Hello SteamGifters, It's my 12-year anniversary on Steam today and tomorrow it's my 12th cake day on SteamGifts.

I created my Steam account just to activate one of the first HB Indie Bundles, but didn't use it actively up until the summer of 2014 when I found out about the Steam Summer (Flash) Sales, trading gifts and the existence of CS:GO.
Most likely same goes for SteamGifts or I started to use it little bit later, I see that my first giveaway was created in April 2015.

Even though I wasn't the most active member, I still opened the site daily and checked out if there are any interesting discussions, recommendations, new bundles (yes I use SG for checking out if there are new bundles, thank you sensualshakti).
In the past of course I opened it to enter giveaways, but after a while I realized that I don't play the random games I win, so I stopped entering them and only joined giveaways for games that I would play.

One of my favorite things here were the puzzle giveaways. I have solved many and have created a few on ItsTooHard as well.
Because of the amazing feedback that I got on my university graduation project (EasyGamePrice) thread, I decided to give back to the SG community and created ItsTooHard alternative, 2Solve.Me.
I know it's not perfect, I created it in relative short time, but it's good enough and I keep it running for the people here that keep using it.

Another favorite thing on SG for me was the trading forum, which in the past was part of SteamGifts, and nowadays as separate site, SteamTrades.
I am not active trader now, don't have the time or the energy, but in High School and University I was trading all the time.
Well besides the trading, the other favorite thing was chatting with the people when trading.

Thanks to SteamGifts/Trades I met lot of amazing people, with two of them I became close friends, and even though we are from different countries, I met them in person, had lot of fun and created great memories.

It's crazy to think that I started using SG when I was in High School (18) and now I am "high functional" 9-5 working adult (almost 28).

Thank you to all members, discussions creators, bundles threads makers, giveaways creators, to all people bringing positive energy in the comments and big thanks to CG for creating an amazing site with amazing community.

To celebrate this special day, I created a giveaway train.

If anyone wants to chat, I am always happy to meet new people, you can add me on steam. I have interests in many different areas so I am sure we can find common things to talk about.

Also I recently created twitter/X account (@MickyTheDev), I am doing giveaway there at the moment as well.

Edit:
If there is someone that I have blacklisted, I am sorry, please message me and I will remove it. If there is a option I would like to clear all of my blacklist.

Edit 2:
Thank you all for the amazing comments, you made my day/week so much better. Not to bump the thread anymore, since the giveaways ended, I won't reply to the newer comments, however want to say thank you as well, I read the comments, don't worry :)

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Happy steam anniversary and cake day!

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Thank you!

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Happy Cake Day :)

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Thanks!

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Happy double steam birthday and SG cake day MikBok117!

So you were the one who created 2solveme? That's amazing! I discovered this site shortly after joining here (so not so long ago) and i found it really nice.

On top of that, i'm glad to see most users from a while back are still active to these days.

Congratulations for both these milestones, and for your achievements too!

1 week ago
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Thank you for the nice comment. And thank you for creating so many giveaways (and puzzles) in the relative short time that you have been here.

1 week ago
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Congrats on the double milestone! Nice to see one of the "veterans" still around. :)

1 week ago
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Thank you, I cannot compete with you and your 15,000 gifts, thank you for for sticking around!

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Thanks for creating 2solveme and congratulations on your 12th year!

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Thank you!

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Happy Factory Day!

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Thanks :)

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HCD, young one! ;D

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Thank you, haha I don't feel young, actually freaking out little bit caz I am getting older.

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Happy Steam Day and early Happy Cake Day.

2Solve.me seems to have been a perfectly fine alternative, so appreciate its existence as a tool to create basic quiz puzzles. I had an idea for a puzzle using itstoohard, so was sad to see it go, but pretty sure I can do it on 2Solve.me. The theme would be "hidden in plain site".

Oof, blacklisted. Not sure what I did, but sorry, whatever it was

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Thank you refat17, I am sorry for the blacklist, I don't remember what was the reason, but I have been here for a long time and as you know people have ups and downs in their private life that affects other areas as well, so it might have been not your fault. I removed your blacklist. I want to remove all of my blacklists with 1 click, but its impossible.

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Thanks for the reversal, and it's all good. I don't try to take blacklists or anything like that personally, so was more just surprised by it. Once again, appreciate your contribution to this site through 2Solve.me.

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I'd give you a blue heart, but you got one as soon as I saw that you created EasyGamePrice.... and then another when you created 2Solve.Me! Happy cake day and thank you for your gifts to the gaming and giveaway communities!

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Thank you for the nice comment and thank you for giving so much gifts to the community.

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Happy Cake Day bump

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Thanks!

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Happy cakeday!

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Thanks :)

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Happy Steam Day ;D

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Thanks :D

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Thank you, I miss itstoohard, I had so much stuff stored there that was lost...

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Thank you. I miss it too, I had few interesting puzzles there as well.

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Thanks a lot for creating 2solve.me, even if it's still a WIP, it certainly works pretty well for the people that make puzzles using it (maybe one day I will make something there too)
Happy cakeday!

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Thank you for the kind words. I don't have a plan to work on it anytime soon, but who knows. A friend suggested to add IQ test like puzzles, so maybe new type of puzzles would be interesting to implement.

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Not just GAs but tools for SG too.

Thanks for everything and BUMP!

1 week ago
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Thank you m0r1arty!

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Happy Factory Day!

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Thank you too for creating so many giveaways!

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Happy steam anniversary and cakeday! :-)

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Thank you :)

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Happy cakeday.

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Thank you Lugum, and thank you for sharing your life with us on SteamGifts, I have read few of your threads (the cat ones hit me pretty hard), always interesting to see different lives and perspectives. I hope you are feeling better now!

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Thank you, and nice of you giving some a personal note.

Bowy the cat still gave me a bunch of random "choke" moments where i suddenty thought about her with tears, and questioned if i done right by her, after she was gone she left me with fleas, which i wanted to take care of in a drastic way because eggs can live up till 6 months but that left me some very uncomfortable physical issues and i had to wait from november till march to get a procedure done but that only made it worse and now i am waiting till may 30 and then it's still not mmediately over yet (maybe an operation).
And since january i wake up every day feeling like i haven't slept at all making me often fall asleep in the afternoon, i should write it all in a book really. :p But nah it will certainly one day get all better i hope, thanks.

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Happy double-cakeday :)

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Thanks :)

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Happy double cakeday!

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Thank you and happy to see you using 2Solve.

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Happy double cakeday!!

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Thanks RiseV7!

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Happy and lucky 13th year both on Steam and here :)

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haha thank you :D

1 week ago
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Happy Steam Bday and ShipCakeFactory Day! ^_^

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Your 12th cake day is soon as well, thank you for sticking around and creating so many giveaways!

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Happy 🎂day and thank you for creating 2solve.me 👍

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Thank you! And thank you for creating 1,471 giveaways, that's a lot :D

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haha thank you!

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