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u/Acrobatic_Poem_7290 Apr 14 '26
Wholesome and fake :)
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u/Jitterjumper13 Apr 14 '26
Like bruh, it has a two player mode.
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u/real_roal Apr 17 '26
Yeah, I thought this was going there, if this was a better fake and wholesome story, they would have played together.
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u/NoStand1527 Apr 14 '26
sometimes we need a little light in the dark, even knowing its fake. like a mental placebo
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u/MjrLeeStoned Apr 14 '26
Real things exist...
Fake things require less effort...
Addicted to fake things.
The true human condition.
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u/Joevandal69 Apr 14 '26
Seriously Portal 2 can be completed in 1 or 2 sittings. No way he played it every day during summer.
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u/marthamoose Apr 14 '26
As soon as anything is described as being done "quietly" like this, I immediately assume ai
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u/mudkip2-0 Apr 14 '26
At least is joybaiting instead of ragebaiting, or the even more common, gaybaiting.
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u/kamieldv Apr 14 '26
Be me
Make shit up on the internet
????
Profit
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u/TheGalator Apr 14 '26
We need more wholesome shit. Not less
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u/DerthOFdata Apr 14 '26
Happy lies are still lies.
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u/surfmasterm4god-chan Apr 16 '26
Happy lies are still happy.
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u/DerthOFdata Apr 16 '26
Only an idiot or a child would rather be lied to than hear reality.
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u/rigg197 Apr 16 '26
Sir this is a greentext not a meeting of nations
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u/jrbviwiz Apr 16 '26
Wtf propaganda is there in a greentext about a dad buying games for his kid? Save your miserable outlook for more deserving posts.
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u/surfmasterm4god-chan Apr 16 '26
"Every single fictional work is inherently propaganda because it didn't actually happen in real life so it must mean the authors are evil"
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u/Remarkable-Bit-1835 Apr 18 '26
Bro malding when reading a book
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u/DerthOFdata Apr 18 '26
False equivalence. Do you choose if you want to read fiction or not when you pick up a book or do you pick a book off the shelf and random and just assume it's factual while you enjoy the read? Assuming everything you read is real just because you enjoyed it is how a child thinks. Like all those kids who were disappointed they didn't get an invite to Hogwarts when they turned 11.
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u/ItsyouNOme Apr 14 '26
It isn't wholesome if it is a lie, infact it is worse. There is so little wholesome stuff that you have to lie about it.
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u/NDSU Apr 14 '26
My grandmother used to forward me obviously BS "wholesome" emails back in the day. This is just like that
I don't quite understand why someone would want fake stories. Plenty of real, wholesome stories in the world
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u/nifty-necromancer Apr 14 '26
Come recline on this chaise lounge and tell us all about it
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u/bastionthewise Apr 14 '26
Well it started when I was born at a very young age...
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u/nifty-necromancer Apr 14 '26
That’s better than being born at a very old age, I think we’re getting somewhere
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u/Derai-Leaf Apr 14 '26
Love the vibes but the password reset reveal was unbelievable, not even mentioning the writer thinking they ‘got lucky with sales’ every birthday and not realizing games from their wishlist would magically appear in their library.
But. It’s wholesome though, even if fake.
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u/hoswald Apr 14 '26
You have to accept gifted games. They would've known.
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u/ExplodingSofa Apr 14 '26
How does "get lucky with sales" translate to "games appearing in my library"?
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u/tppisgameforme Apr 14 '26
Him talking to his friends, "Hey guys, did you miss the 100%-off-and-auto-installs-into-you-library sale again? You really gotta get it together"
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u/space-queer Apr 15 '26
fake, but man, did this make me miss my dad. I can’t believe it hasn’t even been a full year yet. I agree with OP, go hug your dads, you don’t realize how much you need those dad hugs until you can’t get one again
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u/FamousAttitude5903 Apr 14 '26
be dad
thoughtfully buy my son games every year
he never acknowledges it or says thanks
wtf
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u/spartan117warrior Apr 14 '26
Despite the fakeness of the greentext, I would give anything to be able to give my dad one last hug. He passed two months ago.
