Hello everyone.

This is a train to celebrate my 2nd cakeday, and also my birthday. As some of you might know or remember from my train in May, the last 2 years have been quite rough for me, tho I'm recovering now and my "downs" are less frequent and less severe than my "ups". Thus here you have my usual extra-long post for a train.

2 years in SteamGifts that have been quite good, although I keep trying to give back to the community; even when sometimes it seems that half of the community are ungrateful people. But well, I still do it with my best intention. Today is my cakeday and it's when this train starts. And it'll run until my birthday, so enjoy the ride!

Every day a few more cars will unlock and you will be able to advance. I've decided to do it this way so you can put some points in the games you want while keeping a good amount for other daily giveaways from other users. They will unlock until October the 20th, when the last carts will unlock. Also, it will start with not-that-good games; as days go by, the games will be better, and every few days the level requirement to enter the new carts will increase from 1 up to level 5 for the best games; and the last carts will be for my whitelist only (level 1). There are 78 carts in total, for 75 different games, bundles or DLCs, all ready to unlock when their day comes.

Despite when a cart is going to be unlocked, all carts will end on my birthday, hobbit-style. I do like to make gifts on my birthday, but actually it has nothing to do with Tolkien. I've been doing it for many years, and why not this one? Past year I wasn't in a state where I could even make a giveaway when my birthday was around the corner; I hope this train will compensate past year's cakebirthday train absence. I don't really like celebrating my birthday and often I feel uncomfortable (but never ungrateful) when receiving gifts, I'm that weird. Maybe making the gifts myself on that day is a way to compensate that. I hope that starting this year, that uncomfortable feel will vanish and I'll be able to accept birthday gifts in a normal way; or at least not feeling as if I don't deserve anything.

Note: Due to being away that particular weekend, I'll not be able to send the keys to the winners until 24th, sunday night CET, or even monday noon. Please excuse me about the delay and be patient.

I'll also do some clean-up on my whitelist and blacklist to reduce them to more manageable size. I don't like blacklisting anyone, but people here are ungrateful and sometimes just too unpolite to ignore. And while I don't think I make any specially great whitelisted giveaways, I make them happily hoping that some people who I think deserve more will get another gift; but once again, only for the people who I think they do deserve that extra.

You can check if you're in my whitelist or blacklist using the giveaway links in my user page. And here's what I'll do with the lists in SG...

Whitelist recruit:
Try your luck, ask here; but don't bother if you don't have a positive CV ratio, or at least close to even, also with enough activity (having made 10 giveaways won't get you through the cut). Only one person is being to added to my whitelist without asking, and I do have my reasons to do so. The rest who ask, it'll be on my own discretion, and please don't be offended if I don't add you. Also don't bother if you're already in my blacklist.

The first one to guess what (almost) all my giveaways in these 2 years have in common, will be whitelisted.

If there are too many unworthy whitelisting requests, or when I've added too many people to my whitelist, I'll close the whitelist recruit.

Whitelist removal:
Before my birthday and before the whitelisted carts are unlocked, I'll do a cleanup from my whitelist. I'll mainly remove people with very bad ratio or low activity. If you know you were in my whitelist and you find you can't enter the whitelisted carts because I just removed you, ask to reenter the whitelist here and I'll consider it. Once again, don't be offended if I don't readd you.

Blacklist removal:
After my birthday I will remove several people from my blacklist on my own discretion, mainly based on good CV ratio and activity. You can also ask here, but I'll not remove you until the train has ended anyway. Once again again, if I don't remove you, don't be offended.

Blacklist recruit:
That's automatic when it's needed...

So, without further ado, here's the first cart to enter the train:
(Use the first character of each sentence to make the 5-char code for the giveaway and put it like https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/XXXXX/ and remember the last slash is important)
you don't understand why some people have fear of you
2 nasty teeth aren't the reason, nor you have 2 ears to hear a lullaby
8 candy legs you use to walk, hunt and draw beautiful designs
Elwyn wrote about you, talking about hearts that don't fit in their bodies
Hanna-Barbera made us watch you, but we still prefer the reading

About "happy cakebirthday" or generic thanks, here or in the giveaways, they're appreciated but not needed. Keep the cakeday ones for the beginning, and the birthday ones for the ending. Use a giveaway without any comment before using one with 100 comments already. Just know that if you win something from me and you don't act with minimal, minimal politeness, I'll consider it maximum rudeness.

I've also put a few more games here and there, if you find them. Enjoy the ride and let's hope I have some more stuff to make a post-new year train.

I'm so old! (Or rather should I say, I'm not that old, but I'm quite damaged due to lack of self-care. Lesson learned too late.)
Regards, JMM.

2 years ago

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Do you like celebrating your birthdays?

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Happy birthday!! may I enter your wl?

2 years ago
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Added! With a ratio of 1:90, I couldn't deny it.
I expect reciproc-thing ;)

2 years ago
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happy belated cakeday!
also would you consider me for your whitelist? :)

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Added!
I expect recipro-cat-ion ;)

2 years ago
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yeah sure 😊

2 years ago
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Happy cakeday!

2 years ago
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Happy cakeday and thx for the chance!

2 years ago
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Happy cakeday!!

2 years ago
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bump

2 years ago
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I choo-choo-choose you! πŸ’™

P.D: Bump

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Thanks, Ralph ^_^

2 years ago
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Happy cakeday!

2 years ago
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Happy Factory Day & cheers to a better year! πŸ’™

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Happy bump day :D

2 years ago
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Happy upcoming birthday, have a good one and enjoy yourself a lot - you deserve it!
Thank you for the lengthy πŸš‚πŸš‚πŸš‚πŸš‚πŸš‚!

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Bump

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Happy cakeday!

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Happy belated 🏭🏭 day and early birthday! πŸ˜ƒ

(Also, trying my luck for your whitelist)

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Added!
I expect reciprocation ;)

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Happy really much belated cake day :)

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Bump + Happy cake day

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Happy cakeday :)

2 years ago
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Happy Birthday!

2 years ago
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Happy belated cake day and early happy birthday, I hope it's a good one! ^^

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bump!!

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Hey, dude! Several things:

1) Happy Cake Day! πŸΎπŸŽ‚πŸ¨πŸŽ‰ I will, as you mentioned in the post, save the BDay wishes for the end :)
2) I'm glad to hear that you're feeling better. As someone who's also been through a lot in the past few years (including the past couple of weeks...my truck was stolen in broad daylight from a mall, gone without a trace), I know what it's like to have to invest in self-care. I also have started drinking (on occasionally, don't worry) really good bourbon and scotch, so that helps a little too. 😁
3) I'm happy to take a stab at your WL. I tried to figure out what two years' worth of GAs have in common, but no clue. :D I added you to mine, regardless. Reciprocity is not necessary -- I'm making that decisions independent of whether I'm on yours. 😎

Thanks for setting up the train and giving to the community. We can always use more of that around here!

(Also, I'm assuming that the 72 is your birth year...guess what!? Mine too! And yeah, I feel old all of the time, but I keep fighting it. LOL)

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Thanks for your words!

Yes you were added to my whitelist. What I don't know is why you weren't there before, as I always loved your events.

And to be honest... I still dress as in my twenties.

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Ha ha ha...me too. I'm a jeans-or-shorts-and-t-shirt guy most of the time. 😁

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Happy cakeday bump!

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Bump!

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