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I think gabe sucks personally but it is fucked to make someone take off their mask. He's got health problems.
"Nuh uh, there's nothing that makes him individually more likely to get Covid compared to anyone else and it's haaaarmless so nobody should worry! Take off your mask so we can hear you different when you speak into the microphone." 
At least he funds Linux, most cool thing he ever did
Damn that's pretty dark. What would constitute serious risk? He's old. That's a risk right there. He's overweight (no judgement, it is what it is). Also a risk.
Not cool. Happening to way more people than just Gabe Newell I'm sure. If I were him, I'd try to get air filters in that room near my face.
yea I'm not about to defend a billionaire but the no mask thing is so weird. Like I still wear a mask when I go out to the store or whatever and have never (even going back to 2020) had anyone be like "bwuh??? I can't understand you because of your mask"
court etiquette is such bullshit, a while back I was advised to not wear a mask, or tell the judge 'it's for health reasons' at a mimimun, I wont be sheding tears for gabe but it is all really fucked
did a spike glycoprotein write that order or something
what the hell
You must arrive in person to the torment nexus and you must wear the pauldrons of pain the whole time.
Wonder if he'll sue the court? That seems pretty hostile behavior to a witness...
Gabe is a billionaire. He could just not show up and email the judge a picture of his hairy butthole. Not like they're gonna ever do much to him
This is mostly true. He could pitch a minor fit and have this taken care of. If you have enough money you can do anything in the legal system.
Everything is legal if you have enough money
Basically the infinite truth of life
They could do something to Valve though and he will do what he needs to do to protect his baby
It probably wouldn't go well for his case, for sure. Ask Trump or Alex Jones.
He should show up and wear a N95 no matter what the judge or anyone says. If they try to physically remove the mask (unlikely) or tell him he has to leave if he won't (more likely) then that's easy appeal grounds that he (probably) can't lose.
Also this judge should be in prison for this shit.
I'm not interested in defending a billionaire like Gabe. Don't care. But on a purely humanistic level, if Donald Trump was being hauled into court and wanted to wear a mask, he should absolutely be allowed to do so. This is just evil and honestly attempted murder considering Gabe's age and health.
think if i were him i'd show up to court sans mask but in a tank and see how things go from there
A mechsuit with the retro style bubble helmet
I hope he pushes back against it. He's got the resources, other people in this situation will not, and the legal system runs on precedence fetishes.
Sorry Gabe, the lathe must have picked up my jokes about banning any and all actions that could constitute COVID prevention.
I'm gonna be honest, I wasn't even thinking about them wearing n95 masks and was very confused that they wanted everyone wearing like eyes wide shut masks and that mental image was kinda funny.
I mean, I hate anybody having to remove their mask against their will, but it's most important that everyone else wear one, right?
Aerosols don't just magically vanish from the air when you put your mask back on. Unless there is air filtration in place in the courtroom, any virus that was hanging out in the air will stay there, and can infect anybody is not wearing a mask at any point, or whose mask doesn't fit that well. It's better than having everybody be unmasked, but it could be better still.
Yeah sure but N95s are incredibly effective for self protection over short periods
Yes. While masks will lower the viral load that you inhale that would infect you, making the covid (or colds or flu for that matter) not as bad because it gives your antibodies a bit of a head start, be main benefits of masks is that it reduces how far an infected person's fluids from reaching through the air to infect a new person.
If this is accurate it's not great optics, but you won't see me shedding tears for a billionaire, and the 30 % cut is atrocious
It's not like the apple app store where there is no other option, or even like the android play store where enabling non-play store applications requires the user to find a hidden setting and tap through deliberately scary popups, steam has no control over where you install software from on windows or even on the steam deck which runs a full desktop linux
yeah the developers should be thankful they don't take 40 %
They can use the epic games store or just sell .exe and .deb files from their own site I'm gonna get them from fitgirl-repacks.site anyway
Huh looks like Receiver 2 sold pretty well on Steam in 2020 and then they launched this lawsuit. Small indie company, 4 people.
