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From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
Subject: Re: Games you prefer to watch others (and yourself) play
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:28:33 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

> >I do rarely if I'm not going to play them. Does anyone else record their 
> >own gaming and watch the recordings like I do like in recent/last year's 
> >onlne Pulsar Lost Colony games 
> >(https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiTODPVxHAd8yRxOz9Iq-Bq4_O5-RJCWn)? 
> >I also did the same for old computer games like classic Doom and its 
> >mods (https://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html as 
> >

> Nope. Well, mostly nope. 

> Certainly I never record for streaming online. I've no interest in
> sharing my gameplay with others (which is quite convenient, as I'm
> sure that nobody has any interest in watching me play either). On
> very, very, very rare occassion I may do a brief snippet of video...
> usually to troubleshoot or look at a very specific scene. But these
> videos aren't granted any longevity; I don't keep them hanging around
> for review years down the line. 

Oh yea, video walkthroughs. I forgot about those too. Yeah, I watch 
those if I get stuck! Remember the days when we didn't have these? All 
we had were hint books, etc. ;P


> The most I do is watch the 'automatic replays' some racing games offer
> when you finish a track. But even those are ephemeral; I might watch
> my exploits once or thrice, but they don't get saved to disk so once I
> move onto the next race, they're gone.

> Now, screenshots on the other hand... I've got a bunch of those
> (albeit almost entirely of the virtual landscapes I run across, and
> not of my character). Those make great desktop wallpaper images ;-)

Oh I share those too! Do you have any cool ones to share with us? ;-)
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