Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
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@dresstokilt @farbenstau @draeath @SecurityWriter At this point I don't remember what graphics card I had there! I worked in two different places, somewhere we had some scientific setup, otherwise we had plain business machines.
I remember of the site for the Doom DM, with 4 players on the local network. It was also something very new for us. From home we dialled by slow modems, for a point-to-point two players gameplay.
I'd never believe in those times of the 6 Gbps fiber I have at home now!@luc0x61 @dresstokilt @draeath @SecurityWriter Consider yourself lucky. I'm stuck at 6-12 (only on a good day) MBit/s via DSL, yes, in 2026.
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@SecurityWriter using a desktop is dating yourself. as an old fart.
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@yetzt @SecurityWriter But, it’s steam. How can you play games without a desktop.
@Kyebr @yetzt @SecurityWriter Handheld.
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@luc0x61 @dresstokilt @draeath @SecurityWriter Consider yourself lucky. I'm stuck at 6-12 (only on a good day) MBit/s via DSL, yes, in 2026.
@farbenstau @dresstokilt @draeath @SecurityWriter I consider myself lucky: another house, 2 km from here, has a 70 Mbps DSL connection on lucky days, when the phone switch isn't flooded. A friend's former house, 30 km from here, had the DSL connection running below 1 Mbps (yes, less than 1000 kbps).
There are areas here where no phone company invests money, even if they're 200 meters from best connectivity. -
Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
@SecurityWriter you can get on a UK credit card at 14
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Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”
Me: “My account is 23 years old”
Valve: “That just proves your account is old”
Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”
@SecurityWriter My age verification should be a picture of the complete set of Windows 95 install discs that are still sitting in my closet. And if that isn't sufficient, I'll go pick up a box of my old floppy disk DOS games from my parents house.
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@SecurityWriter The kids at school are impressed that my daughters Steam account has well over 200 games.
(Thanks, HumbleBundle!)
Okay, it's my account, but she plays games on it more than I do!@mancavgeek @SecurityWriter I thought I had a decent account with 300+ games. Then about a decade ago, I made a friend who had spent a while in the game industry. He has over 1800. This was 10 years ago, no idea how many he has now.
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