Just goes to show you; moose bites (or even nuzzles) /can/ be nasti.
They're filled with germs and those'll lay out flat before you know
what hits you. It's a good thing this channel has moved on to nice,
clean, /sanitary/ beavants.

Want a game? Have a game!

-----------------------------

* Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
https://store.steampowered.com/app/204450/Call_of_Juarez_Gunslinger/
The Juarez franchise has been a mixed bag; the original was an average
shooter that poorly utilized its massive, open world; the second was
mechanically sound but2046N lacked originality, and the third decided
to say 'fuck it' to the whole western thing and moved the series 100
years into the future. "Gunslinger" takes the franchise back to when
the series belongs - the era of the Wild Wild West - and gives you an
unreliable narrator XQDW8 as the game's framing device to explain some
of the more egregious departures from reality. It's a solid - if not
too original - title that promises wild-RKWIF-west action, and
delivers that. Don't go into it expecting some revelatory experience,
but if you like sixshooters and cowboy hats, this is a game for you.

-----------------------------

Still coughing, but the beavants say I'll get over that soon if I keep
away from mooses. I've trust in 'em; everybody knows beavants are
skilled medical practicioners.

Ho-cough-ho-ho!

On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:48:35 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

>
>Just goes to show you; moose bites (or even nuzzles) /can/ be nasti.
>They're filled with germs and those'll lay out flat before you know
>what hits you. It's a good thing this channel has moved on to nice,
>clean, /sanitary/ beavants.
>
>Want a game? Have a game!
>
>-----------------------------
>
>* Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
>

Ah! I finally beat Mike S. and...

"Product already owned."

I've really lost control of my hobby.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:20:15 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Ah! I finally beat Mike S. and...
>
>"Product already owned."
>
>I've really lost control of my hobby.

We all have. I doubt anyone here really knows what games are in their
various game libraries.

Also, I passed on this game.

On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:54:48 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:20:15 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Ah! I finally beat Mike S. and...
>>
>>"Product already owned."
>>
>>I've really lost control of my hobby.
>
>We all have. I doubt anyone here really knows what games are in their
>various game libraries.

Speak for yourself. /I/ have a spreadsheet ;-)

(Although that was largely because of the problem mentioned. I'd go
into a shoppe - remember when that was how you used to buy video
games? - and end up buying duplicates to games I already owned. It
happened so often that I created a list that detailed every game I
owned. I carried it on a portable device - back then, it was a Palm
Pilot, to give you an idea of how long ago this was - to reference
whenever I went shopping.

(Wiser souls might have said, "Maybe be a bit less impulsive and
wasteful with your purchases", but that sort of attitude doesn't leave
you with thousands upon thousands of video games, now does it? The
list was more suited to my particular - peculiar? - method.

(That list is still in use today, not only as a reference for what
games I own but also when I acquired them - so if you're wondering how
I know that "Wolfenstein: New Order" was offered as a freebie on Epic
on 2 June 2022, wonder no more! - as well as play-dates and personal
review scores. Because if there's one thing a Spalls Hurgenson likes
more than rambling on Usenet, it is an overly long and unnecessarily
detailed list!)

So while many criticisms may be levelled at me, if there's one thing
that /can't/ be said, it's that I don't know what games I own. ;-)

On 12/20/2022 8:20 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:48:35 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
> Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>
>>
>> Just goes to show you; moose bites (or even nuzzles) /can/ be nasti.
>> They're filled with germs and those'll lay out flat before you know
>> what hits you. It's a good thing this channel has moved on to nice,
>> clean, /sanitary/ beavants.
>>
>> Want a game? Have a game!
>>
>> -----------------------------
>>
>> * Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
>>
>
> Ah! I finally beat Mike S. and...
>
> "Product already owned."
>
> I've really lost control of my hobby.

"This Steam account already owns the product(s) contained in this offer.
To access them, visit your library in the Steam client." Me too. :P
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taken of the entire Roman world. So Joseph went up from the town of
Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he
belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with
Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child."
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On 12/20/2022 9:12 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:54:48 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:20:15 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ah! I finally beat Mike S. and...
>>>
>>> "Product already owned."
>>>
>>> I've really lost control of my hobby.
>>
>> We all have. I doubt anyone here really knows what games are in their
>> various game libraries.
>
> Speak for yourself. /I/ have a spreadsheet ;-)

I should do that too, but I'm lazy!

> (Although that was largely because of the problem mentioned. I'd go
> into a shoppe - remember when that was how you used to buy video
> games? - and end up buying duplicates to games I already owned. It
> happened so often that I created a list that detailed every game I
> owned. I carried it on a portable device - back then, it was a Palm
> Pilot, to give you an idea of how long ago this was - to reference
> whenever I went shopping.

