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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 214 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Absolute BS, all they have to do is enable proton support and people will go out of their way to play it. Tim Sweeney is simply being a slimy jackass.

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  • [+] -89 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    Tim Sweeney is awesome. He’s one of the biggest conservation donors in my state and is personally responsible for permanently saving over 50,000 acres of land from development, protecting crucial habitat in a rapidly developing state, allowing public trail and nature preserves to get created. He lives in a normal house and drives a normal car and hikes the land he preserves when he’s not working. He’s a billionaire that lives a modest life, doesn’t mess with politics, and a true philanthropist. He doesn’t give to get press. The few articles out there about his philanthropy are because reporters stumble across it when reporting on whatever new nature preserve is opening in their area.

    He might have some business practices that are problematic but are endemic to the industry.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Doing good with one hand doesn't excuse using the other to smother FOSS progress. No matter how humble you are materially, or reasonable in local policy, that doesn't mean he is right in the many bullshit stances he's dug himself into where the games industry is concerned. He does have a point in some places, but holy shit is it hard to take him seriously when half the shit he gripes about other companies doing, Epic does too. And that's before we talk about the scummy BS only Epic does.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    philanthropy is the industry of laundering money and reputations

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    You sound like someone who doesn't know much about philanthropy and falls prey to confirmation bias as much as anyone. The fact that you put money laundering ahead of tax-write offs is telling. He's not a mexican drug cartel buying US real estate.

    Like I said, he's a stealth philanthropist to the degree that it does next to nothing to burnish his reputation. The only reason I know about it is because I'm in land conservation. He doesn't seek out any press attention at all, and the limited number of news articles about his donations are a testament to that. I am not saying that Epic business practices don't have issues that are common between his competitors, but I am saying that he himself is not a slimeball. His personality is about as far as you can get from a psychopathic self-enriching tech bro. Basically he hit the jackpot with Unreal, then fortnite.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Thanks for the insight. It’s quite tiring to watch human beings distilled into binary good or evil based on something as innocuous as adding proton support to a game…

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    hey look, a billionaire bootlicker, what are the odds

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, just defending someone that I know for a fact is a genuinely decent human being. He doesn't give a shit about burnishing his reputation through the philanthropy he does. He does it because he hates seeing billionaire mansions on mountaintops as much as anyone who isn't a fuck, because he wants everyone to have natural places to enjoy in the future. If you can't see the difference between someone like Sweeney and someone like Musk, DeVoss, etc., that's on you. He's not trying to make the world worse for everyone.

    Do I have issues with the concentration of wealth and growing inequality in the US? Yes. If you gave me a list of billionaires, where I had to rank them in terms of their benefit to the world vs. negative impact to the world, would I put him high in benefit and low in negative impact? Yes. He's not spouting antisemitic nonsense, or trying to influence politics, or ruin education, or poison the minds of the American public. He's just running his business, treating his employees well, and preserving land. So if you want to call me a bootlicker for points, fine. Given the world we live in, I'd rather have our billionaires be like Sweeney instead of Musk or DeVoss.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You can criticize bad actions even when they're done by generally "good" people, believe it or not.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I specifically took issue with him being called a slimeball. He's not a slimeball. Musk? Slimeball. DeVoss? Slimeball. Sweeney? Not a slimeball.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    You can call someone a slimeball about something specific if they are a slimeball specifically about that thing, and Sweeny has proven repeatedly to be slimy in regards to Linux support.

    I'm sure he's a great guy in other ways, but when the topic is specifically about scumbag corpo practices, calling him a slimebag isn't inaccurate.

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