Stolen Valor on steam.

[Susquatch]

So i made a friend on steam a looooong time ago. Like, when i was 15. I am now 19. This guy was a good guy, said he was in the Army and lived in Fort Stewart. Mentioned that he got wounded after hopping out a Black Hawk that was taking small arms fire in Kandahar province and is waiting on a medical discharge. Well, we became good friends and he bought me DoD source and we played in a clan called 11th Canadian Infantry Division. Fun stuff. We assigned squad leaders and they assigned everybody a role. I remember this very well because it is a fond memory of mine. After my first ever gaming pc died on me when i was 16, i had no method of buying a new one or repairing it. So it just kinda sat in my closet all dead and the like. Well, i would log on to steam at a buddy's house to play on my account and scroll through my friends list and see his name. I would think to myself, "can't wait to play some more 11th CiD with Pineapple Bradley!". I would look eagerly forward to playing with my buddy ol' pal in the future when i had an even better gaming PC. Well, here it is 4 years later, I'm in the Army and in Advanced training, and i just so happen to have bought me a nice PC. I load up steam and look for Bradley. I message him trying to strike up a conversation with the man who is probably around 28 years old now, but he denies the fact that he gifted me the game, and denies that he was ever in the Army. Upon hearing this, i trap him in his own lies, and at this point i am extremely♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ It's like a good friend betrayed me. Not only did he lie about the Army, but he lied about being a combat veteran! How dare he? That's a slap in my fellow American Soldiers' faces. Please don't steal valor. It's not cool.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

1. formatting!!!

2. you know where a thread like this goes... http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/12/

[Sylphie Fioré]

Serving in the army doesn't make you a decent person you know, for all I know you are just being bad to him. Could be a kid, a sore loser, a annoyed person, I would of thought someone in the army would know better than to go pointing fingers.

[wuddih]

he gifted you a game and lied a little bit on the internet and you are angry about yourself that you probably joined this army nonsense because of some random guy telling stories on the internet.

ok...

[Mivo]

Or perhaps he is lying now because he doesn't want to deal with clingy people. You never know. Just take everything at face value or think positively of people, makes for a much more relaxed experience. Or ask yourself: Will this matter in 50 years from now? Probably not. So, not worth getting upset over it. It changes nothing and you just feel rotten.

[BossGalaga]

ARKSH7R の投稿を引用：

If you ever run into 11th CiD Pineapple Bradley, call him a Valor stealing punk and report his♥♥♥♥♥ I would but he blocked me after finding out how♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥i was, avoiding the dire consquences of his ways.

Report him for what? If lying about who you are on the internet was a bannable offense then Steam would be a ghost town.

I have served in two branches of the US military and am still actively serving. I don't typically talk about it. In my experience the more you hear some random guy on the internet talking about how deep in the they were the more likely it is that they're full of themselves, especially on a gaming forum. People who have actually experienced real blood and bodies don't normally brag about it.

Most SV stories are tragic at the expense of the people pretending to be in the military. At worst they can actually be predators committing criminal offenses.

I would caution you to not be like these kids whipping out their phones trying to get internet points for catching a stolen valor case, like the idiot boots who publicly berated a 70-something year old senile veteran because his uniform was messed up.

Members of the US military are supposed to be professionals both on and off the job. Remember that. Be the better person.

[hazecloud ( ☞♥◞ ♥)]

I thought this is one of the mount and blade warband roleplay. I guess you should know better than to put high hopes in people, especially a random internet guy. It was fun for you but sadly people change over time.

[boy named my brains out]

what a ♥♥♥♥

[Susquatch]

Yeah i messed up. This guy pissed me off like a mfr.
"Members of the US military are supposed to be professionals both on and off the job. Remember that. Be the better person."
-You're absolutely right. I should have gotten my act together.
-Edited the discussion a little.

[Sylphie Fioré]

Some people won't change even if they go into the military. Sure we should be thankful for their service but not all are hero's and saints you know.

[<KK>Chris]

are you even sure you are still talking to the same person he might have sold/gifted his account years ago...