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 by: Spalls Hurgenson - Sat, 4 Mar 2023 16:41 UTC

On Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:28:40 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, 03 Mar 2023 09:03:33 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike
>S. wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:04:05 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

>
>I mean the closest thing to it is Spalls and NFTs, and we all know he's
>just taking the piss.

I'd just like to say that it is always safest to assume that
/anything/ I write is said with a smirk and a twinkle in my eye.

Although... I'm not really trying to be extreme with my talk about
NFTs. I just find the whole subject so wonderfully ridiculous that I
can't help but share them with others because nothing makes a joke
better than getting others to laugh at it too. ;-)

That said, NFTS WILL DESTROY THE WOLRD AND MAKE YOUR CHILDREN WORSHIP
SATAN!!!!!1!!!!!! (and not the cool Satan either, but the one who
pitchforks your heinie for eternity)

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 by: Spalls Hurgenson - Sat, 4 Mar 2023 16:46 UTC

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 10:43:15 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

>
>I made a conscious decision, I think a year ago, to try and get out of
>my habit of stop buying a game just because it's cheap, play things in
>my back catalogue and also don't flit between games but instead just
>play one for a decent amount of time. So far it's worked pretty well.

That's a disgusing and unhealthy attitude and I don't support it at
all. We were put on this earth to collect large numbers of computer
games, after all. Your position in the afterlife is determined by how
many games you collect. You don't want to reincarnate as a dung beetle
or Twitter personality just because you don't have enough games in
your library, do you? ;-)

But it probably helps you avoid the 'paralysis of choice' I routine
suffer from whenever I finish one game and have to decide what to play
next.

But you are missing out on that smug satisfaction you get knowing you
can play any and every game at any time you want (even if most of them
suck). Nothing keeps you warmer at night than smug satisfaction. ;-)

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 by: Dimensional Traveler - Sat, 4 Mar 2023 19:12 UTC

On 3/4/2023 8:46 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 10:43:15 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>
>> I made a conscious decision, I think a year ago, to try and get out of
>> my habit of stop buying a game just because it's cheap, play things in
>> my back catalogue and also don't flit between games but instead just
>> play one for a decent amount of time. So far it's worked pretty well.
>
> That's a disgusing and unhealthy attitude and I don't support it at
> all. We were put on this earth to collect large numbers of computer
> games, after all. Your position in the afterlife is determined by how
> many games you collect. You don't want to reincarnate as a dung beetle
> or Twitter personality just because you don't have enough games in
> your library, do you? ;-)
>
> But it probably helps you avoid the 'paralysis of choice' I routine
> suffer from whenever I finish one game and have to decide what to play
> next.
>
But there are so many ways you can decide! Alphabetical, Order of
Purchase/Acquisition, Price, Ratings, Throwing Darts at a Listing on
your monitor....

> But you are missing out on that smug satisfaction you get knowing you
> can play any and every game at any time you want (even if most of them
> suck). Nothing keeps you warmer at night than smug satisfaction. ;-)
>
My stuffed animals disagree with you.

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

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 by: Zaghadka - Sat, 4 Mar 2023 19:16 UTC

On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 11:41:07 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

>Although... I'm not really trying to be extreme with my talk about
>NFTs. I just find the whole subject so wonderfully ridiculous that I
>can't help but share them with others because nothing makes a joke
>better than getting others to laugh at it too. ;-)

That was my exact point! You have a very dry, very reasonable way of
ranting about something.

Therefore, you are the "closest thing." Imagine it is said with the same
twinkle, the same wry sense of irony.

--
Zag

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

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 by: Xocyll - Sat, 4 Mar 2023 19:16 UTC

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>
>There's one good thing to say about February; when it feels like
>another month has whipped by incredibly fast, at least with February
>you know there's a reason for it; it's so damned short. Where's my
>29th, 30th and 31st days, February? You're ripping me off!

I always kind of wanted to standardize the year into 12 months of 30
days each and a New Years "week" of the remaining 5.

>What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2023?

Oldies for the most part.
City of Heroes: No explanation necessary, still the best superhero game
ever.

Borderlands the Pre-Sequel (newly bought, played until I hit the boss
where apparently you are supposed to die your way past - die, 2nd wind,
die, 2nd wind, repeat 50 times or so - I gave up at that point, since
that's tedium not fun.)

