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Cool, can we make the divest from American game studios now?

Well, it does say enterprise and those are definitely enterprise level prices.

As long as you're using latex/nitrile condoms you should be good as latex and nitrile aren't plastics. Some of the alternatives for people with latex allergies can have plastic in them though.

I doubt they'll go hungry for at least 4 years.

I suspect the Ministry of Silly Walks will start receiving a lot of new grant requests soon if you're correct about gait recognition being used in this case.

If I'm not careful my sleep schedule will slowly start to rotate around the clock. I've done a full cycle on two separate occasions and it gets really weird feeling, but the hardest part is the social aspect. First, people have zero understanding and get weirded out by it. Second, it's very difficult to keep any sort of social schedule when your sleep schedule shifts too much from the norm, but I suppose night shift people already have that issue. Also, not really knowing when you're waking hours will be several days to a week out can be really frustrating.

Sleep issue suck and most people who have never experienced them before think it's super easy to fix by just being in bed at a set time, getting a weighted blanket, or some other silly suggestion they may come up with.

I read your comment as they want to hook up with trans people and I was adding that some (most?) are trans themselves and repressing it. I think it's probably important to recognize both of those potential aspects of where trans hate can come from.

No, they need to ban it because deep down they are afraid they are trans and if they can somehow ban it then they can keep pushing those feelings down and ignore it.

Well, actually, it's probably both.

I think the difference between a 13 year old and an 18 year old is generally pretty obvious and if you can't tell then don't even risk it.

Steam recently the added the ability to easily record gameplay footage. They are also updating the family sharing system (that feature alone would probably never come to other platforms). They also continue to improve gaming on Linux. I don't remember how long it has been, but they massively updated the library with a lot of really useful features such as being able to select a friend and it'll show what games you have in common so picking a game to play with a friend is a lot easier.

Further back we see the remote play together feature added to Steam; I was hesitant to use it for a long time but as long as you and the host have a decent internet connection it works pretty flawlessly.

Their custom control settings and community sharing of the different controller schemes is incredibly helpful with some games.

Their review system is pretty good and always helpful to me when exploring for new games I haven't previously heard of. They have also seem to try to keep the reviews more legit and less spammy/meme-y and more relevant to the actual game itself.

They also implement rules to keep game pages on the store less spammy, they had a big overhaul on the rules around thumbnails for games to keep text off of them because developers started overloading them with advertisements for other games.

They have also recently announced allowing for refunds on season passes when the developers take too long or never deliver on their promises they sold you on. This of course should have always been the case, but at let they're coming around. I also don't know if any of the other platforms make it as easy to get a refund as Steam does, but that's been around for a while now.

I believe there has also been a lot of work developing server side cheat detection so maybe one day we won't have to rely on client side anti-cheats so much. I also believe they recently made a change to their rules where if a game has a kernel/root level anti cheat that they have to flag that on the store page for the game.

Steam (Valve) actually seem to care about games and the industry in general and want to see the environment around gaming improve.

From my current view point Steam is an actual platform everyone else are just store fronts that provide no additional value to the consumer. So yeah, pricing is rarely the issue when it comes to piracy and Steam really shows how true that statement can be.

Also, most people don't realize that Steam doesn't force games to use DRM, that's purely up to the developers.

Edit: fixed some typos.

Peanut Lovers Chex Mix; the regular Chex mix is just fine but Peanut Lovers was on a different level.