u/archaeo_rex

I was sus about this because I had removed/refunded a lot of trash games and some had very little play time and couple achievements, so essentially a lot of games with at 1-5% achievement earned. Even though you refund or remove them from your library, their stats are still included in your average completion % shown in the steam profile showcase if you earn at least 1 achievement in them. (confirmed this to be the case with Steam mods directly)

I don't know if getting the game again or restoring a removed game (via support "restore game" option) then using SAM to lock the achievements then again removing or refunding them remove their stats from your account, I did not want to ask SAM usage to Steam mods directly.

To find your removed games, you need to create a ticket to Steam support and ask them to give that list then you can search that game in the steam support page and select "restore previously removed game", and for the refunded games, check your purchase history and search the page with the word "refund".

Hope this helps my obsessive completionist comrades out there.

Hello, there was this hotel, AQI Hydros, that we always frequented every summer as a family, and we were happy with it. But recently I found out it has changed hands and was bought by another company. It’s now called Corendon Hydros Club Kemer. This essentially invalidates all its past reviews, since the staff might’ve been fully replaced, including the food suppliers, etc. Isn’t it? I cannot trust the past reviews on google maps or on travel sites now.

I’m not sure if I should go there this summer or not. I was about to book, but wanted to ask whether anyone here can give their opinions or direct me to a better source about this, if one exists.

Twice in its history, Japan showed an impressive ability to absorb external advances and transform itself rapidly, turning contact with more developed societies into accelerated growth.

In the Yayoi period (traditionally dated ~300 BC-300 AD), Japan shifted from the long hunter-gatherer-fisher traditions of the Jōmon era (which already had pockets of complexity) to a settled agricultural society. Influences and migrants from the Korean Peninsula and continental Asia introduced wet-rice paddy farming, bronze and iron metallurgy, wheel-turned pottery, and new social structures. Adoption that started in northern Kyushu spread across much of the archipelago over the following centuries, driving population growth, villages, social hierarchies, and the foundations of political complexity.

More than two millennia later, in the late Tokugawa to Meiji era (mid-to-late 19th century), Japan faced Western gunboat diplomacy after centuries of relative isolation. Following Commodore Perry's arrival in 1853 and the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the country pursued an intense, state-led modernization drive. Building on existing literacy and commercial networks, Japan rapidly imported and adapted Western industry, military organization, education, law, and infrastructure. In just a few decades, it dismantled feudal structures, built factories and railways, achieved near-universal schooling, and emerged as a modern industrial power; defeating China in 1895 and Russia in 1905.

These transformations were driven by an external catalyst of pressure and opportunity from more advanced neighbors. In both cases, Japan excelled at pragmatic adaptation, selectively borrowing and modifying foreign technologies and systems to fit its own context. This enabled compressed development (achieving in just a few generations what had taken other societies much longer) through focused leadership and broad societal mobilization.

These episodes highlight a distinctive Japanese historical strength: the agility to recognize superior external models, absorb them energetically, and reinvent the country on an accelerated timeline. This remarkable ability to adapt has been one of the most consistent features throughout Japan's long history.

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