1: Getting on my friendlist only happens now if either -
* I invited you myself OR someone on my friendlist referred you to me
* You're a developer and you need to discuss a review I put out or you need to talk to me for some other reason (if it's a sales pitch for me to review your game, make it good)
* You're part of C7K . People in this (and only this) group are whitelisted by default.
* You're a specific person who knows me. In which case USE DISCORD DAMN YOU.

Anyone else, contacting me via Discord (username: hobbes.txt) is your route forward. Steam Chat is too chuggy and awkward to manage at this point, if anyone has alternatives for the chat client, I'm all ears

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2 : There has been a few instances of other Hobbes appearing. If in doubt, the easy way to confirm that you're dealing with the real Hobbes™ is through the following specific account markers -

On my badge collector panel, there's one listing my length of service, and it shows a join date of 23/10/2007.

Games owned is now above the 6000 mark, and will keep rising. There's no other version of me on Steam with this kind of library.

The game collector panel is exclusively games you either cannot obtain on Steam or cannot obtain at all.

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2a: Corollary, I own the aforementioned games in point (2). You can confirm this by doing an owned games search, anyone who claims to have them in their profile and does NOT have them in their owned games list is a dirty filthy cheat, with fleas, and should be given a bath. Only a true tiger owns the games they display in their profile.

You'll find me most of the time either here or on discord (Add me here and I'll send you over my details), and willing to chat and socialise. Particular interests include security and network topology, the exact length of time one should dunk a digestive buscuit into coffee, and a love for all things involving 4x Games, weird chemistry (such as dioxygen diflouride) and perhaps most strangely of all, economics. Do note I do occasionally mop up my friends lists from time to time, if you drop off my friend list, that's why, it's not because I suddenly don't like you. If you want me to re-add you, just poke me.

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Proud member of C7K - home of my personal diety

Specs (since I get occasional pokes about what I run these days)

R9-5900X // AORUS Master X570
32G Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4-3200 C15-17-17-35
AORUS Master 6800XT // Creative Labs Sound Blaster AE5
BeQuiet Dark Base 602 // Corsair HX850 // Dell 32" Monitor
Razer Mamba TE // Razer Firefly Cloth // Razer Tiamat (v1) // Mistel Barocco Keyboard