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Counter-Strike Co-Creator Says Gabe Newell Got So Obsessed With Mongolian Throat Singing at Valve HQ That Staff Started Closing Their Office Doors to Escape the Noise (nordic.ign.com)

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As an update to the story, this was confirmed by Gabe himself: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/gabe-newell-responds-to-fan-asking-about-bizarre-valve-throat-singing-story-3412684/

A fan then went straight to the source, emailing Newell to ask whether the story was real. In a reply shared online, sent from Newell’s Valve address, he provided more detail.

“Yeah, I had chatted with Paul Pena about it after I tried learning on my own,” he wrote. “I am entirely self taught and it shows.”

He added that he worked on the sygyt and kargyraa styles “and got to the point where I was really… annoying.”

Newell says he still hasn’t given it up entirely. “Every once in a while, I’ll pick it back up,” he wrote, adding that it takes a couple of weeks to condition his throat.

Pena was an American blues musician who taught himself Tuvan throat singing, later becoming the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Genghis Blues.

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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

if you already have a PC capable of running it you’re likely in a position to be able to swing getting the gear for it.

I have an 8 year old laptop with a muxing problem that can barely handle android studio.

I'm fucking cooked.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Well it's a good thing PC parts are so cheap right now.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Please take me to your alternate reality. What happened to the world after Bernie Sanders' second presidency?

[-] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

I am pretty sure it was sarcasm, but it is crazy to realize how even things like this would be different if we had government that actually followed its laws.

Trump invested a lot in AI companies and removed all obstacles and made sure that regulators look the other way, creating this craze.

Now, once this collapses they will use our tax money to bail them out. It is fucking lose-lose situation for us no matter what happens.

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

To be fair a brand new desktop tower can also barely handle android studio, I've never had a good experience in it not once

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Shitposts aside, this laptop is only recently beginning to show its age, and because I'm demanding more and more of it. I can hardly expect it to run CUDA AI shit or not expected it to work as a fullstack server and have 2 copies of VS code and Pulsar (another Electron based editor) , play YT videos with its fucking muxing issues AND run KDE at the same time.

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