Borderlands 2 (When I bought the pre-seq it was a bundle that came with
all the DLCs for BL2, so I had another go.)

EV Nova: All time old favorite space sim. Haven't been able to get it
working for years, (since win7,) but the company finally closed up shop
semi-recently and updated versions are available for download as well as
some pre-patched total conversions.

For anyone interested:
http://escape-velocity.games/

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

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 by: Zaghadka - Sat, 4 Mar 2023 19:19 UTC

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 10:43:15 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
wrote:

>On 03/03/2023 18:29, Zaghadka wrote:
>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 08:59:39 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
>> wrote:
>>> He is on my list though of I must read one of their novels and yesterday
>>> I was looking at A Scanner Darkly from my now favourite second hand
>>> online bookshop. The downside is you have to avoid the temptation to get
>>> another book before you've nearly finished the one you are currently
>>> reading.
>>
>> Hmm. I seem to have that problem with games. You?
>>
>
>I made a conscious decision, I think a year ago, to try and get out of
>my habit of stop buying a game just because it's cheap, play things in
>my back catalogue and also don't flit between games but instead just
>play one for a decent amount of time. So far it's worked pretty well.

See, I wish I could stick to that plan. I've reached the point of "I have
enough games to comfortably play until I am dead" several times over, and
each time I vow the same.

Then I pick up Midnight Suns on sale because it just looks so freaking
cool.

--
Zag

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

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 by: Zaghadka - Sat, 4 Mar 2023 19:20 UTC

On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:16:50 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Xocyll wrote:

>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
>say:
>
>>
>>There's one good thing to say about February; when it feels like
>>another month has whipped by incredibly fast, at least with February
>>you know there's a reason for it; it's so damned short. Where's my
>>29th, 30th and 31st days, February? You're ripping me off!
>
>I always kind of wanted to standardize the year into 12 months of 30
>days each and a New Years "week" of the remaining 5.
>
>>What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2023?
>
>Oldies for the most part.
>City of Heroes: No explanation necessary, still the best superhero game
>ever.
>
>Borderlands the Pre-Sequel (newly bought, played until I hit the boss
>where apparently you are supposed to die your way past - die, 2nd wind,
>die, 2nd wind, repeat 50 times or so - I gave up at that point, since
>that's tedium not fun.)
>
>Borderlands 2 (When I bought the pre-seq it was a bundle that came with
>all the DLCs for BL2, so I had another go.)
>
>EV Nova: All time old favorite space sim. Haven't been able to get it
>working for years, (since win7,) but the company finally closed up shop
>semi-recently and updated versions are available for download as well as
>some pre-patched total conversions.
>
>For anyone interested:
>http://escape-velocity.games/
>

Is it my imagination, or have we not seen you in a while, sir?

--
Zag

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

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 by: Xocyll - Sat, 4 Mar 2023 19:54 UTC

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:16:50 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>Xocyll wrote:
>
>>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>>entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
>>say:
>>
>>>
>>>There's one good thing to say about February; when it feels like
>>>another month has whipped by incredibly fast, at least with February
>>>you know there's a reason for it; it's so damned short. Where's my
>>>29th, 30th and 31st days, February? You're ripping me off!
>>
>>I always kind of wanted to standardize the year into 12 months of 30
>>days each and a New Years "week" of the remaining 5.
>>
>>>What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2023?
>>
>>Oldies for the most part.
>>City of Heroes: No explanation necessary, still the best superhero game
>>ever.
>>
>>Borderlands the Pre-Sequel (newly bought, played until I hit the boss
>>where apparently you are supposed to die your way past - die, 2nd wind,
>>die, 2nd wind, repeat 50 times or so - I gave up at that point, since
>>that's tedium not fun.)
>>
>>Borderlands 2 (When I bought the pre-seq it was a bundle that came with
>>all the DLCs for BL2, so I had another go.)
>>
>>EV Nova: All time old favorite space sim. Haven't been able to get it
>>working for years, (since win7,) but the company finally closed up shop
>>semi-recently and updated versions are available for download as well as
>>some pre-patched total conversions.
>>
>>For anyone interested:
>>http://escape-velocity.games/
>>
>
>Is it my imagination, or have we not seen you in a while, sir?

You have indeed not.

There was a while I had no reliable internet and of course most of the
groups I used to read dried up and blew away leaving very little
motivation to actually check daily.

