Hello, beautiful beings!

This week my master's thesis was approved and I ended an important cycle of my life (now come the articles and publications that will derive from this work, plus many other years of study, of course).

In times of greatest distress I went through this site as a way to "make up" the fact that I wasn't able to play anything because of lack of time. As a result, I became a more active member of this community (but not as much) and increased my whitelist.

Speaking of lists... to celebrate my master degree I gave an amnesty to all users who were on my blacklist. Most were suspected of using bots to get into GAs, but there were one or two that had misbehaved in the past that I don't even remember because they are blocked (except for someone who was being quite inconvenient with multiple users in another website and that I blocked here too). So, if you couldn't get into my GAs before, avoid copying and pasting a repeated thank you message to every GA you join, so you don't look like a robot (i know most of you just want to be nice, and you guys are great for that, but the repeated messages are pretty suspicious) and try to be nice to people.

I was also blocked a few times here at SteamGifts. The first few times for doing GA with games that were for free on other sites (at some point I learned it wasn't "elegant" and I stopped it) and other times simply "because" (I was added to some blacklists when I made my first train, for example, and I never understood why). But I probably must have been an asshole to some people a few times, for whatever reason, even if that wasn't my intention. So if I joined your list a long time ago, consider talk to me about it (it took me a while to figure out how everything works around here).

Anyway. I've set aside some cheap games to celebrate my master's degree, all with at least 80% of the positive reviews, which you can access here.

I know that some will be curious about my thesis, so I explain that I graduated in the area of ​​Urban Planning, with a research about the lack of formal address in the brazilian cities. For slum dwellers or homeless people, for example, not having a oficial address means that they cannot receive postal items, enroll children in schools, register or receive government assistance (at the moment, some Brazilian cities are requiring proof of address to apply Covid's vaccine, to avoid "vaccine tourism", only this leaves out residents of irregular areas, precisely the poorest and most vulnerable people in our society). For the government, the irregularity of some areas means that it will not be able to take evective actions related to basic sanitation, health, urban planing and maintenance or containment of violence, in addition to representing that part of the taxes is not properly collected (a small town with little more than 100,000 inhabitants, for example, had an increase of more than four million reais after regularizing certain informal areas and this is a significant amount that greatly increases the government's investment capacity). Anyway, the lack of addresses is bad for everyone, and in Brazil I estimate that more than 3 million homes are on streets that do not officially exist. Thats it.

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Congratulations for your graduation :o)

3 years ago
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Yay! Thanks, Masafor!

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Gratz & Bump!

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Thank you for the bump, Wintermute75!

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Congratulations on the graduation and thank you for the giveaways.

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Oh! Thank you, voidhanger! ^ ^

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Bump

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Hi, madsession! Thanks for the bump!

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Interesting thesis. I never knew that address-less places are such an issue in Brazil. Also a nice train!

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It's a problem in many cities in Asia, Africa and the entire american continent, unfortunately. But with the spread of technology and the creation of new codes based on geographic coordinates, this problem can be overcome very soon (I hope).

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Congrats!

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Yay! Thanks, Ad4m!

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Hehe! I was lucky that I got a scholarship, so I only spent a small fortune on books, otherwise...

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Congratulations and thanks for the train!

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You're welcome, Neomixer!

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Congratulations and thanks you!

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Thanks, talon2claw!

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Congrats! I hope your thesis leads to a way to improve the lives of the people leaving in the informal areas.

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I hope so. Thanks, aleluist! ^ ^

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Congratulations! :)

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Thank you, niron18! : )

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Gratz!

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You are welcome, ngrazer! : )

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Congrats! ^^

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Hi, driedmangoe! Tanks!

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Congratulations.

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Hey! Thank you! ^ ^

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Congratulations!! 🎓

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Thanks, mmm92!

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Wow bump. Congrats, what a nice train!

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Thank you, ThalesOwens!

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Congrats

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Yay!

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congrats

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Thank you, Polaris3!

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Congratulations, thank you for sharing this train with us. Have a blueheart :)

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You deserve a 💙 too, Ottis! amazing ratio!

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Congratulations rurnhani! All your effort got rewarded in the end :)

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Hi, RiderOfPhoenix! Thanks for the kind words. ^ ^

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Congrats on the completion of your thesis, your graduation, and thank you for the train. Hope you are well <3

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Thank you, Allison8Bit! I hope you enjoyed the ride. : )

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Congrats!

I assume the specific issue of vaccinations should solve itself at a later stage, when most of the population (with regular addresses) is vaccinated? Vaccine tourism should become irrelevant if the supply is greater than the demand.

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Thank you, Golwar! This is correct, but still, at the moment (and for many months to come) this will still be an issue, which demonstrates how marginalized some people are because of where they live. In any case, the difficulties of enrolling a child in a public school,
be able to receive postal items at home or emergency services, getting government grants, like retirement etc. it will remain a problem as long as the government does not act effectively in favelas and informal areas. But I hope there will be some progress in this area very soon.

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What a lovely train! Congratulations and thank you. :)

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Hi, Droj! I hope you enjoyed it. : )

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Congratulations! Good luck towards the future.

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I hope the future will be generous to all of us, PicoMan. : )

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Congrats and thanks for the train. :-)

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Thanks, Jamesc359! I love trains! : D

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