OpenTTD achieved what was probably the best possible outcome given the circumstances.
(If this situation involved a certain Japanese company starting with N, OpenTTD would already be facing cease-and-desist letters.)
Atari monetizing a game that sat abandoned for 25 years while OpenTTD developers maintained it entirely for free, can be seen as capitalizing on community labor without compensation.

Also, don't forget that Atari has the legal power to shut down OpenTTD completely. Which is the real problem with game preservation: When an old game suddenly becomes valuable again, the company that owns it can take control and destroy the project that actually kept the game alive all those years.

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Welcome to the umpteenth iteration of "How Much Sawdust Can You Put In A Rice Crispy?" experiment. Alas, we find ourselves once again in the charade of "testing everyone's tolerance to AI slop", wherein CEOs spend a pittance on human labor as a gesture of apology. It's a meager step in the right direction, but still, disingenuous.

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It's sad to see Mozilla making the same bad choices. Prioritizing shareholder profits seems to come above everything else.

Lest we forget:

- Rewriting Firefox Terms of Use / Privacy Notice with broad licensing language (appeared to grant Mozilla rights to user input; caused major user backlash; subsequently revised)

- Moving toward increased ad revenue and partnerships (adding sponsored content/ads in Firefox and related services), raising concerns about monetization vs. privacy

- Heavy financial dependence on Google search-default deals (large portion of revenue from Google), raising conflict-of-interest and independence concerns

- Leadership controversies and contentious executive appointments (e.g., Brendan Eich 2014 CEO appointment controversy over prior political donation)

- Removing or deprecating user-favored features and products (e.g., Pocket shutdown, Fakespot removal, UI changes like Proton tab removals) that alienated loyal users

- Product regressions and reliability/performance regressions reported by users (pages/apps breaking, higher memory use, regressions in performance)

- Accusations of questionable third‑party partnerships (e.g., monitoring/identity services, ad/analytics vendors) and integrations that conflicted with earlier privacy commitments

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Thanks a lot Liam for sharing another very interesting indie title with us!
Keep them coming! 🔥

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Move over Viscera Cleanup Detail! It's time for Trash Tidying Operation!

Too bad it doesn't have Online Co-op or Shared/Split Screen Co-op to play with friends. Hopefully will have mod support for custom maps and assets!

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What a throwback!

Who remembers "Electric Man", the "Rage!" series, "Sift Heads" and the "Xiao Xiao" animations?

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> To keep adult content legal, you’ll need to prove you’re 18+ before accessing most adult-tagged mods. (Exact mechanics aren’t live yet.)

Out with the old
In with the new
Screw what worked
Now barriers accrue.

Proof of age, scans of ID
Delays and rejects
You’ll wait and plea.

What once was simple
Free to explore
Now stranded behind a locked door.

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In a sea of AAA path-traced puddles and that are a mile wide but an inch deep, dare to be the indie PS1-style, low-poly marvel: quirky, bold and unforgettable. A big "Thank you!" to these indie video game artists, for they the future of gaming! Shine on, you crazy diamond!

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I love the look of this game! Good pixel artists never fail to impress me! If you’re a fan of this art style, do check out Loco Motive too. I've started playing it recently and the animations are mighty fine!

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@CharlieTheMadHatter

Use `LD_PRELOAD="" %command`

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/4436#issuecomment-2466646597 [External Link]

Much appreciated! Good to know this is a known issue and I wasn't going... Mad! :grin:

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