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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:50:31 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

> >
> >October already? Way too busy! DuoLingo, Propel, and Voro in my iPhone 
> >when I can. I wanted to play a free Steam weekend game over the weekend, 
> >but got slammed by my colony. I still haven't resumed my Star Wars: The 
> >Old Republic's tutorial. I regretted downloading and starting to play 
> >since it was a huge 56.2 GB game and no free time. :(

> Heh. That reminds me of my almost-never touched Microsoft Flight
> Simulator install. I keep it around largely because I simply can't
> face downloading it a second time; it currently weighs in at 400GB!
> And Microsoft's servers aren't the fastest either...

> So it earns itself a permanent spot on the hard-drive even though it
> really isn't all that much fun to play. Every now and then I fire it
> up to justify its existence (and even then, I usually have to wait an
> hour just to PLAY it because it needs to download another 20GB of
> updates).

> But what's the alternative: uninstall the game and then wait two weeks
> to redownload everything should I want to revisit the game in 2027?

> Oh well, at least it's on my spinning-rust HDD.

If it is not fun to play, then why bother keeping it? :P
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