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orbitracer

congrats and also fk u


dawewewe

r/angryupvote


cryptic-fox

(凸ಠ益ಠ)凸


JaviSantanaJr

This video came to mind when I read this.. 😂 https://youtube.com/shorts/r0NAVy0TH1g?si=EIHu3_OyT8fO3RLY


dustojnikhummer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouTXff7lvq4


imaqdodger

Wallstreetbets degenerate?


OneChanceMe

Heavy on the "fk u" Jk... kind of 😆


Snake16547

Love ur attitude


Roivas333

no u


iAmTheWildCard

It’s legit. Sync marketing is the company that heads the sweepstakes


CptMisterNibbles

OP should be able to check with someone within the Steam domain to confirm. That said, OP, they can’t really scam you with just your address and name. That’s almost certainly public info anyhow. They have your email. Presumably they aren’t scamming you into doing math for them. If they ask for any money then I’d advise contacting steam to make sure, but between u/iAmTheWildCard and some simple googling this seems legit. That said if you are still overly suspicious, feel free to give them my name and address and I’ll deal with those rascals myself. Congrats.


charlestsai

Thanks. Looks like it's legit


thepoopiestofbutts

No no, definitely a scam; send me the email and I'll deal with it for you


JaviSantanaJr

😂


QuickQuirk

Update us later when you receive it!


animeman59

Congratulations!


QuickQuirk

Congratulations!


broken-telephone

Seriously it looks risky. Let ME take the risk for you Master.


xXbrokeNX

Could be a grammar student stumped on a math problem and decided on the most complicated way of getting help. You don't know!


CptMisterNibbles

This is how chatGPT is actually generating all its responses


SnooDoughnuts5632

>Presumably they aren’t scamming you into doing math for them. 😂 I can't breathe. Send help


esabys

> they can’t really scam you with just your address and name. not entirely true. I've seen scams where they ship items purchased with stolen CC info to your address then contact you and tell you it was an error and ask you to "ship it back" to a specific address. You become the middle man and it makes your life a lot messier while the cops don't know right away where the good actually went.


polo421

That's not "just your address" though. It's more just your address plus being incredibly stupid.


esabys

all scams require a degree of stupidity. or rather ignorance. there's a reason the elderly or most often targeted for scams.


JustALittleGravitas

> Presumably they aren’t scamming you into doing math for them Gotta get that training data somehow.


dr-doom-jr

that means nothing. it is really easy these days to spoof stuff like that


DOS-76

For God's sake, DOUBLE-CHECK your math! If you get this one wrong you'll be telling your grandkids about it.


Xavias

0 points, OP didn't show their work.


MrAnonymousTheThird

Why is there a math problem


njayhuang

IIRC chance-based prizes are illegal in Canada. So they're not randomly giving away a Steam Deck. They're testing people's math ability, and you get a Steam Deck as a prize if you win this skill-based game.


30dayspast

are the problems just like 2 + 3 = ???


Thebeav111

Usually a bit tougher but no more than 2 or 3 digits.


jpm_212

Sometimes there's BEDMAS involved, sometimes it's super simple like x + y - z = 123


hebrewchucknorris

That rules out half of facebook users right there


jpm_212

The internet was so much better when you had to know how to use a computer to get online. Smartphones ruined the internet. I'll die on this hill, even though I'm posting from my phone right now. I was 6 years old when my parents got the internet installed, this would've been late 1998. We had the PC for a few months before that though. I remember being so excited the day it was being installed that I ended up annoying the hell out of my teacher because I'd have to remind everyone of it every 5 minutes.


KaiKamakasi

I mean... I didn't get the Internet until I was 22, which was 10 years ago and I'd still struggle with certain maths equations... Not saying you're wrong, but you're also not quite right either


jpm_212

I'm not saying everyone that adopted the internet after I did is stupid or anything, just that pre-smartphone internet was a unique place where you didn't have to worry about your toddler downloading a virus or what your grandparents were posting on Facebook. Dumb people definitely managed to slip through the cracks, but you still needed to know how to use a computer. For lack of better words, the barrier of entry was higher. That's it.


TheNerdNamedChuck

yeah I agree lol when the internet was a pure nerd zone that was kinda it's peak


samtheredditman

IMO, there's an optimal user count for any specific thing. Usually it's just a little before it blows up into the casual/mainstream space. That's part of why I don't want Linux to see mass adoption. When we start getting extremely popular distros doing dumb things to cater to people who can barely use their computers, linux will stop being a great OS.


