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News - PlayStation Publishing reveal Horizon Hunters Gathering, Guerrilla's new co-op action game
By Tethys84, 6 Feb 2026 at 10:48 am UTC
By Tethys84, 6 Feb 2026 at 10:48 am UTC
Is it just me or are there more and more big co-op games coming out? This trend really sucks for the friendless.
News - Zellah Games revealed the "next-gen" modding-friendly Skate Style for PC
By neolith, 6 Feb 2026 at 9:42 am UTC
By neolith, 6 Feb 2026 at 9:42 am UTC
I miss THPS2.
News - PlayStation Publishing reveal Horizon Hunters Gathering, Guerrilla's new co-op action game
By neolith, 6 Feb 2026 at 9:30 am UTC
By neolith, 6 Feb 2026 at 9:30 am UTC
I feel like that Fortnite artstyle is the 3D equivalent to Corporate Memphis 2D art which in turn is practically Comic Sans for graphic design.
Maybe I am just getting old, but that game looks like everything I don't want to play. And it's not just because of the graphics.
Maybe I am just getting old, but that game looks like everything I don't want to play. And it's not just because of the graphics.
News - Google's Project Genie experiment allows creating interactive worlds with generative AI
By vic-bay, 6 Feb 2026 at 8:17 am UTC
By vic-bay, 6 Feb 2026 at 8:17 am UTC
it is not a game, nor an interactible world. it is just movable screenshot.
News - GeForce NOW celebrates six years with new games like Delta Force and PUBG: BLINDSPOT
By hardpenguin, 6 Feb 2026 at 7:35 am UTC
By hardpenguin, 6 Feb 2026 at 7:35 am UTC
PUBG Blindspot but no PUBG Battlegrounds 🥲
I am waiting for years for them to add the original PUBG
I am waiting for years for them to add the original PUBG
News - Epic Games Store saw a 57% increase in purchases for third-party PC games in 2025
By Phlebiac, 6 Feb 2026 at 7:18 am UTC
By Phlebiac, 6 Feb 2026 at 7:18 am UTC
Quoting: chickenb00I bought Alan Wake 2Since it's unlikely to come to Steam, I'm waiting for the PS5 version to have a nice sale. Or maybe Epic will make it one of their weekly free games eventually.
News - Epic Games Store saw a 57% increase in purchases for third-party PC games in 2025
By Galactic-Man, 6 Feb 2026 at 6:13 am UTC
By Galactic-Man, 6 Feb 2026 at 6:13 am UTC
Well, it's 57% over last year but one data point of improvement isn't enough to suggest a trend. Looking at the flow of previous years it's only 13% above their previous peak...which then dropped again in both of the following years.
It will be interesting to see if the proposed improvements and offering Fortnite Freebies to devs to hawk with their games will have any significant impacts.
It will be interesting to see if the proposed improvements and offering Fortnite Freebies to devs to hawk with their games will have any significant impacts.
News - GOG did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI
By Galactic-Man, 6 Feb 2026 at 5:46 am UTC
By Galactic-Man, 6 Feb 2026 at 5:46 am UTC
It's been nice having a Store out there with strong principles. DRM-Free was a very good message to have out there against the likes of Ubisoft trying to shackle gamers with ridiculous authorisation restrictions and installed malware.
But you can't use GenerativeAI and still call yourself principled. It puts the lie to every piece of loving game curation if you're using a tool built on the industrial-scale theft of content creators hard work, and depriving artists of future work.
But you can't use GenerativeAI and still call yourself principled. It puts the lie to every piece of loving game curation if you're using a tool built on the industrial-scale theft of content creators hard work, and depriving artists of future work.
