Shit. I thought if there was one other it’d have to be you. Your weak Mediterranean constitution is hanging me out to dry here
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Been years since I did but yes, am licensed and have done a few dives.
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Damn… I thought it was cold in Pennsylvania water…
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Just to clarify since I see people everywhere talking about him living on a boat (not a shot at you directly), he lives on a series of superyachts. Seemingly has a billion dollars worth of them, takes approaching a hundred mil a year just to operate them, that sort of thing.
Just saying he lives on a boat sorta whitewashes his utterly wasteful behavior.
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Sorry for whitewashing. I assumed that it was a foregone conclusion around here that any wealthy asshole living on a boat must live on one needlessly big and wasteful as possible, and I didn’t think to be specific.
Gabe Newell going for a dip off the port side of his dinghy while pushing a commit with his phone’s hotspot…
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Nah it’s cool, it was just like the 50th time today I saw someone write some form of “living on a boat” and got to the point I had to get that off my chest or my head would do mean things to me.
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Super fair. I get it.
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i like newell saying its strange but he just enjoys working while defining work as a series of random hobbies hes half-into. Reminds me of seinfeld saying he enjoys hard work so he’d be just as happy working at mcdonalds. So strange these grinders stumbled into the easiest lives in the world
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oh, don’t trust that part, it’s just a standard PR of his company.
the last perfect PR I remembered who claim love to work as a hobby in a yacht is Forrest Hayes. And in the end we all know he’s just enjoy heroin and hookers at the yacht and died for it.
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i enjoy every time we get one of those puff pieces about a self-proclaimed workaholic tech executives who claim to be working 70 hour weeks casually throwing in that they count working out, taking showers and eating meals as part of their work hours. if only we could all work so hard!
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The noble of work is an irresistible imagination picture for the Americans.
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Gabe Newell should give me one million dollars a year
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Gabe N, emblem of hustle culture in 2025: “I work 7 days a week” and “I like work”
I wish these guys would just say “I’m a multibillionaire, I’m in a position where I can “explore ideas” and people will care about my thoughts”. Talk about how being “the boss” (or even better “the emeritus boss”) feels very different than being anyone under the boss. Just own it. This doesn’t mean you’re lazy or stupid, Gabe N in particular has already built enormous goodwill with his fans. He says he is working on “brain computer interfaces”. It is unlikely Gabe N is doing the actual hard work behind brain computer interfaces while living on a superyacht, scuba diving 2x/day, and “working” for several other companies simultaneously.
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even if he is, it’s irrelevant. a lot of people do things because they like doing them, gabe newell can do anything or nothing, whenever, wherever, with no consequences of any sort. he could work on brain shit today, tomorrow he could throw it all in the ocean and release a video about how everyone should die, three days later he could decide to write poetry, then he could get real big into I don’t know, fucking farming or some shit, it doesn’t matter, literally nothing matters to him at all because 30% of every sale of every video game known to god or man is deposited directly into his pocket. so if he likes programming some brain shit, cool dude, jerk off to the beaming sweat on the brow of your protestant industriousness, what happens when you wake up and no longer feel like programming some brain shit. you tell the hookers to set a course to monaco and you go back to sleep.
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fucked up that the entire world has to play by club pebguin rules because a little group of creepy weirdos in australia
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Havok physics engine