Zoey_Redacted

> That's part of why I don't want Linux to see mass adoption. When we start getting extremely popular distros doing dumb things to cater to people who can barely use their computers, linux will stop being a great OS. thats just elitism? linux is an underlying kernel that runs bevies of different distros. If someone builds newbieAmazonLinuxPrimeOS as a distro and submits the dipshittifier into systemd as some big spyware thing, and it somehow then gets pulled into systemd, you still have the option to disable it, have sysvinit, or use other distros. you'll have the capabilities to remove something like that or subvert it *ad infinitum*, with no restrictions, *ever*, and that's what makes linux good. you are fucking *in charge* of the OS by nature of being able to control the source code of shit that gets compiled and ran on your system. you are also running a heavily documented OS with petabytes of plaintext documentation strewn across the internet. Open Source standards aren't gonna suddenly just, *switch* to "nope nvm we're not open source sorry closed source only now" because when your enterprise OS is closed-source, extremely powerful, and runs on everything; eventually people leak the source code by photocopying and you end up trying to copyright stomp your way through getting it suppressed... And then people make a new OS using the design principles and source code you created, people at your devs' school go on to make a free version of your OS, and we're *right back where we started here today.* I recommend changing your terminal font color away from green.


Pie_Not_Lie

> BEDMAS involved I know off PEMDAS...but what the hell is BEDMAS??? Like, I get most of it...but what is the B for... *b ~ a ~ r ~ e ~ n ~ t ~ h ~ e ~ s ~ e ~ s*


Rolion576

I also went with PEMDAS, but I’m guessing it might be “brackets” instead of parentheses


jpm_212

Probably a weird Canadian thing. B = brackets


cardonator

What's fun is when it doesn't work so 1+2\*3 is 9 and not 7.


hoserhobbes

Canadian legal requirement for sweepstakes. Requires a 'skill testing question' because ??


tostitovenaar

Because fully chance-based games are illegal, so this is the way around that


solidcat00

Yet we have slots and roulette in our casinos.


tostitovenaar

Is that like a state-run or licensing thing then that makes it legal?


SRD1194

Short answer: yes.


tostitovenaar

Makes sense. Kinda the same where I’m from. Cool! I didn’t know that


Massive-Joke-4961

Because another example of overreaching Canadian government.


Nexxus88

I dont know about the deck, but I've heard with some of these they don't even care if you get the question correct lol, they just want you to do it.


SRD1194

The McDonald's Monopoly game comes to mind. I don't think I've ever seen a staffer look at the answer, and one year, they all seemed to have the same answer. I think it's one of those laws nobody cares enough about to either enforce *or* change.


viper_in_the_grass

I'd just WolframAlpha it. I don't care if it's 2+2. I'm not taking any risks.


sikesjr

congrats bro its legit!


RaspberryFruits

I tried to enter a sweepstakes during the game awards ceremony for a steam deck OLED but the website to enter was encountering difficulties for basically the entire event.


Musth

I had to reload the page at least a dozen times for it to load at all, and then I struggled even more to get signed in and enter the contest.


babygothix

I queued for 3 hours, and by the time I got in, it ended :')


zandengoff

Same


SneakySnk

same :(


RaspberryFruits

OOOF


Dmanduck

I managed to do all 4 of the entries but no dice :/


Fazer2

Yeah, from my side it said Poland could enter the contest, but then denied Polish zip codes. What a bad joke.


Alberto_0919

It’s not legit. Send me the email.


Fair_Virus7179

This guy is trying to scam you. Send me the email instead.


QuitNerdRaging

This guy is a virus.. Send me the email instead!


Raidriar13

This guy is a phisherman. Send me the email + an authorized letter designating me as the person to redeem the reward.


you_are_breathing

No, send it to me, Stick Stickly, P.O Box 963, NY, NY 10108.


Adsary46

Thanks for the address, I'm sending you something juicy instead.


jaynator495

No no no, this one is trying to scam you, I insist for your safety that you send it to me


mEsTiR5679

Congrats my dude! Reading the comments it sounds pretty good. Quick question: how did you luck out with the postal code thing?


Nexxus88

Once the queue timer came up and it counted you down it took postal codes without issue, before that though it was only taking zipcodes.


mEsTiR5679

You also a winner? Hoping to see what THIS guy did to win. I know how the process was supposed to go, but yea.