News - GOG now using AI generated images on their store
By Purple Library Guy, 6 Feb 2026 at 5:21 am UTC
As to whether activities involving the use of AI are that sort of activity . . . they're externalities, like a factory that emits pollution. People are being or will be hurt, but it's nobody you know and in the short term you have no real way to find out just who. Now, for factories that emit pollution, some moral censure is reasonable, and may have some impact if much of society can forge a normative consensus that generating such pollution is bad. But probably the impact will be small, since it does not remove the profitability of the externality. It's no substitute for a solid regulatory environment. But does that mean that criticism of people exploiting externalities for profit is pointless? Certainly not. It helps forge societal consensus that can lead to the enactment of appropriate regulation.
By Purple Library Guy, 6 Feb 2026 at 5:21 am UTC
Quoting: wit_as_a_riddleMy logic remains perfectly consistent:Again, there is no point in bringing the money in and calling it "hard earned" unless you are trying to valorize the money (and its possessor). When an action is genuinely "harmless / consensual / victimless", one can simply say that nobody should be indignant about it because there is nothing to be indignant about.
When the action itself is harmless / consensual / victimless, moral indignation about how someone spends *their own money* on it is often performative (status-signaling, puritanism, etc.).
When the action is harmful (especially criminal and victim-involving), then outrage is justified - and the fact that money changed hands is irrelevant to the moral assessment.
The distinction isn't hard to see unless you're intentionally blurring it. Either you are misreading or you are knowingly misleading.
As to whether activities involving the use of AI are that sort of activity . . . they're externalities, like a factory that emits pollution. People are being or will be hurt, but it's nobody you know and in the short term you have no real way to find out just who. Now, for factories that emit pollution, some moral censure is reasonable, and may have some impact if much of society can forge a normative consensus that generating such pollution is bad. But probably the impact will be small, since it does not remove the profitability of the externality. It's no substitute for a solid regulatory environment. But does that mean that criticism of people exploiting externalities for profit is pointless? Certainly not. It helps forge societal consensus that can lead to the enactment of appropriate regulation.
News - Epic Games Store saw a 57% increase in purchases for third-party PC games in 2025
By chickenb00, 6 Feb 2026 at 5:19 am UTC
If it were for sale on Steam I'd have bought there, but it isn't.
I won't be buying any other games on EGS unless they're exclusive due to a funding/publishing deal like that.
By chickenb00, 6 Feb 2026 at 5:19 am UTC
Quoting: rea987Why on Earth someone spends a penny on that non-store is a mystery to me.I bought Alan Wake 2. I suppose I could have pirated it, but I wanted to pay for it, and it was on a steep discount, like just $20 CAD.
If it were for sale on Steam I'd have bought there, but it isn't.
I won't be buying any other games on EGS unless they're exclusive due to a funding/publishing deal like that.
News - GOG now using AI generated images on their store
By Purple Library Guy, 6 Feb 2026 at 5:07 am UTC
So, first, that implication is certainly there in the basic grammar. Clearly it is the fact that the things done are done by people with their own hard earned money, that makes the indignation performative. If it were not, there would be no point mentioning the money in the first place, but instead the money is the only thing mentioned that characterizes what the people are doing. No doubt the claim wasn't intended to have to handle a reductio ad absurdum, but rather the money was perhaps only intended to be sufficient to wash clean venial sins, but this was certainly on its face a claim that people shouldn't be getting on people's case if what they're doing is spending money.
But on what basis? The core of the statement is that the money is "hard earned". So this is not just any money--it is presumed to be money acquired by working hard, by adhering to the Protestant work ethic. It is virtuous money, and the possessor is virtuous through having acquired it. The current context relates to someone with enough money to own a company, so, considerable wealth. The invocation of the "hard earned" money suggests that the possessors of that much money are, by that fact, our betters. And so, anything they might decide to do with it can be assumed to be above our criticism.
It was an extremely loaded statement, and loaded quite cleverly at that, meant to get people to digest it without quite realizing what they'd swallowed.
