It's my 5th Cakeday on the 12th and my 22nd birthday on the 28th, that leaves us with seventeen days to celebrate. And what better way to celebrate, in the middle of May, than... a Chrismas song?

How does this work? Every day I'll add one more game than the day before. So one GA on day 1, two more GAs on day 2, three more on day 3... for a total of 153. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTHY THREE. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!
But where's the catch, you ask? Simple. They're all games I either liked or would like to play. So you'll have to abide by my horrible, terrible taste.
Dont worry now, there's a double catch. Day 17 is made of games entirely picked out by my Whitelist, so you can count on them to have better taste than me. And to thank them, they get an official Day 18.

Huge thanks to support for providing me with 100 extra slots, making this all possible!
Some of the games will be delivered as keys, some as gifts, so keep an eye out.

All GAs are level 3+ to 5+, depending on how I feel that day. They all last 36 hours so you have more than enough time, and are locked behind minor bot protections. They double as human protections because I put some horrible jokes in there.
I'll also be posting every GA a bit ahead of its beginning, I change shifts at work every two days so I can't guarantee I'm gonna be up at midnight to put them online at the exact right moment.

And now, without further ado, let's all sing together to the notes of one of the worst Christmas song ever:

Ahem

On the seventeenth day of Conti, my Space Cat sent to me...

seventeen WL picks
sixteen spectacular fights
fifteen childhood classics
fourteen jumping jackasses
thirteen RPG ruckusses
twelve open world excursions
eleven action flicks
ten coop shenanigans
nine car crashing criminals
eight good disappointments
seven brainless zombies
six creative copycats
five cozy farms
four automated bases
three caped crusaders
two anime tie-ins
and the one game you always thank for.

WL-EXCLUSIVE DAY 18

Why am I doing all this? Eh. On one hand it's to give back to the community for all I've got in these years- but I can't deny it's a massive ego thing for me. So by all means, comment, celebrate and state just how awesome I am.

CLOSING THOUGHTS:
I'd like to thank once more everyone for partecipating and ESPECIALLY the kind comments. My birthday is usually a pretty sad day for me, one of the few which make me regret being such a loner. But this year, instead of sulking alone, I woke up to over 280 messages of awesome awesome people like you wishing me a happy birthday. I won't lie, I was very, very moved. Just for that, I'd say the event was a huge success!
Maybe it had a couple flaw, from 4 keys which had to be replaced due to region locks to the quality taking a dip in the later days, from me honestly losing steam around day 10 to getting sick which made staying up late making GAs a pain... but the one thing I wouldn't have changed is you guys. You're the best community I could ever be part with.
Except those 2 people who couldn't be bothered to thank me after winning. Yes, I'm still salty about that :P
All in all, that's that. The last GAs will run a bit more, but we're pretty much closing shop here. I don't know if I'll do it again next year or I'll do something different, we'll see. And one last thing: I may have been the one who put the money, time and effort in, but it was you guys that made this event really, truly special. So... thank you! :)

1 month ago*

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Reserved.
Not for anything in particular, I just see all big events have the organizer reserve the first comment and wanted to fit in.
EDIT: Oh hey I guess I could do this:

1 month ago*
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Day 2 up!

EDIT: Nevermind, forgot to post updates for a couple days and it's gonna look weird if I skip days down here.

Hey, I'm talking to myself! Ah, just like real life...

1 month ago*
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It happens :P

1 month ago
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Happy 22nd!

No two little ducks reflecting it, but I'm sure there are thousands in your heart from all the well wishing here :)

3 weeks ago
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Congrats, and thank you for this.

1 month ago*
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Congrats, and Happy Birthday in advance :P!
So this is the event that you earned me about when I won your giveaway few weeks agoXD?! Guess what, I already completed that one :D.
Maybe I'll get lucky in this one too :P...
Thanks for the event/giveaways!

1 month ago*
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Heyo, welcome back!
Yup, it was this one, I had it planned for a while. Well, at first it was "only" 50 GAs, but you know me, I always go the extra mile.
Glad you enjoyed the game, good luck this time around too!

1 month ago
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Congrats on the event and belated Happy Cakeday (I wasn't really around today XD)!
So far, from what I've seen, your selection of game is damn impressive, by far not "horrible, terrible taste", to quote you (I joined one of day 2 giveaways, I was tempted to join the other, but if I'm lucky to win, will take a while to complete it, so I won't get greedy and be really selective on choosing what I enter as giveaywas).

