I take 2 months off a year for personal time in the spring.

It's not a real vacation if your boss is there

>do nothing
>get a trip to hawaii
Man I wish my job was like this

>>737049334
No wonder they can't make good games anymore
Or any games at all for that matter

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>>737049334
In Hawaii?
Who do you think gaben is banging (or getting banged by?)

>>737049334
>High quality is paid with quality

Collared mutts will shit the bed!

>>737049334
Pretty decent benefit but company offsite events are usually ehh anyway unless they're being put up in actual 5* or luxury resorts

>>737049334
AARRRRRGHHHHHH!!!! I HATE IT WHEN A COMPANY TREATS THEIR EMPLOYEES WELL!!!! FUCKK!!!!!!!!

>>737049334
Good for them
One less reason to use steam

My job has something similar where we get a weeklong retreat in the Summer.

>>737049665
The average salary at valve is nearly 7 figures so I'm sure they're in the best spot possible.

Someone tell me why I should be angry about this

>>737049764
Pedo

>>737049875
we gotta wait 2 additional weeks for the next drop of CS skins, this is an ourtage

>>737049831
4 seasons there is pretty great then.
Also I should be working for Valve instead of Jane Street then, I'm barely at half a mil when converted into USD

>do almost no work
>get insane pay and benefits
and people are supposed to be upset about tech layoffs?

>>737050007
Valve is one of the few companies not being affected by layoffs since they're privately-owned, and thus aren't rewarded by braindead investors pumping the stock whenever they layoff half their workforce.

>>737049525
why are they all fembois? or did your gay ass filter it to only show that

>>737049491
Deadlock?

>>737049334
>his company doesn't offer him 2 weeks vacation on Little Saint James
lelz, are you even trying

>>737050075
Epic is also privately owned and they're sacking like a fifth of their massive workforce

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>>737049525
>recognized the bottom left one
I'm already lost in the sauce, breh

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>>737050341
>Epic is also privately owned
I think that depends on your definition of "private."

sounds like a great job, do nothing, rake in money from other developers, leave issues unattended for years

>>737049525
Hawaii is a beautiful place but their women sure aren't

>>737050341
Valve owners are the employees which is why they enjoy the benefits of the company's profits. Epic is owned by typical shareholder morons.

>>737050524
>women

>>737049334
>stupid dumb retard freak literally can't stop fucking working

why even go to hawaii if you're going to stay in your hotel room.

>>737050646
Maybe he only does it for a few hours
You can't just stay in the sun all day

>>737050646
>>737049525
it there anything to visit in Hawaii besides these?

>>737049587
do americans really?

>>737050646
I'm a pasty nerd and enjoy night time at tropical places but during the day I don't mind sitting somewhere comfy and shaded and doing what makes me happy on my laptop

>>737049525
Why are they are so old

>>737050949
It makes sense to wait until after college to see if you've fucked your life up enough to get to this point

>>737050806
yeah they have a bunch of movie shoot locations all in close vicinity to eachother. You can see Jurassic Park and Godzilla and Pearl Harbour in one tour.

My manager forces me to take days off. She says I need to actually have fun and stop working all the time. Its the same shit on Fridays. She always tells me to go home early and socialise. Its very weird.

>>737049334
i don't have to real job so i take a week off to sit at home

>>737049334
>"vacation"
>still working
lol
lmao even

>>737049334
Yes?
And?

People should be given time off from work to get to enjoy their lives and spend their time as they wish. It's called R&R for a reason.

>>737051374
Weak times create weak men
Are you enjoying the fall of western civilization?

>>737050341
and they privately sold parts of the company to other companies.
They're only 'private' by definition since in their board of directors there's other people taking decisions for Timmy.

>>737051463
Do you enjoy working 24/7?

>>737049334

I have been effectively retired since 25.
Wowee 2 weeks off!

>>737049525
Fucking gross. I sure hope Gabe gets something better that that with his billions.

>>737051463
>"Yes, I enjoy working 12-16 hour shifts for DEAR CORPORATION. But look at these sellouts at Valve! They're being given time off?! DISHONORABRU!"

But having time off is a good thing.

>"IF I MUST SUFFER, EVERYONE MUST SUFFER."