By Purple Library Guy, 6 Feb 2026 at 5:07 am UTC
Quoting: wit_as_a_riddleOh, please. Let's unpack a bit, shall we?Quoting: Purple Library GuyYou're still misrepresenting what I actually said, and that's the core issue here.Quoting: wit_as_a_riddleUh, yeah. Go look at what you said.Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat sounds like it makes sense, but it's ludicrous! The morally repugnant issue is sex with underage girls, spending money on it or not is irrelevant.Quoting: wit_as_a_riddleI find the moral indignation over what others do with their own hard earned money to be performative.That sounds like it makes sense, but it's ludicrous. So, Geoffrey Epstein spent his own hard earned money on sex with underage girls. I am morally indignant about that. Not you, though, that would be "performative".
Your point was that if people were spending "their own hard earned money" on something, that meant we shouldn't be morally indignant about it. This appeared to be an admonition completely independent of the content of what those people were doing with their "hard earned money". I pointed out the absurdity of this. You have just confirmed it--yes, whether someone spends "their own hard earned money" on something is in fact irrelevant to whether we should feel moral indignation about it. So, your initial statement was ludicrous.
My original statement:
"I find the moral indignation over what others do with their own hard earned money to be performative."
Nowhere did I say - or even imply - that *spending one's own money makes any action morally acceptable* or immune to criticism. That would be an absurd, blanket claim, and I never made it.
So, first, that implication is certainly there in the basic grammar. Clearly it is the fact that the things done are done by people with their own hard earned money, that makes the indignation performative. If it were not, there would be no point mentioning the money in the first place, but instead the money is the only thing mentioned that characterizes what the people are doing. No doubt the claim wasn't intended to have to handle a reductio ad absurdum, but rather the money was perhaps only intended to be sufficient to wash clean venial sins, but this was certainly on its face a claim that people shouldn't be getting on people's case if what they're doing is spending money.
But on what basis? The core of the statement is that the money is "hard earned". So this is not just any money--it is presumed to be money acquired by working hard, by adhering to the Protestant work ethic. It is virtuous money, and the possessor is virtuous through having acquired it. The current context relates to someone with enough money to own a company, so, considerable wealth. The invocation of the "hard earned" money suggests that the possessors of that much money are, by that fact, our betters. And so, anything they might decide to do with it can be assumed to be above our criticism.
It was an extremely loaded statement, and loaded quite cleverly at that, meant to get people to digest it without quite realizing what they'd swallowed.
News - Overwatch returns on February 10th with the '2' gone and some massive upgrades
By Cyril, 5 Feb 2026 at 11:34 pm UTC
By Cyril, 5 Feb 2026 at 11:34 pm UTC
Quoting: tohurI will give Blizzard one thing.. their anti-cheat is mostly server side and the bits client side doesn't require kernel access and should be the standard way to implement anti-cheat as they do with their Warden setupYeah I agree, even if I forgot about it... but at the time I was playing Diablo III on Linux I never had issues on that side, what a pleasure! Even though I don't like their constant internet connection DRM.
News - GOG did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI
By Nezchan, 5 Feb 2026 at 10:53 pm UTC
By Nezchan, 5 Feb 2026 at 10:53 pm UTC
"Boy, I sure wish GOG would do more stuff with Linux."
Monkey's paw curls...
Monkey's paw curls...
News - GOG now using AI generated images on their store
By wit_as_a_riddle, 5 Feb 2026 at 10:47 pm UTC
My original statement:
"I find the moral indignation over what others do with their own hard earned money to be performative."
Nowhere did I say - or even imply - that *spending one's own money makes any action morally acceptable* or immune to criticism. That would be an absurd, blanket claim, and I never made it.
What I did say is that moral outrage directed specifically at how people spend their own money (on legal, consensual, victimless things - the qualification you seem to require, despite its obviousness) often feels performative - i.e., it's frequently more about signaling virtue, enforcing conformity, or expressing envy/disapproval of lifestyle choices than about addressing actual harm.
