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PCG Article Discussion for April 2026

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This AI open-source cloning software shows the gaping hole in code copyright

And the funny thing is, it seems like it's completely legal.
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This article should've been much clearer about how the presentation, website and arguments against open source software are satire. Which isn't to say that companies wouldn't love to copy open-source software without having to adhere to their licences, but it obviously works the other way around as well. In fact, this has already happened:

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View: https://x.com/cyberracheal/status/2039028162755965197
 
looks at date of post... looks at time article posted... oh, its real... just checking.
Can't tell today. Its bad enough on normal days to know what is true, April Fools just makes it worse.

Carry on 😀

I wonder if they used Axios as that was a little booboo this week

its download 100 million times a week so I expect it caused problems somewhere.
 
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Garry's Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28

Still waiting for a price, but at least we've got a date.
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I owe pretty much my entire existence as a PC gamer to Garry's Mod. That was the main reason why I made my Steam account and bought The Orange Box nearly 16 years ago. It's my most played game ever with over 1220 hours put into it.

Really hoping for the best with s&box. I've had access to the preview for little over a year now and I still occasionally stop by to play some games. I think it exudes the very spirit of PC gaming and community, as evidenced by Garry Newman's words here:

Newman is also grateful for the opportunities he's enjoyed through Rust and Garry's Mod, and wants to extend that to others as much as possible. "That's my main motivation now, is giving people what I've had, because I think Valve did it for me," Newman said. ..... "I think we should be the same, because everybody benefits."
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An entire platform to make and play games for the community, by the community. A whole evolutional step up from what Garry's Mod originally was. Allowing developers to make games via s&box then either have them playable on the platform, or officially release it on Steam. It's basically Source 2 but modified in lots of ways. As a huge fan of the original Source engine, giving devs and players more access to Source 2 games is very exciting to me.
 
Zloth said:
Errr, release on Steam how? As stand-alone games or games you play via s&box?

(I.E. is the crazy flood of games coming in about to get 10 times worse?)
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There is a mix of both, games to play within s&box itself, and the tools to allow game devs to publish to Steam. I do worry about your last part, a flood of low-quality games made within s&box flooding Steam. I have no idea what the process around that really is, but I'd argue that most games will stick within s&box as it has it's own incentive program to get devs paid for their work. My assumption is that publishing to Steam would require more work, making it only appealing to more "full-fledged" games rather than simple one-off experiences.

They are also exploring the possibility of monetization for games within s&box, ala Roblox and Minecraft, so that may incentivize devs to keep their games on the platform, not published to Steam.
 
neogunhero said:
There is a mix of both, games to play within s&box itself, and the tools to allow game devs to publish to Steam. I do worry about your last part, a flood of low-quality games made within s&box flooding Steam. I have no idea what the process around that really is, but I'd argue that most games will stick within s&box as it has it's own incentive program to get devs paid for their work. My assumption is that publishing to Steam would require more work, making it only appealing to more "full-fledged" games rather than simple one-off experiences.

They are also exploring the possibility of monetization for games within s&box, ala Roblox and Minecraft, so that may incentivize devs to keep their games on the platform, not published to Steam.
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Considering you need to pay $100 to publish a game on Steam I would expect only the somewhat decent games to be released there.
 
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A former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his 'forever job,' but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being 'a passing phase'

This Picasso hack will never make it as a painter!
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Two short stories of how out-of-touch the top people at companies can be.

In the late 90s, I was in a meeting with the Board of Directors at First Horizon (I ran a department that reported to the Pres and usually went to the board meetings, but rarely said much) and I had to convince them not to cancel their so-far unsuccessful Internet banking. "Does anyone really use the Internet?" was the question posed that caused me to finally lose it and break my silence. (A couple of years later I actually left the company due to decisions the board made. It was the most dubious career decision of my life. I was literally in line to run that joint eventually.)

During this same time period, gigantic American retailer Sears was having problems competing with WalMart. One thing that Sears was really well-known for was their catalogue sales. They sent out quarterly catalogues, you phoned in and ordered something and it was delivered. It was shopping online before shopping online took off. They had all the infrastructure they needed to beat Amazon to world domination. When they announced they were simply closing their catalogue business to focus more on their brick and mortar business I knew it was over, and so it was.
 
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Your joys will always be someone else's junk

People don't like a game I've been playing, and that's okay.
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I've always tried to steer away from review scores, whether it be professional or player reviews. Your excitement for a game can be easily influenced by a barrage of negative reviews even when you don't intend it to. Even if you trust yourself enough to know the things you do and don't like, popular opinion can be a hard thing to ignore and not be influenced in some way by.

