I'm actually excited to hear that they're trying to clean up the slop and adapting to criticisms. I'm still excited about the work they're doing with that engine, and I do want to support it sooner or later.

None of what has transpired should be surprising to anyone who is even remotely familiar with Garry or has been a part of the FP community before it closed.

The dude has a massive ego, never admits his faults or errors, and has a history of being actively malicious to his community out of spite if he feels he was wronged. He is and will always be an asshole.

Great step in the right direction. Like Garry admits, all of this should've happened day one. Everyone in the community has been begging him to just listen to us, but it's better late than never. I hope S&box can still be salvaged and turn into a fun game.

Mildly pissed I bought it at $20 though considering it was shortly reduced to $10 and now going free.

So it only took Garry like 20 years to figure out people want Garry’s Mod 2 and not Minigame Slop Catalog?

It’s almost like he should have cared about adding a proper sandbox mode.

In a game called…

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yeah you’re not gonna believe this

Is this any good?

I would be interested, if it had Linux support.