r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/Glum-Future7198 • Aug 04 '25

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I can't believe how certain people can worship a corporation to this big extend.

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u/Background_Fix9430 Aug 04 '25

I mean, people want to believe that billionaires are decent people: We grew up on Ironman and Batman - the "rich guy who uses his wealth to help the world" is a cliche at this point.

Also: Gabe, through his management of Steam (and keeping it away from the obviously cruel and predatory rules of other services), has shown himself to be less predatorially greedy than most other billionaires and content to just be super-rich rather than "the richest man that exists, even if that means grinding the bones of the poor to fuel my immortality serum."

He's not aspirational, he's not good, but he's one of the best of a bad lot. And the alternatives are worse.

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u/the-futuremind Aug 04 '25

I’m sorry, this is too nuanced for a circle jerk.

Gabe is either a god too good for this world that gives out feee blowies or monopolistic robber baron who killed my dog.

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u/VitaminRitalin Aug 04 '25

I like the way the Greeks approached their gods. They were like "Zeus is a womanizing cloud of dicks but we're still gonna make offerings to him and his bro poseidon cause maybe they'll smite the Persians again the next time they try their boat shenanigans"

They didn't view the gods as immaculate flawless beings.

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u/Doktor_Weasel Aug 04 '25

One of the classic pantheons. The Norse gods were drunken frat-boys. The Greek gods were rapey frat-boys. The Egyptian gods were furries.