This is just a steam appreciation post.

Basically what happened is I don’t know what happened. I was playing battlefield 6 and nothing was out of the ordinary, stood up and took a break and when I came back my computer was asking for my bit locker code.

Enter the code, boot, crash 5 seconds later, repeat. I got stuck in this loop forever. Tried about everything, only thing that worked was doing a fresh windows install from a usb.

Ended up losing everything saved on my pc, didn’t really have too much so not that big of a bummer but still a major inconvenience. The catch is, secure boot has completely stopped working on my pc even after reinstalling windows. It seems battlefield 6 broke something within my firmware, the only thing I haven’t tried is updating bios or completely reinstalling it. Which honestly, is just too much for me.

So to the main point, this was becoming way too daunting of a task just to play battlefield 6, so I gave up. But before I did I said fuck it, I’ll send in a refund request and see what happens.

Explained my whole situation and lo and behold not even 10 minutes later I get a notification saying not only that I was refunded, but they were able to refund me back to both my steam wallet and card.

Holy fucking shit I don’t know who works steam support but whoever does I think I’m starting to form a parasocial relationship with you. I usually don’t like to glaze large corporations but i don’t think I’ve ever experienced customer support that’s so fast and so efficient. I know this has already been said about steam support a million times but I figured one more wouldn’t hurt.

EDIT: I want to clarify I spend an abhorrent amount of money on steam, especially within the last 2 weeks, I’m gonna take a gander and guess this is why they’ve been so lenient with me and my multiple refunds within the last couple of days. It’s almost like they know they’re gonna get that money back eventually or something….

Also I’m glad you guys like my username :)
Happy to hear so many of you got some laughs out of it lol.

The guy sits next to me, decent dude, but hes been on console his whole life. sees me looking at a new monitor during break and goes "bro why do you spend so much on that stuff, a PS5 is like 500 bucks and it plays everything"

And i tried, i really tried to explain it calmly. like ok yes the upfront cost looks lower. but then i walked him through what i actually use my PC for. editing, work stuff, running multiple screens, emulation, modding games, game pass, steam sales where i have hundreds of games i grabbed for nothing basically. i told him i had some money budgeted specifically for the next upgrade and that its not like im just throwing cash into a hole, its incremental, you keep parts, you reuse stuff

He goes "yeah but you could just plug a PS5 into your tv"

I give up lmao

He's not wrong about the simplicity, he's just wrong that simpler = better. my 7900 XTX would like a word

And they expected to have profit with PC ports when they can't even sell properly on their own platform?

The problem isn't porting games to PC, the problem is that your games are getting worse and they think going back to exclusivity will fix that

I add every i5 sticker I find to my Thinkpad, up to 11 so far and counting.

Finally… the GPU fragrance nobody asked for.

Smells like high FPS, overclocking and driver updates.

+15 performance boost when applied directly to the PC.

Decided to share my Dead Space themed rig.

I created this in the summer of 2024, using a selection of paints, acrylic sheets and an old Corsair Carbide Spec-03 case that was sat gathering dust in storage.

For those interested, 2 main specs:

CPU: 5700X

GPU: 7800XT

It broke off while moving my PC, can i plug it in my motherboard? And is my whole GPU broken now?

just a stupid meme idea I got don't take it too serious

Cursed specs:

Hp compaq

Lga 775

Core 2 quad q9550

8 gb of the finest bargain bin ddr2

Gtx 1060

2x sata ssd, boot disk: 80gb and secondary disk 120gb but i found an 840 evo 500gb the other day so i'm putting that in.

Stock power supply with some questionable soldering to get the 6 pin pcie power cable but so far it's not getting hot.

Thinking of painting the side cover pink.