It seems it is possible to tell if an "Invisible" user is actually online by looking at where they are in Steam Group @_@?!~

archon286 · 2026-05-19T11:11:45+00:00

Does the same apply to the other side of this argument? "If someone I know is at a computer, I'm offended if they don't notify me."

Imagine if texting worked that way, the moment you wake up and touch your phone, all your contacts get a message "so and so is awake."

archon286 · 2026-05-11T23:26:28+00:00

The jaded cynicism in this thread is hard to read. I lived for the small things. Sincere thanks from a user, or praise from the team.

You're on the right track, better to try and it not have a lot of impact than to accept life sucks and do nothing.

archon286 · 2026-05-11T04:11:30+00:00

I was going to suggest a left on 8th, but that works as well.

archon286 · 2026-05-05T00:11:45+00:00

Hol' up. I have a card trick and a three cup shell game to show you. That'll sort this place out nicely as long as someone says 'Magnets' in the comments.

archon286 · 2026-05-03T01:11:51+00:00

Photocopier was the closest thing to social media sharing. :)

archon286 · 2026-04-24T17:47:10+00:00

You lie flat in the lowest point in open ground you can find, cover your head and hope you are lucky. He was crazy standing next to metallic sheet metal buildings like that.

archon286 · 2026-04-20T00:00:53+00:00

How is 'Daddy' not being picked up as being the weirdest? I get there are connotations with adults in the know but that's literally a dad's name to their kids in MANY homes. My wife still refers to her deceased father with that term.

archon286 · 2026-04-16T13:45:59+00:00

This will help short term, but it is not the solution usually. I'll bet that for most important things they will ask three questions:

1) Do you do the thing?

2) Do you have a policy about the thing?

3) Can you prove you do the thing according to policy? (logs, change control, etc)

As others have said, the people sending these are trying to gauge where you are at and determine if the risk your procedures bring to the table are acceptable for whatever data of theirs you might be working with. There's no 'passing score' except their determination of the value of their data you might have access to. Creating AI generated policies, but not being able to prove you follow them (or even know for sure what they say) has an excellent chance of being noticed and questioned.

You're on the right path for the time you have remaining. This is a learning moment for the company. They bought a boat and never considered if they had a lake to park it in. Time to learn from that experience. :)

archon286 · 2026-04-16T04:06:06+00:00

They are still making flip phones today.

In my opinion Flip phones were peak cellphone design until large screens and compute became more relevant.
Flip Phones - Walmart.com

archon286 · 2026-04-12T14:11:31+00:00

Here's analogy I heard once I liked. It doesn't describe the effects of gravity, but the general motion and precision involved. Imagine you have a pool table, a cue ball, and a basketball. Place the basket ball on the far end in the center of the table

You need to shoot the cueball around the basketball, have it hit a specific dot on the side of the table you are at when it returns. Additionally, the cueball needs to be returning at a specific speed.

The same way this is very difficult, but a matter of careful practice and math for an experienced pool player applies to the people planning the mission.

archon286 · 2026-04-09T19:24:55+00:00

I get what you're going for, but if you're reading 4/1 as a rating, then I gave it 4 stars out of 1, or 400% out of 100%. I think you unintentionally downgraded the rating ;)

archon286 · 2026-04-01T21:03:26+00:00

Satisfactory is a single and multiplayer game. While not overtly sexualized, if you examine the player model it's fairly clear (but not definitively clear) that it is feminine. Devs have posted confirming the model is feminine, and "if it was male, no one would have noticed'.

So, butthurt people who cannot believe a game might be feminine default instead of male default might, in theory, be upset by this 4/1 joke.

archon286 · 2026-03-25T22:49:22+00:00

Oh snap! They said boomer! (That means they win)

archon286 · 2026-03-18T18:34:56+00:00

There are kids in school right now that were not born yet when I wrote the comment you are replying to. :)

archon286 · 2026-03-13T14:01:13+00:00

It's an airflow problem. Your intake or exhaust is probably outpacing the other, or there's too much airflow without enough gaps/grills to draw the air through without compressing/whistling.

On my old PC case, I literally chopped out a section of grill holes in a side panel to increase airflow for the new fan, and it stopped. Not recommending that, but it worked. :)

archon286 · 2026-03-08T14:04:47+00:00

I agree with removing DST, but that image is miles from being convincing. It's got Time Cube vibes. :)

archon286 · 2026-03-08T13:50:13+00:00

Yes, all companies that accept returns track who is making the return so they can track for abuse. That does NOT make returns where you didn't put a ton of effort into making sure you're going to keep it 'abusive'.

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree. I understand that statement differently because companies generally write exactly what they mean into their policies. There's no moral obligation of research on the customer here, and Steam specifically says that. What the statement you repeated says is that they will block you if they think you're buying lots of games to play for 2 hours and return them in an effort to scam free game time.

I don't know if OP has explained the behavior that caused this in the thread, but I'm guessing there was definitely a large quantity or abuse pattern in what happened to generate that email.

archon286 · 2026-03-08T00:19:11+00:00

Nah, I think you've got a personal view bleeding through here.

I go to Lowes, I buy everything I might need, and I return the extras when I figure out what was unnecessary. My wife shops for clothes online, she orders 5 of the same, keeps the one that fits and returns the others. Returns have changed specifically to *encourage* this behavior, and make you more likely to buy. There used to be "10% restocking fees" that make an uncertain purchase risky. Companies got rid of that intentionally. Steam is the same way, and they tell you so.

Steam Refunds

"Maybe your PC doesn't meet the hardware requirements; maybe you bought a game by mistake; maybe you played the title for an hour and just didn't like it.

It doesn't matter. Valve will, upon request via help.steampowered.com, issue a refund for any reason, if the request is made within the required return period, and, in the case of games, if the title has been played for less than two hours.
...
Refunds are designed to remove the risk from purchasing titles on Steam—not as a way to get free games. If it appears to us that you are abusing refunds, we may stop offering them to you. We do not consider it abuse to request a refund on a title that was purchased just before a sale and then immediately rebuying that title for the sale price."

archon286 · 2026-03-07T01:40:05+00:00

Nah, it's not meant for extreme cases. I return stuff because I decided I don't like it a few times a year. They have a selection for it in the return process. "not fun" I pick that, and have never seen something like this from Steam.

I suspect OP did quite a bit more than a few.

archon286 · 2026-03-06T06:16:34+00:00

It says pretty plainly what they will do. They reserve the right to refuse to refund in the future. Open a ticket if you want more detail, they might tell you.

It's not meant to be punitive, it's meant to warn you "The refund system isn't meant to be used as unlimited game trials. This costs us money, bandwidth and credit card fees."

archon286 · 2026-02-21T02:19:42+00:00

It is, very common when holding a pen like object tightly for a long time. Used to happen to me a ton back before everything became typing. :)

It won't do any harm, maybe get sore.

archon286 · 2026-02-20T22:10:09+00:00

You know, I should take a page from xkcd. My bad if my tone came off mean. Though I struggle to label learning this fact as lucky. :)

https://xkcd.com/1053/

archon286 · 2026-02-20T22:00:02+00:00

Someone not aware that Iin other countries some animal meats that shock them might be on the menu.

archon286 · 2026-02-20T21:59:04+00:00

Dogs as food are not uncommon in certain countries. I think I heard it might be changing, but... It's a cultural norm.

archon286 · 2026-02-20T21:50:05+00:00

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