i actually received back:
A green checkmark that says Received.
If we're talking about SteamGifts and not SyeamGifts, that is.
You get bonus points for QWERTY layout though!
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Happiness in some cases, when winners were really happy to get a game.
Neat people.
Fun discussions.
There were also bad things (abusers, bots,trolls) , but that's nothing unexpected from an internet community.
Positive things are better, at least for me
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A sense of happiness, for giving and receiving back
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Community. I'm not the most social, but I find it really fun being here. Giving back is enjoyable and it gives me a good excuse to buy keys constantly.. leaving me excited for December;)
Plus, I've won a bunch of games I wouldn't have normally gotten to experience, which is great!
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give actual games
win mostly garbage games.
i play them all tho, it fills the void of daily life
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i dont gift to expect something in return, i came here in the first place to gift my leftover keys. but ive got some really nice ones that i enjoyed and even played to 100% overall just happy to be part of the community, so many nice people here :)
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Before? I don't remember.
Nowadays? I guess... a feeling of "ok-ness" when someone expresses that I made them happy (specifically when they played the game they won from me and liked it... "thanks for adding +1 to my library" has the opposite effect)... for about 1-5 minutes. Then the depression comes back.
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What makes you think that I haven't "reached out for help"? Do you think that it automatically changes anything?
Well, it did not. Not the first time, not the fifteenth time.
Actually, it did change something- it convinced me that psychology and psychiatry are complete hack pseudo-sciences filled with a shit-ton of glorified scammers. Let's not talk about this anymore. <.<
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You aren't wrong. There are many people who get a degree in psychology and think it makes them qualified to charge money for giving life advice to others. In reality all it does is legally permit them to give bad advice and absolve them of responsibility when someone acts on that bad advice and things go horribly wrong.
Not to say there aren't also many legitimate mental health professionals who truly want to help people and give it their all, but yeah, like anything else it's not 100%.
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Not really. 1-5 minutes is nothing. And then you just kinda feel even worse afterwards.
(Yeah, I'm more of a glass-half-empty kind of guy.)
For the record, I don't make giveaways expecting some kind of emotional payoff or whatever. I make giveaways because I think those are good games and more people should get to experience them.
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glass-half-empty
got it, crystal clear :)
you made me think about You're Not Alone thread, the Mully's one... cause you're actually not alone, here on SG.
saw that glass all possible ways. all. even upside down, with no air. i guess it also depends on moments of life. nowadays, i see it close, reeally close to be full. a moment, of my life, a period of time.
kinda same stuff goes with my important and your nothing.
but we do giveaways in a very different way, tho! i have expectations, i still have them. they're not "very precise", payoff can be anything, The whatever is ok, really ok for me. that makes me good, SG makes me that good, so, i'll keep on doing it.
(and that's what i'm actually receiving back from doing giveaways. i have received tons of love, also.)
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A sense of cleanliness in my stale Humble Bundle key list, some quirky games and some good ones I wouldn't have gotten, with Humble Bundles being a bit less fantastic over time. A healthy dose of "wow, those Fanatical mystery bundles are crap shoots." Some good motivation and friendly groups to encourage backlog playing.
Right now my kid is super crazy excited to play Ghostrunner, which I wouldn't have delved into if I weren't on here. And found some fun story games I wouldn't have expected to enjoy as much as I am. That feeling of Zork, but without the worry of grues.
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game is https://store.steampowered.com/app/1627840/
giveaway ends soon (1 hour), level 1+
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I love reading all the answers people give to the silly questions I ask in my giveaways.
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