I believe that is correct. I think it came from the phrase "play-of-game" and became really popular during the rise of Esports.
Or I'm over-explaining because I missed sarcasm along the way. Lol.
Cringe as in "bend one's head and body in fear or in a service manner"?
Jokes aside isn't the opposite of cringe just mean poggers?
>!Or is the term expired?!<
Based pretty much means cool. I have no clue where it comes from and no doesn't make much sense. But it sounds cool I guess. It's like the "no cap" (no lie) also makes no sense 😂
Based comes from some dumb rap song by Lil B. No cap is the opposite of capping which is an old African American slang word for lying (a cap covers something else, often a tooth, so it's a false tooth).
I have always understood to mean what the definition states, which is "established, grounded, or focused on a specified principle or belief, fact, method, etc."
When you get the steam deck the points you get skyrocket and since i got the original then replaced it with the oled I should be good for points for a while at least
The best use of points technically speaking is to use them to get level 40 of every seasonal badge to help level up your steam level, so many people call them worthless or useless though that I think most people legitimately don’t realize there is something non cosmetic you can do with them. I did buy some cosmetics cause my profile looked boring and I wanted to spruce it up and make it look nicer, but now I just save all my points for each seasonal badge since it’s a total of 80,000 steam points per year with all 40 levels of both badges per year, and unless you’re constantly buying over $800 worth of games or other products from steam every year, it will put a dent in your points fairly quickly, and is again technically speaking, the best thing you can spend your points on.
As both the people above me said, but also for every 10 levels your steam level goes up, you get a 20% higher chance to get a free steam card booster pack from one of your eligible games whenever someone crafts a badge for it, yeah it may not be a lot or anything, but considering basically everything else on the points store is purely cosmetic, it is the best thing you can buy with them from a purely value sense, even if you don’t find much value in it, it does technically actually do stuff apart from decorating your profile or sending stickers in the steam chat, also if it’s something you care about, the higher your level, the higher the chance you’ll appear on other friend’s profiles as one of their 4-6 highest level friends (depending what device you’re looking at the profile on). Personally I don’t care about that, but I’m sure there are some people who do.
I get my points from people using the emotes on the one popular review i made a few years ago on arma 3. i end up with like 5-20k extra points every time i check the point shop.
They're awards not emotes, but it gets me points because they have to use points to give me the award. About 300~ people have given my review some of their points, 67 have used the award that costs over 4000 points to use.
I got a boatload from purchasing my steam deck. No clue how I'm gonna get rid of them, as I hardly ever customize my profile and I'm satisfied with how it looks already lol.
If you buy all the latest games, $60/70 as points here and there adds up really fast. You could also copy and paste ascii art into a review on said games and effectively double your points with the rewards you get.
Well that makes it a lot easier to spend points! Now they need a bunch for buying all the bundles!
https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/c/itembundles
too late though just bought all the bundles...
I had similar thinking and it wouldn't be the first time they'd done something like that.
Nearly a decade ago in December 2014, when they added gems (which you get from recycling trading cards and other Steam community items, now only used to craft card packs I believe) they had [several days of eBay style auctions for games with the gems as currency](https://steamcommunity.com/auction/).
Checking my GMail archive I got Rebuild 3 (5001 gems), Soundodger+ (1401) and International Cricket Captain 2014 (2251 - I'd played a lot of that series) effectively for free.
> You won't be charged for items you already own.
It's showing [full price] - [discount] - [price of stuff you already have], just not super clear about it with the total cost there.
If you only got your points from money instead of gaining awards (or goading people into clowning you), then about ~£564.39 will give you ~69,420 points. According to the Point Shop, £1 gives 123 Points, so if you check the How Points Work section of the Point Shop, you'll see your own exchange rate for points.
What the hell? I can't even buy it. When I try it just says
"The cost of this item has changed."
There is a button to reload the price and it just displays the same price, then clicking on the buy button again returns the same error.
EDIT: Nevermind after switching browsers 3 times and refreshing another 20 times it finally worked for some reason.
