Get in my list! Introduce yourself!

Ok, so my whitelist is kinda small at the moment, and I'd like to bring in a few more good souls who aren't bots or from other countries (since most of my keys are region locked to USA or similar), but I also don't want to have thousands of responses to wade through, so here are the requirements:

1. Must be in USA or Canada or at least able to accept keys for that region. Sorry to anyone else! We can still be friends, but my whitelist giveaways are exclusive to those regions as a way to reduce headache. I will still have non-whitelist giveaways for every region.

2. Must speak English. I need to be able to communicate with you if the key doesn't work. Besides, this whole thread is in English, so you gotta be able to communicate with me to even get on the list.

3. Must have contribution level 3 or higher on SteamGifts and either a ratio of more gifts sent than gifts won or a recent giveaway within the past 6 months. Sometimes, I'll not enforce this for giveaways offered to random groups, but for whitelist exclusives, this is an absolute rule.

4. Must agree not to be a bish about a key not working. It rarely happens, but it happens. Let me know and we can delete the giveaway, but most of my keys cannot be replaced if they don't work.

5. Your Steam profile should be public and always be public and you should have a recent history of playing games. There's no reason for me to give games to someone who won't play them. If you win, you should redeem the game on your account, not someone else's, because I'm not trying to give people free keys to proceed to resell them. If I notice you not redeeming keys you win, you will be blacklisted.

6. Introduce yourself to me in this thread!
   Respond with your favorite video game genre as well as your favorite video game of all time and give me a non-personally identifiable intro about what you're all about. (Please don't share your real name or anything like that.) What are your favorite movies, games, whatever? What hobbies do you have? Are you interested in VR? Perhaps you're a game developer or an artist? What brought you to SteamGifts and what keeps you here?

I'll start:
Hi, everyone! I'm Syrsly, and I chose this username long ago as a joke name for Xbox Live when Microsoft told me my old username was too offensive. (It wasn't.) Anyway, the name stuck and carried over to all my other social accounts, so I'm Syrsly everywhere now. Easy to hunt me down! lol

I like pretty much every video game genre, and I love board games and card games as well. I'm not picky at all, but I prefer a challenging experience that rewards strategy and/or exploration. I just kind of hate always-online, battle pass style games and broken messes and blatant asset flips. I'm currently playing through many survival crafting games and enjoying a few new shooters. Most of the way through vanilla Valheim on a private server (prepping for the final boss). Might continue Valheim once we're done as a group building thing. Playing Raft with a friend every weekend for a few hours. Enjoying a new twin stick shooter called Windowkill that was made in Godot and really impressed me. There's a free version of it on Itch, but I recommend just buying the Steam version. Started Tiny Tina's Wonderlands and Tribes 3 last night. As I say this, I'm realizing I still haven't played The Witcher 3. I wonder if I ever will. My backlog is crazy.

My favorite video game of all time has to be Super Mario 64. It's so replayable! It was amazing and stands the test of time. That game and a few others from the same time period gave me a love for 3d platformer collectathons, and the most recent one I really enjoyed was Pseudoregalia, which is already in a bundle sadly but worth picking up asap.

I draw digitally, make 3d models in Blender, have ~12 years of combined off-and-on experience as a hobbyist game developer using Unity, Unreal, and Flash as well as a few years making fan games in RPG Maker 95 way back in 1996 or so. I am a professional full stack web developer, so I host my own websites and run a 24/7 chatbot for my stream just for fun.

I came to SteamGifts so long ago that I've actually forgotten where I heard about it. I stopped using the site for a few years because someone was really mean to me about a key not working, but I came back years later with more maturity enabling me to deal with entitled people who complain about free stuff. :rolleyes: