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Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft 'was missing the opportunity' offered by the internet: 'I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

He did push gambling to kids. But he also did gaming on Linux.

[-] normal_user@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

We can do a dialectical analysis here, because he revolutionized something, Gabe Newell is like Mao, but he is also unlike Mao, for that he isn't Chinese.

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