Truly, the wailing of the weak-willed and the slurp of fellating of the corporate cock

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>>737049334

>>737050646
>>737051369
There's a reason they and the other tech elites are raking in 500k to low-mid 7 figs yearly.
You need some genius, enough autism and persistent passion to have that much tech shit as your hobby.

>>737051971
Yeah yeah yeah bitch nigga. If I'm on vacation I'm on vacation simple as. There are 351 days in the year for me to slave...those 2 weeks are literally for me to have for myself. It is literally by literal definition not a vacation if I'm still working.

>everyone from the office in the same place
>meaning all sexual encounters will become knowledge among your coworkers

Sounds dreadful.

>>737052267
There's no women (female) at valve

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It's kind of neat that they've been doing this every single year since they started.

>>737052267
Its fine the people psycho enough to cheat don't care anyway.
If you ever get to hear stories from big tech SKOs in vegas its just endless drinking, drugs and cheating.

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>>737051884
>mfw steam is so good and the competition is so fuckin bad hat people do not mind giving Gaben that big a cut

>>737052182
>Working 7 days a week
Do Americans really?

>>737052503
>that big a cut
30% is the industry standard, retard.

>>737051971
Don't bother trying with the blue collar slaves and low tier white collars. They won't be able to comprehend actually enjoying side projects as a hobby.

>>737052548
No but I imagine Pcbros are slaving away 24/7/365 which is why they're getting taken on vacations to fucking Hawaii. I do like how you can't help but suck American cock though. Literally obsessed.

>>737049334
>112.1 thousand views

Wait... what? Who the hell is Fletcher Dunn, and why does that specific post have that many views? I'm so fucking confused by humanity.

>born and raised in a coastal town
Beach and large quantities of sunlight is overrated.

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>>737049875
You should be angry about this because you are not working at Valve, passionately making games with other passionate and highly skilled developers that are among the best in the industry, and getting paid a 6-7-figure salary for it.
Instead of all of that, you are on 4chan, clicking threads you have little interest in and posting bait to get replies.
That's why you should be angry.
You won't, though.

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>>737052795
6-7.

>>737049587
>>737050853
>>737051463
>>737052548
>>737052665
What’s this thirdie squawking about?

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>>737050401
Next you'll be to go by penis recognition.

>>737052795
>Valve, passionately making games

>>737052665
Well at least you're honest about being so low tier that you can't imagine getting resort offsites ontop of ~30 day PTOs and other discretionary leaves because 6 hours of output is more than you can do in a month.

>>737050002
>Also I should be working for Valve
A common sentiment among game devs, I assume

>>737049334
Valve is one of the few remaining American-based companies where you can get a job there and be set for life: very high salary, good benefits, little to no chance of layoffs, stimulating work, stable company financials, etc.

>>737053236
This is because they are not public and don't have to have infinite growth.

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>Americans get like 2 weeks of vacations a year
>Frequently mad at Sweden where workers typically get a month of vacation a year
>Me the neet, thinking the idea of spending more months a year working than having free time is just retarded slavery and I would never want to do that

>>737052621
Valve introduced the 30% cut in 2003 when they made Steam, long before Apple and Google. Valve is the reason why it's industry standard

>>737053147
Probably? Idk, I'm not a game dev.
I do SRE/Systems Engineering stuff

>>737053419
>Valve introduced the 30% cut in 2003 when they made Steam, long before Apple and Google. Valve is the reason why it's industry standard
I assume that you have a source to back up that statement.

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>>737053419
It began in the 80s with Nintendo.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-30-fee-epic-is-fighting-apple-over-began-with-/1100-6481363/

>>737053419
Brick and mortar stores selling physical had a 30% cut. That's where it came from.

>>737052795
Don't take your unresolved issues out on me

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>>737053283
>Dont have to have infinite growth
They don't? Everything gets more expensive all the time. Just keeping the lights on costs more everyday. Doesn't that mean they have to keep making more money, i.e. grow infinitely?
t. bizlet

>>737053646
Damn, Gabencunt was brutal

>>737052940
Dude loves Americans and cocks apparently. He just wants everyone to know how obsessed he is about them.

