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Why does the internet worship valve/steam/gabe?
 Bismarck.Nickeny
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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2026-05-12 16:45:58
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This is a very weird thread that, honestly, OP should be embarrassed to have created. Very telling, in 2026 we have people asking this question when information is at their fingertips.

Now I'm just going to say it

I think it's a personal vendetta issue with the fact that Gabe's a billionaire, and you're a liberal or something.


Pantafernando said: »
Why is Shishishishishishishsito picking on Gabe's yacht?

Mine is way better.


See what you started - BAD DOGGO.
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By Pantafernando 2026-05-12 17:02:25
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Umad, bro?
Dont worry, I will let you pick one of these girls.
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By Pantafernando 2026-05-12 17:02:37
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The best part: they are married!
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By Shiva.Thorny 2026-05-12 17:14:59
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Bismarck.Nickeny said: »
I think it's a personal vendetta issue with the fact that Gabe's a billionaire, and you're a liberal or something.

I'm going with this theory.
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By Shichishito 2026-05-12 17:27:24
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Tarage said: »
More than everyone else having an irrational love of Gabe, you seem to have an irrational hatred of him. That's fine, no one is telling you how you should feel, but at the same time, you VASTLY overestimate how much we give a ***about how you feel.
Why don't you go start a irrational love-hate relationship with the screw of gabe's brand new yacht?
How do you feel about that?

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Dont worry, I will let you pick one of these girls.
Nobody wants them cause their fannies look like this
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By Garuda.Chanti 2026-05-12 17:49:26
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Shiva.Thorny said: »
Bismarck.Nickeny said: »
I think it's a personal vendetta issue with the fact that Gabe's a billionaire, and you're a liberal or something.
I'm going with this theory.
Liberals don't hate all billionaires just the *** ones. They do want to tax all billionaires even the nicer ones.
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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2026-05-12 17:55:35
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Yeah - I didn't want to say hate or assume his political stance, but I've seen it before.

Don't want to delve into politics because people think that's an IQ test or something, but I do see the pattern of a certain group just assuming that billionaires are bad, shouldn't have that much wealth, and to amass that much money, you must've done so at the expense of others.
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By Althor 2026-05-12 18:21:19
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Politics factors in, but its more of a consumer problem. How many people are really willing to sacrifice something they enjoy (at least in part) to take a stand against something they don't?

Until large groups of people are willing to act together against something, you withholding your 12.95 means little and your complaints even less.

And trying to convince someone still getting value out of the thing you don't like to sacrifice their current enjoyment for an uncertain improvement sometime in the future is futile.

Something I have to learn anew every day.
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By Shichishito 2026-05-12 21:06:01
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Bismarck.Nickeny said: »
I think it's a personal vendetta issue with the fact that Gabe's a billionaire
Why would I pick him though? Aren't there plenty of billionaires who are worse people and more wealthy than him?
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By Tarage 2026-05-12 22:55:28
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Shichishito said: »
Tarage said: »
More than everyone else having an irrational love of Gabe, you seem to have an irrational hatred of him. That's fine, no one is telling you how you should feel, but at the same time, you VASTLY overestimate how much we give a ***about how you feel.
Why don't you go start a irrational love-hate relationship with the screw of gabe's brand new yacht?
How do you feel about that?
Considering I didn't even know he had a yacht until you said he did, my level of give a ***about this is next to nil. Steam is a good platform for the most part, and I disregard pretty much everything else.
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By Shichishito 2026-05-13 00:30:01
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Tarage said: »
Considering I didn't even know he had a yacht until you said he did, my level of give a ***about this is next to nil.
The thread was on page one when you made your first comment. Page one has a yacht themed picture, 13 hits on the word yacht, 5 people talking about yachts in posts like this:
Carbuncle.Nynja said: »
Clearly you've forgotten how this all started. PCGamer put out an article going "LOOK GABE BOUGHT A YACHT PEASANT, HOW DO YOU FEEL THAT GABE HAS A YACHT, LOOK AT HIS YACHT, HES RICH AND YOURE POOR PEASANT. YOU NEED TO HATE GABE FOR THIS."
If you didn't read anything how did you arrive at your story about irrational feelings?
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By Tarage 2026-05-13 00:40:39
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Shichishito said: »
Tarage said: »
Considering I didn't even know he had a yacht until you said he did, my level of give a ***about this is next to nil.
The thread was on page one when you made your first comment. Page one has a yacht themed picture, 13 hits on the word yacht, 5 people talking about yachts in posts like this:
Carbuncle.Nynja said: »
Clearly you've forgotten how this all started. PCGamer put out an article going "LOOK GABE BOUGHT A YACHT PEASANT, HOW DO YOU FEEL THAT GABE HAS A YACHT, LOOK AT HIS YACHT, HES RICH AND YOURE POOR PEASANT. YOU NEED TO HATE GABE FOR THIS."
If you didn't read anything how did you arrive at your story about irrational feelings?
I skimmed and saw that you were being an idiot so I decided to call you out on being an idiot.
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By RadialArcana 2026-05-13 03:06:49
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What Gabe used to be and what he is today are totally different things. People still like what he used to be.

The problem with being a billionaire is it isolates you from the rest of society, the constant sycophancy also changes how you view yourself. You start to believe the hype, that you're better than everyone else and normal people are animals or other similar words.

Effectively it turns you into a misanthrope.

The reason Gabe has a mega yacht in the first place, is during covid he thought society was going to collapse and the masses were going to turn into a rampaging horde of zombies (a lot of billionaires did the same, and fled). So he sold all his property and now lives on a mega yacht off the coast of New Zealand.

Personally, the reason I think these people should be taxed far more is to try stop them turning into a bunch of super villains as they currently do. If you were to hear the kinds of things these weirdos discuss as Davos, you would want all their money taken away from them. Money is a super power in 2026, and these kinds of nerds with weird ideas should not have as much power as they do.

Currently it's very much the case where billionaires > governments > you. When it should be governments > millionaires > you.