Daily became every couple, then to weekly, bi-monthly, monthly, then you
just forget to check at all for 6 months since there was so little
traffic and you're caught up in doing something else.

I read a lot more news these days, in the sense of multiple online
newspapers. Funny how so many "we insist you buy a subscription"
overlays just go away when you have javascript off and you can just read
in peace

Far less interested in gaming news since I haven't upgraded the computer
in years (athlon2, win7 - AMD guy and during the FX chip years it wasn't
worth it, now that it is there are shortages) and can't even run the
majority of new games, most of which don't seem interesting anyway,
forced pvp, online only even for single player, overly interested in
micro transactions and "awards" and so on rather than interesting
substantive gameplay.

Same issues with modern TV and the endless bad and/or woke remakes;
rather replay older games and watch older TV shows on dvd.

Waiting for the inevitable remake in a few years, when "Batman" is a
Trans, Lesbian and only beats up White Male criminals because all the
others can be excused their bad behavior because of historical
discrimination - Bat-they/their/them: The Woke Knight.
Naturally I won't watch it.

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

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 by: JAB - Sun, 5 Mar 2023 11:28 UTC

On 04/03/2023 16:41, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:28:40 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 03 Mar 2023 09:03:33 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike
>> S. wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:04:05 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> I mean the closest thing to it is Spalls and NFTs, and we all know he's
>> just taking the piss.
>
> I'd just like to say that it is always safest to assume that
> /anything/ I write is said with a smirk and a twinkle in my eye.
>
> Although... I'm not really trying to be extreme with my talk about
> NFTs. I just find the whole subject so wonderfully ridiculous that I
> can't help but share them with others because nothing makes a joke
> better than getting others to laugh at it too. ;-)
>
> That said, NFTS WILL DESTROY THE WOLRD AND MAKE YOUR CHILDREN WORSHIP
> SATAN!!!!!1!!!!!! (and not the cool Satan either, but the one who
> pitchforks your heinie for eternity)
>

The good thing about NFT's is that, as you say, they are so ridiculous
you don't even need hyperbole. Microsoft are the bad guys as they won't
let you use their IP to effectively scam their customers. How most unfair.

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On 04/03/2023 19:19, Zaghadka wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 10:43:15 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
> wrote:
>
>> On 03/03/2023 18:29, Zaghadka wrote:
>>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 08:59:39 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
>>> wrote:
>>>> He is on my list though of I must read one of their novels and yesterday
>>>> I was looking at A Scanner Darkly from my now favourite second hand
>>>> online bookshop. The downside is you have to avoid the temptation to get
>>>> another book before you've nearly finished the one you are currently
>>>> reading.
>>>
>>> Hmm. I seem to have that problem with games. You?
>>>
>>
>> I made a conscious decision, I think a year ago, to try and get out of
>> my habit of stop buying a game just because it's cheap, play things in
>> my back catalogue and also don't flit between games but instead just
>> play one for a decent amount of time. So far it's worked pretty well.
>
> See, I wish I could stick to that plan. I've reached the point of "I have
> enough games to comfortably play until I am dead" several times over, and
> each time I vow the same.
>
> Then I pick up Midnight Suns on sale because it just looks so freaking
> cool.
>

It's something that has slowly crept up on me over several years and can
be summed up as don't buy crap unless you need it. With games I did toy
with the idea of sticking to my back catalogue but thought there's no
point in aiming for some I won't achieve. So now I try to alternate
between new game and back catalogue. I also won't beat myself up if
sometimes I don't stick to it.

The other thing I've tried to do is generally keep away for even looking
at special offers presented to me. Amazon I could be particularly bad
with and getting yet another 99p Kindle book to add the the list of all
the other ones I haven't read or something for the kitchen that would
end up in the back of a cupboard.

This 'mentality' even seeped into my last PC upgrade a couple of years
ago. Before it was driven buy I'm prepared to spend this much what can I
get for that to this is what I need how much will it cost me. The net
result I spent roughly half the money than I did for my previous upgrade.

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 by: Mike S. - Sun, 5 Mar 2023 12:15 UTC

On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:16:50 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:

>Oldies for the most part.
>City of Heroes: No explanation necessary, still the best superhero game
>ever.

This is how I know it is really you. I remember you liking this game.

I thought you were dead Xocyll. Welcome back.

