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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Games you prefer to watch others (and yourself) play
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:55:06 -0500
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On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:53:14 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

>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? ;-)

I used to post them on Photobucket and other services, but they've all
killed their free user accounts, so I stopped uploading. The majority
wouldn't fall into the 'really cool' category anyway; they're just
scenes I thought looked nice. 

I've been screenshotting for decades now; I've got quite the
collection (over 1400), and some of them date back to the VGA era, so
the quality varies greatly. "Euro/American Truck Simulator" (60 pix),
"Skyrim" (147 pix), "Call of the Wild: The Hunter" (150 pix), "Kingdom
Come Deliverance" (61 pix) and "Minecraft" (34 pix) are the most
represented games, which may give you an idea to the content of the
images (mostly wilderness; forest and mountains). 

These screenshots are often my final judgement as to whether I enjoyed
a game's visuals. Given how many I already have, I'm hesistant to add
more unless I think it's above-and-beyond the usual, either in terms
of technical or artistic ability. If I report a game has 'absolutely
gorgeous graphics' in a month's end round-up, that probably means I
snagged a screenshot or three ;-)

But mostly it's just to add some variety to my desktop. I get bored
staring at the same picture all the time ;-)