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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: There is usually something to make me quit playing a game after a
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 07:11:15 -0700
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On 6/30/2025 6:58 AM, Xocyll wrote:
> Praetor Mandrake <horchata12839@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
> say:
> 
>> Xocyll wrote:
>>> ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
>>> spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>
>>>> PW <iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 23:30:39 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> Those are some more things that bug me to lol!  I am going to add
>>>>>>>> crafting to my list to :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Crafting, ugh.  Yeah that goes on my list too.  I'm not quite as against
>>>>>>> it as I mostly don't mind what little of it is in the souls games, and
>>>>>>> there's at leas some other game it was kind of fun in. The bad part is
>>>>>>> more about the farming part of crafting, which in general isn't too bad
>>>>>>> in souls.  I remember absolutely hating it in some other games.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ugh, crafting. I don't like grinding! I do that enough IRL!
>>>>
>>>>> *--
>>>>
>>>>> What do you ants do with all the leaves and sticks and dead bodies I
>>>>> see you hauling around all over the place?  Make a bed or something?
>>>>> Do you can them for winter?
>>>>
>>>> Leaf cutter use leaves for raising fungus for food. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=leaf-cutter+ants+fungus for details.
>>>>
>>>> Sticks? Like outside? Decorations?
>>>>
>>>> Dead bodies? Throw them away!
>>>
>>> You sure it's not a Parisian Catacombs kind of deal?
>>>
>>> Xocyll
>>>
>> Troll! You guys buy games but never show any evidence of playing them.
>> But at least we know how they affect your 'palate.'
> 
> Oh I play various games, but that is modulo my chronic pain.  Some days
> my back hurts to much to sit at the computer and play or go out and I
> end up watching a movie or series on the dvd player.
> 
> Currently doing dailies in Star Trek Online and sporadically playing
> Tina Tina's Wonderlands and Torchlight 3.
> 
> Still not really back up to snuff after the hospital stay.
> 
My sympathies as I am likely to be in a similar situation in the near 
future.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.