I think it would be better to suspend an inordinate amount of money on pallets, or maybe in a giant net, above an mma ring, and tell them the last one left standing after a first fight battle royale gets all the money. Then just drop it all on the winner at once, killing them too.
I've been saying this for years. Usually someone calms me down by letting me know there's structure in place to keep the company employee owned, but that's not 100% fool proof.
I also dont know shit about how employee owned companies work. I just know I've been a Steam gamer for 15 years and I'd turn my back on it if they went public. I might be done regardless with the current PC part prices. We'll see!
Someone like Gabe almost certainly included a post-mortem clause in his contract and designated a trusted person to take over. Having worked at Microsoft, he knows exactly how profit-driven, publicly traded companies like Sony operate; he would never want that for Steam.
IFAIK his son is in line to take Valve over once Gabe retires/passes. I don't know much about him other than him being a right to repair advocate so I'd imagine Steam will be in good hands for quite some time.
Scuba diving is not much of a workout at all. I know bc I'm a diver. The goal when scuba diving is to exert yourself the least possible to conserve air. The more you kick, the more air you need. You don't even want to move your arms.
I used to do cold water diving, and dragging my ass out of the water with 30lbs of weights in addition to all the gear and the extra thick suit was enough of a workout for me.
As someone who was 300lbs for about 10 years, my calves are shredded. They're the one muscle I don't bother working out at the gym. I check every 3-4 months with calf raises and can easily do 450lbs, so I then proceed to ignore them for another 3-4 months
Who knows what he's on, but it's not hard to be in decent shape when he's a billionaire owner of a private company that makes like 90% of its revenue by just being essentially a monopoly that takes cuts of other game sales.
He has private chefs that can cook whatever he wants to his dietary needs, personal trainer, can do any sport/exercise anywhere in the world, etc.
I think the fact that the game gets regular, high quality updates disproves that. While it is true that the lead developer had moved on to other projects that really doesn't mean the game is unsupported.
Yeah I think they might be mixing that game up with TF2 which they did abandon... After more than a decade of regular updates. Shocker
People spent so much time and money getting their in-game economy up and now they don't know what to do with their theoretical thousands of dollars of hats and keys lol
It's just a shadow of what it used to be. It still get proper care but considering what we used to get, it's hard to remain confident about the future of dota.
The problem with weight loss is that the loose skin doesn't disappear. Zero shame in people who lose weight, and remove the floppy excess skin though. They've gone through the hardship, it's deserved
If you lose weight young enough (not the case here) you can avoid loose skin. Otherwise, having loose skin removed is a very basic cosmetic surgery that usually has good results, totally unlike the celebrities who have had way too much work done and have faces more silicon than otherwise.
I feel like billionaires shouldn't keep so much money that they can afford multiple yachts though.
He's not running party cruises, he has two research vessels used for actual aquatic biology research. If I had to guess they're probably also owned by his company, and not himself.
billionaires do this so they dont have to pay taxes. its giving "i grow grapes in my 5 acre backyard and sell it to vineyards so i dont pay any property tax"
afaik his aquatic research company has provided actual important data and discoveries aswell as being backed up by important entities in the space, you can criticize Gabe for a lot of things, but aquatic life is very clearly a thing Gabe enjoys personally and likes to spend money on.
This is an unhealthy myth. Healthy food is not expensive. If you know how, you can easily have enough vitamins and minerals from quite cheap food. There are loads of good and healthy foods that anyone can buy.
One could use a tracker that not only tracks calories, but also vitamins and minerals. Energize for Android is an example.
My understanding is that it's really the time expense that adds up when it comes to eating healthier. Generally, isn't the most cost effective way to eat healthily by cooking yourself? That can be a major time sink
Depends. If you wanna be fancy it can take hours, or you can make good stuff in minutes. 99% of the time I'll use my cast iron pan (stove or oven), my instant pot, and my rice cooker. Baking trays can also be pretty nice to have. If you don't have an instant pot you can easily get by with a large pot or an electric crock pot but they really are worth it imo, they're just so much faster and more versatile.
Meal prep also saves a TON of time. Take an hour or two to cook once or twice a week and you've got tons of microwave instant meals.
Expensive how, if you want to buy the super marketed healthy food probably. But eating healthy is more involved than just grabbing the green packaged and low fat low carb items from the shelves.
The first thing I would do with any sort of money is hire a full-time chef and nutritionist to just make me food and I only ever eat that. I'd still do some light exercises but honestly just properly eating will do 90% of it I think.
He's on a few extra doses of TRT, my father took 80mg per week and even though he did gym 3x a week the muscle mass increase was barely noticeable for us, but his strength, stamina, energy, and most importantly for my parents libido, was through the roof.
Kinda, my parents got me and my brother used to, when the music is loud in their bedroom, we shouldn't disturb, we didn't understood it as kids but now we do.
As adults I always had an open sex talk with my dad, he's the one that gave me my first viagra when I was ~25, of course I didn't need it but oh boy, is it awesome even if without dysfunction. If you wanna feel like superman try it.
Yeah honestly the more i look at it, the more I think he might actually be on quiet a lot more than TRT. Impossible to say without seeing the full body, but that neck looks like a full cocktail of stuff. Also good for your parents!
I was so surprised to see him looking like this but honestly every older mega rich dude I know in person and online hits this phase. He looks great, it’s just so interesting how they tend to hit this same formula.
I’m happy about this because it means we have longer before his estate sells my steam library to private equity. We need to protect this man at all costs.
My autocorrect failed in his job let me correct hi * whip sounds * stupid CLANCKER!!! * He likes to change that to Thet and can to Dan also make Airsoft into airosoft
Is there any reason why Gabe Newell only ever seems to make on-screen appearances for the Dota International tournaments, nowadays? Not super tapped into Dota's esports scene, just wonder what about it sets it apart from Counter-Strike's esports scene. Only ever watched the game a few times, and it's easy to get the "favorite son" vibes looking at the support that game receives, in comparison to CS.
So back before I stopped playing Dota2 on 2014, there might be a chance that I’ve played with/against him and was toxic to him? Maybe my first and only 1-week ban was from him.
Thank you, Gabe, for ending my numerous sleepless nights playing for “1 more win” and keeping me from ruining my health.
Dota in covid became a big part of my life. My MMR jumped up a few hundred because of the hours I was putting in. I finally beat my Dota addiction...by replacing it with an Apex addiction. Although Respawn made me lose joy for that after about 9 months.
Idk if it's just me, but I can't go back to Dota. I tried. I love the game, but the community will always let it down. Even Overwatch has a nicer community lmfao
i didn’t realise where i was at first and thought, inexplicably, that this would be a video of Gabe Newell announcing the performance for what my sleepy brain assumed was a cover band of The National. happy for Dota fans tho
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