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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 10:20:48 -0500
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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. 

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 ;-)