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Valve can be described as a closed company, but they didn’t seem to tell Fletcher Dunn (we wrote about him the other day, helping ChatGPT implement the Deadlock matchmaking system). He sometimes drops a few tidbits about games being made inside the company, since he mostly deals with networking stuff. For example, he wrote about Counter-Strike 2 getting new networking stuff, but fans quickly changed the subject (maps, game modes…). Dunn admitted that this was a mistake and that the public shouldn’t get upset because he is only a small part of the team.<\/p>\n
Sure, he’s gotten a lot of flak for one reason or another, but Dunn hasn’t gone off the deep end: “A rule of thumb I use is that if my first encounter with a random person on social media is that they are a snarky jerk, I assume the expected total value of all future interactions is negative and block them. It is possible to express negative feedback, criticism, or disagreement in a polite way.” And it’s hard to argue with that. You can criticize, but you have to do it in a constructive way.<\/p>\n
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\nA rule of thumb I use is that if my first encounter on social media with a random person is for them to be a snarky dickhead, I assume that the expected total value of all future interactions is negative, and block them.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Fletcher Dunn (@ZPostFacto) October 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n