Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2025? Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 21:46:15 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <5R6dnX9tTOX2_l76nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@earthlink.com> <8tjbsj97fngp882uvngnl065egu43d6tcm@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 06:46:22 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a1b96360ced5005509144178816039a9"; logging-data="23159"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19it2HiLdu9c7QQJUz9NMVX" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:uLHeXWUZy9eH54z/219J3AvTDOs= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4135 On 3/7/2025 6:48 PM, Ant wrote: > candycanearter07 wrote: >> Ant wrote at 21:38 this Thursday (GMT): >>> candycanearter07 wrote: >>>> Ant wrote at 02:44 this Tuesday (GMT): >>>>> Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:39:03 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote: >>>>>>> Zaghadka wrote: >>>>>>>> On Sat, 01 Mar 2025 19:43:39 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>>>> When will there be a Dog version? ;P >>>>> >>>>>>>> I think "Dog Catcher Simulator" is already a thing. ;^P >>>>> >>>>>>> Prove it. :P I want an ant game too. Oh wait, we need more. :^b >>>>> >>>>>> Antz! >>>>>> https://www.mobygames.com/game/7480/antz/ >>>>> >>>>>> (I bet that movie --and any games based on it-- is considered >>>>>> offensive amongst the Formicinae, sort of like a six-legged "Birth of >>>>>> America", and even referring to it is considered in bad taste ;-) >>>>> >>>>> Heh. I never played this one, but it didn't even have a PC port. My former >>>>> friends did drag me to see this movie. I remember the ticket sellers >>>>> wearing fake ant antenna(s/e) when buying tickets in person. Movie was OK. Nice music though. >>> >>>> That's pretty cute! I don't think I've ever seen the ticket seller dress >>>> up for a movie, but I also have barely been to a theater so :P >>> >>> Barely in a theatre in your whole life? I go like once a year. I went to >>> see Ne Zha 2 with my colony 15 days ago in a local old theatre. It was >>> nice since we're the only ones there at 3:30 PM for cheaper prices! :D > >> Well, I haven't been to one in a while.. > > Ah, I didn't go for years during the panademic. It was between SW:Rise > of Skywalker and Opennheimer movies. What was the last new released > movie for you in theatre? > Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim. Its actually reaching a point where it doesn't matter if I _want_ to see a movie in a theatre (which admittedly I don't very much any more) but the theater chain that basically has a monopoly in the county I live in has been shutting theatres down for several years now. In the last five years we have probably lost at least half of the screens we had. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.