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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: How Much Do I Spend On Gaming Per Month?
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:57:27 -0700
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On 6/20/2025 9:43 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:30:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
> <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:57 this Thursday (GMT):
> 
> 
>>> * technically it was DLC. But I didn't buy that either, honest.
> 
>> What theoretical game?
> 
> 
> This seems suspiciously like a trap to get me to admit I purchased a
> game I just vehmenently (and convincingly!) denied buying. So let's
> see what happens if I trigger it. ;-)
> 
> I purchased the newest "Alberta Preserve" expansion DLC for
> "theHunter: Call of the Wild", which is my secret shame. Not even so
> much because it's an increasingly average hunting game that's direly
> in need of a refresh, but because at this point I'm pretty much buying
> the expansions just so I have them in my library. I'll be the first to
> admit the last expansions were pretty 'mid' (as the kids say) and I
> really don't expect this one to be any better.
> 
> But I bought it anyway.
> 
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> .
> 
> Except, of course, I really didn't, because I don't have a spending
> problem with regards to video games and am totally in control of my
> habit. I just said all the above to see what would happen if I fell
> into your cunning ambush. ;-)
> 
We will mock you mercilessly.  Whether or not you fell into an ambush 
will have nothing to do with it.  :P

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