new block sets of cinnabar and sulfur

They should add a few more while they're at it: lead, cadmium, beryllium, thallium, uranium… 😁

Jokes aside, it does look like some interesting stuff.

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Re-re-enable Bluetooth Wake for Steam Deck LCD

So…they enabled it, disabled it, re-enabled it, disabled it again, and are now re-enabling it for the second time? 🥴

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Well, I can admit when I'm wrong – this update post [External Link] from the OpenTTD team clarifies that they weren't "pressured" to make these changes by Atari, that they had discussions with Atari ahead of the rerelease, and that Atari is providing some funding support for their server infrastructure as part of the deal. I guess since I already have it on Steam it doesn't technically affect me going forward, though the release of this clarifying post suggests I wasn't the only one to get that misunderstanding from the original.

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If there's one thing 495 hours of playing Noita has taught me, it's that combining spells to solve puzzles always brings horrible death utter hilarity! 😆

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Quoting: CaldathrasIt's certainly plausible but not the only explanation. The OpenTTD team may have chosen to do so preemptively to avoid any potential complaint from Atari.

To me that just sounds like the OpenTTD team expected Atari to say "make people buy our game to play yours, or we'll DMCA you off of Steam and GOG" and got out in front of it. Not materially different, in my eyes.

Quoting: CaldathrasThe norm with these open-source executible projects (and total overhaul mod bundles) has been to offer them only to those that own the original game on the same store. This change puts OpenTTD in line with that approach.

Typically that's because they require assets from the original game (and I agree in that case, that makes sense). That's not the case here since OpenTTD has its own independently-created assets, so I don't see why it should happen.

I dunno. Maybe it's all totally innocent, but it's just not a very good look when a corporation comes along trying to revive a classic game and oh would you look at that, totally coincidentally you also now need to buy their game going forward to get access to the already-popular free and open source reimplementation of it (on popular store fronts, I know it's still freely available elsewhere). The patch notes definitely have an "I'm not happy about this and am typing it under duress" quality to them:

OpenTTD has been available on the Steam Store for the past five years.
During that time, we've built up an incredible player base, attracting lots of new players to the game.
Starting today however, OpenTTD will no longer be directly available as a standalone game on Steam.
It can instead be obtained as part of a bundle alongside the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe, which has been re-released by Atari and is now available to purchase via Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Quoting: Liam DaweOpenTTD has had free graphics and music available for a very long time. Using content from TTD is entirely optional.

That's what I thought. This definitely smells of Atari going "make people buy our game to play yours, or we'll DMCA you off of Steam and GOG". At least per the change notes it says:

If you already own OpenTTD on Steam, nothing changes.
You'll continue to receive game updates as usual.
If you ever need to re-download the game, the game will remain in your Steam library.

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Quoting: Pikolo

Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: PikoloIt was working the same as @everyone (mentioning everyone giving them a notification), but without warning you that you're sending a very broad notification

Thanks! I'm just still unclear what an "escaped mention" is, or at least what it's supposed to do. If "\@everyone" does the same as "@everyone" now (if I understand the fix)…what's the point of the backslash? 🤔 Or does it do something different now? What does "\@<user>" do differently from "@user"?

It's not supposed to do anything besides showing the text ;)

Ah! Gotcha. That was unclear, thank you. I'm familiar with the concept of escaping characters, but the description in the patch notes just wasn't making sense to me (and I didn't know about escaping the @ symbol in Discord.) So the issue was that it wasn't correctly escaping "@everyone/@here", and now it does. 🙂

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And to the users logged in who send in correction reports to fix my incorrect wording, and sometimes rather funky grammar - you're awesome too. You know who you are. I appreciate you a lot.

Aww, thanks! And you're welcome. 😊

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Quoting: Linux_RocksWould running with a rifle be safer than running with scissors? 🤔

Generally people aren't shooting at you when running with scissors. 😁

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Quoting: Pikolo

Quoting: PhiladelphusI did notice that video backgrounds were a thing recently while video-chatting with my brother. Nice to see that finally happen.

What does doing "\@everyone" actually do? It's unclear from the patch note.

It was working the same as @everyone (mentioning everyone giving them a notification), but without warning you that you're sending a very broad notification

Thanks! I'm just still unclear what an "escaped mention" is, or at least what it's supposed to do. If "\@everyone" does the same as "@everyone" now (if I understand the fix)…what's the point of the backslash? 🤔 Or does it do something different now? What does "\@<user>" do differently from "@user"?

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