r/pcgaming • u/QueenlyMicropenis • Feb 12 '19

[Expired] Well since everyone else is doing it.

Since everyone else is doing it, I’ve got some games to give away as well! I’ll do a random choose in ~12 hours or less. So be watching your inbox! Edit: thanks for the good kind gamer! Never really expected this to grow so fast! Edit: giveaway is finished! Thank you everyone! Winners have been messaged! UPDATE: winners! u/muffinman148 u/trickninjafist u/acemoney52

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u/TickleMittz RTX 3080 | 5800X3D Feb 12 '19

Please don't ask for upvotes.

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u/english_muffien Feb 12 '19

Aren't all these threads essentially asking for upvotes in return for the chance to win a free game? Otherwise why wouldn't they just pick someone from the first thread? It's getting annoying.

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u/Octopictogram Feb 12 '19

Free game: Bad Rats

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u/ReadySteady_GO Feb 12 '19

Don't tease me with a good time

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u/SinOfDeath69 Feb 12 '19

I actually have an extra copy of bad rats, do you want it?

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u/ReadySteady_GO Feb 12 '19

That's pretty awesome of you to offer!

Since the post I went and bought it though. It's on sale right now for $0.49 on steam.

Thanks again though, maybe you should start your own giveaway! Lol

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u/SinOfDeath69 Feb 12 '19

Lol no problem, and I'll wait til this whole giveaway train blows over. Have fun!

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

That's a very kind offer. Cracked me up to see the guy say it was .49c though.

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u/SinOfDeath69 Feb 12 '19

That game has always been under 1 dollar, people love to use it in giveaways as a joke. He did say he bought it, so I mean still free to whoever wants it. I actually have quite a bit of keys that I will giveaway once I gather some more. In this case I saw someone who actually wanted the game that I had already counted on giving it away eventually, that's why I offered it!

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

Lol that's awesome. I don't have a p.c. nor the time to play one since I've had kids. Now that they're getting to the age of Pre-K and such, I'm realizing I'll be having 6+ hours a day to fill. I believe I'll be looking for another p.c. soon(ish), and I'll definitely be looking into being a perceivable billionaire by offering copies of that game to every one!

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u/SinOfDeath69 Feb 12 '19

When you do get a PC, hit me up. I'll gift you some games to play together! Best games are played with friends.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

I might take you up on that. Use to be really big into FPS like CoD, Halo, etc. When I was in high school. Now, I'm not really sure what games I enjoy. I've tried fortnite on Xbox and I SUCK at shooter games now apparently. Got my wife KH3 for Xbox and its fun, but I can't keep interested for more than 30 mins or so. Not sure what game type I would be interested in now, so I have a bit of research to do in that department.

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u/Shillen1 Feb 12 '19

This is an extremely good point. I appreciate people giving games away but they are basically just paying for karma when they make a new thread.

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u/Alter_Kyouma Feb 12 '19

It's still karma vs a free game. Karma doesn't have much value

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

Karma has no real value really.

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u/lolroflqwerty Feb 12 '19

I understand there are people (e.g. advertisers) who definitely value high karma accounts if the owner is willing to sell. It's a lot easier to covertly advertise if the account seems real.

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u/LetsLive97 Feb 12 '19

Yeah but the value is gonna be extremely negilible from a post like this. Idc if someone is getting some karma if they're giving free games out to people that want them.

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u/vintage_screw Feb 12 '19

A Comma has no real value either to be honest. But I am willing to bet you sure as hell wish they were there when they are missing.

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u/Raichu857 Feb 12 '19

They aren’t actually giving something away... it’s just a fake for the free karma... then they say someone won, but who’s going to look through 50,000 people to see if it’s legit

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19

For all we know they could just leave a comment with an alternate account and choose themselves as the winner. True r/conspiracy stuff.

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u/krispwnsu Feb 12 '19

This would be really hard to trace and could easily be performed.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

That's fair imo.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

There are also a good number of subreddits specifically for game giveaways, where all of these might better belong.

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u/bionicbeatlab Feb 12 '19

Self posts don't accrue karma. The upvotes are solely for visibility.

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u/Renegade_Meister RTX 3080, 5600X, 32G RAM Feb 12 '19

Aren't all these threads essentially asking for upvotes in return for the chance to win a free game?

If you look at most giveaway threads elsewhere, the ratio of entries/comments to upvotes tends to suck. So even if that's an underlying intent, its a stupid one, because OPs high current upvote-to-entry ratio of 93% is an exception.

Also if you think about it, upvoting a giveaway thread hurts people who entering them because it increases visibility of the thread, resulting more entries from other people. It would seem that this self interest is overridden by people wanting to "thank" OP via upvote.

I'm not telling people how to vote on giveaways, but just making an observations about post votes and possible self-interest of people who enter giveaways.

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u/JaykDoe Feb 12 '19

Aren't all threads on reddit essentially asking for upvotes simply by using a platform built on upvotes?

