Quoting: slaapliedjeHere's something I find hilarious about this... everyone uses Discord for gaming voice chat...

I'm not sure this is actually correct, or at least, entirely correct. I mean, sure, lots of people do use Discord for gaming voice chat, don't get me wrong, but it's also much more than that: it's basically a place for lots of communities to hang out and asynchronously communicate. Lots of games have Discord servers (I'm in the ones for Filament and Noita, for instance), where people chat and share ideas/hints/discussion/help/artwork/what-have-you (I've gotten a ton of help modding Noita from other modders in the server, for instance). There are Discord servers for programming languages (I know of Python and Rust, I'm sure there are others), even a small web-comic I follow has a(n official) server for discussions. I also use it for communicating with family back home across the Pacific and (text) chatting with friends.

If Discord were just voice chat then yes, it'd be relatively simple to replace with any of the other alternatives out there (other than the whole "network effect" and getting everyone to settle on an alternative), but it's really a lot more than that for some people and I don't know, off the top of my head, of a replacement that exactly covers all its use cases. That's the real issue for people looking for alternatives.

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Quoting: HoriNice, but still not gonna get into EU4 at this point. Waiting for EU5 lol

Fair enough, I'm still waiting for Victoria 3 with native Linux support since I discovered Paradox games back in…2014. :huh:

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XCOM: Chimera Squad was working perfectly (for me at least) when it released a year ago, but I'm glad to see it's now "officially" working. :smile:

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Can't wait to watch the speedruns of this. :grin:

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Lots of good stuff looks like. So cool to finally get some indigenous peoples in and around Oceania. I'm also excited for the Totemism changes, as I suggested a very similar idea some 4–5 years ago. :happy:

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Quoting: sigzActually the linux build of shadow tactics has some issues, the guards sight cone is graphically broken, it displays fully white where it should be a translucent green.

Just fired it up to check and it's working fine for me on Debian 10 stable. :unsure: But sounds like a bug to report.

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Welp, that's going on the wishlist immediately! I was always kinda hoping for something like this for Blades of the Shogun—always felt like it could support an expansion to give us more nail-biting missions to enjoy. :grin:

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I'm no fan of Microsoft buying anything, but I'll grudgingly admit they've managed not to run GitHub into the ground yet, so…50-50 Discord will still be worth using in a few years? :neutral:

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyFYI, the "In-Dome Buildings Pack" is already available (the article above implies it's coming soon)

I believe it wasn't available at the time the article was written (I looked), but released a scant day or two later.

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So, I'm trying out the new buildings pack, and it's quite good. Most of them are larger or smaller variations of pre-existing buildings, giving you a lot more flexibility for supporting larger or smaller domes. E.g., there's a 1-tile security post now if the 3-tile normal version is too large, there's now a smart apartment complex so you no longer have to choose between the comfort of smart homes and the capacity of apartments, etc., etc.. I haven't unlocked the new workshop yet, but apparently it's a way to gain money besides just exporting rare metals to Earth (and some technologies), which sounds great.

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