It's been that way with Crimson Desert for me. I absolutely love the game, but it was harder to enjoy at first when every time I opened up social media or a gaming news site I saw people screaming about why the game is terrible and you're a bad person for enjoying it. Even games journalists that I generally respect the opinions of were acting like the game was amongst the worst ever made.

At some point you just need to ignore what people say and enjoy the things you enjoy, especially ignoring people on the internet. It's much easier for someone to come online and complain about all the things they hate about a game versus someone offering critical analysis on what works and what doesn't. Hate and negativity will always be louder than genuine, positive remarks. Everyone has their own tastes and it's up to you to not allow someone else influence it.
 
neogunhero said:
every time I opened up social media or a gaming news site
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I spotted your mistake, don't do that 🙂

I don't use social media. Its a lot quieter.
Gaming sites are rare as well. Apart from here.

neogunhero said:
At some point you just need to ignore what people say and enjoy the things you enjoy, especially ignoring people on the internet. I
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Most wouldn't say it in person, its just easier from a distance.

Its the same with music/movies/books,, what someone else thinks of a song I like really doesn't change my opinion. I will still listen if I like it. I may even block the channel as most times its a Youtube React channel... and what a stranger thinks of my choices really doesn't concern me.

But I generally don't do things because its popular, I do it because I enjoy it. I don't follow trends.

Its a single player game, its not like you hurting anyone playing it.

I made a new rule recently, don't look at youtube first thing in morning as it can ruin my day sometimes. Better to just wake up first.
 
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Your excitement for a game can be easily influenced by a barrage of negative reviews even when you don't intend it to. Even if you trust yourself enough to know the things you do and don't like, popular opinion can be a hard thing to ignore and not be influenced in some way by.
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Sometimes in the opposite way. If a game is marginally good and you expect it to be great, you'll be unhappy. If it's marginally good and you expect it to be weak, you'll be pleasantly surprised. I heard bad stuff about Batman: Arkham Knight and Arkham Origins, especially the later, but found them pretty good. Oh, and Dragon Age 2! SO MUCH HATE! It's not a great game, but it's OK. Probably a 94... oops, I mean a 75/100.
 
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Anthropic's new AI model has found thousands of vulnerabilities in every major OS and browser

So it's teamed up with all the big software and tech companies to solve them
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I'd heard AI has been making some amazing progress over the last few months, but this is quite the leap. Assuming these claims are valid, there's a good chance we're going to see a lot more data leaks, at best, with massive disregulation of digital systems at worst, in the not too distant future.

Even if Mythos can be used to identify the majority of the vulnerabilities, and patches are made, there will be a lot of systems that won't get updated (in time) and there will almost undoubtedly be critical vulnerabilities that will be missed until it's too late.

Now the next scary leap will probably be when AI becomes good enough to start working as an AI engineer, allowing it to improve itself. There's no real way to tell how fast that will go or what the consequences might be.
 
Lots of angry downvotes in this comments section

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As many 4K PC gamers as 1080p ones? Surely not

36% of you play at 2560 x 1440, but at 22% it's a straight tie between 4K and 1080p gamers in our latest poll.
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People apparently angry that some of us are fine with 1080p.

I'm being completely honest when I say I don't see the difference between 4k and 1080. Maybe it's just that I'm aging, but aside from screen size, everything looks pretty much identical to me at 4k, 1600p, 1080p and 800p. The only difference I notice is performance and I'd rather have more of it and spend less money on my hardware, so 1080 works great for my preferences.

I'm pretty sure at a certain point people convince themselves in any hobby whether that's Audiophiles, Foodies or Gamers that the more expensive thing is objectively superior.
 
you can get 4k @ 240hz monitors that have an alternate mode of 1080p at 480hz, so the monitor companies trying to tempt people like you to upgrade. You can have both.

27 inch 6k monitors exist now. Think they alternate mode is 2k

They squeezing 2k and 1080p out of existence.

You may have no choice in the future

BeardyHat said:
I'm pretty sure at a certain point people convince themselves in any hobby whether that's Audiophiles, Foodies or Gamers that the more expensive thing is objectively superior.
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Well, I hope an 8000USD 5090 is the best GPU for playing most games, just based on its price (benchmarks backed me up there) but I didn't really look at the price of the monitor I am waiting for past knowing I could afford it, my eyes had been bigger than my wallet at one stage and I had considered a bigger one.
Foodies get taken in by food with edible gold on it.
Audiophiles: Without hearing the top end stuff I really can't say. Everyone hears headphones differently so that right there makes it hard to say.
There is a lot of stuff I look and laugh at, high priced USB cables, crystals...

the technologically illiterate are the easiest targets
 
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Colif said:
you can get 4k @ 240hz monitors that have an alternate mode of 1080p at 480hz, so the monitor companies trying to tempt people like you to upgrade. You can have both.

