Gabe gave a talk at my college like 12 or 13 years ago. He explicitly called out the unbelievable number of downloads for Doom as a sign that games were going to be huge.

Fun non-sequitur: the other speaker at that talk went on to become the finance minister of Greece.

Yanis Varoufakis?

Yes he was a visiting professor for like a semester or two.

He was also working for Valve for a while.

Yes that’s why he and Gabe were speakers at the talk. In game economies were the topic.

And CCP (EVE Online)

Yanis basically created steam market and the dota/cs economy

No he didn’t.

TF2 economy existed long before him and he sure as hell wasn’t “basically created dota/cs economy”.

nitpick but Yanis Varoufakis was born in 1961 and TF2 was released in 2007 so he definitely existed first.

I do agree that he didn't create the dota/cs economy

He started to work at Valve in March 2012 and steam market was released 9 months later.

He created the dota 2 economy and the cs team copied the Dota 2 economy.

His recent stuff is pretty relevant to tech. Eg https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/category/books/technofeudalis...

Windows is a niche too.

Your bio says you were formerly a game developer?

Presumably why they are "formerly".

I think you may live in a bubble. By some estimates, the game industry is worth as much as music and film put together

One (maybe the only) advantage that the hypothetical new Windows-based Xbox console is that it'll be able to play all online games that require anti-cheat like COD, Battlefield, and Fortnite. All games that are mega-popular but are unfortunately unwilling to support anti-cheat on Linux.

I also used your tutorial to get started with web development and helped me get my first job about 11 years ago. Thanks a lot!

Where did you source them? I've thought about buying HDDs from a vendor like serverpartdeals.com but was unsure how reliable the drives would be.

By your logic, we would never have normalized running elevators without an operator.

Also Dark Side of the Ring.

I think the faux pas is regurgitating the first hit you find on StackOverflow or Wikipedia without considering if actually adds something to a discussion.

Lucky that you happened to be in need in countries with a low cost of living. I needed an ambulance, stitches, and an MRI in Germany and it cost me $2000 USD. I wish I had travel insurance then.

Note that this is backed by Gabe Newell of Valve.

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