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[–] [email protected] 92 points 6 months ago (5 children)

He lost 60 pounds. Half Life 2 was released 20 years ago.

60/20 = 3

You know what this means!!!!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that was the beast to which I was referring, which according to the original post and the comment I replied to, apparently weighs 60 lbs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, they seem bigger? Maybe they are mostly fluff.

image of person and two alot creatures together, creatture is almost as tall as person and a lot wider

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Based on that scale, even if that's a small child, I'd guess that "alot of weight" would be closer to at least 90 lbs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I can also do it in hamburgers per square beer holder

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Speaking from experience here, Gaben has lost a LOT more than 60 pounds.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

He lost 60kg, more likely

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I always knew that games had units of lbs/yrs. Why don't game devs ever put it on their box art tho?

[–] Chef 53 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The rumor is Ozempic.

As long as homeboy is healthy and happy, doesn’t matter how. Good on you, Gaben.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is there anybody rich who isn’t on it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I doubt Hemsworth needs it

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago

Respect, the man has the means to eat himself to death on the finest and took control of his body.

[–] Srootus 31 points 6 months ago

WOW, he looks so good, big props to the Lord himself

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

One in a million chance to ask such a niche nonsense rando and expect an answer, but... does anyone have a clue what the green machine in the blurred background on the shelf is?

The (likely) wheels on top look like a press, kinda like I'd expect from a rubber vulcanizing press. The side covers look like it's either geared or belted. The side opposite the beefy lever arm looked like a motor to me at first, but that doesn't make sense for the lever arm IMO.

I don't know the guy or reference, but that looks like an electronics lab with prototyping capabilities; something I do as a hobby too. The machine might be related to screen printing, toner transfer, photo lithography, a film based solder mask or even multi-layer composite stacks for printed circuit boards, based on my limited knowledge. It would be fun to know what that is exactly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Wow, I didn't expect it to work, but I used the built in image search thing on my phone, circled the blurry object in question, and it found a match:

(edit: removed link)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

So that's how they made the Deck so flat!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

It looks like a pasta maker

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

He's Gabe Newell, the founder (and I think still CEO) of Valve Software.

Former Microsoft employee that started up a small game studio in the 90s. They took the Quake engine, modified the balls off of it, and used it to make Half Life, an FPS game that revolutionized the landscape forever with things like real time in-engine cutscenes that wove the story in through the gameplay, and through how advanced the enemy AI seemed. It also featured a ton of miniscule details requiring some clever coding to pull off, which really added to the atmosphere.

They also made the Steam gaming client, Portal, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress, Counter Strike, Dota 2.

He's not involved with the day to day much anymore. Pretty much retired in (I think) New Zealand now.

Very nice guy by most accounts. Was still responding to fan emails semi-regularly around 2010, and was one of the main voices in the dev commentary features in their games up through the Orange Box (Half Life 2 Ep 2, L4D, Portal, TF2).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

He just doesn't have time to make food anymore. Gaben only makes money

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

"Gabe is starving to death great job" Ever heard of punctuation?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Go Gabe! Losing weight is hard! Makes me feel like I need to go running

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

He’s showing us where PC gaming is going: faster, lighter, easier to carry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

This is what happens when you only eat two meals a day...