Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 22:50:10 +0000 From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) Subject: Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away: Conclusion Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action References: <744eec6f14c6a70534944122f3313022b7900522@i2pn2.org> User-Agent: tin/2.6.4-20241224 ("Helmsdale") (Linux/6.11.10-300.fc41.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 22:50:10 +0000 Lines: 82 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.180.143.226 X-Trace: sv3-RNxgcAeReQ2vp4BiMuK1HC7BTZ7ErIYLuJ8Xev+BCaYUzvV3+WzALx+m0VUixeHeuO496Hz6zU9WC7j!7IWHaL3lFq247fXrujQGGVrs5jcaCLseLJohyjCPfev3gjK16uEQfJOGDJeMm0fwLh3UJH4P1OMx!foMlv8SzMAUKgwXYaZIwt8OcWKLFeOWs X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4289 Justisaur wrote: > On 12/26/2024 9:54 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > * > > I know I'm long winded, so in hopes that you hang around long enough > > to read the whole post, I'll throw you a bone and give you a free game > > right from the start. It's call Chasm; it's a VMLTA hack-n-slash > > adventure/platformer game of some sort. You can redeem the key (which > > you get in the DNND9 usual way, if you're eagle-eyed enough) on Steam. > > There; you got your treat.D5IJQ Now keep reading! ;-) > > > Maybe we need a lottery? I know that's a lot more work, Ant got most of > the games. On the other hand it sounds his financials aren't great and > he'll probably appreciate them more than I. I won? :O > I don't have as much time, I was out of town for 4 days so missed all > those, as well as this last one. I got busy the last few days so I couldn't check this awesome newsgroups often. :( > Real-life friends?! But will they worship at your alter of verbosity > like we will? Friends? What are those? ;) > > But now we come to the real meat of this post, and not just my usual > > end-of-year meanderings. Because I've come to make an ANNOUNCEMENT. > > Because I'm here to inform you that I Am Done. > NOOOOOOO!!!! BOOOOOO!!!! Maybe others will do the same. We all should do it for fun! > > So that's it. I hope you all had a marvelous holiday season. I hope my > > little efforts went a way to making it better. I hope you got at least > > one game you liked. I hope The Number got bigger for all of you. I > > hope it encouraged all you regulars to stick with Usenet and post > > more. I hope new users stumbled across this newsgroup and said, "hey, > > this place looks cool; I think I'll stick around." And I hope we all > > find games enough in common that we can talk about them together for a > > long, long time. > Really yes, I generally appreciate the reviews (if I can call them that) > here than anywhere else, and general freedom of usenet to wander off the > path organically. Ditto. > > I've done > > this thing for ten years, ever since 2014. In that time, I've handed > > out 337 keys. Here's the final tally. How many games in your library > > have I contributed? > Quite a bit, though rms' giveaways perhaps surpassed yours in 2023 for > quality and perhaps quantity of the ones I got. ];}- > ------ > 911 Operator > ... > Oof, that's too many to go through let alone remember where I got. > If I get bored after this week I'll dig through usenet archives and see > if I can figure it out. Sheesh. Who has time for that? ;) -- "Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me." --John 12:26. We must serve Jesus. It had been 20 yrs. since Asia's tsunami on Boxing day after Xmas. :( Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org. / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )