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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: cpu-x Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 16:04:09 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: <v1lghp$1edil$1@dont-email.me> References: <v1b791$2ln8f$2@dont-email.me> <ib8i3jpsn8qgcsl4l3a5lin9lan9men5t1@4ax.com> <66394366$0$3711192$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <cbii3j13d49ngqdtc8gpr1shnfc4oreapk@4ax.com> <663b9bdb$0$7066$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <la2k4sF9u11U1@mid.individual.net> <v1ipc3$ng74$1@dont-email.me> <v1ju0i$v30s$1@dont-email.me> <v1l465$1bl4d$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 18:04:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4603e081fd26eebe4fbaea41d265662c"; logging-data="1521237"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19yM/8wuqQPkVpZ9EuSj/PI" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dVrzJ2eGPSDahNP3+HRaRlipElw= Bytes: 3330 On 2024-05-10, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote: > vallor wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: > >> On Thu, 9 May 2024 11:16:19 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> >> wrote in <v1ipc3$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 I mostly gave up on video games after Pong. I guess I have played a couple of the kind where you have to figure out puzzles, like Myst. And if Mahjong is considered a video game I play that and pinochle sometimes. -- [Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." "It was pride that changed angels into devils..." — St. Augustine