RIP, Palm. :(
--
"In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be
taken of the entire Roman world. So Joseph went up from the town of
Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he
belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with
Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child."
—Luke 2:1, 4-5. Slammy weeky like yesterday. Allergies are back again. :(
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On 12/20/2022 8:54 AM, Mike S. wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:20:15 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ah! I finally beat Mike S. and...
>>
>> "Product already owned."
>>
>> I've really lost control of my hobby.
>
> We all have. I doubt anyone here really knows what games are in their
> various game libraries.
>
I don't have enough games for that to be a problem for me. But then I'm
a freak who only acquires games he intends to play and actually expects
to have time to play. :P

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:54:48 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
> wrote:

>>We all have. I doubt anyone here really knows what games are in their
>>various game libraries.
>
> Speak for yourself. /I/ have a spreadsheet ;-)

It seems like a good idea but is there any way of getting a dump of
owned games from the usual stores? If I could just import the data to
a spreadsheet, fine. Typing in all games by hand and checking in which
stores I have each game, meh.

On 20/12/2022 15:48, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>
> Just goes to show you; moose bites (or even nuzzles) /can/ be nasti.
> They're filled with germs and those'll lay out flat before you know
> what hits you. It's a good thing this channel has moved on to nice,
> clean, /sanitary/ beavants.
>
> Want a game? Have a game!
>
> -----------------------------
>
> * Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
> https://store.steampowered.com/app/204450/Call_of_Juarez_Gunslinger/
> The Juarez franchise has been a mixed bag; the original was an average
> shooter that poorly utilized its massive, open world; the second was
> mechanically sound but2046N lacked originality, and the third decided
> to say 'fuck it' to the whole western thing and moved the series 100
> years into the future. "Gunslinger" takes the franchise back to when
> the series belongs - the era of the Wild Wild West - and gives you an
> unreliable narrator XQDW8 as the game's framing device to explain some
> of the more egregious departures from reality. It's a solid - if not
> too original - title that promises wild-RKWIF-west action, and
> delivers that. Don't go into it expecting some revelatory experience,
> but if you like sixshooters and cowboy hats, this is a game for you.
>
> -----------------------------
>
> Still coughing, but the beavants say I'll get over that soon if I keep
> away from mooses. I've trust in 'em; everybody knows beavants are
> skilled medical practicioners.
>
> Ho-cough-ho-ho!
>

I already own this one from yet another Steam sale. I quite liked it as
it ditched any pretence of being a 'realistic' setting and went full
Hollywood wild west with all the tropes. As you say though it's not some
must have game but it is an enjoyable romp.

On 12/21/2022 2:13 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:54:48 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
>> wrote:
>
>>> We all have. I doubt anyone here really knows what games are in their
>>> various game libraries.
>>
>> Speak for yourself. /I/ have a spreadsheet ;-)
>
> It seems like a good idea but is there any way of getting a dump of
> owned games from the usual stores? If I could just import the data to
> a spreadsheet, fine. Typing in all games by hand and checking in which
> stores I have each game, meh.

If one was of a suspicious nature one might suspect that preventing that
kind of copy-n-paste might be part of the design criteria of the various
interfaces.

BTW, I am of a very suspicious nature....

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> writes:

> If one was of a suspicious nature one might suspect that preventing
> that kind of copy-n-paste might be part of the design criteria of the
> various interfaces.
>
> BTW, I am of a very suspicious nature....

Sure. Yet somehow those combo launchers (like Playnite or whatever) do
get that information so probably there's an API for software. Might be
there are even tools to grab that data but I haven't Googled yet.

On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:13:43 +0200, Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:
>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:54:48 -0500, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
>> wrote:
>
>>>We all have. I doubt anyone here really knows what games are in their
>>>various game libraries.

>> Speak for yourself. /I/ have a spreadsheet ;-)

>It seems like a good idea but is there any way of getting a dump of
>owned games from the usual stores? If I could just import the data to
>a spreadsheet, fine. Typing in all games by hand and checking in which
>stores I have each game, meh.

For Steam, the easiest way might be to go to your "Account Licenses"
page (https://store.steampowered.com/account/history/ , obviously that
URL will personalize info for each individual user), hit "load more
transactions" until everything gets shown, then copying everything to
a spreadsheet. That will show all the licensed products activated on
your account, regardless if they were bought at the Steam store,
purchased elsewhere (retail), or freebies (complimentary).
(note: it might be easier to do if you visit that page through the
Steam client)

GOG has a similar page
(https://www.gog.com/en/account/settings/orders) but it's not as easy
to pull info out of it using the ol' cut-n-paste method. Presumably
the other storefronts do too but I'm too lazy to go hunting for them
all. ;-)

Certainly if I had to do it all over again, my spreadsheet would never
have been created. Even back in the day, it was a weeks-long process
with me manually typing in every game, and that was when my hoard was
a fraction of its current size. I can't imagine doing it now...