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Public-facing Valve dev shows why most Valve devs don't have much to do with the public: 'I'm just the only one dumb enough to be on Twitter' [<- then stop it or join Lemmy] (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

My dad worked incredibly well internally and was essentially the primary coder. Of the 27 patents his company held, my dad did almost all the work for 17 of them. His biggest internal issue was not being able to get rid of old technology, so there were two offices filled with old junk that would keep him from complaining.

As a worker, my dad was not toxic at all, possibly a little quirky. Now as a father.... I'd definitely agree with the word "toxic."

So I'd like to submit a correction to your statement about my dead father: he kind of sucked