Your Epstein example doesn't refute that at all; it just changes the subject to something completely different. The moral horror in the Epstein case is *the rape and exploitation of children* - a serious crime with direct victims. That's not "what he did with his money" in any meaningful sense; it's felony sexual abuse. The money was merely the means/tool, not the morally relevant part. Condemning child rape isn't "indignation over what others do with their hard earned money" - it's indignation over *child rape*. Conflating the two is a deliberate sleight of hand.
To make your rebuttal work, you had to rewrite my position as something like:
"No one should ever feel moral indignation about anything purchased with one's own money, no matter how evil."
But that's a *straw man*. I never universalized it that way. The scope was always about personal spending choices that don't directly victimize others (luxury goods, adult entertainment, donations to controversial causes, etc.). You stripped out that implicit qualifier, replaced it with an extreme version that includes heinous crimes, then declared the whole thing "ludicrous." That's not engaging with what I said - it's manufacturing an easier target.
My logic remains perfectly consistent:
When the action itself is harmless / consensual / victimless, moral indignation about how someone spends *their own money* on it is often performative (status-signaling, puritanism, etc.).
When the action is harmful (especially criminal and victim-involving), then outrage is justified - and the fact that money changed hands is irrelevant to the moral assessment.
The distinction isn't hard to see unless you're intentionally blurring it. Either you are misreading or you are knowingly misleading.
By wit_as_a_riddle, 5 Feb 2026 at 10:47 pm UTC
Quoting: Purple Library GuyYou're still misrepresenting what I actually said, and that's the core issue here.Quoting: wit_as_a_riddleUh, yeah. Go look at what you said.Quoting: Purple Library GuyThat sounds like it makes sense, but it's ludicrous! The morally repugnant issue is sex with underage girls, spending money on it or not is irrelevant.Quoting: wit_as_a_riddleI find the moral indignation over what others do with their own hard earned money to be performative.That sounds like it makes sense, but it's ludicrous. So, Geoffrey Epstein spent his own hard earned money on sex with underage girls. I am morally indignant about that. Not you, though, that would be "performative".
Your point was that if people were spending "their own hard earned money" on something, that meant we shouldn't be morally indignant about it. This appeared to be an admonition completely independent of the content of what those people were doing with their "hard earned money". I pointed out the absurdity of this. You have just confirmed it--yes, whether someone spends "their own hard earned money" on something is in fact irrelevant to whether we should feel moral indignation about it. So, your initial statement was ludicrous.
My original statement:
"I find the moral indignation over what others do with their own hard earned money to be performative."
Nowhere did I say - or even imply - that *spending one's own money makes any action morally acceptable* or immune to criticism. That would be an absurd, blanket claim, and I never made it.
What I did say is that moral outrage directed specifically at how people spend their own money (on legal, consensual, victimless things - the qualification you seem to require, despite its obviousness) often feels performative - i.e., it's frequently more about signaling virtue, enforcing conformity, or expressing envy/disapproval of lifestyle choices than about addressing actual harm.
Your Epstein example doesn't refute that at all; it just changes the subject to something completely different. The moral horror in the Epstein case is *the rape and exploitation of children* - a serious crime with direct victims. That's not "what he did with his money" in any meaningful sense; it's felony sexual abuse. The money was merely the means/tool, not the morally relevant part. Condemning child rape isn't "indignation over what others do with their hard earned money" - it's indignation over *child rape*. Conflating the two is a deliberate sleight of hand.
To make your rebuttal work, you had to rewrite my position as something like:
"No one should ever feel moral indignation about anything purchased with one's own money, no matter how evil."
But that's a *straw man*. I never universalized it that way. The scope was always about personal spending choices that don't directly victimize others (luxury goods, adult entertainment, donations to controversial causes, etc.). You stripped out that implicit qualifier, replaced it with an extreme version that includes heinous crimes, then declared the whole thing "ludicrous." That's not engaging with what I said - it's manufacturing an easier target.
