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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I 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.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis is about the only tower defence game I've actually played.

Same. The original Defense Grid was one of the first games I got on Steam (since it was part of the ARG around Portal 2 releasing), and I just…never really felt the need to play more TD games after playing these two. 😄

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• Improved Medi Gun heal target selection to prioritize teammate directly under crosshair when teammates are close together (community fix from wget)


• Improved targetid selection to replicate Medi Gun heal target selection (community fix from wget)

Love to see it as a Medic main. And all these community-contributed fixes, in general.

Now I'm wondering what the longest period of time a game has gone between release and some sort of update (bug fix, content addition, whatever) is? 🤔

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Quoting: CarollyThere's a reason that products sold in my country don't carry Prop 65 labels, and there's a reason that most products sold in America don't, either.

Perhaps "most" is technically true, but I see plenty of superfluous Prop 65 labels on things here in Hawaii. (I don't know if it's because those things come from California, or if it's just easier for a company to slap a label on something and sell one version throughout the US rather than make a separate version solely for California.)

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Quoting: CaldathrasThis looks like it could be fun, especially if it sticks to real species instead of made-up ones.

It has admittedly been a while since I last played, but I'm fairly sure Megaquarium uses all real species.

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