I think it's probably his chat history they're after
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Steam said I have 173.9 hours in Hollow Knight. Then I clicked play, clicked abort launch, and now it says 16.1 hours. The in-game display, which is actually accurate, shows 30.7 hours.
It doesn't count offline playtime (or at least it didn't in the past). So most of my playtime for Half Life, Half Life 2, Celeste, Slime Rancher, and some others I played mostly while traveling is in invisible. Except people online say it's still tracked for the refund policy lol. I suspect there might be a weird interaction with the case where the steam deck dies when a game is paused in sleep mode.
Anyways not really related to the post I just wanted to rant about this because the time tracker is weird and kind of annoying
It supposed to help them find something that will allow them to convince us to let them do what they already decided they want to do.
They’re trying to obtain chat logs and communications across any channels. Each game’s developer is probably going to get a subpoena to hand them over.
This isn’t surprising or stupid.
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I don't know that 2000 hours in sea of thieves means he's incompetent; sure the game can be finished faster but maybe he just really likes it
it tells you he's a team player
wtf
I'm still not convinced that this was the guy. The FBI's narrative doesn't make any sense. Does anyone know a conspiracy theory community where I can go full tin foil hat?
you know steam has a messaging system don't you
you don't?
oh
jesus, people are fucking idiots
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Probably several hundred hours of afk time
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
I have about the same in Elite Dangerous. What does that mean?
o7
trying to paint them as a "leftist basement ghoul, that plays video games" it such a boomer assumption on thier part.
Actually heavy investment into SoT could be a sign. This game can nurture some very antisocial behaviour.
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Are there even guns in sea of theives? At best I would think flintlocks. But its not like the guy became a pirate, yo ho.
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