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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024?
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 07:53:51 -0700
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On 10/3/2024 7:26 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:37:10 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
> 
>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:50:31 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> October already? Way too busy! DuoLingo, Propel, and Voro in my iPhone
>>>> when I can. I wanted to play a free Steam weekend game over the weekend,
>>>> but got slammed by my colony. I still haven't resumed my Star Wars: The
>>>> Old Republic's tutorial. I regretted downloading and starting to play
>>>> since it was a huge 56.2 GB game and no free time. :(
>>
>>> Heh. That reminds me of my almost-never touched Microsoft Flight
>>> Simulator install. I keep it around largely because I simply can't
>>> face downloading it a second time; it currently weighs in at 400GB!
>>> And Microsoft's servers aren't the fastest either...
>>
>>> So it earns itself a permanent spot on the hard-drive even though it
>>> really isn't all that much fun to play. Every now and then I fire it
>>> up to justify its existence (and even then, I usually have to wait an
>>> hour just to PLAY it because it needs to download another 20GB of
>>> updates).
>>
>>> But what's the alternative: uninstall the game and then wait two weeks
>>> to redownload everything should I want to revisit the game in 2027?
>>
>>> Oh well, at least it's on my spinning-rust HDD.
>>
>> If it is not fun to play, then why bother keeping it? :P
> 
> 'Cause it's PRETTY! And it's fun to show off to others. "Hey, you
> wanna fly over your home-town?"
> 
> But that doesn't work if I then follow up with a, "Just give me 36
> hours first to download and install the damn thing." ;-)
> 
Just install it on one of your curbside fix-ups all by itself and have 
it in a corner for that.

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