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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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[-] UninvestedCuriosity@lemmy.world 195 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Other billionaires setting up cults and trying to bring a new age to techno fascism.

Gabe's colleagues: " sometimes he sings in his office and it's a little annoying and distracting."

Other billionaires response: buy media companies and government lobby, manipulate the narratives. Make a mockery of the legal system while hiding behind corporate entity.

Gabe: "yeah I asked a trusted colleague for honest feedback and feel a little bad about that.".

It's really not hard to not piss everyone in the world off or high effort.

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago

I hope there is a good succession plan for Valve, because losing them would be tragic for PC gaming.

[-] adjectivenoun@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

I hope it ends up like one of those nature reserves with a 1,000 year lease and a charter that specifies how content creators and gamers can be treated.

[-] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago

Still a ridiculously and insanely wasteful person who's significantly greedy.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

he's not diddling kids or sexually harrassing his employees, as far as we know. It's a low bar but I'll take it.

[-] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago

You set your bars too low.

[-] raze2012@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Only way I stay sane in an age of insanity.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

you're not wrong.

[-] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 3 days ago

He's not diddling kids: he's just giving them gambling addictions!

[-] Medic8eme@piefed.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Another shit stain billionaire that the gamer dudes fantasize about being.

[-] raze2012@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

How we describing "significantly" here?

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 10 points 4 days ago

Can we please transfer wealth from Elon Musk and Peter Thiel to Linus Torwalds and Richard Stallman. Unless, of course, you all want to distribute it all back

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't think this guy needs a lot of money:

(Although there's a second desk in another corner, littered with hardware and a 3D printer.)

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 3 days ago

I'm not that sure about a guy who eats his own toe jam in public...

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

I'll take it over a guy who throws nazi salutes. I mean, the real answer is that nobody should have so much money, it can't do any good to anyone. But if the only controversy we can find about him is that he did that one gross thing to his foot that one time 20 years ago, I'll take it, oh how much I'll take it

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago

I agree with you, extremely rich people are horrible for the world; but I feel that Stallman is just a disgusting person all around. He's also misogynist and I bet that if he was rich, he would totally act like Musk. He just doesn't have the money to do so.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

Re-watched it. Still more appealing than Elon musk

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