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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: cpu-x
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 08:33:09 -0400
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vallor wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Thu, 9 May 2024 11:16:19 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
> wrote in <v1ipc3$ng74$1@dont-email.me>:
>
>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>>> btw, has anytone ever played Far Cry 5? It's set in Montana so I might be 
>>> able to sustain interest longer than most of the FPS games I've tried.
>> 
>> I don't play games other than chess or sometimes othello or solitaire...
>> I am not training for military missions or school shootings.
>
> That's a very lame-brained opinion about gaming.

I should have used the <sarcasm> marker :-D

> And I've played Far Cry 5 all the way through, and loved it up
> until the contrived ending.  A lot of it is high satire, like the
> ending -- or when picking up a certain mission, there's guy sitting
> on his porch yelling about the "libtards".  But there's a lot of shooting
> in that game, so you might not like it.

Guns stopped being fun for me early on. Same with involved games (short
attention span except for debugging code).

> Elite Dangerous Odyssey has a 1:1 simulation of the galaxy, and if you are
> so inclined, you can pick a star and fly to it.  You can fly off "into the
> black" and never see anybody, much less run into combat.
>
> And if so inclined, you can play in "solo" mode, where gankers can't touch
> you, even if you're in the heart of the bubble.  It's a star ship simulator
> first, with an open-ended live-service game bolted onto it.

Gamers seem to be a touchy group :-D

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