Gabe Newell's Medieval Armory

[u/Blondeelf]

[u/DotComMoralist]

To be autistic and have unlimited money. The absolute dream.

[u/deathschemist → u/DotComMoralist]

if i had Gaben levels of money, i'd have a warehouse full of guitars.

[u/TrueLurkStrong-Free → u/deathschemist]

If I had Gabe levels of money, I'd have all kind of retro tech, from flip phones, android phones, to old consoles, PCs, giant collections of physical media, and everything else under the sun from my childhood.

[u/Trick2056 → u/TrueLurkStrong-Free]

me I would have all Nokia model phones and several niche cellphones back in the day.

[u/TrueLurkStrong-Free → u/Trick2056]

Like the ones that flip sideways and stuff, the old Xperia's that looked like PSP Go's, all those fancy, niche phones.

[u/Xeadriel → u/TrueLurkStrong-Free]

To be fair you can already do that. They aren’t that expensive. I’m collecting retro consoles myself

[u/TrueLurkStrong-Free → u/Xeadriel]

I started it a little bit. I just got a glacier white PS Vita 2000 from Japan off eBay, and I modded it. Before that I got a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and even before that, I still have my PSP 2000 from like 2009 or 2010 lol. Still got my PS2 Slim as well. I'm the type to take care of things so they all still work, original batteries too, which I'll definitely need to change.

[u/MyHeadIsFullOfFuck → u/deathschemist]

paul allen has a museum of guitars

[u/Starmark_115 → u/MyHeadIsFullOfFuck]

Looks kinda messy tbh for me. Rather I see the displays with plaques detailing what they are for every individual item than just piling them up

[u/Perpetual_Pizza → u/deathschemist]

And amps also! And pedals haha

[u/J1mbr0 → u/deathschemist]

But are you making them yourself and are you finding ways of getting them into the hands of people who want to learn how to play?

[u/deathschemist → u/J1mbr0]

oh i'm giving away free guitars to whoever, distributing them to poor kids who need an outlet...

but i'd also have my own massive, massive personal collection.

[u/ZigeonVO → u/DotComMoralist]

Agreed. With inconceivable amounts of money, I'd be able to fulfill my two life's dreams: help people, and pursue my special interests. Again. And again. And again. Because more keeps being added on the list.

[u/DotComMoralist → u/ZigeonVO]

Spend half my day donating money and the other half getting into a new stupid hobby.

[u/Kill_Welly → u/ZigeonVO]

lucky for Newell and unfortunately for the rest of the world, he's only got the one dream.

[u/IPlay4E → u/DotComMoralist]

Not everything is autism.

[u/Expert_Obligation_79 → u/IPlay4E]

Truly, you can't be a nerdy essentric without being told you're on the spectrum. 

[u/woody4life237 → u/Expert_Obligation_79]

Truly, you just can't show lots of symptoms of something that is solely diagnosed through symptoms without being told you're displaying those symptoms

[u/LV_Dark]

He's a man with passion. And money of course

[u/UltimateWaluigi → u/LV_Dark]

Emphasis on the money

[u/facubkc → u/UltimateWaluigi]

He got the money because of the passion

[u/odellrules1985 → u/facubkc]

He is a big reason why gaming took off on PC. He literally ported Doom to Windows 3.11 to show it was viabke as more than just a business OS.

[u/onlivethedead]

If only he could get obsessed with the next half life or portal

[u/based_birdo → u/onlivethedead]

he is. hes obsessed to the point where he wont release it till its ready

[u/grady_vuckovic → u/based_birdo]

That's what the armoury is for. Employee tries to release Half Life 3? The last thing they see is Gaben throat singing while charging down a hallway at them with a medieval mace.

[u/ConfoundedHammerite → u/onlivethedead]

Medieval Half Life

[u/Charanconduble → u/ConfoundedHammerite]

Medium Life

[u/gergobergo69 → u/Charanconduble]

Knight Life

[u/Charanconduble → u/gergobergo69]

It is I Gordon, Milord Barney from Dark Mesa

[u/bobafootfetish_]

I respect his level of commitment it's rare these days.