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 by: Metal Guru - Mon, 6 Mar 2023 11:25 UTC

On 3/4/2023 2:54 PM, Xocyll wrote:
> Same issues with modern TV and the endless bad and/or woke remakes;

> Waiting for the inevitable remake in a few years, when "Batman" is a
> Trans, Lesbian and only beats up White Male criminals because all the
> others can be excused their bad behavior because of historical
> discrimination - Bat-they/their/them: The Woke Knight.

I'm aware everyone else here is too polite to say anything so allow me
to do the honors (and I'm only speaking for myself, obviously).

"Woke" for the right [1] is actually just a catch-all term so they don't
have to say specifically that they are utter pieces of shite. It's just
much easier to simply say "I'm not woke" than the truth, which is
basically "I'm terrified of what I don't understand and I only know how
to process that as anger because I can't look inward."

It should be noted that RepubliQans appropriated the word from the
African American community, where it describes someone aware of racial
injustice and social inequality. However, conservatives describe
“wokeism” as a “mind virus,” an “intolerant and moralizing ideology,”
and even a “cruel and dangerous cult.”

What most Democrats know "woke" to mean is learning new things about
people and the world as a whole then acting accordingly. Like basic
kindness and a gesture of care towards people who are more vulnerable
than yourself. It's a simple enough concept for anyone who is capable of
empathy, but it's "wokeism" and "socialism" to the MAGA cult.

I've been on Usenet since Windows 3.11(?) if memory serves and have only
ever blocked one other dude (John Difool aka SteamKiller) in all these
decades, but my tolerance towards you lot had dwindled over the past few
years to the point where a single idiotic post like this is enough to
make me want to say: welcome to my kill file, please make yourself real
comfy - you're going to be there for a long fucking while.

[1] The irony in calling RepubliQans "the right" is never lost on me -
talk about an oxymoron of the highest order.

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 by: Justisaur - Mon, 6 Mar 2023 15:48 UTC

On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 4:15:49 AM UTC-8, Mike S. wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:16:50 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@gmx.com> wrote:
>
> >Oldies for the most part.
> >City of Heroes: No explanation necessary, still the best superhero game
> >ever.
> This is how I know it is really you. I remember you liking this game.
>
> I thought you were dead Xocyll. Welcome back.

Sad that everyone here is so old we think they died if they don't post for
a month or two.

CoH is indeed the best superhero game ever. Glad to see someone here
is playing on the new servers. My main issue with it was they made
it far too easy. I got to high level content and pretty much did everything
I never got to that I wanted while the official servers were up from 0 in
a couple months.

My old guild was fun to play with initially, but they mostly dropped off
before I did, including the guildmaster, and the guildmaster came back
after I'd quit.

I also preferred Red side and no one was doing redside with the ease
of transferring blue - actually that's the main reason I quit back when
the official servers were up too, that and money was tight and the
microtransaction & subs were annoying, at least both those are gone.

- Justisaur

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 by: Spalls Hurgenson - Mon, 6 Mar 2023 16:15 UTC

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 06:25:14 -0500, Metal Guru <MetalGuru@IsItYou.com>
wrote:

>I'm aware everyone else here is too polite to say anything so allow me
>to do the honors (and I'm only speaking for myself, obviously).

>"Woke" for the right [1] is actually just a catch-all term so they don't
>have to say specifically that they are utter pieces of shite. It's just
>much easier to simply say "I'm not woke" than the truth, which is
>basically "I'm terrified of what I don't understand and I only know how
>to process that as anger because I can't look inward."

Where's the "like" button on Usenet so I can promote this post?

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 by: JAB - Mon, 6 Mar 2023 18:52 UTC

On 06/03/2023 11:25, Metal Guru wrote:
> I'm aware everyone else here is too polite to say anything so allow me
> to do the honors (and I'm only speaking for myself, obviously).

Spalls may want to give you a like but I would say a gold star is more
in order. I read the part of the post you responded to and my reaction
was to roll my eyes and engage my mental kill file but as as you've
posted I feel almost obliged to also post very much agreeing with what
you've said. The amusing part about the anti-woke brigade, well it would
be amusing if it didn't translate into real life behaviour, is the
people pushing this agenda care very little about the issues they talk
about and care even less for the people they know will lap it up and the
consequences of that.

It's the oldest trick in the book, don't worry about your real problems
(we have no interest in fixing those) but instead look over here where
the 'other' are the real cause of the problem.

