Short version: Valve devalued some of the rarest items by adding a path that lets you generate them from cheaper items

They made the game better for actual players, and in so doing, gutted it for investors

That's just lovely, like fed two birds with one scone 🥹

good stream despite being murdered by encoder errors

I also have a nose-bleed that won't quick, but that seems less like a Con-Flu kinda thing and more like a "when it rains, it pours" situation.