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!!

3 years ago
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Thank you, AiKirika! : )

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Congratulations!!!

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Yay! Thanks, N0r0!

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Congratulations!

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Thank you, Aldcoran! ^^

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Congratulations!

EDIT: Damn, I didn't realize that was such a big issue in Brazil, hopefully it gets better soon.

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Hi, dantenemo! Saddly, this is a very common problem across America, Africa and several countries in Asia, unfortunately.
Thanks for the congratulations!

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Congrats on getting that sweet master degree!!! I'm sure it wasn't easy but it is definitely be worth it in the end. Considering you're also from LATAM I've seen that your thesis tocuhes a really good subject and I understand why you picked it. Hope this new chapter in your life will bring you lots of good things and joy!

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Thank you very much, StrawberryCrisis!

Where you are from? In the next few years I thought about expanding the research to include case studies from other countries here in the region (Colombia is the first on the list, because I have a hunch that I will find some interesting experiences there). : )

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No problem, rurnhani!

I'm from Mexico, so you might have heard of some of our ugly problems here (who hasn't lol 👀) but regarding the pandemic consequences, the most vulnerable sector of people had lost complete access to the little education and healthcare they once had. No access to technology so children couldn't continue "going" to school through virtual classes, our society here is already very behind when it comes to education so that just made things even worse. Most of them don't even have electricity or a sewer system, and barely have a roof over their head, parents lost their jobs (that already paid very little, just with almost enough to survive day by day by working on the fields, or anything that they can find on the way just to make a few coins and feed their family. Take into consideration that the drug cartels also asked them for money even if the farmers didn't have any to give so many lives are lost all the time like this), this applied to a lot of other people as well, skyrocketing the crimes even more. At the very beginning of the outbreak there weren't enough resources for the medics in such remote places to take care of the people that were sick, so medics just kept dying on the frontline. Thankfully nowadays there are more resources available and made everyday. The government however... is a biiiiiiig problem because they don't really even dare to get in touch with vulnerable communities "far away" to help them. Not to mention that the lack of communication and transparency about the real numbers of the active cases has generated distrust in the population because they manipulate the state of the situation when there are political events that require the help of people...at this point no one believes them anymore, me included lol

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In our architecture and urbanism schools two LATAM countries are recurrently studied because of the similar realities with our country: Colombia and Mexico (in Mexico the focus is on the housing issue, because of the complexes built far from the central areas of the cities, which is where most of the infrastructure is). During the pandemic I think we also faced very similar problems: last year we had to abandon a study relating the place of residence of covid victims with the incidence of cases because our Ministry of Health removed the data from the website (it would have been a good tool to know which areas of the city need more attention and which could "relax a little", helping to fight the pandemic, but...).

I think our situation is beautifully explained in the song Gimme Tha Power by Molotov. No nacimos donde no hay que comer y si somos pobres es porque nos manejan mal.

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Congrats and thanks for train

3 years ago
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Thanks, Alamar! : )

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Congratulations! I've also finished my masters this year (March) and it was a hell of a ride. Your thesis sounds very interesting and I can only hope for the best for my fellow brazilian friends!

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Oh! A tuga friend! : D

Esse mundo acadêmico realmente exige muita dedicação. Fico feliz que tenha obtido sua titulação recentemente, Garcias. Parabéns!

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Congratulations! =)

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Thanks, gzekka! : )

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Hey man, that's a nice master's subject. Also, you're brazilian too. HOORAY

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TMJ, pizurk! \o/

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Grats on graduation.

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Thank you, BHTrellis188!

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Congrats and thanks for the train!

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I hope you enjoyed the ride, ToFFy76!

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Congrats!

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Thanks for the congratulations, Orionid!

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Congrats!

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Thank you, PetarSFire!

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Bump

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Thanks, PrivateJokerGen!

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Wow. That's quite a real-life achievement. Congratulations. I actually watch a number of urban planning channels on YouTube, so I appreciate anyone trying to make living spaces better. Here's to the work you do in the future.

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Oh, that's very nice! Thank you very much, Hitch42! Do you also study cities? ^^

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Not really. YouTube started suggesting some videos and I kept watching them, so now I get a number of them suggested to me. It's very a very interesting topic.

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Congratulations on reaching a milestone, and good luck going forward!

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Hey, thanks so much for the congratulations, CharlesNonsens! I am very grateful for the support.

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Grats on graduation, and thanks for the great train!

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Good luck with the GA, Qazyn! I hope you enjoyed the ride. : )

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Great train, congrats!

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Thanks, shadowedpillow! : D

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Congrats and thanks for the train!

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You are welcome, pizzahut!

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Many Congratulations! That's a thought provoking thesis topic

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Thanks for the congratulations, orio! The topic was very well received by the evaluators. ^^

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Congratulations and bump!

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Thank you, KoRayven! : D

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Congrats, and thanks!

Wish I had a real degree.

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Well, if that's what you want, focus on it! If you want tips or want to talk about it, add me on Steam and let's talk, RVK250. : )

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Congratulations! Let's hope some things change for the better because of that.

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Oh, I imagine some things are going to change soon, mainly because of all the technology we have available today. Thanks for the congratulations, LittleBibo1!

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Are you going to continue with a doctorate or PhD degree?

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hi, VeniVidiVici! At some point in the future, yes. I thought I'd like to spend time working in the classroom and on other academic projects before starting a new stage of insanity (the master's degree was not easy), but the professors who evaluated my work recommended that I continue my research for a doctorate, so... Idk. : )

At the end of the year I will start preparing the pre-project for the doctorate and see what my options are. : )

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Congrats!!

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Thanks for the congratulations, Boox!

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