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 by: Mike S. - Mon, 6 Mar 2023 20:56 UTC

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 07:48:11 -0800 (PST), Justisaur
<justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:

>Sad that everyone here is so old we think they died if they don't post for
>a month or two.

Well Xocyll has stopped posting for longer then that but your point is
still taken.

I thought Spalls was dead when he suddenly stopped posting awhile
back. I really need to break the habit of thinking the only reason a
person would stop posting to usenet is they kicked the bucket.

>CoH is indeed the best superhero game ever. Glad to see someone here
>is playing on the new servers. My main issue with it was they made
>it far too easy. I got to high level content and pretty much did everything
>I never got to that I wanted while the official servers were up from 0 in
>a couple months.

I do believe CoH is the best superhero game ever and I played on
Homecoming awhile back. It was very active at the time at least.

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 by: Zaghadka - Tue, 7 Mar 2023 00:35 UTC

On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:54:07 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Xocyll wrote:

>Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
>the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>
>>On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 14:16:50 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
>>Xocyll wrote:
>>
>>>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
>>>entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
>>>say:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>There's one good thing to say about February; when it feels like
>>>>another month has whipped by incredibly fast, at least with February
>>>>you know there's a reason for it; it's so damned short. Where's my
>>>>29th, 30th and 31st days, February? You're ripping me off!
>>>
>>>I always kind of wanted to standardize the year into 12 months of 30
>>>days each and a New Years "week" of the remaining 5.
>>>
>>>>What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2023?
>>>
>>>Oldies for the most part.
>>>City of Heroes: No explanation necessary, still the best superhero game
>>>ever.
>>>
>>>Borderlands the Pre-Sequel (newly bought, played until I hit the boss
>>>where apparently you are supposed to die your way past - die, 2nd wind,
>>>die, 2nd wind, repeat 50 times or so - I gave up at that point, since
>>>that's tedium not fun.)
>>>
>>>Borderlands 2 (When I bought the pre-seq it was a bundle that came with
>>>all the DLCs for BL2, so I had another go.)
>>>
>>>EV Nova: All time old favorite space sim. Haven't been able to get it
>>>working for years, (since win7,) but the company finally closed up shop
>>>semi-recently and updated versions are available for download as well as
>>>some pre-patched total conversions.
>>>
>>>For anyone interested:
>>>http://escape-velocity.games/
>>>
>>
>>Is it my imagination, or have we not seen you in a while, sir?
>
>You have indeed not.
>
[snip]

>Same issues with modern TV and the endless bad and/or woke...

[snip]

Oh fuck. You sir, have gotten old and cranky. Lesbat is not coming. I
just got back from an all-female production of 1776 the musical and it
didn't suck.

Get your brain out of rigor mortis.

--
Zag

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

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 by: Zaghadka - Tue, 7 Mar 2023 00:43 UTC

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 06:25:14 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Metal
Guru wrote:

>It should be noted that RepubliQans appropriated the word from the
>African American community, where it describes someone aware of racial
>injustice and social inequality.

To be fair, Gen-Z appropriated it first on college campuses. One of my
daughter's old, and very white, friends described things as "woke" as a
compliment, long before the so-called conservatives did as a perjorative.

I have african American friends who simultaneously considered that
culture appropriation and were disgusted by it, even though those kids
had the best of intentions.

*Then* Republicans turned it, along with CRT, into a battle cry. Now the
term is meaningless.

Frankly, the lot of them can all just stop. Social Media has turned
nearly everyone participating in it into a ranting, thin-skinned,
provincial, bubble-bound fool.

I watched it for long enough, participated occasionally to say WTF, was
having panic attacks from witnessing all the brutality coming from all
sides, and got the hell off. In conjunction with my therapist's hearty
approval.

Please don't bring it here.

--
Zag

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

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 by: Spalls Hurgenson - Tue, 7 Mar 2023 15:20 UTC

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 18:52:18 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

>On 06/03/2023 11:25, Metal Guru wrote:
>> I'm aware everyone else here is too polite to say anything so allow me
>> to do the honors (and I'm only speaking for myself, obviously).
>
>Spalls may want to give you a like but I would say a gold star is more
>in order.