>>737053294
There's unironically a point in tech where only corpo work can give you the large scale challenges that are interesting enough to play around with.
Helps that it usually comes with a large pile of cash as well for everybody who isn't fortunate enough to be born rich.

>>737053659
When you are publicly traded you have a legal obligation in the USA to maximise shareholder return on investment. It's not enough to continuously make a shit tonne of profit every year you have to make more profit every single year or you are "failing" and investors will abandon you. It's a big part of why companies do ass-backwards things like fire half their staff or cancel projects/products that make money, the short term savings looks good on the next earning sheet. Valve is not publicly traded, they have nobody to answer to and can do whatever the fuck they want.

>>737053646
>>737053675
reminder that digital games were supposed to be cheaper but brick and mortar stores threatened publishers by saying they wouldn't list their games if digital games were cheaper
fucking gamestop fucked over the customer for their own gain

>>737053659
The difference is that a private company doesn't need to constantly hit new heights to still be very profitable, but a public company is expected to. A private company can make lots of money every year and still have more than enough to keep operating, but a public one has to do that and more to satisfy stockholders so that they don't pull out and screw their finances.

>>737049334
>finally answering 2 year old issue
da fuq?

>>737053949
Side project so there's no expectation of timely maintenance, open source so its public.
People can create Issues to highlight flaws/potential improvements and make PRs that contain the actual code/changes to tackle the above.

>>737052795
making video games isnt fun

>>737053832
>>737053924
I hope whichever of GabeN's sons or whoever takes over after he dies stays the course as well.

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>>737050447
>swallows 3% of your shitty company's shares

>>737050075
They fired Firewatch devs: https://www.reddit.com/r/Firewatch/comments/wym4ow/what_are_campo_santo_members_doing_now/

Valve is no better than Microsoft

>>737054270
HEY WHAT THE FUCK

>>737053294
>>Americans get like 2 weeks of vacations a year
Thank god I live in Massachusetts and get a month of vacation time every year.
Plus my mandatory week-long vacation.
Plus 12 floating holidays.

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>>737052621
i like gaben and steam but 30% is a big fucking cut.
specially before taxes
it doesnt matter if its industry standard

>>737054273
>We don’t all hang out because we don’t all work together anymore, as it’s been years at Valve now and peoples lives have gone on in different directions like they do, but I sit next to a bunch of Campo Santo people every day, and/or talk to them on Slack all the time. We aren’t working on In the Valley of Gods, that continues to be true, but a bunch of us worked on Half Life Alyx together and continue to work together day to day.
Literally untrue as proven by your own link, retarded faggot

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>>737052996
Passion while making games, cowardice while shipping them out.
>>737053657
You asked.
>>737054115
It is fun for some.

>>737049831
>>737050002
It depends on the position I'm pretty sure. The senior guys definitely make bank. But I'm pretty sure they have lots of basically code monkeys working on boring Steam webshit tasks and making "only" like $200k or something. Not everyone at valve gets to just build VR toys for gaben or play deadlock all day

>>737054383
You have holidays for floating?

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One day I'll get my Valve chocolates. One day...

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>>737054383
>tfw used to work in texas for a community college and got a week off for spring break, three days for Thanksgiving, two weeks minimum for the winter holidays, Fridays off during the summer months, and all the other random federal holidays as well as a standard vacation accrual package and two personal leave days per year and random days off for hurricanes and shit
>now I work for a university in Idaho and get 6 days a year off
Not working as much for less pay is better than working more for more pay.

>>737050547
That's a great way to get to hire and retain intrinsically motivated people who will stay motivated. Regular companies basically punish efficient workers - it's basically impossible to stay motivated in that kind of setup since the empty promises all turn out to be cheap lies to milk the last drop of motivation out of their high performers to then dump them after they burn out due to mismanagement and short term thinking and constant micromanagement.

>>737055157
Yep, it's all about work-life balance.
I'd rather work a job that pays me $70k+$30k benefits and a month and a half of vacation time per year than a job that pays me $100k+$10k in benefits and 2 weeks of vacation time per year.

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Life is so rigged bros...

>>737055150
>300k minimum revenue to get 60 dollar chocolate
t-thanks gaben

>>737054792
No, everyone at Valve is paid disproportionately high. The caveat is that they're bloodthirsty because of it, and if you aren't imminently and visibly irreplaceable at any given time they'll replace you with a prospective who has the potential to do your job better.

