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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024?
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On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 05:15:06 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> 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?"
>
>Can you really see your own home though? I tried to do that on the 
>airplane with the map showing where the plane is. Haha.

Actually, yes. In fact, I can see my _car_. 

I think it's probably the first thing everybody does in games like
this; they fire it up and bumble around their old neighborhoods,
trying to spot the places they lived and worked.

It's really not much different in that regard from GoogleEarth, except
it's visuals are a bit more interactive and the framerate is better.
;-)

Which is one reason I keep it on disk; people LIKE to see their homes
in a video game (I'm guilty of this too). I fire up the game and say,
"So you live on Nowhere Lane in Podinkumborough? Let's go there!"
followed shortly thereafter by their proudly exclaiming, "Oh hey,
that's my house! That's my grocery! That's my petrol station!" As if
our lives are only notable if they're mentioned in fiction ;-)