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On 2024-05-10, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
> 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

I mostly gave up on video games after Pong. I guess I have played a couple 
of the kind where you have to figure out puzzles, like Myst. And if Mahjong 
is considered a video game I play that and pinochle sometimes.

-- 
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an 
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine