Turtle Bat

He dropped out of Harvard. He got scolded at Microsoft. And then Built a platform that owns 75% of all PC gaming. 🤯 >Meet Gabe Newell. > Born in Colorado. Grew up in Davis, California. > Got into Harvard. One of the hardest things to do on earth. > Dropped out anyway. > Was just hanging around his brother's Microsoft office one day. > Steve Ballmer caught him doing nothing. > Said "Be useful or leave." > He stayed. Got a job on the spot. 💀 > Became producer of the first two versions of Windows. > Sat at the centre of the biggest tech revolution in history. > Spent 13 years at Microsoft. Became a millionaire. > Then noticed something that broke his brain. > Doom — a video game — was installed on more computers than Windows 95. > The thing he had spent years of his life building. > A game was beating his operating system. > Realized the future wasn't software. It was games. > On his wedding day in 1996 — co-founded Valve. 🚀 > Poured his own Microsoft millions into it. > No safety net. Just belief. > First game — Half-Life. 1998. > Critics called it a masterpiece. Changed gaming forever. > Then came Counter-Strike. Portal. Left 4 Dead. DOTA 2. > But the real weapon was still coming. > In 2003 — launched Steam. > Gamers hated it at first. Called it DRM. Bloatware. Forced install. > He didn't budge. Kept building. 💀 > Added automatic updates. Cloud saves. Friends lists. > Then launched the Steam Sale. > The internet went insane. Every single time. > By 2011 — Steam controlled most of the downloaded PC games market. > Today — 132 million active users. > 50,000+ games in the library. > Takes 30% cut from every sale. > Valve has never gone public. Never raised funding. Never answered to anyone. > Net worth estimated at $9.5 billion. > Still refuses a corporate title. No CEO energy. Just "Gabe." > Employees pick their own projects. No managers. No hierarchy. > And Half-Life 3? > Still not out. Probably never will be. That's just how he rolls. 💀 > Said "I was willing to put my money where my mouth was." > Harvard rejected. Microsoft trained him. Gaming bowed to him. Absolute GOAT 🔥🐐

You should REALLY compensate all the artists that drew these iconic panels your studio loves to replicate… I SAID YOU SHOULD REALLY COMPENSATE ALL THE ARTISTS THAT DRAW THESE ICONIC YOUR STUDIO LOVES TO REPLICATE 📣📣📣

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Ray Stevenson passed away on this day 3 years ago. May the Force be with him, always 🧡

The way we killed NFTs by not using them or buying into the hype, I feel like we could've done the same with AI. But people are lazy. They don't want to learn new skills. And now AI is more common than it ever should've been and killing the planet at a fast rate.

Are you reading this shit ? This is how they talk about workers. Lower value, capital, they're a minute away from saying "not real people"

Director Travis Knight at the ‘MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE’ world premiere: “We live in an era where everything is essentially ironic, everything is detached, everything is algorithmically focus-grouped, and that was not how we approached this movie. We made this movie sincerely.”

I can't get enough of the way Blitzø looks at Stolas now. It's incredible how true love can heal even the most wounded heart ❤️‍🩹 #HelluvaBoss #Hellaverse #Blitzø #Stolas #Stolitz

Colman Domingo spoke to Men's Health about his experience coming out as gay to his family in the 1990s. The first person he told was his older brother: "I told him that I was gay. He looked at me and was just like, 'What?' He just couldn’t believe it. Eventually, he said, 'I don’t care, man. I love you anyway.' And he just hugged me. Then he said, 'Have you told anyone else?' I said, no. He said, 'Alright, this stays between you and me.”’ Her sister found out two days later: "She was pissed off. I said, 'Look, yes, it was really hard for me to tell him.' She said, 'No, no, no. Why didn’t you tell me first?' She was pissed off because she didn’t get the information first.’ Some time later, he told his mother—who accepted it calmly. Twenty minutes later, the phone rings and she says: “I talked to your stepfather.” She puts him on and he says, in his blue-collar masculine way, “You’re a good boy and there’s nothing you can tell me that would make me stop loving you.”’ 🔗menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a71…

Hughie Stirling, 68 was kidnapped last night by Israel in international waters and he is being illegally held hostage. The Media is barely reporting it, I hope you will get the message out, and get him home from these evil terrorists.

y'all always purposefully leave out the fact stolas deliberately went over to see via knowing he could die. just because he shows that he cares about blitz's life doesn't mean he doesn't care for his daughter. if you watched the show you'd know this. waffles pancakes ass argument

A new name for the working class, 'lower-value human capital'. They don't give a shit about you and your family.