27 inch 6k monitors exist now. Think they alternate mode is 2k

They squeezing 2k and 1080p out of existence.

You may have no choice in the future
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Apparently in March of this year, still nearly 52% of people are on 1080p, so I think we have a ways to go:
 
BeardyHat said:
Lots of angry downvotes in this comments section

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As many 4K PC gamers as 1080p ones? Surely not

36% of you play at 2560 x 1440, but at 22% it's a straight tie between 4K and 1080p gamers in our latest poll.
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People apparently angry that some of us are fine with 1080p.

I'm being completely honest when I say I don't see the difference between 4k and 1080. Maybe it's just that I'm aging, but aside from screen size, everything looks pretty much identical to me at 4k, 1600p, 1080p and 800p. The only difference I notice is performance and I'd rather have more of it and spend less money on my hardware, so 1080 works great for my preferences.

I'm pretty sure at a certain point people convince themselves in any hobby whether that's Audiophiles, Foodies or Gamers that the more expensive thing is objectively superior.
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I honestly don't know what the resolution of my monitor is off the top of my head, let alone its refresh rate. I don't think I've ever even bought a monitor, I just used whatever I could get my hands on for free.
 
I have been effectively on 2k for 10 years. I had a 4k screen 10 years ago but PC could only run it at 2k if I was lucky.

Only in last 5 years have I had a PC and monitor that match abilities.

Now I await a 4k and once again can't really run it at 4k 240hz without features.

Had less monitors than PC. I use them until they stop working.
Since 1999:
  • IBM CRT that came with my Aptiva
  • Samsung LCD 720p I think
  • 2 x Samsung 1080p screens (one died) - think this was for about 13 years or so
  • 1 x Samsung 4k monitor
  • LG Ultragear 32inch 2k monitor
Only got the 4k as a gift, wasn't expected. Prior to that I was using an 8 year old 1080p screen.
Not replacing 2k this time, I will just use both... made space weeks ago
 
Zloth said:
I can see the difference between 1080 and 1440 (2K), but only if I'm looking pretty carefully at a 27" screen. I'm dubious 4K will even make much difference at 32"
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I had a 27inch 4k monitor, most of the time it ran at 2k as Windows runs them at 150% scale on desktop.
You can tell a difference between 2k and 4k at that size... its not so much a problem now but any app that used native resolution instead of scaled was really hard to read.

Logitech Gaming Software (what they used before G Hub) was such a program and I had to take photos of my screen to see the choices.
Sacred 2 before it was remastered also used native resolutions.

32inch is about the cut off point where 2k ends. You can't get them that size now, its why I chose 4k. I had no choice.
 
I'm on a 19 inch 2k monitor. I can't tell a difference from my old 1080p. I'm not interested in a bigger monitor and there's no point in going to more pixels. In fact, it would be a terrible idea. The only thing it would accomplish would be to make games harder to run.


neogunhero said:
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Your joys will always be someone else's junk

People don't like a game I've been playing, and that's okay.
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Here's how confused I get. I followed your link. Read the article and thought, "Hey, this is kind of what neogunhero was talking about. I should post it"

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Three years after its release, Star Trek: Resurgence is about to be delisted for good

The publisher's "license to distribute" has come to an end, so it's goodbye to the Telltale Games inspired outing.
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You have an unpecified amount of time to purchase this game before it is pulled. Of course, they didn't think to put it on sale or anything.
 
neogunhero said:
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Your joys will always be someone else's junk

People don't like a game I've been playing, and that's okay.
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I've always tried to steer away from review scores, whether it be professional or player reviews. Your excitement for a game can be easily influenced by a barrage of negative reviews even when you don't intend it to. Even if you trust yourself enough to know the things you do and don't like, popular opinion can be a hard thing to ignore and not be influenced in some way by.

It's been that way with Crimson Desert for me. I absolutely love the game, but it was harder to enjoy at first when every time I opened up social media or a gaming news site I saw people screaming about why the game is terrible and you're a bad person for enjoying it. Even games journalists that I generally respect the opinions of were acting like the game was amongst the worst ever made.

At some point you just need to ignore what people say and enjoy the things you enjoy, especially ignoring people on the internet. It's much easier for someone to come online and complain about all the things they hate about a game versus someone offering critical analysis on what works and what doesn't. Hate and negativity will always be louder than genuine, positive remarks. Everyone has their own tastes and it's up to you to not allow someone else influence it.
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Sorry, just thought of something else to say here. I read tons of user reviews, and my opinion has changed recently on all of this. More and more people seem to have developed unreasonable expectations, especially for small team games. I'm beginning to get frustrated with all the ridiculous reasons people come up with for downvoting games.
 
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