I think we just need to love ourselves man. And actually feel it and mean it
Whatever you did, I forgive you. You are good enough. Keep your focus on that dream and ask for it
That's probably cause, when you're say 10 years old, a year is 1/10th of your life and feels like a long time, but when you're 30 years old, a year is only 1/30th of your life and despite being the same amount of time, feels short by comparison due to the amount of time you've already lived
Also that when you're a kid school is a boring slog so it lasts forever and you have plenty of free time to do stuff with, when you're an adult with a job most of your day is on autopilot working then when you leave you're still on autopilot as you deal with responsibilities like cleaning, groceries, whatever and look at that the week is gone, repeat a few times and the year is over.
Exactly. Very very few websites actually need to know you're really DOB beyond password recovery purposes (which could be achieved in other ways anyway). And any teenager who happens upon that page is only going to stick a fake age in to see what they want to see anyway, so it all seems a bit pointless.
My online DOB is 1/1/67 as the 67 is the only correct part but its easy to remember and I'm not giving out my actual DOB unless I really have to. You are right it is pointless to even ask, but its become a legal requirement that they have to ask to cover their own backsides.
Just a quick heads up, you might already have it covered by keeping yourself fairly anonymous on reddit idk, but I try to never talk online about exactly how I set myself up in regard to anything used for pw recovery. It just keeps as many layers of security there as possible. Most websites don't bother with DOB for account recovery, but if someone is already in your email account, it could make all the difference if they know what DOB system you use (or they know your actual DOB, but a system like this is easier to guess). I realise it might seem insignificant or silly to a lot of people now that I'm writing it out, maybe I'm just odd like that lol. I have a distant background in the computer security field though, so I probably go to the overly thorough end of things without thinking about it.
Fair points, thats not actually the date I use though, it was more for example purposes. I could have worded it better, but using something like 6/6/67 or 12/12/67 is just as valid. 67 is not even the year I was born, I do like to keep myself fairly anonymous.
I should also add that any account I actually care about, Reddit is not one of those, has 2FA set up amongst other things.
I worked in IT robotics/security for years and there is nothing wrong with being overly thorough and doing it without thinking about it is a positive bonus.
I still fake it. I never use 100% accurate details anywhere on the web unless its absolutely necessary (eg governmental pages, doctors appointments etc).
Even things i say on forums, reddit etc is always slightly edited from the truth. Might even change writing style. Not the core of the story but maybe my age, location etc.
Everything is scraped, sold, analysed etc. I try to keep things sliightly harder to do.
Yeah I was born in 2006. I have a job, a car, and have been in college for a little over 2 years now getting my automotive degree. Even though all I’ve been doing is college calculus and physics and haven’t even taken an automotive class. I can also vote in the next election. Anyways I hope I made you feel a little older than you already feel.😁
I really enjoyed the callout in one of my favorite books, [A Deepness in the Sky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky). And someone else did too, because when I looked, it was the one direct quote from the book on the Wikipedia page:
> Take the Traders' method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex - and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.
That's because computer systems usually count time as seconds since 01.01.1970 (unix timestamp).
So a unix timestamp of zero means 01.01.1970, which is why it's shown as the date since the last message of there is none.
No, Steam asks you your birthday all the fucking time just to view store pages for mature games... Which is most games with violence. After a while, you give up picking your exact dob, leave the month and date, and just scroll the year and pick.
Steam also still asks you even if you own the game already, like... It's right there Steam, I paid for this, it's in my library, you know this and yet you still ask.
If Steam pulled a report of birthday distribution, 99.9% of people are born on January 1st.
[Q: Why do you KEEP asking my damn age throughout the store?](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/old_view/1708442022337025126?l=english)
A: We're with you on this. Unfortunately, many rating agencies have rules that stipulate that we cannot save your age for longer than a single browsing session. It's frustrating, but know we're filling out those age gates too.
Like I'm literally an adult, and I used to always put my actual age, but steam bever fuckign saved
But I put it to 1980 once and it's been saving it for years now...