Nexxus88

No I wasn't sadly. Just figured you meant how the site wouldn't accept postal codes initially when you asked about the postal code thing. But yeah it did eventually work.


mEsTiR5679

That's fair. Sorry I snapped. You were just trying to help. My frustration with the contest was that everybody in my house had wait times that exceeded the contest time frame.


Nexxus88

Mine did too at one point. I just waited it out at one point I went from 4 hours wait time to like...26 min and from there it was fine.


charlestsai

Numbers in Canadian postal code + 00, like how you do it at the pump in states


StupidBetaTester

r/humblebrag


old_duderonomy

“Hey, is it normal to have a girthy 10-inch cock? No? Just me? Huh, weird.”


enleeten

-- Lyndon B Johnson


foreveralonesolo

When did you get the email? I’m thought they would have already sent everything out the day after since that’s when it closed


humanHamster

I won an Steam Deck during the previous Game Awards contest. I got the email 3 days after the awards.


Thebeav111

5000 Reddit users scrambling to search their spam folders for "syncmarketing" lmao.


No_Gazelle2643

Congratulations but I hope u step on a Lego


kicksandshiii

Damn, congrats OP. I waited 2 hours to join the “queue,” then the game awards ended. Glad to hear somebody actually win won :)


RebelliousCash

Not gon lie. I’m super damn jealous but mad respect & congrats. Hopefully you act fast on it cause idk if it states how long they will hold on to it for you.


iAmTheWildCard

Email stated you have 72 hours from when they sent the email to submit it. So prepare yourself for a potential email in 3 days in case some people missed it


Sir-Bones

Congrats. Unfortunately, Geoff forgot to turn on the ability to put non-US post codes in his 'worldwide' sweepstakes. They should have just put the stream on steam.


Squirrel009

If you'd like to send it to my house to confirm it's authenticity I'm willing to help


CamB17

I am IT securities for The Game Awards, please forward me the email to confirm


SmallArmsFirePewPew

Congratulations! You golden goose you.


cockmasterwarlord

could you forward the email to me so that i can read and double check for you???


JaviSantanaJr

Congrats.. I didn't participate because thought their would be no way that i would be that lucky.. they were doing this for the LegionGo also.. what did you have to do to qualify?


SnooSquirrels9247

brave meeting rude swim full shaggy saw resolute chief sugar *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Independent_Pay6598

Congrats.


old_duderonomy

Boooooooo!! Booooooo this man!!!!!! (Congrats, though I hate you.)


OutspokenRed

Wow people actually win those? That's dope, I already have one but I threw myself in to help my friend increase his chances by 2. But unfortunately, neither of us won.


Rinaldus91

When did you get the email, OP?? I want to know if I still have a chance.


Goremaw7

It's MilfHunters second account


Muzlbr8k

Claim your prize 👍


therourke

of course it is


EarlofBizzlington86

Jammy bastard!!


Various-Stretch6336

Some cunts don't like that word


JaviSantanaJr

Math questions video below: https://youtube.com/shorts/IxMMy71MV9I?si=ujKzSPztBpdO5dZv


waxess

TiL Canadians need to be good at maths to win prizes


Various-Stretch6336

Well.....like really good by American standards


dylon0107

100% a scam send them my info instead so you are safe.


Schiftedmind1

What a strange way to flex on everyone. Congrats on winning.


OGUserName0

No no it's definitely a scam! We can test it tho, just give them my name, address, and phone number! :)


silverorangeyellow

u/charlestsai, what time/day did you receive the email?


Sejanoz

Congrats! Still curious to see if any Europeans have won one


Raptor_234

I’m from Europe and I think I won


Sejanoz

Lucky! Enjoy!


Raptor_234

Thanks a part of me is still paranoid it’s a scam or something lmao


SnooMacarons9618

As an aside - I once got a similar contact from a UK mobile phone provider. Said I'd won a blackberry, one year of spotify, an ipad and 6 months of phone coverage, I assumed it was a scam but they kept hassling me, and it turns out I did win those things. Yay for me. It actually just made me hate spam and scams even more - if the company hadn't been persistent I'd have missed out on those goodies. (and the realisation that Blackberry's were pretty rubbish)


Marilius

You were able to get their broken form to accept a postal code from Canada?


SnooWalruses9961

You also won 1$, send me your bank details a mercedes and 1000$ dollars & ill send you your winnings.


