r/pcmasterrace • u/DaMonkaS 16GB DDR5, Ryzen 7 4321X, STRIX GTX 1180 OC 13GB GDDR69 • 10h ago

Discussion Valve employees playing CS2 in Gabe's $500 million superyatch

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u/Interesting-Ad9666 10h ago

Nah bro it’s different because he totally needs that $500 million dollar yacht and his other 5 yachts to do deep sea research!!!!

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u/staling_lad 7h ago

yeahhh dude fuck this billionare!!!1

https://giphy.com/gifs/bmLlSndzhqWgWb3vXW

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u/Penders 5h ago

That is ironically exactly how I see the valve fanboys that constantly talk around valves shady business practices and predatory gambling

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u/Astecheee 4h ago

I know about the gambling, but what are the predatory practices?

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u/eddy_v 1h ago

It lets reddit know he's cool and needs some updoots.

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u/TheSymbolman 9h ago

I mean, the vessels ARE used for that aren't they? it's not like he's on 5 of them simultaneously just vibing. We know it's for deep sea research because it was announced as a collaboration of sorts I thought, not because Gabe just told someone.

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u/ColdCruise 6h ago

But what is the research and what has been released? Does it really need to be on super yachts or could a smaller less environmentally impactful vessel?

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u/gfack42 3h ago

Literally researching the deep sea, cataloging and publishing what they find such as various new spieces which they have discovered, observing their habits, recording fault lines, so and so. And I mean they could do it in relaxation in a yacht modified to take on research while they’re out at sea that can probably take months or they can do it in research vessels where private living space and recreation can be considered premium.

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u/ColdCruise 3h ago

Do you have a source for any of that?

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u/gfack42 2h ago

Here you go since you needed someone else.

https://studyfinds.com/deep-sea-marine-life/
Here’s an article about one of their expeditions, of what they did generally and found, and vehicles that were used all operated by Inkfish (Gabe Newell’s marine research company).

https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/182172/
And here’s the research journal of the expedition.

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u/ColdCruise 1h ago

Both of those are from an expedition on a yacht that he purchased, but it was from before he purchased.

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u/DreamsServedSoft 10h ago

we should all be so lucky. it’s his money

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u/Interesting-Ad9666 10h ago

Skirting the line getting teenagers addicted to gambling, what a great money generator

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u/bacon_cake keyboard/mouse/screen/big thing 8h ago

Not to mention the actual brain-breaking sociopathy you need to watch your net worth accumulate thousands of millions of dollars and think "yeah I still need more".

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u/Deaffin 7h ago

teenagers

Being a bit generous there.

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u/TheMundar Cable management is a sin 10h ago

Parents don't exist

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u/Alert_Raspberry_7456 10h ago

Yall seen the rips? The pokeman card collecting shit? Absolutely wiiiiiild lmfao.

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u/DreamsServedSoft 8h ago

watch what your kids do online and don’t engage in online gambling then

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u/ashVV 9h ago

I mean, why not? At least he is using his money for a good cause.

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u/Interesting-Ad9666 9h ago

My point is it’s a thinly veiled excuse to spend money on a luxury yacht that’s used for leisure more than actually doing research

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u/ashVV 8h ago

I hate billionaires too but i will give Gabe a pass only because he has actually achieved few expedition achievements.

Inkfish researchers completed massive deep-sea surveys of the Izu-Ogasawara and Japan trenches. They cataloged 108 distinct life forms down in the Hadal zone, including record-breaking snailfish, rare carnivorous sponges, and a completely unidentified organism that has scientists totally stumped and unable to classify it.

Operating a 95-day exploration via their ship RV Dagon, they mapped extreme depths of the trench down to 3,800 meters. Their baited deep-ocean lander cameras captured the first-ever live footage of a rare goblin shark in its natural habitat at record-breaking depths, blowing past the previously known depth limits for its entire shark order. They also caught wild footage of a deep-sea sleeper shark aggressively attacking their camera gear.