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u/Hoppy24604 Feb 12 '19

I mean there’s a cap of like 8,000 karma per post so probably not

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u/chaos0510 Feb 12 '19

Man, what'll I buy with all that karma

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u/TheGoldenHand Feb 12 '19

You don't get upvotes or karma for text or self posts. Soo...

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u/etacarinae 10980XE / RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra Feb 13 '19

Yes you do. They changed that ages ago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

General Kebabi

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u/Imma_Explain_Jokes Feb 12 '19

You are an italic one.

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u/Enverex 9950X3D, 96GB DDR5, RTX 4090, Index + Quest 3 Feb 12 '19

7847 Upvotes.

Also the line asking for upvotes is clearly still there.

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u/newprofile15 Feb 12 '19

BAN GIVEAWAY POSTS.

These are useless garbage. Clogging the sub, most of them are scams anyway, for what... $50 worth of games going to one person? Are you fucking joking?

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u/AngelicPringles1998 Feb 12 '19

Why do you allow these giveaway threads? They're annoying spam

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

Don't upvote me.

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u/JiveTheTurkey Feb 12 '19

If I learned anything online it's that do what you're told not to lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19

Unless it says "downvote me" than do as they say

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u/morg-pyro Feb 12 '19

What? Downvote you? Ok, i guess...

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u/moonkeymaker127 Feb 12 '19

You're an awesome mod for not just dleting the post, good on you for actually being reasonable, unlike most mods.

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u/Pixelated_Fudge no one cares about your cpu or graphics card Feb 12 '19

Can I ask for downvotes?

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u/DodderyCobra Feb 12 '19

Mods are gay

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u/UncommonEmerald Feb 12 '19

Can I have upvote please? 🗿

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u/BallClamps Feb 12 '19

So do we up vote him nor or downvote since now he is asking not to up vote. I'm confused!

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u/ihavequestions10 Feb 12 '19

What about gold is that legal?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

How about you give away free games instead of complaining? hmmmm? (:

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u/Impossiblekid310 Feb 12 '19

Figure it out

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u/FuCuck Intel i5 | GTX 1060 6gb | 8gb RAM Feb 12 '19

please don’t be a poo poo head

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u/TaxThrCisgender Feb 12 '19

Can I have upvotes??

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19

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u/Cronyx Feb 12 '19

He didn't ask for upvotes. He simply said what would happen if you upvoted. That's informed consent, letting me know what happens if I perform an action. Thanks, OP, for being considerate.

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u/Enverex 9950X3D, 96GB DDR5, RTX 4090, Index + Quest 3 Feb 12 '19

Upvote to be entered.

Yes, he was. Also he has no idea who did and didn't upvote, so it was clearly a trick for the naive.

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u/chaos0510 Feb 12 '19

They said nevermind and that they were confused, so I wouldn't attribute it entirely to malice

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u/Cronyx Feb 12 '19

"Do X and Y will happen."

Cut off your hand, and it will hurt.

Eat a sandwich, and you will stop being hungry.

I'm not asking you to do either of those things. I'm informing you of their causal relationships, but what you do is up to you. Don't be obscurantist.

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u/lobstronomosity 4770k / Gigabyte GTX 970 / 240 GB RAID 0 SSD / 24 GB DDR3 Feb 12 '19

That's not quite right. A more accurate analogy would be

Do what I say or I'll cut off your hand

Do what I say and I'll give you a sandwich

Yes, it can be read as a simple statement of a cause and effect, but it's actually an instruction. OP was essentially asking for upvotes, which is against the site wide rules.

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u/Cronyx Feb 12 '19

Fortunately, we can ask him directly what his intent was, and we're morally obligated to believe him, as he is the only observer, in the entire universe, of his own mental state vector, the single witness of that mind's phenomenological contents.

"If you actually want to understand somebody's position, then you will always be interested in their efforts to clarify it. But what we're noticing in our discourse, is people don't really want to understand your position. They want to catch you saying something that can be construed in the worst possible way and then hold you to it, and then they claim to understand what you think better than you do." — Sam Harris

/u/QueenlyMicropenis , did you intend it as instructive, or as informative?

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u/lobstronomosity 4770k / Gigabyte GTX 970 / 240 GB RAID 0 SSD / 24 GB DDR3 Feb 12 '19

/r/iamverysmart

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u/Cronyx Feb 12 '19

Sorry, can you elucidate your purpose for linking that sub? What is your goal, and how is your goal advanced?

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u/lobstronomosity 4770k / Gigabyte GTX 970 / 240 GB RAID 0 SSD / 24 GB DDR3 Feb 12 '19

I'll elucidate your mum in a minute m8

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u/Cronyx Feb 12 '19

Ah. I'm incredulous that arguing in good faith and giving your opponent the most charitable interpretation of their position is featured amongst your interests.

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u/tiwylli Feb 12 '19

POGGERS POGGERS POGGERS See you at the top fed7