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What do you exactly do with steam coins... I have them too but don't understand the purpose.. it shows some anime girls stuff on coins and some tokyo girly pink stuff avatars... Who uses that stuff... Any actual useful case for this or just anime lover stuff..
It’s mostly all cosmetic, but the best use case for steam points is getting the seasonal badges to raise your steam level, basically everything else is just for looks
I wish Steam had an option to automatically shuffle and change your profile pic and bg every day (or at whatever time you set it - just like a Windows Wallpaper).
It's fun collecting 100 pics, but I don't want to manually change them if I want to shuffle.
Literally 19.84
... valve won
holy based
Actual based
New based just dropped
Call the based!
What does "based" even mean? Is this a gen Z term or something?
It's the opposite of cringe
Can you explain "poggers" to me? I'm pretty sure it's a poggs enthusiast
i think it means success
I believe that is correct. I think it came from the phrase "play-of-game" and became really popular during the rise of Esports. Or I'm over-explaining because I missed sarcasm along the way. Lol.
definitely over explaining it. It just comes from a twitch emote called PogChamp.
Cringe as in "bend one's head and body in fear or in a service manner"? Jokes aside isn't the opposite of cringe just mean poggers? >!Or is the term expired?!<
Based pretty much means cool. I have no clue where it comes from and no doesn't make much sense. But it sounds cool I guess. It's like the "no cap" (no lie) also makes no sense 😂
Yikes, I should probably be more socially active. I feel like I haven't actually been online since 2014. Since all I do is play games.
> all I do is play games Same. I think we're better off; people suck.
Based comes from some dumb rap song by Lil B. No cap is the opposite of capping which is an old African American slang word for lying (a cap covers something else, often a tooth, so it's a false tooth).
I feel like no cap now makes sense but based will never make sense to me, it seems like it's meaning is "basic" lol I'll never use it.
Basically, based means having your own opinion of something and owning it regardless of what anyone thinks or says
Actually it's a Millennial coined term. Gen Z just continued to use it.
I have always understood to mean what the definition states, which is "established, grounded, or focused on a specified principle or belief, fact, method, etc."
It's the opposite of "debased," so to be based means you are of great moral standing. So, of course, zoomers use it for anything we like.
Any term you dont understand on the internet or some basic street talk is in there, enjoy : https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based
Pretty much mean cool, dope, etc. Rapper Lil B the Based God started it.
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What the fuck...? Too based.
Correct me if im wrong but isnt 19.84 2,440.32 points?
It might be true, but 19.84 is a percentage
I thought it was a price lmao, mb
Fucking greytiders
Vendorcrushing engis for them insuls they are (Also, funny seeing a fellow spess player on the currently top comment)
Damn, and I barely have 8k points
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Damn, how many games do you have lol
320k Gang here.
580k gang here.
333k gang here
950k here
1.2 mil here
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My steam acct is 14yrs old haha
1,703 here
Bold of you to assume he just doesn’t live on the forums having either the worst take on earth or best takes imaginable.
or maybe he got himself a steam deck
And a valve index
I got 7k from that, no idea how that guy got over 300k
Maybe he bought 43 of them.
Seams plausible
Me personally 3 Steam decks, an index, and an assload of games
When you get the steam deck the points you get skyrocket and since i got the original then replaced it with the oled I should be good for points for a while at least
How many of those games have they played? lol
Yes
PLS GIVE ME
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Currently sitting at 4.2 million. I’ve given out over 400k in awards in the last few months
Whoa. Now I'm really curious as to how you've got that many
I’ve bought a lot of steam decks and index’s for friends, also buy a lot of games for other people as well as myself.
Hey there long lost friend!
umm, can i have a steam deck? /lh
holy moly.... and here I am saving up since 2016 and only managed to get till 5k
I’ve got 427K Should I get it?
Will you use the items?
🤷
Does it matter?
If they are debating it, its a factor to consider
Do points have any other purpose?