>>737053838

>reminder that digital games were supposed to be cheaper

Lol.
Lmao.

EGS games were also supposed to be cheaper and yet.

>>737049334
ree make half life 3
can giant megacorps start treating their employees better.
i bet people would make better stuff for you if you treated them well and kept them comfy.

Deadlockbros we are never getting those characters remodel

>>737054538
It’s real: https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-laid-off-13-full-time-employees-and-a-portion-of-its-contracts-in-february/

Alyx and VR was a failure that they fired new people first.

>>737050097
you mean Deadonarrival? it didn't even release yet anon, don't count your eggs before they hatch

>>737049525
hmmmmmmm BASED

>>737050097
Dreadlock

>>737052182
>to slave
that's your problem
maybe if you didn't consider it to be "slaving" then you might actually have fun and keep doing it and make more money

>>737055357
Disporportionately, yes, in that you can be a webshitter codemonkey getting respectable six figures, but they definitely don't just pay every single employee 7 figures out of the door
Valve has one of the highest profit to headcount ratios ever, but they're not literally evenly distributing all the profit among employees like some communist commune

>The caveat is that they're bloodthirsty because of it, and if you aren't imminently and visibly irreplaceable at any given time they'll replace you with a prospective who has the potential to do your job better.
Hadn't heard that but I believe it.

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I got a week long trip to Florida from my company for winning this little award for being a good boy.

Too bad I didn't have a gf to bring with me, was kinda boring by myself.

>>737049525
Her name is Visiting next month?

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How cultist do you have to be to care about them going on a vacation

>>737053646
All people involved in the process had a cut, the storefront, the licenses on consoles and then there was production costs, transportation, licensing fees for media formats, etc.
Game companies get to keep a bigger share of profits in the digital age than ever, which is funny how when that happened and started making unprecedented cash they all started complaining about how prices need to rise too.
Greed is what that was about and nothing more.

>>737049334
Valve is the best company.
>hey feel like working on a project?
>nah maybe next month
>alright coo
>continues napping

Guys what would pc gaming be like if we didn't have Valve and Steam? What if we relied on Epic Games Launcher?

>>737056754
it'd be just as bad as XBOX/PS with ads embedded into launchers and multiple tiers of memberships and shit

>>737049334
This is a great way to prepare them for the upcoming year of doing nothing.
Gabe really knows how to do nothing.

>>737056754
We'd be on 800 different dogshit company launchers now because every studio and corp would have their own ala the state of streaming services now

>>737054451
Taxes? Depends on the criminal region, in Cucknada it's like this.

Game is $100
Sold $115, %15 sales taxes
$100 - 30% store cut = $70
50% income tax = ~$35 (it costs $100 to list a Steam game, but that's not a concern)

Thus, from the customer's pocket $115, the studio/dev gets $35, $50 of which goes to the gubmint to prop up the gynocracy.

>>737056829
>>737056876
Horrifying. I hope the next generation Gabe keeps Steam as it is. It's a money printer and people are happy with it.

>>737050447
The only definition of “private” is “can’t sell shares on the public market.” You financial illiterates need to stop jerking of “private.” Epic is indeed just as private as Valve and you need to just realize and admit that Valve’s success has nothing to do with being private instead of trying to change what private means.

>>737051884
How's the dota card game doing, lmfao

>>737057043
If a majority of your shares are owned by publicly-traded companies you are defacto a public company.

>>737056754
SAAS cancer. You'd have to pay $15 a month to play Minecraft, even if you bought 0 games. And they would give you free games too out of this, SJW/Gay/Woke slop, financed by your $15, free as in it's literal propaganda made to destroy your spirit. If you put a bad review on those games you'd get banned too.

>>737056957
don't forget the VAT/sales tax when you decide to spend that money on something or inflation if you decide to save it

>>737049491
HLX?

>>737053294
Do Americans even get paid vacation? Or is it only the shittiest of jobs that only has unpaid vacation

>>737056754
I don't think EGS would have existed without steam, origin and uplay only became a thing because they were getting enough sales on steam that the 30% cut looked too big to ignore

PC sales would probably be really low considering valve single handedly got tons of different regions like russia, south america and japan to start buying games. I think a lot of companies would have never ported their games to PC if steam didn't exist too

I do too
I grew up there and my parents are still there

>>737057234
lol, still on copium, huh?

