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VostokProgram posted:steam accepts both email and username for login. but the username also has to be whatever your original one was I think My pro Steam account security move: have an older, empty account where the login is the email address. Then you can only log in on the second account tied to the same email with the username, which no one knows because you never use it. Someone did successfully temporarily steal my old account once, thanks to my email password being compromised. They reset the password to the first account, but they didn't know the second account even existed because it's just not obvious. Kind of a relevant in this age of 2fa, but it was a fun benefit for a while.
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Tiny Timbs posted:What I would give for Steam to let me change my login name away from an email address at an ISP that’s been defunct for a decade Haha I created my Steam account like....2 months after the creation of Steam and it's my AOL address that I haven't used since 2004 when I got a gmail account beta code 
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Shipon posted:Oh god is that what happened? It's awful. It's because there were tons of scam accounts going around posting in the comments with display names like "Gamer's Nexxus T̶̨̧̝͉̣̩͈̹̮͙̜͍̯͂̿̿̾̓̋͛̏͑̕ͅe̸̥̖̘̟̝̱͍̯̯̜͒͛̇̀̓͛̐̓̆͆̄̏̈́l̵͈̘̥͖̖͚͕̬̳͊̓̓͜͝e̸̡̼̣̘̗̘̹̱̘̲͍̟̝̺̩̘̝̿̎̑͝ğ̵̳͍͕̗̤̞̞̉̈̓̈́̇͂̏̕͜r̶̛̛̮̩͔̓̂̂͑͐̓̕a̵̞̥̙͎̞̺͇̱̲̦̣͇͓̟͐̅̎̂̏̽̿̈͂̓̿͌̍͘̕͜͝m̴̲͕̑͆̔̐̍̄̓̑͛̋͘͠ 👉 ➕6️⃣7️⃣2️⃣..." With the comment being along the lines of "you won the giveaway, contact us on Telegram to claim your prize!" (If you actually contacted them they would require you to pay a "shipping fee" and then ghost you once you did.) They would also constantly change their display name depending on which channel they were targeting any given day so if you reported them for impersonation they would already have a different name by the time a human got around to reviewing the report so it would no longer be valid and the account wouldn't face any sanctions. GN did a video about this back when their channel was getting targeted hard by these scammers. Apparently this was the best compromise YouTube could come up with to stop that poo poo without having to do any actual human moderation of their platform.
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Mr.Radar posted:It's because there were tons of scam accounts going around posting in the comments with display names like "Gamer's Nexxus T̶̨̧̝͉̣̩͈̹̮͙̜͍̯͂̿̿̾̓̋͛̏͑̕ͅe̸̥̖̘̟̝̱͍̯̯̜͒͛̇̀̓͛̐̓̆͆̄̏̈́l̵͈̘̥͖̖͚͕̬̳͊̓̓͜͝e̸̡̼̣̘̗̘̹̱̘̲͍̟̝̺̩̘̝̿̎̑͝ğ̵̳͍͕̗̤̞̞̉̈̓̈́̇͂̏̕͜r̶̛̛̮̩͔̓̂̂͑͐̓̕a̵̞̥̙͎̞̺͇̱̲̦̣͇͓̟͐̅̎̂̏̽̿̈͂̓̿͌̍͘̕͜͝m̴̲͕̑͆̔̐̍̄̓̑͛̋͘͠ 👉 ➕6️⃣7️⃣2️⃣..." With the comment being along the lines of "you won the giveaway, contact us on Telegram to claim your prize!" (If you actually contacted them they would require you to pay a "shipping fee" and then ghost you once you did.) They would also constantly change their display name depending on which channel they were targeting any given day so if you reported them for impersonation they would already have a different name by the time a human got around to reviewing the report so it would no longer be valid and the account wouldn't face any sanctions.
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SalTheBard posted:Haha I created my Steam account like....2 months after the creation of Steam and it's my AOL address that I haven't used since 2004 when I got a gmail account beta code Similar story except it was a few days after Steam launched and a Hotmail account that's primary use was MSN Messenger that was forgotten after a Gmail beta invite as well
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Gamer Jesus making the rounds being a free employee at Micro Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt9Pb1sNXBY
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kirbysuperstar posted:I will not be clicking that, It's a joke.
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i will click on it but keep shaking my head the whole time it's playing so people don't think i agree with being canadian
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repiv posted:i will click on it but keep shaking my head the whole time it's playing so people don't think i agree with being canadian Linus is in no way representative of Canadians Surrey people, yes.
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Three Olives posted:It's a joke. dang, a 30 minute joke, it must be great
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repiv posted:i will click on it but keep shaking my head the whole time it's playing so people don't think i agree with being canadian https://youtu.be/_ns9FOxZTx8?si=WJRf9srMY-exLQSv
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kirbysuperstar posted:I will not be clicking that, 
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Combat Pretzel posted:poo poo, I accidentally did. Now my Youtube feed will be overrun with his content again. skill issue
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Combat Pretzel posted:poo poo, I accidentally did. Now my Youtube feed will be overrun with his content again. Select History from your YT list and click X to remove offending vid. 
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Just Another Lurker posted:Select History from your YT list and click X to remove offending vid. 
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jisforjosh posted:Similar story except it was a few days after Steam launched and a Hotmail account that's primary use was MSN Messenger that was forgotten after a Gmail beta invite as well If you're on SA in this day and age and your Steam account isn't old enough to vote, I don't know what to say really.
