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>Valve is flat. It’s our shorthand way of saying that we don’t have any management > Team leads Often, someone will emerge as the “lead” for a project. This person’s role is not a traditional managerial one. Most often, they’re primarily a clearinghouse of information. They’re keeping the whole project in their head at once so that people can use them as a resource to check decisions against. The leads serve the team…
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> It's funny you mention age, because I have essentially the opposite take. Ditching a match for a game you like because that particular match isn't going well is immature; I'd expect someone older to handle themselves better than someone younger, not throw a fit. There are two things. First, it is not about maturity it is about having other responsibilities in life. If my kid needs something from me I am going to dr…
That's not what I was responding to. Please read what I quoted, that you wrote: > Nothing is worse being stuck in a game where you are not having fun and you are forced to keep playing or be punished otherwise. Sure, needing to take care of certain responsibilities is fine, but ditching everyone else in a game because you're temporarily "not having fun"? Yes, that is immature.
That is purely a subjective moral judgement. I can also make a judgment that you projecting moral judgments onto strangers is also immature.
There I did it too, fun…
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Well that's because AR and VR are strictly worse for most use cases as compared to traditional human computer interfaces. The mouse, keyboard, and monitor is pretty much just right. Highly productive, you can go super fast, with extreme information density. VR and AR are obviously much slower to navigate because physical worlds are slow to navigate and that's what they're mimicing. We might assume a 3D world has more…
As I've written before, I can imagine an essentially science-fictional version of AR being potentially interesting. Wear normal looking classes or contacts, look at something, and immediately get information through some subtle communications mechanism to be determined. VR has basically been for niche high-end gamers. I can imagine a jet flighter simulation might be good for VR but I'm not even sure that's such a thi…
Oh people absolutely use it for this and it is an excellent use case - mainly because you stay seated.
But yeah. Pretty niche.
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That's not what I was responding to. Please read what I quoted, that you wrote: > Nothing is worse being stuck in a game where you are not having fun and you are forced to keep playing or be punished otherwise. Sure, needing to take care of certain responsibilities is fine, but ditching everyone else in a game because you're temporarily "not having fun"? Yes, that is immature.
> Sure, needing to take care of certain responsibilities is fine, but ditching everyone else in a game because you're temporarily "not having fun"? Yes, that is immature. That is purely a subjective moral judgement. I can also make a judgment that you projecting moral judgments onto strangers is also immature. There I did it too, fun…
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To disrupt Valve's business you'd need an offering as good if not better than Steam, something several companies already tried and failed, and on top of that you need to convince everyone with buy-in to switch to your business, another monumental task. While people are happy with Steam it'll be impossible to challenge Valve as a digital distributor.
Assuming everyone at current Valve's management stays there forever, as immortals. People keep forgetting our time is limited and nothing lasts forever.
It's true that entropy will be the end of us all but while there are definitely things that may end Valve, "management" leaving isn't going to the thing that does it. It might be wise to learn about the company you speak so definitively about, I suggest reading the pamplet.
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I can play any PC game I want and I don’t have a single windows install anywhere in my life. They made, beyond all the other contributions, Linux gaming a reality.
Wine existed before Valve even if you weren't paying attention.
Even Proton is technically managed by Codeweavers under contract by Valve, who are the primary contributors to Wine.
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I can play any PC game I want and I don’t have a single windows install anywhere in my life. They made, beyond all the other contributions, Linux gaming a reality.
Wine existed before Valve even if you weren't paying attention.
Chet Faliszek, writer for games like Half-Life and the lead writer for Portal/Portal 2 has since confirmed that this handbook was never given to employees. It was created and released as part of advertising them as an employer.
It's hard to believe that the principles outlined here weren't at least briefly followed when it's featured on their website too: https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/publications , but I'd be an open to a source which substantiates your claim. However, non-hierarchical structures are often open to manipulation and land-grabbing (see Tyranny of Structurelessness, etc.) so I am also skeptical that a company may have conti…
Was Pivotal Labs built with this in mind? A lot of their core principals seem to overlap with with seven principals prposed at the end (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm for the curious)
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Unfortunately, no-one’s investment in AR or VR has worked out. Even the “winner” (Oculus/Meta) has found the market to be disappointingly small.
I only have 2mb ADSL, each world on VR Chat is something about 300mb+ in size not including VR Avatars. I'll join a world with folk, and they'll jump worlds before anythings loaded. I wear glasses so I have to use special lenses to enable me to see in-game. These costed an addition 150 euros. The XREAL Air 2 look appealing but I am unable to buy inserts for. This make's them useless to me. > "While we plan to offer l…
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Being punished for leaving is the standard for almost any competitive team based game these days, because if you don't do that then people leave on a whim and the game is ruined. > Nothing is worse being stuck in a game where you are not having fun and you are forced to keep playing or be punished otherwise. It works approximately the same irl for board games or sports. If you just walk off the court in a basketball…
> It's funny you mention age, because I have essentially the opposite take. Ditching a match for a game you like because that particular match isn't going well is immature; I'd expect someone older to handle themselves better than someone younger, not throw a fit. There are two things. First, it is not about maturity it is about having other responsibilities in life. If my kid needs something from me I am going to dr…