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Nirjor

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Man, leveling up is sometimes so annoying in steamgifts.
I was like lv 3.96 in SG before "community event" started. So I figured that I should try for lv4 cause event is a good way to win games since max level requirement is 4.
So I do 2 giveaways but before the giveaway ends, I drop to like 3.82 & after getting cv from the 2 giveaways, I was at 3.87.
Then today I dropped to 3.77.
Though if steamgifts one day makes most games winnable from indiegala & lootboy to have 0 cv, then I would drop to lv1 or worse case to lv0.
 

Pygmy Goat

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Man, leveling up is sometimes so annoying in steamgifts.
I was like lv 3.96 in SG before "community event" started. So I figured that I should try for lv4 cause event is a good way to win games since max level requirement is 4.
So I do 2 giveaways but before the giveaway ends, I drop to like 3.82 & after getting cv from the 2 giveaways, I was at 3.87.
Then today I dropped to 3.77.
Though if steamgifts one day makes most games winnable from indiegala & lootboy to have 0 cv, then I would drop to lv1 or worse case to lv0.
I'd be surprised if the mods make all the indiegala games 0 cv. They changed some of them to be 0 cv a few years ago and people got upset. Many accounts that rely almost entirely on indiegala freebies to level up would be completely destroyed if they zero out everything.

Lootboy is also not an easy decision because it's not always clear which games come from lootboy drops and at what frequency. If a game shows up very rarely, say like in 0.5% of packs, should it count as 0? Not to mention that there's a lot of overlap between lootboy games and various humble/fanatical bundles that people pay money for.

So, I think your cv is mostly safe as long as you're not relying on full cv games that you got for free (e.g. hitsquad) or from the grey market at a huge discount >95%

Most of the giveaways in the community train are level 3 or lower, so you're getting a good chunk of it.
 
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Curtainferno

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I want to say thank you, Curtainferno, for Full Throttle Remastered, it seems that today I will go into the world of pleasant childhood memories on a powerful futuristic chopper.
Seemed the least I could do! Thanks again to you, as well (publicly, this time), for Alien Hallway (and previously, UFO: Afterlight, Astervoid 2000 Soundtrack, Runaway: A Road Adventure, and another key that didn't work but was still generously given)! :)

we have about 4211 keys for that :p
So if that leaves 4206 keys remaining, may I please request one of them? (Already got the base game, but it's feeling lonely without its soundtrack! 😁)

Edit: Got the key! It worked! Thank you, RETRO & pos!

How many lairs ago was that? I don't recall the post :LOL:
 
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WhatNitrous

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I don't remember. It was many lair moons ago. I mentioned it and very few people showed interested. It's hard to convince people to change their habits and try out new tools.
I am the walking truth of that statement, sadly. But its not new things I hate, it the malicious potential and (and liveliness of it these days) that I avoid, actually its been that way since I was young. Thats why I made my own excel clone and almost anything I ever needed to use in one of my programs...which is how I learned so much of the bottom level code.

Except for reinventing the entire internet from the void (that would take a good sized and skilled team of adept programmers a very very long time--I'm talking everything), or reverting 'entirely' to assembly to remake C itself, although I do dabble in it when i need extremely fast execution and I have been able to beat languages like C# by seconds in certain tasks even if they relied on assembly code themself and were declared to run as the so called "deprecated" and usafe versions.

Sorry, I went programmer mode before checking in for the night :ROFLMAO:

Ya..uh, english version...

People i my experience generally tend to always try to gain something even when released a program as open source/free or giving away anything free at all particularly corporations so I have a trust level of negative NaN (not a number, too large) lmao.

I prefer to read, learn, and remake my own of every program that interests me rather than rely on third party tools or programs...which leaves me half in the stone-age, but skilled at the true low-level functionality of almost every aspect of a computer program.

So I'm not o the most-wanted list as fire as jobs go, but most programmers don't even understand whats under the layers of the code they do use...and if that code fails or has a flaw--so does anything relying on it. I had to rewrite the copy command in DOS so it would stop failing when SD Card adapter ejected during huge transfers at one point :LOL:

I mean wtf Microsoft, you can't even fix that?

Sorry, doing it again. I'm done...ya, I hate using new tools...but I hate you thinking your opinion would be frowned upon when someone was interested even more so, that was my original meaning for both of these posts. Sorry for the god forsaken coding rant.
 