>>737053294
>>Frequently mad at Sweden where workers typically get a month of vacation a year
Actually it's 25 days, excluding Saturday/Sunday so five weeks.
And unless negotiated away the employee have the right to do 4 weeks in a row sometime during June to August.

>>737050806
mostly just beautiful scenery

>>737057427
>And unless negotiated away the employee have the right to do 4 weeks in a row sometime during June to August
That's wild. I get four weeks a year but i can't imagine stepping away for a solid month without fucking everyone else over.

>>737052726
Beaches, maybe. But I crave sunlight in the winter now that I've moved away.

>>737056957
100% of money ends up going to taxes. You ignored the dev and steam having to pay income taxes and the taxes you have to pay for using money. Which is good because the government owes 105% of all money to the Rothschilds, plus compounding interest.

>>737057531
Our winters are so dark and bleak that it makes sense that everyone wants their vacation in the summer. I feel like most companies kind of go into a sort of maintenance mode over the summer due to like 80% of the workforce having vacation

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>>737049525
if im still a virgin by 30 im gonna fuck one of these things

>>737049525
Why are they all so old

>>737057531
Wait until you learn about maternity leave, the mom has for example right to be home 7 weeks before she's due to give birth. After birth she can be home 18 months. And there's more I can't remember, I think it was generous to the father as well.

>>737049334
>2 weeks
Lazy fucks

>>737058128
Don't say that, Satan remembers and will make it so.

>>737058128
Bro, at least fuck a girl, don't lose your virginity to a tranny

>>737058128
Nothing wrong with being a wizard.

>>737049525
I am more of a Leela kind of guy.
I like a good massage.
How much do they ask for per hour?

>>737049587
>america mentioned by seething third worlder wants to come here but just hates it so much!
Like clockwork. Rent free faggot

>>737056214
Yeah, it's an anglicized Chinese name

>>737049875
Employim malding

>zoomers are so capitalraped that a company having a TWO WEEK VACATION causes them to have "anxiety attacks"
What? The?
FUCK?!

>>737052432
he had them all

>>737056684
>the best company is the one that make me nothing as a consumer
Holy cultism

>>737062293
>that make me nothing as a consumer
God I can't wait for you third worlders to all get hit by age verification laws in your shitholes.

>>737052714
a valve employee, genius

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>>737062538
But that kills most of steams user base, how will Valve afford a new yacht then?

>>737049334
hawaii is a shithole filled with anti-white island subhumans, if i worked at valve i simply wouldn't go

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>>737063208
>get a free holiday away from the American nightmare
>rather be miserable

>ameriserfs will get mad about this

>>737063208
Literally every valve employee votes democrat, they are already anti-white

>>737063208
they have a very good reason to be anti-white desu

>>737063208
>would rather stay in Washington state than go to a tropical island
Nerd alert!

>>737049525
these people deserve better

>>737063485
if i worked at valve i would work from home in my home state, fuck kikesington, fuck kikescadia, fuck bellejew

what goes on at gabenstein island

>>737058737
>Make up a load of shit
>Seethe about it
The only thing your post got right is he mentioned America. You fuckers are getting touchier and easier to upset by the day.

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>>737058128
thought the same until by 30 you come to realize the true power of being a wizard, especially when you make it a conscious choice

>>737064064
Not me, I hit 30 and started preying on fat girls like a killer whale hunting seals.

>>737064116
there does feel like a split, any standards out the window or preserving whatever shred of dignity you still have left
if only the chubby ones weren't the ones always making a move on me before that point maybe I'd be less put off

>>737064316
Are you fat? Chubby girls never make the moves on me first because I'm a skele but the normal women who make moves on me are cougars and women with obvious BPD.

>>737063208
should be good for you, seeing how youre south american

>>737049418
gaben is only technically there as in he's just offshore in international waters with his yacht fleet

>>737063482
if i was president i would liquidate every single last filthy fucking island savage on hawaii and make it 100% white
TOTAL ANTI-WHITE ISLAND SAVAGE DEATH

>>737049334
I get 5 weeks vacation every year.