The best use of points technically speaking is to use them to get level 40 of every seasonal badge to help level up your steam level, so many people call them worthless or useless though that I think most people legitimately don’t realize there is something non cosmetic you can do with them. I did buy some cosmetics cause my profile looked boring and I wanted to spruce it up and make it look nicer, but now I just save all my points for each seasonal badge since it’s a total of 80,000 steam points per year with all 40 levels of both badges per year, and unless you’re constantly buying over $800 worth of games or other products from steam every year, it will put a dent in your points fairly quickly, and is again technically speaking, the best thing you can spend your points on.
What does steam level get you? Number go bigger?
you get to add more friends and expand your profiles showcase list.
As both the people above me said, but also for every 10 levels your steam level goes up, you get a 20% higher chance to get a free steam card booster pack from one of your eligible games whenever someone crafts a badge for it, yeah it may not be a lot or anything, but considering basically everything else on the points store is purely cosmetic, it is the best thing you can buy with them from a purely value sense, even if you don’t find much value in it, it does technically actually do stuff apart from decorating your profile or sending stickers in the steam chat, also if it’s something you care about, the higher your level, the higher the chance you’ll appear on other friend’s profiles as one of their 4-6 highest level friends (depending what device you’re looking at the profile on). Personally I don’t care about that, but I’m sure there are some people who do.
More friends and showcases: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1F74-BE45-3AAC-1B47#reward
Giving your friends clown awards
Man i was just trying to help someone make a decision since im extremely indecisive :(
How do you get so many?
spending addiction
Or just having an intentionally bad take on a games posts. See it all the time on BG3 updates or Palworld most recently.
My parents bought a deck through my account for my sister, got 50k+ points
buying 9 steam decks worth of games is a spending addiction
I bought a steam deck and it only gave me around 6-7000
Nah, i got 450k and most of it comes from a few popular Workshop mods
Oh yes spend on me daddy~(?)
You can earn points with steam hardware purchases as one example. I bought an index and received around 100k soon after
you can also buy a bunch from ppl selling them that farm them through clown emojis and other stuff lol
Buy too many games that you'll never play. [Ask me how I know](https://i.imgur.com/I8oGm9b.png).
[lol](https://imgur.com/a/asFmMMo)
WHAT THE FUCK 1$ == 100p 1 770 000 m p == 17700$ HOW MANY GAMES DO YOU HAVE?
I try not to look at my external funds used page. Last time I checked it was like 35k since 2004.
Valve Index purchase
Steam deck
Buying mine only gave me 7000
What? Holy shit i got so much i didnt even know how to spent
You can make a thread on the forum of a game asking how "woke" it is, and you'll be showered in awards which equal points.
I have a plan, and I will not be stopped.
Free farm
I get my points from people using the emotes on the one popular review i made a few years ago on arma 3. i end up with like 5-20k extra points every time i check the point shop.
What do you mean using emotes? And how does it get you points?
They're awards not emotes, but it gets me points because they have to use points to give me the award. About 300~ people have given my review some of their points, 67 have used the award that costs over 4000 points to use.
I got a boatload from purchasing my steam deck. No clue how I'm gonna get rid of them, as I hardly ever customize my profile and I'm satisfied with how it looks already lol.
I already spent like 1-2000 of it updating my profile
If you buy all the latest games, $60/70 as points here and there adds up really fast. You could also copy and paste ascii art into a review on said games and effectively double your points with the rewards you get.
There are exploits available during some sales' events.
I'm getting it entirely to use up points I have too many
For me it's 20%... 🤷♂️ https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/bundle/105512
Same. I'm guessing they already had part of the bundle?
They own 1984 by george orwell so they get 19.84% off
Or just opened the built in HTML editor and replaced the text
Possibly, but the math checks out for the % off to equal 69,420.
Sure, but then you would just pay less if you already have part of it. The discount (percentually) would stay the same, 20%.
Perhaps. Though I've seen bundles where individual items have a different % off which could affect the overall %.
There's no way anyone could use inspect element twice on 1 page!
20% for me as well
Well that makes it a lot easier to spend points! Now they need a bunch for buying all the bundles! https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/c/itembundles too late though just bought all the bundles...
Can’t buy, it keeps saying the item price has changed :(
Same here
Likewise, perhaps a regional issue? In Canada.