1 month ago
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Can't wait to see the results of your "horrible, terrible taste". ;)
Hopefully these games will get winners who appreciate them.

1 month ago
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Fingers crossed... but even if, I've gotten way more merciless at dishing out blacklists.
Talk about appreciating, you might wanna check out Day 18, someone got lucky ;)

1 month ago
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I was already happy enough after seeing the first game. CE 33, Claire and the other two!

Nice that my candidate made it. Now I must only hope that it's niche enough to get me a realistic chance to win. Exactly five entries please. ;)

1 month ago
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Can confirm. I won a game and got promptly blacklisted! πŸ˜€
I can totally respect that though! No hard feelings! More chances for others to win. 😁

1 month ago
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Had to try the whitelist one lol. Thanks for the cool event. I always think myself as young, but here you are turning 22. Hope you have a great day if I forget to wish you on your birthday. And happy cake day real soon :)

1 month ago
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Bad jokes and tastes? Whatever will we do! :P

Happy cake day/birthday/Conti days! :D

1 month ago
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1 month ago
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Alright now, this is for tomorrow so don't be getting at it just yet!

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1 month ago
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Happy birthday and cake day in advance. Talking about taste, any older games that you'd recommend trying?

1 month ago
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Happy cake day Seb!

1 month ago
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thank you :D

1 month ago
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Happy cake day 2 U 2!

1 month ago
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Really depends on how "old" you're talking. Personally I grew up with the PS2, so I could rant on for days about those games, but if you're looking for older games, a couple picks would be:
-The first two Oddworld games are a gem. Sure, you have to get good at the slippery controls but once you get it, you get it.
-Gorky 17 is a guilty pleasure of mine. Clunky, runs like trash unless you mess around with configs and external programs but the monster designs are SO GOOD.
-Star Wars KOTOR is a classic for a reason. Again, you have to work hard if you wanna get it running on modern PCs, but totally worth it.

1 month ago
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Well, I still remember playing games on PS1, some of which I remember very fondly. Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Resident Evil and Rayman. Playing the remakes of the first three was fun. I wish more games from that era (and PS2/3 especially the exclusives) appeared nowadays, not necessarily as remakes. And talking about KOTOR, I still have to get to playing it, which I might do after I'm with done with Ghost of Tsushima (I love the game so far) and a few shorter games. Thanks for response and interesting recommendations. Feel free to mention some niche PS2 games if you recall any, I'd love to learn more about them :D

1 month ago
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Happy Conti Days!

1 month ago
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Happy Cakeday!

1 month ago
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Congrats on your 17 days of excellence, Conti! What a way to celebrate!
Was about to add you to my whitelist for that impressive feast but, alas!, you are already on it. I assume, you awesomed your way into the list with some other feat. Or could it be you are just a generally lovely person and ended up there on that merit?
In any case, felicitations on the double whammy! πŸ’™πŸŽ‚πŸ’™

1 month ago
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Happy cakeday!

1 month ago
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Joyeux cakeday and thanks for sk.. your generosity πŸŽ‚πŸ˜‰

1 month ago
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Happy Birthday and Cakeday!

1 month ago
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Happy cakeday

1 month ago
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"but they're busy as is, I'd rather not bother for something this minor." this is not minor because it looks like it's going to be a cool event.thanks for doing this and happy cake day !!!!!

1 month ago
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Happy times 2 Cake! :)

And I somehow feel compelled to say: Holy crap you're awesome and breathtaking! ;)

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1 month ago
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Early congrats for the cakeday-birthday combo, and thanks for the appropriate "Anniversary" game ;)

1 month ago
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Congrats, it seems that our birthdays are approaching, although mine is earlier (20th)

1 month ago
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On the second day of Conticake, my Space Cat sent to me...Bad Rats 3, and the one game you always thank for :)

1 month ago
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happy cake and early birthday

heres to hoping my convention wifi later this month doesn't suck.

1 month ago
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Happy double cake and birthday! πŸŽ‚πŸ°πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸΌ

1 month ago
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Happy πŸŽ‚day, Conti! What a banger for Day 1.

So, question for everybody here? How important is the Anniversary Update if you want to play Skyrim modded?

1 month ago
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Happy cake day! Gus would be proud πŸ₯Ή
Here's wishing I was on the WL, Clair Obscur seems like an absolute banger!

1 month ago
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