Alas, from toDay I'm officially one year older. Life's shit, gets shittier, but you're not here to Watch me brood, just grab your piece of obligatory caketrain and move along. As a form of minor bot protection we have a simple nono since y'all seem to like them. I hate 'em. Yes, it's because I'm bad at them. And a jigidi because I like them despite also being bad at them Yes, you have to do both nono and jigi. You'll have to excuse the poor picture. I was gonna google an image of cake to use but given that nowadays pretty much everything you google is AI slop made with stolen artworks I figuerd I'd rather draw one myself. yes, I'm also bad at drawing
It's mostly lvl 3+, runs for a week, a mix of trash and less trash games. It's probably way too complicated of a puzzle for such a poor selection but, oh well... And remember: when in doubt - run from the top.

[SOLUTION]
With all the gifts redeemed and only 3 people who can't even type a few letters after recieving free stuff, I'm posting the solution to the puzzle, as I promised.
First you had 3 emphasied letters in the text - each in a different way: D was italicized, next was W as a hyperlink leading to rick roll (sometimes people just blindly click links without reading the posts hoping they'll go directly to GAs), and lastly was letter j which was bolded. note: initially W was bolded and j was a link but after creating the post I realised that lowercase j perfectly hides link so I've swapped these 2 to make the puzzles a little easier Now, all 3 were noticeable just looking closely at the body of the text but they still might be tricky to notice for some, hence the hint I've left aplenty and the default way to look for special characters in wall of text inspect You can right click anywhere on the text and select the option to "inspect" or "view source" or something similar, whatever your web browser might call it. There you'll see raw html making the site and conspicuous tags in the middle of a text instead of the visual effects appled to certain letters. Now with the 3 letters you were basically halfway through the puzzle. All was left to do were first the nonogram that'd yield the letter a and a jigidi which gave latter V. Now all you had to do was asseble the letters into the giveaway code. Here's where the last hint came into play - to run from the top i.e. from the beggining. The letters were in order you found them giving you the code DWjaV which put into the standard giveaway link opened the first cart of the train!

That's all folks! Thanks for playing. Thanks for all the birthday wishes! We'll probably meet again in december for my cakeday or maybe I'll do something before that, who knows! This mesage will self-destruct in... soon :)

1 week ago*

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happy bday.

ill figure out this puzzle eventually

1 week ago
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5 letters, 5 clues, 1 train...
oh, yes, you have to do them both...

1 week ago
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I am missing a letter still, I only know 2 from the body text, 1 from each nono/jigidi.

I will find it eventually... maybe

1 week ago
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three. inspect closely.
ngl the last one turned out less visible than expected...

EDIT: I redid the puzzle, should be easier now

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brood away. at this point in my life brooding is all i have left, and video game, and audiobooks, and legos, and tv shows. thats 100% of what i do outside of work

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yeah I can't even enjoy games anymore. gaming feel like a chore. not gaming feels bad 'cause I have a huge backlog and it keeps growing... either way I go it's fucking miserable

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my other hobby is legos, helps reduce burnout for me. build what ever? rebuild sets using only the pieces from that set to see what you can make, more imaginary points earned the farther away from the original build you can come. right now got some of the cheap smaller animal crossing sets and using the plates/scenery to build a kind of DND background under my monitor.
all about finding the right games. just keep looking and well your at it playing meh games watch solid tv shows or listen to some audio books so it never feels like wasted time.
i like to invest 90% of my time into one game and rest into checking out other games. when im unsure if i will have much free time i check games out, sort the garbage out. but if i know i have a full hour or two will throw myself into the one big game im playing
right now that is coral island. about 100+ hours in and almost burned out, ready to find new game

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1 week ago
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Joyeux anniversaire 🎈🎂🎊🎉🎁

1 week ago
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merci!

1 week ago
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I hate birthdays because it reminds me of our mortality. But I love life. So, I hope your next year won't be shittier. :) Thanks for the giveaways!

1 week ago
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I used to love life when I had a few bdays less behind. Now I only yearn for the sweet realease alas the cruel fate often take the ones least deserving to go

1 week ago
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Happy birthday Devirk! 🥳

1 week ago
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can only find 4 out of 5... still stumped and ive tried sooooo many things XD suspect im over thinking it

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yeah, the last one was supposed to be the easiest yet turned almost invisible 🤦‍♂️
but I'm sure you can find it if you just inspect closely

EDIT: I redid the puzzle, should be easier now

1 week ago*
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Happy cakeday!

1 week ago
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bump for solved
Happy cakeday 💋🍰

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Happy birthday! Took me a while but it was very well hidden ;)
I hope you have lots of cake and fun <3

1 week ago
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yeah, planned ammount of cake is 0. don't even get me started on fun...

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Nonograms are just the worst ;)
Thanks for the event and the nice selection of games! ^^

1 week ago
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Happy birthday!

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Happy Bday!

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Happy lap around the sun
And great that you know your shit about gAI, whitelisted

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happy cake!

1 week ago
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Happy birthday.
I always have trouble with puzzles, but today I was lucky and managed to solve it early.
Thank you!

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Happy birthday!

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Happy birthday 🥰

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Happy Birthday ;)

1 week ago
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Happy Birthday, I hope your cake isn't fake

1 week ago
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Happy birthday!

1 week ago
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happy birthday.
and always remember: the cake is a LAI lie
(sry not sry :P )

1 week ago
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i'll figure the puzzle out sometime... nono + jigi + 4 hints in text, i seem to miss something. maybe after some sleep :D

1 week ago
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aah, solved.
big bada bump
(missed one hint but to make up for it falsely took the the 2 spelling errors as hints :D )

1 week ago
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Happy birthday bump!

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Happy birthday! 🎂🎊

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HB!

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Happy cake days:)
And thanks for the puzzles/train:)

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