I gave a one line reaction because nothing more needed to be said. Do
you know how rare, how unique, how awesome a compliment that is coming
from me? I can drone on for hours over how dust is falling, and yet
couldn't do more than add what was, essentially, an "I agree" to MG's
post? And you think your silly 'gold star' in any way equals that
magnificent achievement? When verbosity is the usual, terseness is a
reward all its own ;-P

(full snark mode enabled, of course. About the gold star thing, I
mean. Not the agreement.)

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 by: Justisaur - Tue, 7 Mar 2023 15:42 UTC

On Monday, March 6, 2023 at 4:43:46 PM UTC-8, Zaghadka wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 06:25:14 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Metal
> Guru wrote:
> Please don't bring it here.

I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment. I play games and come here partially
to avoid the insanity that is our (American) politics. I get too much of that
already through the few podcasts I listen to while doing chores and driving,
and stumbling across it elsewhere on the internet.

I deleted my sub on the main podcast I listened to for years as while there was
some political stuff on there, it's gone up since covid and feels like its now
80% political.

- Justisaur

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 by: Xocyll - Wed, 8 Mar 2023 12:59 UTC

Metal Guru <MetalGuru@IsItYou.com> looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On 3/4/2023 2:54 PM, Xocyll wrote:
>> Same issues with modern TV and the endless bad and/or woke remakes;
>
>> Waiting for the inevitable remake in a few years, when "Batman" is a
>> Trans, Lesbian and only beats up White Male criminals because all the
>> others can be excused their bad behavior because of historical
>> discrimination - Bat-they/their/them: The Woke Knight.

>I'm aware everyone else here is too polite to say anything so allow me
>to do the honors (and I'm only speaking for myself, obviously).

1. Cutting out all context.

>"Woke" for the right [1] is actually just a catch-all term so they don't
>have to say specifically that they are utter pieces of shite. It's just
>much easier to simply say "I'm not woke" than the truth, which is
>basically "I'm terrified of what I don't understand and I only know how
>to process that as anger because I can't look inward."

2. Explaining to me what I "really" meant. So you're a SJW.

>It should be noted that RepubliQans appropriated the word from the
>African American community, where it describes someone aware of racial
>injustice and social inequality. However, conservatives describe
>"wokeism" as a "mind virus," an "intolerant and moralizing ideology,"
>and even a "cruel and dangerous cult."

3. Assuming I am American, Republican and don't know where the term came
from. (Honestly, it's a past tense term used for current tense, it
could only have come from the same group that wants to "axe me a
question")

4. Cutesy use of a portmanteau of Republican and Qanon to further
demean.

>What most Democrats know "woke" to mean is learning new things about
>people and the world as a whole then acting accordingly. Like basic
>kindness and a gesture of care towards people who are more vulnerable
>than yourself. It's a simple enough concept for anyone who is capable of
>empathy, but it's "wokeism" and "socialism" to the MAGA cult.

Except the whole wokism thing has gone so much further.
From the basic Politically Correct movement, through the Social Justice
Warriors and now into the full on Inclusion and Equity phase where
everyone MUST be represented and have equal outcomes no matter how that
does not fit and/or harms the story of the movie or TV show or the
gameplay of the game.

When the politics mean more than the story or the gameplay, then I'm
calling shenanigans on Hollywood and the game makers.

Oh lets remake Snow White and the 7 Dwarves (oh but we can't call them
dwarves anymore even though that's literally the name of their race,)
and we'll spend so much time going into each dwarf's Gender, sexual,
religious, political, etc, identity there's no time left to actually
tell the story, so they just end with a flash card explaining that the
"smaller than average but still proper size people" stopped "raping the
earth" with their mine, and opened an all identities nightclub,
unionized the Enchanted Forest, deposed the Monarchy and executed Snow
for being too damn white.

This despite the fact that the dwarves are supporting cast and no one
cares about their stories since the story isn't about them.

Think it couldn't happen?

And yet this sort of nonsense is already happening;
https://nypost.com/2023/02/26/nyc-teacher-tells-kids-that-nintendo-characters-have-sexual-gender-identities/
(had to google that)

>I've been on Usenet since Windows 3.11(?) if memory serves and have only
>ever blocked one other dude (John Difool aka SteamKiller) in all these
>decades, but my tolerance towards you lot had dwindled over the past few
>years to the point where a single idiotic post like this is enough to
>make me want to say: welcome to my kill file, please make yourself real
>comfy - you're going to be there for a long fucking while.

Your disingenuousness above makes me want to be in there so I don't have
to deal with your dishonesty anymore.