My logic remains perfectly consistent:
When the action itself is harmless / consensual / victimless, moral indignation about how someone spends *their own money* on it is often performative (status-signaling, puritanism, etc.).
When the action is harmful (especially criminal and victim-involving), then outrage is justified - and the fact that money changed hands is irrelevant to the moral assessment.
The distinction isn't hard to see unless you're intentionally blurring it. Either you are misreading or you are knowingly misleading.
News - PlayStation Publishing reveal Horizon Hunters Gathering, Guerrilla's new co-op action game
By Taros, 5 Feb 2026 at 10:34 pm UTC
By Taros, 5 Feb 2026 at 10:34 pm UTC
Just when I started to enjoy the Horizon games 😭
News - Overwatch returns on February 10th with the '2' gone and some massive upgrades
By tohur, 5 Feb 2026 at 10:33 pm UTC
By tohur, 5 Feb 2026 at 10:33 pm UTC
I will give Blizzard one thing.. their anti-cheat is mostly server side and the bits client side doesn't require kernel access and should be the standard way to implement anti-cheat as they do with their Warden setup
News - Overwatch returns on February 10th with the '2' gone and some massive upgrades
By BlackSun, 5 Feb 2026 at 8:59 pm UTC
By BlackSun, 5 Feb 2026 at 8:59 pm UTC
As long as there's no 2 tanks, the game is dead. But it will never live...
News - Poker Night at the Inventory returns with a remaster in March
By Linux_Rocks, 5 Feb 2026 at 8:16 pm UTC
By Linux_Rocks, 5 Feb 2026 at 8:16 pm UTC
Hopefully we'll get a discount if we own the original, but I doubt it. 💸
News - REMOTE CONTROL looks like Alien: Isolation if it was a retro-styled typing adventure
By Linux_Rocks, 5 Feb 2026 at 7:45 pm UTC
By Linux_Rocks, 5 Feb 2026 at 7:45 pm UTC
Thought it had to do with the game Control at first, like a mod or something. lol
News - Zellah Games revealed the "next-gen" modding-friendly Skate Style for PC
By Linux_Rocks, 5 Feb 2026 at 7:41 pm UTC
By Linux_Rocks, 5 Feb 2026 at 7:41 pm UTC
Do a kickflip! 🤙
News - Overwatch returns on February 10th with the '2' gone and some massive upgrades
By Linux_Rocks, 5 Feb 2026 at 7:36 pm UTC
By Linux_Rocks, 5 Feb 2026 at 7:36 pm UTC
Can we stamp return to sender on Overwatch?
News - Steam Machine & Steam Frame FAQ - RAM and storage crisis to blame for no pricing or dates
By Anorelsan, 5 Feb 2026 at 6:52 pm UTC
By Anorelsan, 5 Feb 2026 at 6:52 pm UTC
I want to beat my games with the new Steam Controller... patience :)
News - UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages
By poiuz, 5 Feb 2026 at 6:00 pm UTC
Emphasized by me: Exactly - challenging Apple's 30%.
By poiuz, 5 Feb 2026 at 6:00 pm UTC
Quoting: F.UltraHow one earth can you claim that I was misquoting people, this very quote below was your OP comment that I replied to:I've already pointed out why.
Quoting: F.UltraNo the DSA is not fighting the power to take 30%, they are fighting the lock in, which is why they also have forced Apple to allow external app stores to be installed on iPhones in the EU. And ofc you can care about Apple's payment processing beyond the percentage that they take, perhaps you want to be able to sell in app items in countries where Apple does not conduct payments, perhaps you simply do not want to give Apple any money and might use another payment processor that takes an even higher cut (working in the Finance industry for 30 years I have seen many such cases so this is not as convoluted as it first sounds, some people/organizations simply are this way), and so on and on.It's actually the DMA not the DSA, sorry for that mixup.
Emphasized by me: Exactly - challenging Apple's 30%.
