Valve made it super convinient for their customers and they also took steps to encourage content creation with SFM, Source Engine, sharing their own assets. They created working cloud saving and mod sharing solutions, greenlighting a bunch of indies based on votes and being on the side of the customer in disputes over refunds with 2hr rule becomingthe new norm. For years, they provided and improved their service, so it’s rare to see anyone complaining about that.

Ah, and Epic killed UT4 in beta when they found their initial zombie game mode that became Fortnite gave them that much cash they could start their own marketplace with regular giveaways and exclusives going on for years. I’m fucking pissed at them for that even now. It is irrational and personal, but Valve didn’t kill my favorite game series, it’s the opposite, since they kept slowly releasing and constantly updating Dota, CS, create Alyx, keep TF2 alive, and I’m only sad Alien Swarm would never see new content. In game studios and game marketplaces, Valve are golden.

But coming back to your initial displeasment with them, the funny thing is a lot of Steam games don’t need Steam to launch. Unless devs implement some hooks and DRMs themselves, you can just launch their EXE file. Nobody really checks that, but that’s the truth, and I’ve seen some lists of games that don’t do that. On top of that, 99% offline games can be launched without internet with Steam only, you can even backup and then install some game on your PC offline if your client knows you own it. And don’t forget family sharing - although they promised to rework it, I, my partner and our friends used it a lot, and although you can’t use a game from a shared library when you are offline, if the owner plays it offline you can play it too at the same time without messing with each others’ gameplay. This lazy implementation of DRM with many workarounds and general respect to even the sleakiest, cheating customer is why I still buy games there.

Are they allergic to pineapple pieces on pizza tho 🤔

That’d probably decide this decade-old question.

Not OP. I think that Fuzz just got more budget and looks less campy than Shaun due to that and stylistic choices, but I love both equally and I don’t think filming Shaun like Fuzz would make it better. HF packs action and SotD shines in it’s long shots when we see parts of it’s storytelling in the background, they both have different vibes and the way they are filmed and edited serves them well.

Ed Wright and their shared cast are so talented they could’ve made anything a cult classic, even an omegaverse\Twilight crossover where Simon Pegg, haphazardly tanned to look like Jacob (pre-RenEsme lock-in), struggles to find a match with a vampire omega and joins the Edward\Bella story only to steal Edward; Nick Frost serves as his werewolf bro giving the least useful advices Simon blindly follows; also it’s suburbs of London and the soundtrack is full of hair metal for some reason.

Shit, now this idea would haunt me for years.

Debloated and castrated W10 is not as shitty as older systems if you look at it now, PowerShell is kinda neat and useful, standalone Office apps are slowly getting better and the corruption of their interfaces happened more than a decade ago in Vista times. I like Win+Shift+S screenshot shortcut, Win+arrow movement of windows, middle-mouse scrolling that I can’t correctly emulate on Linux. Their driver storage and search made plug-n-play less of a joke than it was before, like 50% of the time you don’t even need to look for drivers. Your fresh installation media usb stick can also serve for in-place update if you click its’ Setup.exe while booted, and it helped me to unfuck a lot of borked systems. All of these come wirh a lot of shit, but, like, w10 era before co-pilot was a golden age for Win PCs, and it also brought a shared subscription between their xbox consoles and pcs. And if they worked on top of that, improved it, I could’ve stayed there. But they did everything to make me switch to Linux, and with further downgrades, ads and neuro-bullshit I’m happy I got the best MS did and wasn’t there to experience their products at their worst.

It can be both. Like G. Shröder didn’t join the board of directors of russian oil and gas companies for nofhing, and I believe AfD had been paid in roubles a lot to stay relevant. Yet, no one who wanted to bring hell on US, Germany or any ofher country could’ve predicted that there would be a factor like Elon speedrunning the downfall on some cocaine speeds.

I disagree. It’s not about P25, it’s about shielding oneself and friendly tech bros from any investigation and responsibility for leaking or willfullty trading data. This agency was a threat to Muskie and Zuckie-chan, so it was put down.

What a smol weiner move on Dump’s side. He can’t handle his own immigrants so he send them elsewhere. Is he weak or is he even weaker?

Let the God fucking guard those poor souls who got caught in the crossfire. They don’t deserve being so dependent on who is chosen a president by a country they aren’t even citizens of. Getting sent back to wherever after living, working in the US, is fucking cruel.

Yep, the n-word kitty.

If you are curious, you can read more about the man and find him nearly frightened by his own shadow, thus filled with hate and bias to the brim. His fragile antics are probably why he wrote a lot of foundational horror stories. Guy was clearly unwell in the head department, and although it gave us a lot of creative lit, all of it is stained with things he was himself afraid of.

I’d need another liver or two to complete it on one single short story of his.

Man looks like he can beat the shit out of me if I pick a wrong soccer team to stan.

No one heard and no one would.

There should be a geopolitical literacy meter that has a red sector named after Donny-boy.

I picture him trying to hide the word Mexico with his small hands.

The later is on the app, right. Maybe dev didn’t implement a method to show a thread eith your reply, or just generalized to always refresh it.

Game’s size depends on many factors. Besides devs’ laziness or the abundance of inique assets and dupes, I had a fun ride with Vermintide 2 whose devs were able to cut game’s size from 100gb+ to 60gb+ at once because they added all incrimental updates as additional archives and also prefered to have all assets for one level in one place even if they are shared, so it grew out of proportion over the years before they decided to cause a complete asset restructurement and dublicate hunt before the major update. It made players redownload big chunks of the game but resulted in a way less terrifying size to those players they wanted to start it or return into.

It is off-putting how childish and bate-y it is, but that’s Musk, and he is doing that to feel himself empowered by others’ inaction and outrage. I almost feel bad for discussing it even though it’s a major accident, that’d normalize further bs and distract us from what Trump does at the moment. What makes me feel bad fr tho is that I’m yet to see any significant infighting, that hope was greatly oversold.

Constant refreshes is probably your phone unloading the app from it’s memory to save some. See if settings for Connect in the list of your installed apps have different power\memory saving modes. My older phone loses the app if I switch two times to another apps, like to browser and then to gallery - and Connect is now reset to the start of the feed

1500 ready to deploy idiots who only got more loyal to him after a pardon. That’s to revive whatever fanboy militia he wants. I’m surprised he can just do that.

As a major investor into Open AI future, I’d gladly exchange all my non-existing stakes for a blowjob by fugly Sam Altman. It wouldn’t turn into any profits, but for some time, he’d have something in his mouth that isn’t a lie or a sketchy promo. I believe, some on Open AI board would even pay me to keep him silent.

Sounds sick and right in my lane.