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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: More Doom... that's a good thing, right?
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 09:40:37 -0700
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On 8/10/2024 7:57 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 17:48:25 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/9/2024 11:37 AM, Ant wrote:
>>> Thanks goodness I got the free classic DOOM game offers from Steam last
>>> Christmas. ;)
>>>
>> Thank God I don't play Doom!!
> 
> You dont' play Doom? Is that... is that even legal?!?
> 
> How can you have never played Doom? It's everywhere! It is on PC, Mac,
> Amiga, iPad, Playstation, smart watches, fridges, John Deere
> tractors... I don't know if there's a port of Doom to the old Univac
> mainframes but if not, I'm pretty sure somebody is working on it.
> There will likely be a version of Doom for the Antikythere mechanism
> one of these days.
> 
> You can't escape it. If if calculates, it runs Doom. Just give in and
> play the damn game already. ;-)
> 
Oh, I have played it.  Somewhere in the early 1980's.  But not since 
then and don't intend to.  Wasn't my "cup of tea" even then and less so now.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.