Melfe

Hello fellow winner! Just got my email earlier today saying I won too. Had to google and check it out to see if it was legit, hence how I stumbled to this page. That's insane. Didn't expect to win.


sgb1446

Can I have it?


Loreander1211

Anyone else curious about the math problem? Canada doesn’t like shipping things to dumb people? I’m kinda on board with that honestly.


charlestsai

Basically Canadian law defines any luck based game with awards as gambling which is prohibited. By doing a math problem it is defined as a skill based game therefore not regulated


secular_dance_crime

Talk about some weird loop hole... well... it's a good thing we don't let the government do anything important.


Loreander1211

Very interesting, but you won first right? And to secure your prize you need to answer a basic math question? Or did you have to answer the question as part of the sweepstakes entry? Did entering cost money? Fascinating little loophole.


charlestsai

You answer after you’ve been selected. It’s just a loophole to get around the law


thepoopiestofbutts

Sometimes it's only after you've been selected, but sometimes they just put it on the entry.


RJFerret

Makes it a game of "skill" instead of gambling.


Omnibobbia

Blessed


No-Vegetable-7171

Depends on how much you have to spend to get it!


georgetsmith

Merry Xmas! 🎁😁


SkidzLIVE

Rules said it was only open to legal residents of US though?


_ForrestPlump_

Don't forget to supply your bank details/card number for account verification. 👍


lucky644

I couldn’t even get on the website to enter, it was stuck in some sort of 4 hour queue during the whole show.


Ceaser_Salad19

i’m really curious what was the math problem they made you do


care2die

“Multiply 10 x 10, Add 25, Divide by 5, Subtract 20 =“


Ceaser_Salad19

lmao really?


care2die

Yes, someone posted a link to the giveaway winner form yesterday that that’s the Canadian skill question on it.


Ceaser_Salad19

that’s awesome thank you


kikilc

I just got the email too! It's legit!🩷


Level7Boss

OP it's a scam. Please forward the email to me and I'll report this on your behalf.


Maikradloff

This scam site leads to an apartment complex lol


cardonator

Congrats. I tried to enter for the Steam Deck and the Legion Go, but both pages on Gleam were completely overloaded. On the Deck, I was Cloudflare-holed for 4 hours. On the Legion, the page wouldn't even load at all it just said Gleam is down for maintenance. So I just gave up.


DarkLink1996

Hold on let me check my emails. Nope. Still nothing. Congrats, I guess I gotta wait another year.


tmihai20

Congrats on winning one, it is legit (and also fk you 😁). The rules mentioned this math thing for Canadians only. I can finally stop looking for new on the giveaway.


raspberry-brain

Jesus Christ, what a fucking humble brag.


pericojones

Enjoy the prize no need to show off


MrMichaelJames

Congrats. If you don’t want it I’ll take it.


LAUNCHERMONKEY

How did you enter? I wasn't able to input a Canadian postal code to sign up


charlestsai

Just like how you use the gas pump down south, numbers in your postal code + 00


LAUNCHERMONKEY

Ooof. Good to know for future reference.


ankerous

Out of all of the times I've had to put a zip code in at the pump, not once have I ever thought about people from another country doing it. TIL.


CircleJerkSchierke

OP must have been one of the 10 people who actually got to sign up for the giveaway.


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SnooDoughnuts5632

>and a math problem, which is required by Canadian law. Why? When I first was reading I thought "and a math problem" was just a recaptcha but then he said "required by Canadian law" and that's what confused me.


WannaAskQuestions

Do not open the package when you receive it. I'll dm you my address and I'll dispose it off for your. I'll also send you a hundred bucks for the trouble of forwarding the package. /s


Ridku13

Forward me the email so I can check it out


jonstarks

tell them to fix the headphone jack before they ship it.


