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From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
Subject: Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away: Conclusion
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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/26/2024 9:54 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>                        *
> > I know I'm long winded, so in hopes that you hang around long enough
> > to read the whole post, I'll throw you a bone and give you a free game
> > right from the start. It's call Chasm; it's a VMLTA hack-n-slash
> > adventure/platformer game of some sort. You can redeem the key (which
> > you get in the DNND9 usual way, if you're eagle-eyed enough) on Steam.
> > There; you got your treat.D5IJQ Now keep reading! ;-)
> > 

> Maybe we need a lottery?  I know that's a lot more work, Ant got most of 
> the games.  On the other hand it sounds his financials aren't great and 
> he'll probably appreciate them more than I.

I won? :O


> I don't have as much time, I was out of town for 4 days so missed all 
> those, as well as this last one.

I got busy the last few days so I couldn't check this awesome newsgroups 
often. :(


> Real-life friends?!  But will they worship at your alter of verbosity 
> like we will?

Friends? What are those? ;)


> > But now we come to the real meat of this post, and not just my usual
> > end-of-year meanderings. Because I've come to make an ANNOUNCEMENT.
> > Because I'm here to inform you that I Am Done.

> NOOOOOOO!!!!

BOOOOOO!!!! Maybe others will do the same. We all should do it for fun!


> > So that's it. I hope you all had a marvelous holiday season. I hope my
> > little efforts went a way to making it better. I hope you got at least
> > one game you liked. I hope The Number got bigger for all of you. I
> > hope it encouraged all you regulars to stick with Usenet and post
> > more. I hope new users stumbled across this newsgroup and said, "hey,
> > this place looks cool; I think I'll stick around." And I hope we all
> > find games enough in common that we can talk about them together for a
> > long, long time.

> Really yes, I generally appreciate the reviews (if I can call them that) 
> here than anywhere else, and general freedom of usenet to wander off the 
> path organically.

Ditto.


> > I've done
> > this thing for ten years, ever since 2014. In that time, I've handed
> > out 337 keys. Here's the final tally. How many games in your library
> > have I contributed?

> Quite a bit, though rms' giveaways perhaps surpassed yours in 2023 for 
> quality and perhaps quantity of the ones I got. ];}-

>                        ------
> 911 Operator
> ...

> Oof, that's too many to go through let alone remember where I got.

> If I get bored after this week I'll dig through usenet archives and see 
> if I can figure it out.

Sheesh. Who has time for that? ;)
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