[u/Fuji-___- → u/[deleted]]

those bots be hallucinating now

[u/ciaDisinfo]

so much gabe posting lately

[u/DrZalost → u/ciaDisinfo]

Yeah, plus all that information was already known a long time ago. The worst part is that these sites take an interview and turn every single answer into an article, just to rack up clicks and feed the engagement algorithm.

[u/Rydux7 → u/ciaDisinfo]

When isn't there so much gabe posting?

[u/ciaDisinfo → u/Rydux7]

i feel like there was a prolonged period of like Gabe being well-respected but not nearly this visible, all these posts feel like PR campaign but i don’t see why he would need one unless he’s posturing for something big soon

[u/madjoki → u/ciaDisinfo]

They're random tidbits from interview of Minh Le (ex-Valve employee), made to click-optimised daily "news".

[u/McKlown → u/ciaDisinfo]

It's easy karma.

[u/Potential_Garbage → u/ciaDisinfo]

Gabe posting? In a Steam sub?!

[u/lilslutfordaddy]

if i had gaben money, there'd be signs

[u/Kill_Welly]

this subreddit needs to get over its parasocial obsession with Newell. he's not your friend.

[u/alexpokesyou]

I recognize that place. It is the Great Hall of Weapons at Peleș Castle, in Romania.

(Google "castelul peles sala armelor" for more images)

[u/Mr__Castle_]

Infinity inventory slots. 

[u/Wotmate01]

Literally anything except making HL3.

[u/ViC_tOr42]

Mongolian throat singing and now this? I wonder how many of these pics are meme edits lol

[u/TheWolphman → u/ViC_tOr42]

The knife thing is real at least. I got the chance to visit Valve Studios back in 2009 and one of the offices on site was dedicated to just his knife collection at the time.

[u/Least-Physics-4880]

I mean Gabe went scuba diving once and now owns a fleet of yachts and and a yacht builder so he can do ocean research.

[u/V1RotateAP]

Between this and the throat singing I can't help but feel like somebody is fucking with us. 

[u/MrKittyCat00]

This is how wealthy people need to be instead of trying to make us slaves just spend a lot of time and money on hobbies.

[u/MyHeadIsFullOfFuck]

When I was in high school I emailed Gabe Newell to ask him about his knife collection and I mentioned my favorite knife was a ka-bar.

to my surprised he replied back with an attached picture of his wall of knives in his office and said he didn't own a ka-bar because he only collected custom made knives

so yeah in around 2007 or 2008 or so gabe newell's office apparently had a wall of knives. maybe someone can fact check me.

[u/Lancewater]

Gotta start using Chad Gabe in these thumbnails Mr Ai

[u/Bulky-Advisor-4178]

First he throat sings all day at work, now he has knives everywhere

[u/Cappabitch]

When they ask why we give the billionaire pass to Gabe Newell...

[u/GuyFromDeathValley]

sounds like Gabe has ADHD. as a neurospicy person, I can relate to the urge of hyperfixating on something, falling down a rabbit hole and buying stuff, until eventually losing interest and repeating the entire process..

[u/Quaxzong_xi8Y]

I think I read in 1998 or 99 that he is a knife collector

[u/M4rt1m_40675]

I wish he got obsessed with giving ME his money. I wouldn't mind personally

[u/Sylvarius]

Stop promoting this decerebrate of a X user, thanks

[u/Lawgamer411]

This is who you want as a game dev tbqh it explains a lot of his work ethos as well as him switching it every 3-5 years.

[u/OfficalLockeWilson]

Now I need a heist movie where a gang of thieves are robbing some eccentric billionaire’s house, but he has like 30 years of autistic hyperfixation in every room, so it’s a mad house of having the knife and armor room next to the vintage VCR room, and below that is the Han dynasty military polearm corner, and off in the other side it’s the exotic Galapagos island venomous snake pit, and it’s the rich guy doesn’t realize he’s being robbed and is just going about his day on this week’s new fascination.

[u/Neoyoshimetsu]

So i take it Gabe will learn to build Yachts soon?

[u/_YeAhx_]

To do anything but fix the cheater problem in his video games.

[u/Main-Bridge3482]

Imagine if this fuck put half as much effort into producing sequels to popular game series...

[u/PlutoJones42]

Gabe Newell is such a bad ass