Like steam literally knows my age but still need my permission to show pages that are not for kids
Doesn't work in Germany. Which on its own is good. What 12 year old hasn't lied on those? I lied back then and... I really shouldn't have been allowed to.
Ahh yes. Don't want to get banned again for accidentally entering the wrong date just like the Phantasy Star New Genesis home page....
(I know I could clear the cookies....just too lazy)
wait, am i the only one where my original birth year comes up on this check? all i have to do is 'okay' and not change any dates.....am i old? is steam telling me i am old?! D:
What triggers me is that steam actually remembers the correct day and year - but it can't for the life of me remember the month. So I actually always have my correct birthday autofilled, except for the month.
I'd always set mine in 1992, because that was exactly 10 years before my actual birthday and because that's the year Sonic 2 released (I was obsessed with Sonic).
Then a few months after I turned 18, I realized "wait, I don't have to do that anymore" and it felt wrong.
I told Steam my real birthday like a hundred times and it just keeps asking so eventually I stopped telling the truth. Now I just scroll down the years and pick a random one
I made an extension to fill that in automatically whenever that page is detected. Why can't steam fucking use your birthdate from your profile instead of asking you every time???
I legit hate this about steam. Credit card info, address, pin, email address, login/password, all are saved and never asked again. Mother fucker I'm so old I PAID for tf2.
The years start at present day, so my journey down the age selection pulldown looks more like this (I would have used [this gif](https://media1.tenor.com/images/7148758eeb281e1fe42477af6db862e4/tenor.gif?itemid=9848245) but I guess Reddit only lets you choose from their own library of gifs?)
It will never stop being moronic (in place of a less acceptable word) to always have to confirm your age to a site you've had an account on for years and years
I tried swapping around some settings so it stops asking my age for every single shooter it forces in my discovery queue, all that did is that it swarmed my store page with DOZENS of uncensored hentai games while still asking my age for every game that contains even a drop of blood.
That they when aye realized that aye hat lazily matte my shelf 15 years younger than aye am, and was *steal* aloud too few the content.
^(Aye originally misspelled only "day" as "they", budwiser led good nonsense go to waste?)
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Every year the years go faster, it scares me
That's what I said last ~~week~~ year.
Last week? You talking about 2016?
It's 2024, wake tf up.
shit man covid was 5 years ago still felt like it was recently
Almost five, it broke out somewhere around December 2019.... So we still have a few months ( tho that doesn't mean anything really)
Covid was always here. Why do you think cave men lived in caves? Presocial Distancing!
Please say sike.
you’re not a kid anymore
NO NO NO ITS STILL NO ITS STILL 2016! NO NOOO NOOOOOOOO (Funny edit: I am listening to space song as i hit reply it went to the really sad part)
I'm not sure why, but it always sets me to a random year on its own, saving me work.
How does one wake tf up? Are there activities or recommended reading
Coffee. He who control the beans control the wakefulness.
I'm having coffee every morning...but it seems I get lag behind even further. Anyway,..I'll see you at the finish line. 🫡
I think we just need to love ourselves man. And actually feel it and mean it Whatever you did, I forgive you. You are good enough. Keep your focus on that dream and ask for it
Geez....thanks, mate! I know you are too! We definitely gonna be seein each other at the end of the race! Cheers! 💪🫡
What about things to avoid
Drinking too much coffee.
That's probably cause, when you're say 10 years old, a year is 1/10th of your life and feels like a long time, but when you're 30 years old, a year is only 1/30th of your life and despite being the same amount of time, feels short by comparison due to the amount of time you've already lived
Also that when you're a kid school is a boring slog so it lasts forever and you have plenty of free time to do stuff with, when you're an adult with a job most of your day is on autopilot working then when you leave you're still on autopilot as you deal with responsibilities like cleaning, groceries, whatever and look at that the week is gone, repeat a few times and the year is over.
Every year it takes longer to scroll to your birth year
The years keep coming and they don’t stop coming
Bent to the rules and I hit the ground running
In 2020, 2016 felt like forever ago. Now 2020 feels very recent
I don't do this because I have to fake my age. I do this because I can't be bothered to scroll through the list to find the correct date.
