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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Old Games For The Win
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:39:55 -0400
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 07:33:13 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 05:42:51 -0500, .../v]andrak|?...
><jfwaldby@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Isn't this kind of off-topic?  I come here and pay my hard-earned money 
>>to read about games and PC systems.
>
>LOL!
>
>It has been a long time  since anyone here made this kind of
>complaint. You really should just be happy this newsgroup is as active
>as it  is.
>
>But if it still bothering you, maybe Spalls can rescue the thread. He
>once turned a completely off topic thread about cooking and microwave
>ovens back on topic to remembering microwave ovens in video games.

Sure, but the original post was about a World of Tanks forum, and
while I don't think much of "World of Tanks", it definitely is a game
and thus I'd say it's on-topic. My vaunted powers to redirect threads
will remain unused in this case ;-)

.... Although now I'm wondering how many video games have in-game
representations of online forums in them... I know I've seen a few. I
think "Alpha Protocol" had one on a computer you hacked (it was just a
non-functional screen-grab) but I'm pretty sure I've seen others. Oh,
and there was a forum in "Uplink" too, I think! Arguably, GTA5 had one
as well (although I think it was more of a Twitter rip-off)