Recently I was playing a game on my Steamdeck through family share for a week. I only used suspend and wake feature while in the game, and never closed the game process. I later found out the owner refunded the shortly after purchase, but Steam did not kick me out of the game. I finished the game, and I was online the whole time.
On a separate occasion, I played a game for 10 hours through family share, and then decided to get a copy of my own. Wanted to return it after 15 min, but Steam won't let me because it is considering prior 10 hours play time makes me ineligible for 2 hour refund window.
Unfortunately the Steam client is simply abysmal offline. Even basic functionality such as caching game title thumbnails and viewing screenshots appears to be nerfed on purpose. You can't view your own achivements. Some games simply won't launch on the Deck offline. Now I will always try to buy a game on GOG first if it's available to avoid this sort of DRM.
So your plan is to stop using a client that is abysmal offline in order to avoid a problem that's only "better" on the other client because it doesn't implement it at all ?
Not for trains - there's a shared expectation that pedestrians should not access the track.
Similarly, not for a freeway.
Where some feel the balance is wrong, is at local-level streets. Today the assumption in most places is that cars have total right of way, and pedestrians must keep clear. It doesn't have to be that way. In a residential area, it's quite feasible to say all road users have equal right to use the space. And in that circumstance, put the onus on the car user (wielding a heavy, dangerous weapon) to not hit other road users.
* Trains are _extremely_ predicable. Cars are the opposite. This is why trams in i busy inner city are more safe than cars. You know exactly where that tram is going and at what speed.
Yes, and on top of that if there were a train line on campus with any high speed train traffic it would be surrounded by tall fences and the pedestrians would be provided with off-level crossing. (One or more tunnels and/or bridges)
This is exactly the case a little ways away at Tufts University in the city of Medford. There's a busy train line that runs through the campus and it's fenced off. Students do sometimes find ways in there and use the right-of-way as a shortcut. Sometimes they get killed doing this--which is why the fence is there in the first place.
there's only ever a difference of 1 atmosphere or so between a spacecraft and vacuum, we're talking about a 400 atmosphere differential at those depths
Good point, we (men) might be oblivious to the fact that pressure has ramped up for women too, they now need to be a woman AND a man to get prestige.
It's been an ongoing adventure with my partner, she works very hard for a good salary while I'm the successless indie game dev.
We talk a lot about it and our feelings about it, and I realize how privileged/lucky I am to have found her and that she accepts me.
She's crazy enough to agree with me on the fact that I might get exponentially more useful in case of a war/disaster, and that I'd make a perfect dad when we get to it :p