Quoting: F.UltraGood luck trying to find that in their lawsuit (they are not), the only thing that they presents is in their FAQ where they claim that Valve is doing this with weasel wording trying to avoid the fact that is all about Steam Keys. We all went over this in 2024 when they filed it.Case 2:21-cv-00563-JCC Document 127 Filed 03/23/23
204. TomG also explained to another game publisher that the publisher should “[t]hink critically about how your decisions might affect Steam customers, and Valve. If the offer you’re making fundamentally disadvantages someone who bought your game on Steam, it’s probably not a great thing for us or our customers (even if you don’t find a specific rule describing precisely that scenario).” In that same thread, TomG responded to a question by stating: “we usually choose not to sell games if they’re being sold on our store at a price notably higher than other stores. That is, we’d want to get that lower base price as well, or not sell the game at all.”Valve's response Case 2:21-cv-00563-JCC Document 128 Filed 04/06/23
204. Valve admits that the quoted words appeared in forum postings. Valve denies the remaining allegations in paragraph 204.Case 2:21-cv-00563-JCC Document 127 Filed 03/23/23
205. In response to one inquiry from a game publisher, in another example, Valve explained: “We basically see any selling of the game on PC, Steam key or not, as a part of the same shared PC market- so even if you weren’t using Steam keys, we’d just choose to stop selling a game if it was always running discounts of 75% off on one store but 50% off on ours. . . .”Valve's response Case 2:21-cv-00563-JCC Document 128 Filed 04/06/23
205. Valve admits a Valve employee made the statement quoted in paragraph 205.
News - PlayStation Publishing reveal Horizon Hunters Gathering, Guerrilla's new co-op action game
By Tevur, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:56 pm UTC
By Tevur, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:56 pm UTC
Ugh, no, feeling like i'm 30 years beyond the age span of their target audience when looking at the art style.
I'll stick to the real games. Haven't even finished the great first one, yet.
I'll stick to the real games. Haven't even finished the great first one, yet.
News - GOG did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI
By doragasu, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:54 pm UTC
By doragasu, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:54 pm UTC
Most of the replies are quite OK, to bad they'll not retreat on the slop machine usage.
News - PlayStation Publishing reveal Horizon Hunters Gathering, Guerrilla's new co-op action game
By PaldinoX, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:43 pm UTC
By PaldinoX, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:43 pm UTC
Yeah I don't know about this one, If I'm in the mood for a Monster Hunter game I'll just go play Monster Hunter (or if I'm feeling adventurous, God Eater).
News - GOG did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI
By Nonjuffo, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:09 pm UTC
By Nonjuffo, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:09 pm UTC
As for the longer term future, we have very ambitious plans for the development of GOG, going well beyond the scope in which GOG has operated so far.Could this be DRM-free movies? Although this has kinda been in their scope before. The selection was not very impressive. I would really like a proper DRM-free movie download service. Not that it's going to happen. It's more likely emulated classic console games or something.
News - PlayStation Publishing reveal Horizon Hunters Gathering, Guerrilla's new co-op action game
By grigi, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:04 pm UTC
By grigi, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:04 pm UTC
This is so different from the previous Horizon games... I played it for the un-frantic-ness and for the intriguing story.
This looks like a MOBA, those are frantic, they tend to also be light on story.
I don't think this is for me.
This looks like a MOBA, those are frantic, they tend to also be light on story.
I don't think this is for me.
News - Steam Machine & Steam Frame FAQ - RAM and storage crisis to blame for no pricing or dates
By Mountain Man, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:01 pm UTC
By Mountain Man, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:01 pm UTC
I just care about the Steam Controller 2.
News - Epic Games Store saw a 57% increase in purchases for third-party PC games in 2025
By rea987, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:00 pm UTC
By rea987, 5 Feb 2026 at 5:00 pm UTC
Why on Earth someone spends a penny on that non-store is a mystery to me.
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