I guess they looked at the 30% cut and decided to take a stab at suing over it. Honestly if other indies knew about this they might lend some support as it stands to reduce the cut taken and that would benefit them all.
I think they're still salty about Overgrowth actually.
Why are they mad about that one? The game did great for a tech demo.
They were mad that valve take monies
The weird violent anthropomorphic rabbit fighting game that never went anywhere?
Maybe he could get one of those Razer respirator style masks they made some limited runs of. Both because RGB for a gaming related lawsuit, but also because they made a point of making the mouth area clear so you can see the person's lips moving when they were talking. That or one of those Dyson headsets that has the air filter thing, but it would cover the lips from view. I am sure a mic of some sort could be added if their claimed issue is about being able to hear him clearly.
Also I don't see how Valve could lose to an antitrust lawsuit in this case. They do have the most "name brand" storefront for PC games. They aren't like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Sony, or Nintendo with regards to being either forced to use services and all the shit that Microsoft, Apple, and Google pull with their OS'es and products really really not making it easy to use options you want to (if the option is even present). And they aren't stopping you from playing games from other storefronts or media (like direct downloads from the studios or from physical media), they even let you add non-Steam games to the launcher and don't tend to stop you from modding. It isn't like GOG, Epic, EA, Battle.net, Microsoft Store, etc are some tiny unknown options that most gamers are not aware of.
lmao the liminal space apocalypse cult gun game devs trying to bio-minecraft gaben i can't even be that mad get that billionaire
although on the other hand reciever 2 had some racist shit in at least one of the in game collectible tapes:
cw: racism, references to slavery
"America had its first conflict with radical Islamic insurgents in the Philippines in 1899, when they politely asked the Moro people to stop enslaving Christians. US soldiers were used to fighting enemies who would surrender when shot, or at least make some attempt at self-preservation. The Moro swordsmen were different: .38 caliber bullets didn't seem to stop them at all, if anything, they just made them even holier." - from reciever 2 wiki
It sucks they did that, the Moro resistance is badass though. Their suicide attackers are partly where some of the .45 stopping power mythology comes from.
From the wiki
Candidates, known as mag-sabil, "who endure the pangs of death," were selected from Muslim youth inspired to martyrdom by the teaching of Imams. Parents were consulted before the young men were permitted by the sultan to undergo training and preparation for Parang-sabil (the path to Paradise). After an oath taken, hand on the Qur'an, the chosen took a ritual bath, all body hair was shaved, and the eyebrows trimmed to resemble "a moon two days old." A strong band was wrapped firmly around the waist, and cords wrapped tightly around the genitals, ankles, knees, upper thighs, wrists, elbows, and shoulders, restricting blood flow and preventing the mag-sabil from losing too much blood from injury before reaching their target. Clad in white robe and turban, the chosen youth would polish and sharpen his weapons before action.[9]
At the moment of attack, the mag-sabil in Tausug would approach a large group of enemies, shout the tahlil, draw kris or barong and then rush into the group swinging his sword, killing and maiming as many victims as possible in the time he had left. The mag-sabil's body would be washed and again wrapped in white for burial. In the unlikely event the mag-sabil survived his attack, it was believed his body would ascend to Paradise after 40 years had passed.[9]
yeah its pretty wild to reduce an entire anticolonial resistance movement to 'the good and noble west stopping the savage foreign hordes from enslaving cute blonde european women and children'
pretty ingenious to kind of pre-tourniquet for a suicide attack tbh, i wonder if modern suicide attackers do anything similar, and also if any kind of drugs were involved or what kinds of mental preparation were undertaken. i can't imagine the cord wrapping being too comfortable in a normal mental state or sustainable with normal blood pressure and heart rate unless its more like compression wear than tourniquet. i've heard of modern soldiers and/or criminals wearing loose tourniquets on their limbs preemptively but not pre tightened ones.
It may be a bit disrespectful, but the fact they wrapped the dick and balls too is funny.
Tourniquet meets shibari.
I don’t recall reading anything about attacks using it in modern times. It’s usually a vest or vehicle.
Your point about wearing loose tourniquets means some Hamas fighters are probably aware of the wisdom of doing that. A bit of a parallel maybe?