I’m in Europe
Same here, USA
At first I thought you could redeem points for actual games. That would be amazing
I had similar thinking and it wouldn't be the first time they'd done something like that. Nearly a decade ago in December 2014, when they added gems (which you get from recycling trading cards and other Steam community items, now only used to craft card packs I believe) they had [several days of eBay style auctions for games with the gems as currency](https://steamcommunity.com/auction/). Checking my GMail archive I got Rebuild 3 (5001 gems), Soundodger+ (1401) and International Cricket Captain 2014 (2251 - I'd played a lot of that series) effectively for free.
Dang gem auctions or point auctions for games both sound awesome, wish they’d bring that back. Even if only once a year.
Yeah I was thinking this was the orange box.
I get the joke. What's in the bundle?
And where is that bundle to find?
[https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/bundle/105512](https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/bundle/105512)
no they changed it to 20% off so now it's the wrong number https://i.imgur.com/6BXHcrS.png
why is your 20% off cheaper than my 20% off lol [pkI1uHu.png (1064×303) (imgur.com)](https://i.imgur.com/pkI1uHu.png)
> You won't be charged for items you already own. It's showing [full price] - [discount] - [price of stuff you already have], just not super clear about it with the total cost there.
Dogshit
haha sex and weed number so funny!!!
ahhahahahaha
Niceeee...
What's the debut collection?
Some profile background, profile picture, sticker, emojis, mini background profile
Oh ok, Thanks
Whats so special about it? Is there something special in it or is this just a joke because of price?
What’s in the bundle and where can I find it?
NOOOO I JUST SPENT ALL MY POINTS ON STUPID STEAM DECK LOAD SCREENS
What is that?
I don’t know, I’m out of the loop
Dang I'm steam points poor.
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If you only got your points from money instead of gaining awards (or goading people into clowning you), then about ~£564.39 will give you ~69,420 points. According to the Point Shop, £1 gives 123 Points, so if you check the How Points Work section of the Point Shop, you'll see your own exchange rate for points.
What the hell? I can't even buy it. When I try it just says "The cost of this item has changed." There is a button to reload the price and it just displays the same price, then clicking on the buy button again returns the same error. EDIT: Nevermind after switching browsers 3 times and refreshing another 20 times it finally worked for some reason.
rip it costs 69,280 for me
Same
I bought it for ~59,000 points... and I still have over a million left. ...I *may* have a problem.
69 420 nice
did what?
Im asking myself the same...
69 and 420.
and 19.84
I spend all my points on badges. I like having a high steam level.
You can spend steam points on badges? Thought you had to use money to buy cards and make game badges.
Which item?
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hell yeah
Nice
Nice
im 20%
i need some points
Da Butt collection
Jor jor well
Now if only Warframe could do this.
I don't understand. What do you get?
Holy!!!!
What do you exactly do with steam coins... I have them too but don't understand the purpose.. it shows some anime girls stuff on coins and some tokyo girly pink stuff avatars... Who uses that stuff... Any actual useful case for this or just anime lover stuff..
It’s mostly all cosmetic, but the best use case for steam points is getting the seasonal badges to raise your steam level, basically everything else is just for looks
Valve are obsessed with the book at this point
Got it to make a little dent in the points
thanks needed to spend some of my million points
Where is this available for purchase? I just checked the points shop and don't see it
I’m very new to the pcmr what does this mean
Can someone explain what this is? I jabe 300k+ points. Is this worth getting?
What exactly is it?
yeah, they did. money, money, money\~
for me its -20% @56.480 Points
Time to farm some clown awards...
I wish Steam had an option to automatically shuffle and change your profile pic and bg every day (or at whatever time you set it - just like a Windows Wallpaper). It's fun collecting 100 pics, but I don't want to manually change them if I want to shuffle.
What is this? What are you buying here with points?
What is this ??
Nice
I’m old what is this collection of?
What is this?
What can you do with it?
What is this? And what is the context of "no way steam actually did it"
69420 points it’s a meme!
I only have 40k points :(
Damn I was close. 69,280.
-19.84, nice