Turns out trauma bonding in space really is forever. 😂 🚀🌟 #BattlestarGalactica

Found these illustrations of Lilo and Scar made by Disney animator Andreas Deja and they are the cutest thing ever

I'm gonna make ennemies with this but if Stolas were a neglectful father overall, Via wouldn't have feel betrayed by him in the first place. Stolas has always been overpresent in her life : she feels hurt precisely because they've always been close

They say there’s no such thing as a perfect man… those people never met #TomKane. I’ve never in my life met a sweeter soul or a better human being. He and his wife raised three beautiful children, then opened their hearts and adopted six more. Six more. Imagine that. Visiting their home brought everyone joy. It was pure magic… authenticity, warmth, acceptance, and a lot of #StarWars. And his acting? Everything he did, he did to perfection, but never in a predictable way. Tom always found something deeper, more creative, more thoughtful, weird, fun & unique. Brilliant. Giving. Funny. Supportive. Kind. There was no one like HIM. I’m beyond grateful for all the hours we spent together in the booth, and so grateful we got to see him again recently… hug him tight and tell him how much we love and miss him. There will forever be a hole in my heart. I love you, Professor. You were the best dad, the best human, and I feel so honored to have known you and called you my friend. Until we meet again in the recording studio in the sky… 🩷💚🩵💔

Firefly (2002) is still one of the best sci fi shows ever made. Cancelled after a single season thanks to Fox airing episodes out of order, it somehow built a richer universe and more lived in characters than shows that ran for years.

In 1974, Sylvester Stallone was walking around Hollywood with a worn script under his arm and almost no one willing to listen. It was Henry Winkler, then a rising star from Happy Days, who stopped and believed in him when everyone else had already dismissed him. At the time, Stallone was in a difficult situation. He was going from audition to audition without success, had very little money, and was desperately trying to sell a handwritten screenplay he considered his only real chance. That script was called Rocky. He had written it in just a few days after watching the fight between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner. Inside that story was much of his own life: struggle, rejection, and the feeling of constantly being underestimated. Film studios read the script and recognized its power, but they all had one condition: the lead role had to go to an established actor. Stallone refused every time. He would rather stay broke than see another actor play Rocky Balboa. One day, after yet another failed audition, he found himself in a casting office with the tired expression of someone who had been fighting too long without success. Henry Winkler noticed him almost by chance. At the time, Winkler was becoming famous for his role as Fonzie in Happy Days. He could have ignored Stallone like so many others did. Instead, he stopped to talk to him. Years later, Winkler said Stallone looked like one of those actors Hollywood had already decided to discard. But when Stallone began talking about the plot of Rocky, something completely changed. He spoke with a conviction that felt impossible to fake. Winkler asked to read the script. He took it home and finished it overnight. The next day, he called his agent, Jackie Lewis, telling her that this young man had something authentic and that she absolutely needed to meet him. It was a decisive phone call. Jackie Lewis agreed to represent him, and the script finally began circulating among influential people in the industry. It eventually reached producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, who immediately understood the story’s potential. Even then, however, studios wanted a big star in the lead role. Major names such as Ryan O’Neal and James Caan were considered. But Stallone kept saying no. He would only sell the film if he could play Rocky himself. In the end, the producers convinced United Artists to take the risk. They reduced the budget and agreed to give the lead role to an almost unknown actor. The rest is cinema history. Rocky won three Academy Awards and turned Stallone into a global star. In later years, Stallone often recalled how important Henry Winkler’s support had been at that moment in his life. He said that that trust came precisely when he was beginning to lose hope. And Winkler never publicly took credit for it. He simply saw something in a man that everyone else had stopped seeing.

‘The Powerpuff Girls’ creator Craig McCracken has released a tribute to the late Tom Kane. “I grew up without a dad, so it was important to me that the girls had the best one I could give them and that was Tom.”