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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: cpu-x
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 15:40:21 -0400
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vallor wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Fri, 10 May 2024 08:33:09 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
> wrote in <v1l465$1bl4d$1@dont-email.me>:
>
>> vallor wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> 
>>> On Thu, 9 May 2024 11:16:19 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
>>> wrote in <v1ipc3$ng74$1@dont-email.me>:
>>>
>>>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>
>>>>> btw, has anytone ever played Far Cry 5? It's set in Montana so I might be 
>>>>> able to sustain interest longer than most of the FPS games I've tried.
>>>> 
>>>> I don't play games other than chess or sometimes othello or solitaire...
>>>> I am not training for military missions or school shootings.
>>>
>>> That's a very lame-brained opinion about gaming.
>> 
>> I should have used the <sarcasm> marker :-D
>> 
>>> And I've played Far Cry 5 all the way through, and loved it up
>>> until the contrived ending.  A lot of it is high satire, like the
>>> ending -- or when picking up a certain mission, there's guy sitting
>>> on his porch yelling about the "libtards".  But there's a lot of shooting
>>> in that game, so you might not like it.
>> 
>> Guns stopped being fun for me early on. Same with involved games (short
>> attention span except for debugging code).
>> 
>>> Elite Dangerous Odyssey has a 1:1 simulation of the galaxy, and if you are
>>> so inclined, you can pick a star and fly to it.  You can fly off "into the
>>> black" and never see anybody, much less run into combat.
>>>
>>> And if so inclined, you can play in "solo" mode, where gankers can't touch
>>> you, even if you're in the heart of the bubble.  It's a star ship simulator
>>> first, with an open-ended live-service game bolted onto it.
>> 
>> Gamers seem to be a touchy group :-D
>
> Nah.

I dunno, there has been a notable amount of misogyny among male gamers.

> Just have seen my fair share of people bagging on gaming
> due to misinformation.  Sorry if I had classed you in that group.

I don't play involved games, but we took the grandsons to a gaming
joint in North Carolina, and I watched them play these militaristic games.
Pretty realistic! Maybe R rated for violence in my opinion.

And they play Fortnight with their friends across the USA.

-- 
Don't get stuck in a closet -- wear yourself out.