Alcoholic here. Was drinking everyday since I was a teen (around 16) for almost ten years. Went down a really dark path of almost being homeless, and having to sell my PC to drink and pay rent.

Thankfully nearly all my games were purchased thru Steam and couldn’t be sold or I probably would have lost them too. And my saves are hopefully still out there in the cloud somewhere.

Anyways after almost killing myself, I started to get help and started attending AA though, I was still drinking and fucking up. Then I met another chick who happened to bring her Steamdeck one day and I was amazed. I had heard of it before but seeing it and playing with it in person was something else.

That night I did a lot of research, and being able to access my library again – and saves, I had to have one. I eventually wanted to get a PC again but this seemed like a much more obtainable goal – and was absolutely worth the price. I then set a goal to stop drinking completely, and put every dime I saved from not buying alcohol into a separate savings. This was the first real goal I set in a long time. And I haven’t had a single drink since setting that goal. I know it isn’t much but I am proud of it, and I’m going to more meetings than ever. Being over 4 months sober is the best I’ve felt in a long time.

So now, I am just $50 shy from the cheapest model and had a couple questions.

(1) Can I use my wallet funds with a debt card to purchase it? I have about $20 in my Steam wallet.

(2) I’ve made it this long…and I’M DYING to play Rimworld and my old Stardew farm again… but should I just save a bit longer for a bigger storage model? I was set on the 64GB because I play mostly smaller size games. But I don’t want to regret that later. But I miss my games :( is the 64GB really that bad?

  • nikkitaftw@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Hey!

    Congrats on everything!! You will love the deck and I’m super happy to see this path for you!

    I actually have no idea how to make a steam gift card without adding you as a friend so do you have PayPal so I can send some to help out?

    Sorry, no Venmo in the UK

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      1 year ago

      Awe thank you! Do stores have Steam giftcards there? Because I do know that EU Steamcards work in the US. I used to do a site that I did surveys on and could get steam cards from. It sucked but I got like $20 out of it after 45 days or so. But it paid on EU steam cards.

      It was actually nice though because I’d get a $10 EU Steam card but when I redeemed it was give me like $11.50 USD.