>>737049334
Having to spend your vacation in a specific place with your coworkers sounds like hell.

Do you anons ever wish you were part of something big? Being the go to guy in some company, or friends with very powerful people. Making some mark in some way to history.

I don't need a lot of money or fame, I just want to be the guy referenced in something (non violent).

>Oh yeah, that's anon. His team rescued those stranded people

>Anon? Yeah, he was the guy that caught a huge exploit that would have cost billions.

>>737064541
>t. nonwhite
shalom, KIKE
TOTAL KIKE DEATH
GLORY TO IRAN
GLORY TO RUSSIA

>>737055357
>>737055972
Valve is a funny company, they only target and hire specific kinds of people for any kind of development and big money, the two main criteria is the person is a designer + technical job along with accomplished.
So a majority of the people who are currently hired there were already doing well, good at their facet and mostly hopped over to try to make more impressive things with likeminded people.

>>737052503
Every single dev mind giving 30%, which is an absurdly high cut. They simply don't have a choice because steam captured 98% of the gamer audience.
Steam features are largely irrelevant to devs.

>>737065232
>Anon? Yeah, he was the guy that caught a huge exploit that would have cost billions.
No one says this, ask me how I know. No one cares that you stopped something from potentially happening. Might as well be the one that causes it to happen if that's what you're after.

>>737065232
>Do you anons ever wish you were part of something big?
Its easy to be a part of something big/end up on actual news everywhere.
Its funny reading about yourself but ultimately nobody actually cares for long.

>>737065269
dont look up what putin said about israel

>>737051098
>>737050949
Anon you dont want the actual answer, im tryin not to depress you. (the rich ones have them from 13-20)

>>737065232
I wanna do something that leaves some note in history and has me summoned as a cute girl in the Fate/Stay Night game from 200 years in the future.

>>737066278
putin says sarcastic shit 99% of the time, when he's saying shit to westoidal faggots

>>737066464
lol cope
you're brown btw

>>737065232
I was indirectly referenced because my team accidentally caught someone in my state government embezzling. Felt eh but I got no reward from it so I moved on.

Except for like 10 famous directors no one gives a fuck about game devs

>>737065232
>go to guy in some company
I've been there. You don't want to be the go to guy, you're more of a tool than anyone important and your work is often accredited to others.

If you want to leave your mark in a way that anyone gives a shit about, you have to be one who makes waves or as in your example, the guy did the exploit instead.

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>>737049334
I’m in Eastern EV, and I can’t help but feel a bit envious of Shartmericans. The winter here feels like it never ends, and it’s such a downer; I can only post on 4cuck and go for same incel walks. Honestly, I’d rather be a hobo in Hawaii, live in a van, just fish and forage for food all day than be stuck here. I'd put some solar panels on my roof so I can get some electricity, I wouldn't shit outside I would carry pocket shovel and burry my shit. It's april and it's still cold here, fuck my nigger life.

>>737050075
>Valve is one of the few companies not being affected by layoffs since they're privately-owned
epic is also privately owned, yet they fired a fuckton of people
why do you suck corporate dick? they're not your friends, public or private

>>737065232
>Being the go to guy in some company
I am this guy, it fucking sucks.
I just thank god my job is hybrid and I get tons of vacation time, so I have plenty of recovery downtime.

>>737056754
steam will become just as shitty as ps and xbox when the fat fuck retires
enjoy what little time you have left

>>737063198
I'd set it to jap but it also fucks with the payment options (fields change to prefecture, city, and lot number, and other shit)

>>737065957
steam "captured" 98% of the gamer audience because Gaben turned out to be the only guy who really gave a shit about PC gaming in the 2000's.

>>737065957
Having a platform to put your game on and have it hosted for the foreseeable future seems pretty relevant.

>>737069217
No, steam was absolute fucking trash when it came out. It simply was mandatory to play cs then HL2 and css. Which means it already had a big base by default. Then big sales came in and that was it.
The cool features came years after.

>>737069319
It isn't, it cost absolutely nothing to make your own, especially nowadays.