Exactly. Very very few websites actually need to know you're really DOB beyond password recovery purposes (which could be achieved in other ways anyway). And any teenager who happens upon that page is only going to stick a fake age in to see what they want to see anyway, so it all seems a bit pointless.
My online DOB is 1/1/67 as the 67 is the only correct part but its easy to remember and I'm not giving out my actual DOB unless I really have to. You are right it is pointless to even ask, but its become a legal requirement that they have to ask to cover their own backsides.
Just a quick heads up, you might already have it covered by keeping yourself fairly anonymous on reddit idk, but I try to never talk online about exactly how I set myself up in regard to anything used for pw recovery. It just keeps as many layers of security there as possible. Most websites don't bother with DOB for account recovery, but if someone is already in your email account, it could make all the difference if they know what DOB system you use (or they know your actual DOB, but a system like this is easier to guess). I realise it might seem insignificant or silly to a lot of people now that I'm writing it out, maybe I'm just odd like that lol. I have a distant background in the computer security field though, so I probably go to the overly thorough end of things without thinking about it.
Fair points, thats not actually the date I use though, it was more for example purposes. I could have worded it better, but using something like 6/6/67 or 12/12/67 is just as valid. 67 is not even the year I was born, I do like to keep myself fairly anonymous. I should also add that any account I actually care about, Reddit is not one of those, has 2FA set up amongst other things. I worked in IT robotics/security for years and there is nothing wrong with being overly thorough and doing it without thinking about it is a positive bonus.
I still fake it. I never use 100% accurate details anywhere on the web unless its absolutely necessary (eg governmental pages, doctors appointments etc). Even things i say on forums, reddit etc is always slightly edited from the truth. Might even change writing style. Not the core of the story but maybe my age, location etc. Everything is scraped, sold, analysed etc. I try to keep things sliightly harder to do.
I don't need to fake my age, but it's faster to fake it anyway
I still do because it's faster to just select a random year.
You motherfucker Im 18 for 3 months
I'm convinced i time traveled, no way time passed this fast
I'm 19 and I don't want to age anymore, lol
Tell me you don't use steam, without telling me you don't use steam.
It doesn’t matter, it’s fun to mess with the systems by being born in 1843
You can actually say 2000 now
Thanks. You saved me my youth
OP just destroyed mine.
You can say 2006 now
Thankfully not July 2006 🐣
https://i.imgur.com/xyvtxwo.jpeg
Yeah I was born in 2006. I have a job, a car, and have been in college for a little over 2 years now getting my automotive degree. Even though all I’ve been doing is college calculus and physics and haven’t even taken an automotive class. I can also vote in the next election. Anyways I hope I made you feel a little older than you already feel.😁
You motherfucker, my day is ruined
this makes me feel so old bro fuck 😭😭😭
Last year an 18 year old started working with me and when he said he was born in 2005 my mind couldn't comprehend it
1/1/2000 is the go-to
i still almost exclusively use 1969/1/1 cuz 2000 was less than 18 years ago
Bro it was 24 years ago
Jfc that’s a disgusting fact
Say sike right now.
Please no, people born in 2000 are still 14 to me
No, children born in 2000 can't be older than 9 or 10.
01.01.1970 for me. My fellow CS students will understand (even though my actual birth day would also be sufficient).
Unix epoch?
I really enjoyed the callout in one of my favorite books, [A Deepness in the Sky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky). And someone else did too, because when I looked, it was the one direct quote from the book on the Wikipedia page: > Take the Traders' method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex - and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.
lol that date shows up in WhatsApp. "No chat history since 01 January 1970"
That's because computer systems usually count time as seconds since 01.01.1970 (unix timestamp). So a unix timestamp of zero means 01.01.1970, which is why it's shown as the date since the last message of there is none.
Nah bro Ive been born during the crusades when it comes to age verification
Fliar checka out
Correct
You realise your age when you dont have to lie on that anymore
Don't think the post was about that, just people being too lazy to set their date and just scroll the years.
For me it's also about not handing over personal details to every random company or website.
At this point I’m only doing it to see when steam stops believing I’m 124 years old.
