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Subject: Re: Today is the One Year Anniversary For The Release of Starfield
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:02:52 -0400
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
<snip[>
>    [As an aside, I ain't got nuthin' shrink-wrapped. If I buy it, 
>     I'm opening it. Ripping the wrapping off is half the fun!]

Cannot agree with this, I very carefully slit open the plastic wrap on
Daggerfall, and kept it plastic wrapped (preserving the box art from
fading) all these years.

I still have the box and contents, and it's still plastic wrapped.

At least 60% of the old games didn't even have plastic wrap, especially
the various Crystal Dynamics games in those odd shaped boxes
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Xocyll