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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Games you prefer to watch others (and yourself) play
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 17:40:37 -0800
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On 2/6/2025 1:55 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:53:14 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
> 
>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:28:33 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>>
>>>> I do rarely if I'm not going to play them. Does anyone else record their
>>>> own gaming and watch the recordings like I do like in recent/last year's
>>>> onlne Pulsar Lost Colony games
>>>> (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiTODPVxHAd8yRxOz9Iq-Bq4_O5-RJCWn)?
>>>> I also did the same for old computer games like classic Doom and its
>>>> mods (https://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html as
>>>>
>>
>>> Nope. Well, mostly nope.
>>
>>> Certainly I never record for streaming online. I've no interest in
>>> sharing my gameplay with others (which is quite convenient, as I'm
>>> sure that nobody has any interest in watching me play either). On
>>> very, very, very rare occassion I may do a brief snippet of video...
>>> usually to troubleshoot or look at a very specific scene. But these
>>> videos aren't granted any longevity; I don't keep them hanging around
>>> for review years down the line.
>>
>> Oh yea, video walkthroughs. I forgot about those too. Yeah, I watch
>> those if I get stuck! Remember the days when we didn't have these? All
>> we had were hint books, etc. ;P
>>
>>
>>> The most I do is watch the 'automatic replays' some racing games offer
>>> when you finish a track. But even those are ephemeral; I might watch
>>> my exploits once or thrice, but they don't get saved to disk so once I
>>> move onto the next race, they're gone.
>>
>>> Now, screenshots on the other hand... I've got a bunch of those
>>> (albeit almost entirely of the virtual landscapes I run across, and
>>> not of my character). Those make great desktop wallpaper images ;-)
>>
>> Oh I share those too! Do you have any cool ones to share with us? ;-)
> 
> I used to post them on Photobucket and other services, but they've all
> killed their free user accounts, so I stopped uploading. The majority
> wouldn't fall into the 'really cool' category anyway; they're just
> scenes I thought looked nice.
> 
PixHost has been very reliable for me for several years now and has good 
retention.  I actually can't remember if I _have_ an account with them 
but I've uploaded hundreds to couple thousand files to them over the 
course of a week on a regular basis.

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