this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
373 points (97.2% liked)

Games

20803 readers
507 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 90 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Gabe Newell is better than many others, but this is true, the best man on Earth will become an absolute pissbag given power for continuous enough period of time to realize that.

And the best man on Earth is probably some volunteer medic in some African warzone, not a computer programmer and a tech businessman.

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, but I have my very reasonable doubts

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We believe in you, rottingleaf!

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Thx, will remember that

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Power always corrupts.

[–] Ebber@lemmings.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Jacinda Adern as New Zealand PM seemed to be sort of that type