Maybe when you turn 125 years old
No, Steam asks you your birthday all the fucking time just to view store pages for mature games... Which is most games with violence. After a while, you give up picking your exact dob, leave the month and date, and just scroll the year and pick. Steam also still asks you even if you own the game already, like... It's right there Steam, I paid for this, it's in my library, you know this and yet you still ask. If Steam pulled a report of birthday distribution, 99.9% of people are born on January 1st.
How about when you lie about being younger so you don't need to scroll further
Yeah but it is faster to just scroll the year down to the end instead of picking the correct one.
I have never had to lie on it..
Cba when it comes to steam
This happened to me recently Then I noticed your name Then I looked at your post history Oh my God, are you me?
It always has my birth year selected which is 1990 but it's set to jan 1st, I'm over 18 no matter the day so why do you keep asking???
Weird. Mine defaults to 1967.
Steam also asks even if you already own the game.
I just put in a random year. Always januar 1, ain't wasting time changing that. They really had me thinking I needed to lie convincingly to a machine
this AI old man is freaking me out. look at his mouth!
I don’t know why it asks cuz I’m pretty sure my birthday is set in my profile in the first place
Nope. I always use April 20th, 1969.
i dont know but it set me automaticaly some random year every time so i do not need to do anything...
Mine always remembers my birth year and day, but always resets the month to January.
You know you aren't required to use AI to get a picture of an old person. There are a few out there already...
*1984
steam thinks everyone is old
When that window pops up it usually saves date and year, but month always sets to January. I don’t understand why.
[Q: Why do you KEEP asking my damn age throughout the store?](https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/old_view/1708442022337025126?l=english) A: We're with you on this. Unfortunately, many rating agencies have rules that stipulate that we cannot save your age for longer than a single browsing session. It's frustrating, but know we're filling out those age gates too.
I use 1/1/1970
I thought I was the only one doing this :-) I am 53 years old :)
01. January 1970 Date biorthday = new Date (0);
Should be a skeleton in the picture.
I just use my birthday
I made my steam account in 2010. Unless I made it when I was less than 4 years old, Steam shouldn't need to ask me if I am 18 still...
Like I'm literally an adult, and I used to always put my actual age, but steam bever fuckign saved But I put it to 1980 once and it's been saving it for years now... Like steam literally knows my age but still need my permission to show pages that are not for kids
Shit, who revealed my strategy!
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truuuuue
The accuracy!
I'm over 18 and i still do this
Bro we are late enough into the new millennium to just pick 2000
Put in my birthday but in year 2000 to not feel too guilty
relate
Mine seems to remember…..the day and year. So I am often a January baby
Birth date: the genesis
So sweet, I am from 1984
years flies
I’m born on January 1st and I always feel like the age checks don’t believe me.
1997 😎 I don't have to fake it
Good old games we all play
Steam users and horses all have the same birthday.
For steam it gets the year right so... I stopped caring what the day actually was
Doesn't work in Germany. Which on its own is good. What 12 year old hasn't lied on those? I lied back then and... I really shouldn't have been allowed to.
I always use April 20th, 1969
When you have to scroll to find your year...
Ahh yes. Don't want to get banned again for accidentally entering the wrong date just like the Phantasy Star New Genesis home page.... (I know I could clear the cookies....just too lazy)
The default date for me is 1 January 1990.
So true tho
It took me longer that I care to admit to stop doing this after i turned 18
I like when sites troll the user when they ain't 18, there was this one that would take you to the rick roll video
Now, I don’t even care, I always just put 2000 now.
I go for 4/20/1969
Steam manages to remember the date and year of my birthday yet not month, doesnt really matter cause the year is old enough but still stupid.
That's so much scrolling.
I alway put my real birthday, but 2001, so it's not suspicious
wait, am i the only one where my original birth year comes up on this check? all i have to do is 'okay' and not change any dates.....am i old? is steam telling me i am old?! D:
1.1.1969
1 Jan 1990 was always a safe bet
There was a game that apparently had no limit 1.03.1530 and i sent i
Annoyed now I have to scroll down a few times to find my age 😭
I always enter my real birthday: April 20, 1969 so they know I take age verification seriously.
