I’m sprry for your exeprience with Steam.

My own buying and playing routine doesn’t even get to the point that I return games, multiple ones at that.

Sadly, I can’t relate and can’t understand your pov.

I don’t want to specify that, what’s your problem?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Was it some raging chainsmoker or four different guys thought it is a good idea to have a smoke break near an oil depot?

I’m delighted to see a lore scholar come and help me out. Thank you. I hope I’d be as helpful to some anon as you were to me.

What’s the catch? I’ve read the anthology a couple of times, albeit not in English, and I seem to miss the joke here.