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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Thanks!

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I hope you enjoyed the ride, Rehail!

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Congratulations buddy! I know that feeling as I graduated this month in my BS.
Urban planning has a great humane side to it so I congratulate you on that as well.
Wish you all the best in the future!

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Oh, Destermayou! Congratulations on your graduation too! Yay!

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Congratulations :D

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Thanks, Cyppher!

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Congratulations and have a bump :3

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Bump, Tchii!

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Congrats!

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Obrigado, joaoaroucha! : )

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De nada =)

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congrtas on your graduations! that's a really cool thesis

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Hi, Devirk! Thanks for the congratulations! ^^

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Congratulations on your graduation! ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)

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Yay! Thanks, eledhrim!

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Parabéns, campeã(o)! ;)

That has to be a complex subject, especially considering, well... (makes a broad meaningful gesture) Brazil and all that, so I'm sure you had to work really hard to earn your degree. Great job!

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I laughed at the gesture. Thanks, Cassol!

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Bump and congratulations!!

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Thanks, Raktajino! Nice profile picture!

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Thank you, I drew it myself! :D (heavily inspired by the vortigaunt mural in HL:A, of course)

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I had a hunch it was custom artwork (and not a 'standard' image like mine). I really liked it.

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Bumpy!!

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Thanks, LeaNy! : )

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Good job getting that master, rurnhani!

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Thank you, DarkDreams1! ^^

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Congrats on your thesis :)

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Thanks for the compliment, fateshaper!

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Congrats!

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Hi, itekin7! Thanks!

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Congratulations and thanks so much for the train!

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I hope you enjoyed the ride, LunarEclipse!

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Congrats! :)

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Thank you, CptWest!

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Congrats and thanks!!

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Yay! Thanks, barrswb!

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Congratulations !

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Thank you, EyeofArrow!

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<3

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congrats for you thesis approval and thanks for the train!!

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I hope everyone here enjoyed the ride, Beltran!

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Parabéns, Rafa!

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Obrigado (de novo), vnribeiro!

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Congrats on your Graduations!

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Thanks for the congratulations, 8urnout!

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Congrats bump!

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Yay! Thanks, 666lhdkiller!

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congratulations and thanks!

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I hope you enjoyed the ride, GodSyndrome!

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of course I have! :D

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Congrats! :)

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Thanks, Esumii!

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Congrats!
Read your thesis topic. It's really unfortunate. Specially the vaccine and education part. These are something that the government should provide to everyone.

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I hope this situation will change soon, with the use of technological resources... let's follow it carefully. Thanks, aklgupta!

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Np :)
Hope so too. Don't know anything about the government in the region so not sure what I should expect though.
Ah, Wilson! Love the game.

PS: Noticed you replied everyone with a different gif. Just curious, do you use some kind of tool to insert random gifs, or did you actually manually search and add one for every response? Because the latter might have been really time consuming.

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I searched manually. In your case, I went to your Steam profile to see if there was any game marked as favorite that you would like to see a gif. : )

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Oh man, that's too much efforts for random strangers. This world doesn't deserve you!!

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This community was very supportive during a lot of times when I needed support, and you all didn't even know it. :)

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I am sorry you had to go through hard times. I don't know what it was but hope things are great rn.
I am pretty sure I did nothing but I'll still accept the credit. So thank you!

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bump!

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Thanks for the bump, Mostack! : )

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Closed 3 years ago by rurnhani.