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From: Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Free Jaded game until 1/25/2025 on Steam!
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:42:05 -0500
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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On 1/13/2025 12:56 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:54:16 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>> 
>>> https://store.steampowered.com/app/1932570/Jaded/
>>>
>>> 01:47AM <Flexo> ::FreeGGdeals:: Snag Jaded for FREE on Steam before the price jumps to $9.99!
>>>           @ https://gg.deals/freebie/jaded-for-free-on-steam/ (by Natalia Koczorowska)
>> 
>> 
>> Huh. Another side-scrolling platformer with retro-graphics.
>> 
>> I dunno; I'm sort of burnt-out, or wearied, or generally sated by this
>> sort of game. Just kind of apathetic to that whole sort of experience
>> by having seen too much of games of that genre in the past. It's been
>> made dull to me, and perhaps I'm feeling just a bit cynical about the
>> whole thing.
>> 
>> It's hard for me to explain. I wish there was a single word that
>> expressed how I felt.
>> 
>> But I took the game, of course.
>> 
>
>Also early access.  I won't touch those.  It's bad enough having to wait 
>a year or two after release for a lot of games to get some of the worst 
>bugs worked out *cough* (Bethesda) *cough*.

But at least Bethesda has been historically friendly to modding, and
that made up for a lot.

With their new Microsoft overlords, I imagine that will change hard.

Considering their changes to Windows, MS seems to be the opposite of
that attitude, YOU WILL DO IT OUR WAY, WE KNOW BETTER THAN YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Cue Bethesda Funeral Music.

<sigh, cry>

Xocyll