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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: free Free FREE  Astronarch!  Get it!
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 23:25:14 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:10:05 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:40:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
> <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
> 
>>Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote at 20:36 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
>>> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The
>>> Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>
>>>>Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote at 17:19 this Tuesday (GMT):
>>>>> "rms" <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> looked up from reading the entrails
>>>>> of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Here it is!  Just begging to be taken:
>>>>>>https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/astronarch
>>>>>
>>>>> So um, shitty graphics and a forced (free) subscription to their
>>>>> newsletter.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, just no.
>>>>>
>>>>> Xocyll
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Since when did games come with a newsletter?
>>>
>>> When the game company makes you sign up for their e-mail newsletter in
>>> order to get the game for "free".
>>>
>>> And of course you have to sign up for their website to in order for the
>>> game to work, but don't worry they won't sell your information ... much.
>>>
>>> Sometimes "FREE" is too high a cost.
>>>
>>> Xocyll
>>
>>
>>There's no such thing as a free lunch.
> 
> TANSTAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. (Larry Niven)

Actually, R.A. Heinlein.  From _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_, one of
my favorite novels.

And it's TANSTAAFL!  At the end of the novel, it's on the Lunie flag.

> It's one of those words, like grok, I love dropping in a conversation
> to see a) who gets it (yay!, fellow nerd!) and b) confuse all the
> other rubes ;-)

"grok" is Heinlein too, hope you didn't think that was Niven! :P

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