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Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024?

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject	Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024?
Date	2024-10-03 16:20 +0000
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Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 00:37 this Thursday (GMT):
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:50:31 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>
>> >
>> >October already? Way too busy! DuoLingo, Propel, and Voro in my iPhone 
>> >when I can. I wanted to play a free Steam weekend game over the weekend, 
>> >but got slammed by my colony. I still haven't resumed my Star Wars: The 
>> >Old Republic's tutorial. I regretted downloading and starting to play 
>> >since it was a huge 56.2 GB game and no free time. :(
>
>> Heh. That reminds me of my almost-never touched Microsoft Flight
>> Simulator install. I keep it around largely because I simply can't
>> face downloading it a second time; it currently weighs in at 400GB!
>> And Microsoft's servers aren't the fastest either...
>
>> So it earns itself a permanent spot on the hard-drive even though it
>> really isn't all that much fun to play. Every now and then I fire it
>> up to justify its existence (and even then, I usually have to wait an
>> hour just to PLAY it because it needs to download another 20GB of
>> updates).
>
>> But what's the alternative: uninstall the game and then wait two weeks
>> to redownload everything should I want to revisit the game in 2027?
>
>> Oh well, at least it's on my spinning-rust HDD.
>
> If it is not fun to play, then why bother keeping it? :P


"If it's not fun, why bother?" -Reggie
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    Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024? Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-02 11:23 -0400
      Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2024-10-03 00:37 +0000
        Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024? Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-10-03 10:26 -0400
          Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN SEPTEMBER 2024? Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-10-03 07:53 -0700
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