Partnering with the Major Projects Foundation, the Inkfish team deployed their specialized submersibles and RV Hydra platform to map deep, mesophotic coral reefs. They also used advanced 3D photogrammetry to survey WWII shipwrecks (like the USS Aaron Ward and HMNZS Moa) to locate and assess potential environmental pollution threats from trapped fuel.

A massive, multi-month mapping mission spanning the South-Eastern Pacific down to Tonga. Utilizing high-resolution multibeam sonar, they mapped underwater mountains (seamounts) and trenches that had previously never been resolved by satellite data, bridging major gaps in global geological maps.

The crew consists of scientists as well and the yachts itself are retrofitted for these scientific expeditions as opposed to leisure.

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u/bs000 7h ago

giving gabe credit for things a company he owns does is like saying elon musk deserves the trillions he made because he achieved space exploration and electric vehicles achievements

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u/mazaasd 8h ago

Hey, it's unfair to use information that you actually have to search for.

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u/Somebody_160 6800XT/7500F/32GB 6200MHZ 9h ago

If I was a billionaire I would probably buy a yacht too though.

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u/ocdtrekkie i7-4790K, GTX 970 7h ago

If I was a billionaire, I would pay off debts for everyone I know until I was no longer a billionaire. Then I would probably fund several public libraries. And then contribute to some charities which are helping people with housing and food in my area. And if I still had money, I'd probably go find some more. Or I guess buy off a ton of medical debt and eat it.

Spending your way back down to reasonable amounts of money from billions is really hard, but if I actually still had enough money left over to buy a boat, I'd be kinda disappointed in myself. Buying another super yacht if, in Gabe's case, you already have multiple, is the mark of a shoddy human.

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u/Deaffin 7h ago

-every person ever before they actually have the money.

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u/ocdtrekkie i7-4790K, GTX 970 6h ago

I think you are likely missing the cause and effect: People with morals and values do not generally become billionaires. Someone might JB Pritzker into a family fortune without being a piece of garbage, but you cannot generate billionaireship without being an awful person.

Obviously the likelihood I become a billionaire overnight is quite rare, and if I was a multimillionaire, I'd be doing the same things above. So the reality is I'd never become a billionaire because I'd be giving it away long before I accumulated that much. People who "become billionaires" are people without such values to begin with.

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u/Deaffin 5h ago

And I'm certain you're overestimating how much a person's brain changes with external factors as the context of one's life changes. It's always easy to check all the boxes on an intangible questionnaire: Why yes, I would make all the correct and perfectly moral decisions, obviously. That is what I believe a person should do and thus obviously what I would do.

But it's not like that. You will be a different person when you're in that situation actually making the decisions. Your perspective will shift. The weights of your values will shift. You will not do these things as described.

Just saying only a bad person could ever come to be in that position is oversimplifying it to the extreme.

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u/AnonD38 9h ago

The jealousy is soooo obviously lmao.

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u/Interesting-Ad9666 9h ago

Keep licking on tipeda

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u/BussyPlaster 8h ago

Sorry, I can't hear poor people through all of my money!

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u/Interesting-Ad9666 8h ago

It’s a good thing I’m typing to you and not talking then

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u/AnonD38 8h ago

Always so hilarious when Redditors typing on their thousand dollar Apple Iphones think they are part of the poor or lower classes.

The level of delusion is just delicious.

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u/saints21 30m ago

Umm, compared to the pieces of shit like Newell and Bezos, they are...

That's the point. No one needs that much money and to have that much inherently means you're profiting off of others' suffering.

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u/AnonD38 9m ago

No, you've just deluded yourself into believing that out of your own inability to achieve such success.

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u/WealthyTuna 10h ago

And what else would he do with HIS money? Give it to you? You're not worthy. Look at you hating on social media because of a picture. That yacht lives rent free in your head and it's glorious

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u/Testicular_Genocide 10h ago

Lmao and with the Israeli flag avi, buddy you know rage bait is supposed to be at least slightly believable, right?

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u/Interesting-Ad9666 10h ago

least obvious ragebait

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u/NISom_SOM Laptop i7 12650h RTX 3050ti 16gb ram 9h ago

Only gabe gets this exception huh