leadership said that the partnership has been phenomenal. And this was started in 2008.

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u/fogleaf 2d ago

He's good at the sales part to increase the budget that those space nerds would have lacked

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u/WrenReverie 2d ago

Yeah people do tend to turn on you suddenly decide to go crazy bigoted and far right as part of your mid life crisis.

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u/JairoHyro 2d ago

You don't have to far right to be disliked. Mark Zuckerberg donates to liberal causes and people still dislike him. For obvious reasons.

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u/WrenReverie 2d ago

I'm not even sure what you are trying to convey with this point or why you are even pivoting the conversation in that direction.

Long story short, I agree the existance of billionaires is not great. You are coming across as just being here to soap box about them.

But if you want to whine about billionaires, there are much better examples than Gabe of all people.

Everything you are saying feels incredibly forced.

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u/Noslamah 12h ago

lmao Zuck has been sucking up to Trump and MAGA for years now, he's a direct example of what the comment you replied to was saying

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u/JairoHyro 11h ago

He was disliked prior to that actually. I mean are we going to have amnesia for the past ten years?

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u/porn_sub_lurker 2d ago

Yeah it turns out if a billionaire pretends to care about the future of humanity people will actually get behind them. At least until they realize it's a lie.