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repiv posted:i will click on it but keep shaking my head the whole time it's playing so people don't think i agree with being canadian lol
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Hellequin posted:If you're on SA in this day and age and your Steam account isn't old enough to vote, I don't know what to say really. What if my steam account is older than my SA account?
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My steam account is only seven years old but that's because I gave the original one away to my brother after I moved out of the house since it had a bunch of Dota merch he had invested in already. That one dates back to... I think 2011
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SlowBloke posted:What if my steam account is older than my SA account? Word. My steam dates time very begrudgingly getting one when HL2 launched. I only stopped borrowing my buddy’s login to lurk photoshop threads in 06
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My steam account isn't old enough to vote, but it is old enough to be featured on MTV's Teen Mom.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Word. I think anyone with a steam account from 2004 got it for HL2, no one signed up just to get... God what was even on there other than HL2 at the time? Ragdoll Kung Fu?
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Fil5000 posted:I think anyone with a steam account from 2004 got it for HL2, no one signed up just to get... God what was even on there other than HL2 at the time? Ragdoll Kung Fu? Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, iirc. And maybe an action Might and Magic game? I got mine long before that so that I could continue to play Natural Selection and CS. They shut down the WON servers and transitioned to Steam servers long before HL2 came out, iirc.
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Steam account; 2009, must have joined after leaving Eve Online.  edit: I have a max total of 80 games on it. 
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Fil5000 posted:I think anyone with a steam account from 2004 got it for HL2, no one signed up just to get... God what was even on there other than HL2 at the time? Ragdoll Kung Fu? My account is from 2005, can confirm it was for HL2
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Kibner posted:Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, iirc. And maybe an action Might and Magic game? Yeah, people were using Steam pre-HL2 to play Counter-Strike, etc. My account is from 2005 and the first games I registered were that first orange box that no one remembers which contained all of the gold source games (HL1 + expansions, Counter Strike, Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, Richochet, there might have been one more I can't remember). Reaching back into my memories, I recall that Darwinia was an early Steam title, and I know for sure the first non Valve game I bought on steam was Medieval Total War 2, which was 2006?
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I made my steam account to claim the orange box by mixing various offers in 2008. Didn't trust the CC page on SA to fill with my main one so lurking until i got a disposable mastercard.
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Hellequin posted:Yeah, people were using Steam pre-HL2 to play Counter-Strike, etc. My account is from 2005 and the first games I registered were that first orange box that no one remembers which contained all of the gold source games (HL1 + expansions, Counter Strike, Team Fortress Classic, Day of Defeat, Richochet, there might have been one more I can't remember). Reaching back into my memories, I recall that Darwinia was an early Steam title, and I know for sure the first non Valve game I bought on steam was Medieval Total War 2, which was 2006? You sure it was an Orange box? The only one I ever remember was the one from 2007 that included TF2. My Google-fu is only turning up info that it was titled Orange Box because that was the engine codename at the time for those games in 2007, the previous engines being Source 2004 & 2006.
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Blurb3947 posted:You sure it was an Orange box? The only one I ever remember was the one from 2007 that included TF2. My Google-fu is only turning up info that it was titled Orange Box because that was the engine codename at the time for those games in 2007, the previous engines being Source 2004 & 2006. When steam launched with HL2, you could claim all the goldsrc games by entering an original HL1 cdkey. You could still do it if you want to.
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Fil5000 posted:I think anyone with a steam account from 2004 got it for HL2, no one signed up just to get... God what was even on there other than HL2 at the time? Ragdoll Kung Fu? My Steam account is from September 16, 2003 older than my SA Account, primarily using it for Counter-Strik 1.6 and Day of Defeat 1.3 (retail). I may be remembering incorrectly but I think the chat client for Steam had Chess or Checkers
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jisforjosh posted:I may be remembering incorrectly but I think the chat client for Steam had Chess or Checkers it had both and a few other games, but on the other hand steam chat never loving worked back then xfire was popular at the time since it was actually reliable
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Fil5000 posted:I think anyone with a steam account from 2004 got it for HL2, no one signed up just to get... God what was even on there other than HL2 at the time? Ragdoll Kung Fu?
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SlowBloke posted:When steam launched with HL2, you could claim all the goldsrc games by entering an original HL1 cdkey. You could still do it if you want to. This is the reason I have a steam account today
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Blurb3947 posted:You sure it was an Orange box? The only one I ever remember was the one from 2007 that included TF2. My Google-fu is only turning up info that it was titled Orange Box because that was the engine codename at the time for those games in 2007, the previous engines being Source 2004 & 2006. I'm using the term loosely, there was a (I think) 6 CD-ROM collection of all the goldsrc games on it, but I can't remember what the collection itself was called officially, the box was indeed orange though with the half-life lambda on it, it must've been 2003 or 2004 that it came out. Iirc the TF2 Orange Box with Portal and HL2:e1 that everyone remembers got its name from everyone calling the first one the "Half Life Orange Box" but it's been almost two decades at this point.
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Hellequin posted:I'm using the term loosely, there was a (I think) 6 CD-ROM collection of all the goldsrc games on it, but I can't remember what the collection itself was called officially, the box was indeed orange though with the half-life lambda on it, it must've been 2003 or 2004 that it came out. Iirc the TF2 Orange Box with Portal and HL2:e1 that everyone remembers got its name from everyone calling the first one the "Half Life Orange Box" but it's been almost two decades at this point. I think you are confusing the Half Life 1 Anthology box with the orange box.
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Maybe the HL Platinum Edition collection? Looks like that fits the timeframe & has 4-5 games, not a fully orange box though
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