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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.

That's generally why when you're younger people tend to put their retirement funds into riskier investments and over time as you get closer to retirement you move portions of your money into less risky things that don't have the potential volatility of the stock market so that by the time you retire you don't have to worry about the stock market dipping and blowing out your retirement funds. At least that's one way to do it; obviously this isn't investment advice and you should seek your own professional investment advice.

How about both?

Most likely the only way you'd end up with fentanyl in weed is if someone was weighing both on the same scale at different times and didn't clean the fentanyl off of it before weighing up some weed.

There isn't any CSS used on that page, it's all using old HTML only styling and I'd wager that it hasn't really been touched much since, ya know... 1997.

Would you say the same of a parent that gets drunk at night?

It's probably just some old keyword stuffing/SEO to get the page to show up under searches for all of those keywords.

I always wonder if maybe the devs are wanting an out from finishing the project but still want the cred for working on it. So they make the announcement fully knowing Nintendo will come down on them which will then alleviate them from having to complete the project.

In a row?

It'll probably be like anytime someone decides to outsource work to a less skilled worker. You'll either end up with an inferior product or you'll have to scrap what you got and redo it at the cost of more time and a higher price thus completely negating the whole reason for outsourcing in the first place. So many people making these decisions can't see past the next quarter on the graph.

I could, but I don't personally care that much about Vantablack.

There is a group (person) that makes an actual super deep black paint called Black 4.0 and if memory serves correctly they actually started with a jab at Kapoor by originally making the Pinkest Pink paint and banned Kapoor from buying it. Looks like they have a lot of different paints these days and are definitely worth checking out.