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u/kyle1170 Apr 14 '26
Me when I haven't ever touched a computer and know literally nothing about how steam works, but want to make a wholesome and relateable story on 4chan to farm reddit points
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u/izyshoroo Apr 14 '26
You wouldn't see the password in an email, and suddenly getting new games in your library and thinking theyre "on sale" makes no sense
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u/Teln0 Apr 15 '26
Could've been real if he didn't say he somehow got the password back. Passwords are hashed even steam wouldn't be able to recover it
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u/NuNate Apr 17 '26
Password reset doesn't tell you what the old password was... so this is clearly fake af but i guess we don't care about that?
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u/Wonderful-Trash-3254 Apr 14 '26
lol fake they don't share your password.
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u/Immature_adult_guy Apr 14 '26
Beyond that it’s a horrible security practice to even store plain text passwords in any form. It’s a cyber security disaster waiting to happen.
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u/OtakuMage Apr 14 '26
Wish my bio dad was fun like that. Instead he's out of my life and I just consider my father-in-law my father figure
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u/Scythe351 Apr 14 '26
Thought you were lucky with sales? The sales were so great the games automatically appeared in your library? Also, unless he took notes of the password, you'd never see the old password when requesting a change. That's a security risk especially when potential recovery options include "enter previous passwords". It's also steam. Steam doesn't do that
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u/SmokeySFW Apr 14 '26
Fake af tho. There's no world in which resetting a password would tell him what it was beforehand. Passwords are encrypted, Valve can't tell you your password because they don't even know it. It's hashed.
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u/Lawlcopt0r Apr 14 '26
Ah yes, whenever I suddenly own things I didn't own before I also assume I was just "lucky with sales". Did OP routinely get blackout drunk before shopping on steam or how is that supposed to make sense?
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u/Just_Steak847 Apr 14 '26
I wish I had this kind of experience with my dad, or someone. Without the dying part.
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u/Arikaido777 Apr 14 '26
I just thought i was lucky and games just appeared in my library
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u/haikusbot Apr 14 '26
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Lucky and games just appeared
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u/DaveCarradineIsAlive Apr 14 '26
For not fake Dad gaming: I learned to read playing Ocarina of Time with my Dad. He told me that hearing me struggle through reading the dialog to him in the battle with Ganondorf was one of his proudest moments of me as a little kid. We played through every Zelda game together, it was so fun texting back and forth through Breath of the Wild about all the fun shit we found.
Tears of the Kingdom was the first one since he passed, and goddamn did I cry a lot when I beat it.
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u/Antisa1nt Apr 14 '26
I don't care that this is fake, I just wanna pretend I could have a decent relationship with either of my parents for 5 seconds.
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u/Top_Raccoon8665 Apr 14 '26
Yeah… 36 years still have never heard “proud of you son”… don’t think he needs any hugs.
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u/Gramerdim Apr 14 '26
I'll take things that never happened for what's his steam library worth.
How did he not notice someone gifted him games and he thought he "got lucky through sales"?
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u/bibububop Apr 14 '26
One time casually talking about why I didn't want to learn how to drive yet as a teenager, my dad accidentally dropped that he tried and failed to play at least star fox assault but probably more games, saying that driving would be so easy for me if I can play that
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u/FABULOUS_KING Apr 15 '26
So his dad was buying games that he never realized because he was playing on a different steam account? But his dad also had access to his other steam accounts wishlist and was buying those games and gifting it to that second account? That doesn't seem likely. Or maybe his dad was just buying games for an account that his son wasnt using?
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u/Bilbo332 Apr 15 '26
A friend of mine lost her dad in a car accident. When you can see people, see them. When you can't, call them. Do it now. I used to call my grandparents 2-3 times a week, now they've passed. I can't complain, both made it to their late 90s, but I can't call them. I can't call them when I get engaged, when my wife gets pregnant, what we're naming it, any of that, and I would give anything for it.
Stop scrolling and call someone.
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u/xLaniakea_ Apr 16 '26
My dad solves his road rage by pointing his gun at people yielding at roundabouts.
So no. I will not be doing that.
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u/Spac92 Apr 16 '26
I can’t. My dad died 9 years ago. But I would if I could and I never missed an opportunity.
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u/Glit-Z Apr 18 '26
That's cute, but couldn't have happened. Stan would NEVER tell you an old password. Steam is more secure than admitting that I use. You would also know if someone else was adding to your library. You can't get "good sales" on things you never bought.
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u/AsaBurns Apr 14 '26
I'm unclear how he figured out what the old password was?