Curtainferno

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You are like a forum librarian...legit. I think MadLibrarian might be out of a job heh.
It's really not that difficult! ;)

Can you find one that says I'm ordering pizza from egypt for me? :ROFLMAO:
This is the only other post in which you mention Egypt:
 

WhatNitrous

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I do use the search function...but I try to keep it thread based, which is how i missed my own post with the video :LOL:
This is the only other post in which you mention Egypt:
I knew what that post was without clicking, but I did have to go be sure. Death of the creed.

Well now we have one that mentions pizza and egypt if anyone ever asks such a random request again..not likely, but you never know lol.
 

DanteFromHell89

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Hi DanteFromHell89, my apologies, I was busy with something else.
Key sent on a PM, I hope it works for you 🤞.
Greetings.
No, it's me who's in need to apologize.
I was in a bad mood, sorry for being annoying(
Thanks for the key!
I keep track of all the games I own across all stores (+any emulated games) in Playnite. I can export the info to html if needed. Good enough for me.
Edit: Well, Playnite uses a database, but you know what I mean. It's a user friendly app.
is it a mobile app or what?
 

BurningPixels

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Didn't know about the Konami Code, I always found Contra very hard to play for me I didn't play too much. The one I played the most was Probotector (Contra for Nes). The cover art was so cool!
the fake 3d level was great see on Nes.
relatable!
that's why I have my two text documents:
the first one for the games that I've seen on IG and want, and the second one for the all the games I own at Steam/GOG/Origin/EGS/Indiegala etc.
I like to use notepad too for its simplicity and for fast opening, I use too keep track of all games I won on IG by date and duplicated ones too.
I use Open Office spreadsheet instead to manage steam keys. This is slower when I have to open it compared to notepad.

doesnt work in videos ads i think?
If you mean when youtubers advertise a product inside their video, no it doesn't work because that spot is part of the video.
 

DanteFromHell89

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The one I played the most was Probotector (Contra for Nes). The cover art was so cool!
Ah, the butchered Contra localisations... That was so long ago, but I'm still hate those guys that was thinking in 80's-90's that you can change games when they come overseas 'cause gamers in your country are not the same as gamers in Japan((
Contra, for example, had a reach story, even cutscenes, but in US it has non and story became generic AF(
Robot Jesus XDDDDDd
 

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Didn't know about the Konami Code, I always found Contra very hard to play for me I didn't play too much. The one I played the most was Probotector (Contra for Nes). The cover art was so cool!
Not Contra for NES, actually, EUROPEAN Contra for NES. Because killing people is bad and Konami changed people to robots (сhinese pirates thought to change Bill and Lance to Darkwing Duck(s) and sell Super C as Darkwing Duck 2, but that's another story). Just like they changed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles because ninjas are evil and it might spoil kids.
 

BurningPixels

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Ah, the butchered Contra localisations... That was so long ago, but I'm still hate those guys that was thinking in 80's-90's that you can change games when they come overseas 'cause gamers in your country are not the same as gamers in Japan((
Contra, for example, had a reach story, even cutscenes, but in US it has non and story became generic AF(
Unfortunally with localizations games where changed a little to adapt to them to the target market, on Nes they had to censor some game content to make it good for all ages. I can think about Maniac Mansion for Nes was heavily censorsed for its images and text The Expurgation of <i>Maniac Mansion</i> for the Nintendo Entertainment System
Robot Jesus XDDDDDd
 

LuckyStrike1305

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Not Contra for NES, actually, EUROPEAN Contra for NES. Because killing people is bad and Konami changed people to robots (сhinese pirates thought to change Bill and Lance to Darkwing Duck(s) and sell Super C as Darkwing Duck 2, but that's another story). Just like they changed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles because ninjas are evil and it might spoil kids.
Can you explain this to me?
 

BurningPixels

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Not Contra for NES, actually, EUROPEAN Contra for NES. Because killing people is bad and Konami changed people to robots (сhinese pirates thought to change Bill and Lance to Darkwing Duck(s) and sell Super C as Darkwing Duck 2, but that's another story). Just like they changed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles because ninjas are evil and it might spoil kids.
Cool I own
and just now after many years I realised that version is hero and not ninja, the "teenage mutant hero" is written so small though.
 
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