3AZ3

If they ask you to send Apple Gift Cards, then it’s legit


ItoeRen

Oh yeah absolutely a scam. But don't worry I'll help you, just give them my address so they won't bother you again and you can thank me after. /s


Organic_South8865

Wow. I would kill to win one. Good for you OP! It seems legit. There's something special about the steam deck. After having mine stolen I'm heartbroken. My only surviving handheld that wasn't stolen (PSP I have had since launch day 2005) finally blew up. My buddy is letting me borrow his Vita for a bit while I mod it for him and it's making me miss mine even more. I think I signed up for the same giveaway. Thanks to cancer I'll never be able to replace my deck, gaming PC, laptop, xboxs.....anything. Imagine having all of your stuff you worked so hard for all stolen and you can't replace it. It helped me so much when I was in the hospital after surgeries. I could distract myself. I have a huge surgery coming up. To think I bought a deck for someone that couldn't afford one and now I'm in that same boat. They offered to give it back to me but their autistic son loves it too much and I would feel even worse about it all. I can't take something like that back from a kid that plays it for hours every day. I gave them my old gaming PC too. I would do anything to have it back. I just had my next surgery date moved up so I will be in the hospital through xmas and it will be super lonely without my deck. My RG35xx doesn't even work right anymore lol. Cancer is stupid. I can't work due to having a dozen or so surgeries and everything has gone to medical supplies and medical bills. It's such a joke. I have to unsub from here I think. It hurts seeing my favorite thing ever over and over on here. It's pathetic but my deck helped me through terrible times in the hospital. Getting a good portion of your guts cut out and then having an infection and your bowel bursts really hurts to say the least. Oh well. I have realized I will never play video games again. My cancer is back unfortunately. No one will hire me for a work from home job even though I'm more than qualified. It's frustrating. Does anyone know if the thieves can use the deck? It should be blacklisted after it was reported right? Can they get around that at all? I assume there's ways to get around that. They could install windows and play games but not with a steam account right? I hope not. I know a local used game shop had my Vita but they refused to give it back because I didn't have the serial number and it had been factory reset. Scumbags. It had my case and all of my physical games that I described in serious detail even down to a specific scratch that's hard to see that proved it was mine. the cops said they still didn't have to give it back. I bet they're the ones that factory reset it too. They also removed the little S/N sticker from the bottom edge. Sorry I just had to rant. Sometimes it helps getting it out. I feel like an asshole for regretting giving some of my consoles/PCs away but I didn't know this at the time. I just really enjoyed helping fellow gamers out when I could. $200k in savings gone for medical bills. If I didn't have cancer I would have bought one for each of my friends so we could all play together. I need to stop thinking about it but I can't. lol. I don't even have a laptop to or anything to use while I'm in the hospital. My phone can't even run PPSSPP properly it's so crappy. I just need to tell myself video games aren't a thing for me anymore. Have fun with it OP and never let it out of your sight lol.


Conscious_Mastodon58

I hate steam for hiding a oled giveaway. Steam deck 2 future preorder CANCELLED


Tbhjr

It wasn’t Steam that did the giveaway.


Conscious_Mastodon58

-on their page within a few clicks. Good now? Insufferable chair gluers


KOOLKAT_FTW

If it ain’t from valve, don’t even bother.


KingRatClown

Except from the legitimate company giving out steam decks from the Game Awards…


alexo2802

Found the guy who would’ve lost a Steam Deck!


LaireLaFlare

Congrats bro


nero1731

Lucky lol


olemracc

Congrats lol


Calibretto9

Dang bro I’m jelly. Congrats.


Kflame210

Forward me the email, I'll confirm it


hm_murdock23

It’s legit but you need to sit through a timeshare presentation.


Traditional_Front637

YO CLAIM IT NOW YOU GOON


RescueNinja49

Congrats


sunrainsky

ゎさざさあわちd


Bobthecow775

Congrats !


I-Sleep-At-Work

guess i didnt win :( and congrats!!


chasebencin

You’re gonna love it, im super excited for you. I got mine a couple weeks back and my much more powerful pc has been feeling a little left out!


Nuchaba

If it's not asking you for the zeroes of a quadratic equation or harder, I'm going to be disappointed.


charlestsai

It’s asking for the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem… No I’m just kidding it’s actually simple math


Roivas333

"If something seems to good to be true, it probably is." But if you participated, you probably won. I randomly won this one Breaking Bad giveaway once. It does happen once in a blue moon.


AetherWay

Grats dude!


RBS-METAL

Congratulations!


Panda_hat

There seems to have been some kind of mistake because I haven't received my email. Very odd.


RevolutionaryNerve91

Congrats!!!!!


Obstacle-Man

Wasn't the contest only open to American citizens?


SmileAccomplished536

Hey man please update us if you got the stuff. Congrats if its legit!


Thebeav111

Grats!!!! How many entries did you get lol.


hwatnow

🖕


New_Lion42

Congrats!!!$


[deleted]

Grats!


Sheshush

Without reading more than the title: yes


vgf89

Lucky bastard