>>737064423
It's weird, not skele but barely above underweight, yet these chicks who have no confidence somehow drum it up to lust after me. Fags too so take it as you will
its the reason I was the wizard in the first place, took like 4 failed relationships to realize normal girls sharing mutual affection can be a real thing

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Do you think Gabe staggers the flight schedules to make sure he doesnt lose 200 engineers in a freak accident

>>737050341
Tim Sweeney is a bald retard who wanted to fight Valve, Apple, Google and fucking Roblox all at the same time and pissed away billions doing it.

>>737049525
for me it's MILKY BIG
finna do heinous acts with Milky Big
Or Marlin Visiting...
>vers. top
gee whiz... yeah, heinous...

>>737049525
,>kylie12
Looks exactly like Kasey kei. It's her isn't it?

>>737057248
It's not federally mandated so it depends on the state and job. I get 4 weeks paid vacation plus holidays and some other miscellaneous time off, retail wageslaves usually get nothing.

>>737049334
Does it have to be Hawaii though?

>>737069517
>>737064423
Also 30. This feels like a dumb question, but what should I be doing to meet people? I started dating someone for the first time earlier this year, but they ghosted me about 2 months ago. We met at my local arcade and they were the one to initiate, so I didn't really have to do anything. Not expecting that to ever work again. Didn't really know I wanted it until it happened. Kinda painful now. I think about her every day.

>>737049334
Pretty obnoxious humblebrag

>>737049525
>marketing yourself based on your ability to give handjobs
honestly big L for 'L'eela. handjobs and oral from women are mid, gay dudes have it figured out but they have a natural advantage as they possess a penis and know it's not a churn-staff to be deathgripped.

>>737049525
Why do some of these girls have aubergine emojis in their names?

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>daily Valve shill thread - Valve treats employees well edition
Meanwhile IRL they tried to lure a kid from Germany who leaked HL2 with fake job offering.
Valve's toxic work environment is also well known. Remember when Valve leaked their own fake employee handbook? Spreading charades about how you can do whatever you want at Valve while in reality if you don't appear "productive" meaning sucking up to top dogs (gabe and other shareholders) you won't receive any bonus and get kicked out.
The true muscle of Valve is contractors they hire, 3rd party companies and of course the game devs/publisher that use Steam to sell their games. If you code monkeys unironically believe there is a paradise out there for game devs at Valve you are gravely mistaken. It's just like any corporation or worse.

>>737058128
losing your virginity constitutes putting your penis in a vagina
nobody in that picture has one

>>737069647
chi long qua on my fucking viewing apparatus

>>737049334
That's way too much 1 week is more than enough

Valve hasn't made a good game since Portal 2. What's the succes story exactly? They make lots of money through parasitism and gambling?

>>737053294
>>Frequently mad at Sweden where workers typically get a month of vacation a year
for swedish game devs it feels like they're off 6 months a year
fatshart basically does nothing the entirety of winter and summer because "too cold" and "too hot"

>>737049525
They all have penises, don't they?

>>737071383
/v/ is notorious for housing a den of unfunny anons who made worshipping Valve their personality even though they weren't relevant as a dev studio for 15 years now
whatever is written here in an act to call out their retardation they will forget tomorrow and keep spamming their same and tired forced memes about Valve and how they are different than other icky corporations

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>>737057158
Neither are listed on the NASDAQ/NYSE or any other public stock exchange so both are private companies. However, when Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded Valve they agreed upon a 50/50 split, when Mike left in like 2000-something Gabe took some of his shares so he's like an estimated 60%~ majority owner. Valve doesn't have ANY public institutional investors so they have ZERO SEC disclosure requirements unlike Epic. Epic is required by law as they have multiple big corporate fingers in their pot. If Gabe decides that tomorrow the entire studio will shift to development of Riccochet 3 and that the cafeteria will now only serve vegan lasagna then that is his call. Tim Sweeney needs to call a board meeting with Sony and Tencent (and Kirby apparently) before deciding to shift Fortnite's development from Disney-centric experiences to a visual novel with over 200 characters.

>>737049334
I wonder if the cleaners and security guards get to go

>>737053824
>There's unironically a point in tech where only corpo work can give you the large scale challenges that are interesting enough to play around with.
I really hope you're speculating and not saying that from personal experience.
The only thing corpo work gives you is an appreciation for simplicity. 99.99999% of tech challenges in corpo work are self induced.