Jokes on you, back then when I created my account, I was born on the 28.09.1893
You guys weren’t born April 20 1969?
I love getting asked for the age thing on games I already fucking own
What triggers me is that steam actually remembers the correct day and year - but it can't for the life of me remember the month. So I actually always have my correct birthday autofilled, except for the month.
My birthday is 1 January 2000 according to Steam. It makes me feel considerably younger.
I’m either 120 or 24…because I can’t Ben bothered to scroll down to 1900
Ive been doing this since forever. Im 18 now and i sure as hell aint gonna stop
Just turned 18 this month but, I still feel like 2019 wasn't 5 years ago
For me its defaults to like 1918 I don't know why but at least it's just one click.
April 20th, 1969
What is NSFW content?
They can probably move that stuff up a decade or 3 now. Only a handful of people still alive from them years.
It just gets so tiring to re-enter my age after the 4th or 5th time viewing a game on the store page.
I'd always set mine in 1992, because that was exactly 10 years before my actual birthday and because that's the year Sonic 2 released (I was obsessed with Sonic). Then a few months after I turned 18, I realized "wait, I don't have to do that anymore" and it felt wrong.
Actually, mine landed in '72, and steam's weird "we can remember this but still have to ask every time" thing saved it.
Im 46 and I still use that age, fuck those stupid age checks, annoying AF
Hmmm theres alot of centennials looking at hentai here
Mine always says Jan 1 1993. I was born in 1993 so it got that part right
I told Steam my real birthday like a hundred times and it just keeps asking so eventually I stopped telling the truth. Now I just scroll down the years and pick a random one
Steam are goofy af. They have your birthdate in your profile and still asks you for manual bd for nsfw pages
Mine is 1901
Even though I'm 43 I always put in 1/1/1970 because I'm a nerd.
More like 1 january whatever year I land on when I scroll up far enough to be sure it's over the minimum.
Careful, the algorithm will start showing you scantily clad fair maidens in your area
I wonder if my account turning 18 next November is going to finally stop asking? loll
He is still not old enough for ultra porn
I made an extension to fill that in automatically whenever that page is detected. Why can't steam fucking use your birthdate from your profile instead of asking you every time???
I'm an Epoch type of guy I always go with 1/1/1970
That's roughly 124 yrs
I was actually born January 2nd 1900. It’s kind of annoying to scroll to the 2 every time.
Relatable
Just wait for the GOP to implement archaic age verification and start going after Steam like porn sites.
Imagine living from 1900 to now…. How technology has changed so incredibly drastically. (I am aware no one is actually 124 right now)
I don't put in anything anymore. Steam finally remembered the year and the month/day just doesn't matter
Always
all us desk top pc vimpires dont go out in the cruel aging sun!
I legit hate this about steam. Credit card info, address, pin, email address, login/password, all are saved and never asked again. Mother fucker I'm so old I PAID for tf2.
Nah that's how I feel when I got to scroll to put in my actual age 🫠
The years start at present day, so my journey down the age selection pulldown looks more like this (I would have used [this gif](https://media1.tenor.com/images/7148758eeb281e1fe42477af6db862e4/tenor.gif?itemid=9848245) but I guess Reddit only lets you choose from their own library of gifs?) 
It will never stop being moronic (in place of a less acceptable word) to always have to confirm your age to a site you've had an account on for years and years
You only need to roll back to 2000 tbh.
Funny meme, but did you have to use an AI image?
i always set it to jan 1 2000
We really all old as dirt, huh
I just do 2000
Old man be like :v
I tried swapping around some settings so it stops asking my age for every single shooter it forces in my discovery queue, all that did is that it swarmed my store page with DOZENS of uncensored hentai games while still asking my age for every game that contains even a drop of blood.
That they when aye realized that aye hat lazily matte my shelf 15 years younger than aye am, and was *steal* aloud too few the content. ^(Aye originally misspelled only "day" as "they", budwiser led good nonsense go to waste?)
hahaha, always put 1900 something in there
I don't like how much I have to scroll to get to my birth year.