this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
70 points (100.0% liked)

games

20962 readers
155 users here now

Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.

Rules

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
all 38 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Gaben is bourgeoisie, what did you expect?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Well I expected them to be more creative. This is just “games about money which is epic”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

He owes me another left4dead

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

that well-known economic structure called capitalism

Gaben is one of the deities in the reddit-logo pantheon so of course he has to present shit in that insufferably smug condescending way smuglord

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's also some kind of libertarian, isn't he? Smugness is a prerequisite for adopting that ideology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Valve gave employees $10,000 and told them they ‘should’ donate it to racial justice organizations lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Extremely smuglord energy. God, I hate this.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

I haven't read "Gaben" in a decade.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

mega hyper cringe, causing runaway cringeflation, crashing the cringe markets and dropping society into a cringe depression

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Like when Tsar Nicholas II posted cringe and lost subscriber soviet-chad

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

He's a libertarian billionaire lmao of course he has shit takes. This is still better than during the George Floyd protests when lower-level employees wanted to make a pro-BLM statement and he shut it down in favor of "neutrality".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Literally :steamfront:, why is this the first time I'm hearing about this?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah idk you'd think the story would take off, but gamer-gulag gonna gamer-gulag, I guess. I only heard about it because I'm subbed to an indie gaming news youtube channel because the people involved already made boardgame content I like. They're decent, if a bit lib.

The segment in question

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He instead gave everyone $10k and suggested they give it to social justice orgs but it wasn’t mandatory

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean yeah but that's just giving money to bigots/libertarians who will at best do nothing and at worst result in them donating money to far-right causes. If he cared they'd have Valve give the money out directly.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

capitalism is when currency, and the more currency there is the more capitalismer it is

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh boy, I hope The Tenants is included in this!

Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I have this tagged with Villain Protagonist lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

they made a landlord video game 😒

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

redemption if the cover art is just a bunch ofporky-scared-flipped porky-point but we all know that's not gonna happen

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

lmao, is that a new emoji? What's the code for it?

edit: nvm, it's porky-point porky-point

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Everybody disliked this

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

also sorry to be that guy but we know that gabe newell, the ceo of the company, does not directly dictate the theming and marketing copy of sale events, right?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I imagine he got a memo about it and approved it in the middle of his Dota 2 sessions at work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the webpage crashes, i can't even see it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that's weird, it's a pretty normal itch.io page. maybe conflict with a browser extension?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

huh, seems to be all the game pages. Maybe it's a firefox thing? Not sure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

i'm using firefox. maybe it's conflicting with a browser extension?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Far be it from me to defend a billionaire, but primitive collection as a style of game seems innocuous enough to me. This would be games like lemonade stand simulator, right? Your harvest moon and Dave the Diver to some extent.