3mo ago

Elmo fanboys

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I've never seen a billionaire get defended like Gaben.
He literally owns a billion dollars worth of yatchs yet I've seen people compare him to Jesus, lmao.
- Because his billions were earned from offering an actually decent service beholden to the customers rather than the shareholders, something not many other billionaires seem capable of. Yeah, nobody needs a billion dollars but literally everyone else in the gaming industry would rather shoot themselves in the foot to make a penny now rather than... Just simply not do that and make a dollar later.
  
  Yeah, if valve started taking step towards enshittification people would turn on Gabe too.
  
  Homeboy ran a casino targeting gamers for at least a billion.
  
  literally everyone else in the gaming industry would rather shoot themselves in the foot to make a penny now rather than... Just simply not do that and make a dollar later.
  Ah, the shortsighted joy of publicly traded companies.
  
  You cannot possibly earn a billion dollars. That money is the excess labor value of Valve workers. In the context of how our society is currently structured Gaben certainly isn't the worst of them, but he's still a member of the parasite class.
- You are apparently unaware of the literal tens of thousands of youtube/twitter/media people who basically did/do nothing other than promote Elon and everything he does.
  Elon Musk Can Multitask Better Than You.
  Elon's new Hyperloop will revolutionize transit in America!
  Tesla's stock price will be $42,690 per share in 5 years, here's why.
  ...
  Its about a million times more obnoxious than people pointing out that Gabe actually knows what he's talking about.
  ...
  You can go outside and strike up a conversation with any random person, and they will almost certainly know who Elon is, and most people will still think he is some kind of genius real life Tony Stark.
  You can go outside and strike up a random convo with any random person about Gabe, and chances are 98% of people will have no idea who you are talking about, unless you are at some kind of nerd/geek type outing like a video game convention, and even then, people under 20 - 25 are not likely to know who he is.
  EDIT: Yeah, I am actually fairly confident that for you to make a statement like that, you probably, unironically, need to touch grass.
  I fail to see any way you could have that opinion other than that basically all you do is argue on video game forums / discords / twitch / whatever, and that you just have almost 0 contact with real life human beings, or online spaces that do not revolve around video games.
  
  You perhaps need to talk to people if you think people now have a high opinion of Elon Musk. His reputation has crashed since he bought Twitter
  Now perhaps you'll still hear space fans singing his praise, but the general position holds no respect for him
- He's one of the good ones, a real credit to his kind.
  
  Yepp, CS:GO loot boxes are good. They’ve never destroyed lives or anything. They aren’t gambling.
  Fuckin’ simps, man.

Remember when Michael Vick used the pseudonym Ron Mexico when getting tested for herpes and it became a meme?
- He gave a girl herpes. That's why he got tested and sued.
  Also, you got me thinking of "Carlos Danger".
  
  I remember a friend of mine apparently got it when I was younger, when attempting to look into testing for it, I found most doctors don't even test men for it. With a high amount of men showing no symptoms, women get the unfair hit of such. Apparently a lot of people view it as "acne" down there and no big deal. I think that's shit, but it was eye opening seeing how much our medical field didn't care about it.
  That said, to those who may not know, it is transferred via physical contact, so condoms will not guarantee it does not get contracted. As the condom protects the member, it does not protect your inner thighs and other areas.
  I got lucky and never got it, but be safe out there.
  
  Carlos Danger was probably a significant contributor to the snuffing out of American democracy.

Gabe Newell is the only billionaire I'd bend the knee to. He earned that money by not constantly fucking over his player base and actually generating good content.
Plus he responds to literally anyone, I've got email chains with him just talking about hobbies and general life experiences. Name any other billionaire that you don't have to jump through several agencies and hoops to even make an introduction.
- He runs a casino... I think he's "better" than others, but his money still rests on exploitation.
  
  I have 0 sympathy for people caught in the casino aspects. The games are free, the game casino is for cosmetics, and you can play thousands of hours without paying a dime.

And saying "my pleasure" after the look in your direction.

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