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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FREE GAMES: "Football Manager 2024" & "Sniper Ghost Warrior
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 10:22:16 +0200
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On 9/5/2024 7:50 PM, Mike S. wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:59:38 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
> <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> * Football Manager 2024
>> https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/football-manager-2024
>>     Oh good, another footie management sim. It can go right
>>     there on the shelf next to my never-played copies of
>>     Football Manager 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023! I mean,
>>     I guess the games are alright, but /managing/ a video-
>>     game football team is even less interesting to me than
>>     playing virtual footie, and that's a genre that's pretty
>>     low on my lists of interests to begin with. Then again,
>>     I drive virtual trucks, so who am I to judge?
> 
> Heh. :)
> 
> Pretty much ditto for me minus driving virtual trucks.

I dunno. I guess some people really like the idea of managing a team. 
You know, making the right decisions, not the stupid decisions the 
actual football managers are making.

I don't actually like football, so the game sounds very slightly more 
interesting to me than an actual virtual football game.