[vga42]

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[totetsu]

Gabe has New Zealand residency, maybe he could move Valve there ;)

[dkdbejwi383]

Looking forward to the Steam Chully Bun

[closewith]

Why are you using a US VC's forum, so?

[JasonADrury]

Why shouldn't he? I don't see how someone posting comments like that would benefit YC.

[vga42]

Great question. Force of habit that I really should get better from.

USA used to be cool (or so I thought) back when I started participating in this place. They have sunk very low in the last 15 years.

Let's make this actionable. This is the last time I read or write here. Bye. You guys won't lose much but I will gain a lot.

[ThePinion]

I sure do love these irrelevant and heavily opinionated political social justice woes with all the usual buzzwords all over Hacker News these days.

[phatfish]

Truth hurts?

[vga42]

"Fascist" is not a buzzword. It's your political reality. Are you culpable of letting that reality be?

[blell]

Maybe you should think about why a company like Valve could have never been founded in the EU instead.

[jackvalentine]

CD Project Red and GOG, founded and headquartered in Poland?

[enricozb]

What about it is incompatible with the EU?

[wolvoleo]

I think this American exceptionalism is getting old. The country is a lot more capitalist and that stimulates certain industries, especially venture capitalism which is basically gambling with investor money.

But a lot of the companies that came out of this like Google, Meta, Microsoft are also a big net negative in the world and causing societal decay with their attention-driving algorithms and hard business practices used to establish their monopolies.

It's not surprising the more ethical business models come from the EU like GOG without its DRM. And valve isn't really one of the worst companies out there, but gog is a lot better and I always buy there if a game is available.

Europe has its issues but look at the state America is in right now. A lot of all that hate is fuelled by people who have been drawing the short end of the capitalism stick for decades. And are now mobilised by the people making things worse for them.

[SSchick]

Are we defending billionaires again?