>>737071942
They probably work for a different company and are rented out to the valve office.

>>737049334
Wow, I love a mandatory company vacation where you are constantly being watched by management. I would definitely not prefer to just have my own vacation where I can do what I want.

>>737072075
That sounds like pinko talk to me, son

>>737071383
They had a very good run for games, and then Steam is the least rapey storefront that's functional, and when they lose a court case, they usually comply in a user friendly way to turn a loss into a win, banking that complying will make them more attractive over their competitors and increase customer confidence, and they've been right, because people will actively praise them and not budge from using them even with other storefronts giving away free games.

Valve itself is a bit of a meme, a myth company at this point.

>>737072075
better than working

OH WOW THEY HAVE 2 WEEKS OF FREEDOM OUT OF THE EENTIRE YEAR SLAVING AWAY FOR A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY?!?!!> GOMMMGGGGGGG IM GONNA COOOM CHOOM!111

meanwhile im over here with 24/7 freedom always go anywhere and do anything i want and have more money than i can ever spend unless i start buying mansions

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>>737073458
>yeah actually i dont want to make 300k a year working on whatever i feel like that's basically slavery
neet cope

>>737073705
>slaving away your entire time on earth
>Celebrating having 2 weeks of actual freedom a year

>>737073856
>make big bucks at tech company
>make enough money to retire early and live an upper middle class lifestyle
>be neet living off of welfare
>live like a third worlder
>have no choice but to commit suicide if the government ever turns off the free money faucet

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>>737073967
The ones making that kind of money are old valve seniors who literally have shares on the company but you don't read the thread illiterate nigger

>>737071227
true. the sucking up part and general high school bullshit cliques of in-house politics where some are more equal than others sounds like a nightmare to navigate daily. looking at their history of clinton donations, campo santo, and sweet baby, you just know you're one thought crime away from getting fired

>>737074102
lol more neet cope. obviously fresh out of college grads dont make that much but you have to be a genuine fuck up to work for a decade in big tech and not make a shitload of money

Why does this board suck gabe's cock so hard?

>>737049334
ok, and?

>mr shekelstein won't let me off my leash so I have to take it out the world when I see some of the most successful software developers enjoying life even a little
crab mentality

>>737074207
>illiterate nigger doubling down

>>737074218
hes earned it

>>737074317
Some people are shocked that some companies do vacations like this for employees

>>737074156
>the sucking up part and general high school bullshit cliques of in-house politics where some are more equal than others sounds like a nightmare to navigate daily.
No clue if it's still that bad these days, I've heard they did some changes internally.
After there 10+ year period of doing jack shit seems to have ended it's probably cooled down since then but who knows how much of an impact it's made to all of that shit.

>>737074802
>tranny at gabecube advertisement
what do you think?

>>737075172
I'm not talking about tranny shit but the work environment

>not having free time is fine because number in bank go up (for other people I work at mcdonalds)
Jewmericans just are shitty soulless people.

>>737049334
Imagine getting told
>congrats you finally have your annual 2 weeks off
>but you HAVE to spend it with your coworkers in a place you dont want to go to

>>737049963
I'm sure the 5 Russian multiboxxers who still play Counterstrike in 2026 are devastated lmao

>>737049334
Is that impressive for Valve? I'm in the UK, work for a US tech company, I get 8 weeks of PTO + UK Bank Holidays (8 days) + 2 random company days off our CEO is just giving out randomly giving during the year. Sure we're not sent to Hawaï, but 8 weeks of PTO considering my salary are worth much more than a plane ticket and some hotel room and I don't even make that much because salaries here are low. (£110K/year)

>>737055320
Should've just studied harder in school instead of shitposting political crap. I'm talking to YOU, anon. You know who you are.

>>737076172
A lot of people with computer science degrees are out there doing DoorDash deliveries, desu.

>>737071227
>the aquapedo is the VDSfag
pottery, the memes write themselves

>>737075632
i dont think their entire pto plan is the company holiday anon

>>737074218
>why does a board about videogames love valve?
truly a profound mystery, you stupid fucking snoygger/epigjeet NIGGER