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The decline of legal streaming, through the dividing up of content onto multiple expensive streaming platforms, has pushed me away from legal options onto the black/grey market where I can get much more content for much less on a more convenient single platform.
They were never competing with cable but with piracy. Of all media sellers it seems Gabe Newell was unique in understanding that
By all accounts Gabe isn't also a gargantuan piece of shit, which also sets him apart from the other media sellers.
Somehow my mind read over the isn't and I had to deeply think on Wtf I missed and couldn't come up with shit