You seem to be just like the people canceling Scott Adams, all of which
seem to only talk about what he said, and carefully removing all trace
of what he was replying to; A Survey where 26% of Black Respondents said
it was not OK to be White.

Not Ok to be White. Think about what that means.

So 1 in 4 black respondents think you have no right to exist if you're
white, yeah I'd be saying stay the fuck away as well, especially in the
heavily armed United States.
But of course they, like you, remove all the context in their attack
posts to make him seem racist when the racism was in what he was
replying to; People denying his right to exist as a white person.

We've seen where that intolerance leads: The Heresy trials in Spain to
root out Muslims and Jews (Spanish Inquisition.)
And of course that German Party that thought it was not OK to be Jewish,
or Gay, or Roma, or have development issues or ... and the actions they
took subsequently.

>[1] The irony in calling RepubliQans "the right" is never lost on me -
>talk about an oxymoron of the highest order.

Only for someone who doesn't understand the difference between a
direction and correctness.

Xocyll
--
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 by: Xocyll - Wed, 8 Mar 2023 13:09 UTC

Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 07:48:11 -0800 (PST), Justisaur
><justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Sad that everyone here is so old we think they died if they don't post for
>>a month or two.
>
>Well Xocyll has stopped posting for longer then that but your point is
>still taken.

Hell I was completely offline for over a year but hadn't posted for at
least 6 months before that due to declining interest.

When there is very low traffic and the games being discussed (when it
didn't go off games completely) are ones I have no interest in, well you
just get out of the habit of even starting up the newsreader.

It's surprisingly easy to fall out of the habit of something you did
first thing every day over your morning coffee.

>I thought Spalls was dead when he suddenly stopped posting awhile
>back. I really need to break the habit of thinking the only reason a
>person would stop posting to usenet is they kicked the bucket.
>
>>CoH is indeed the best superhero game ever. Glad to see someone here
>>is playing on the new servers. My main issue with it was they made
>>it far too easy. I got to high level content and pretty much did everything
>>I never got to that I wanted while the official servers were up from 0 in
>>a couple months.
>
>I do believe CoH is the best superhero game ever and I played on
>Homecoming awhile back. It was very active at the time at least.

It really depends on which server you are on, what time of day and which
side you're playing on.
Blue has the most, Red is quite a lot lower population and Yellow is a
Ghost town.

Every time I make yellow side char I see no more than 3 people in any of
the basic city zones and usually less. First Ward/Night Ward tend to
have more since you don't have to have started Praetorian to do those.

Xocyll
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 by: Xocyll - Wed, 8 Mar 2023 14:14 UTC

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On Monday, March 6, 2023 at 4:43:46?PM UTC-8, Zaghadka wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 06:25:14 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Metal
>> Guru wrote:
>
>> Please don't bring it here.
>
>I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment. I play games and come here partially
>to avoid the insanity that is our (American) politics. I get too much of that
>already through the few podcasts I listen to while doing chores and driving,
>and stumbling across it elsewhere on the internet.

Kind of my point.

I watch fictional TV and play games to get away from all that fucking
bullshit, I don't want it in shows and games where it's just in the way
and actively interferes with them.

Which is why I am mostly playing older games and watching older TV from
before the rise of the woke/sjw/inclusion/equity types who want to force
their politics and beliefs into everything.

Imagine if you will, Borderlands (any of them) filtered by the
politically correct/sjw/inclusionary types before it's allowed to be
published.

Would that be a game you'd be playing as it spends 50% of your in game
time harping on their beliefs?

Although Indoctrilands almost sounds like a cool game name.

Xocyll
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 by: Zaghadka - Wed, 8 Mar 2023 14:48 UTC

[snip]

Seriously dude. Can we just talk about games?

Please leave the politics to Facebook.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
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 by: JAB - Thu, 9 Mar 2023 08:46 UTC

On 07/03/2023 15:20, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 18:52:18 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/03/2023 11:25, Metal Guru wrote:
>>> I'm aware everyone else here is too polite to say anything so allow me
>>> to do the honors (and I'm only speaking for myself, obviously).
>>
>> Spalls may want to give you a like but I would say a gold star is more
>> in order.
>
> I gave a one line reaction because nothing more needed to be said. Do
> you know how rare, how unique, how awesome a compliment that is coming
> from me? I can drone on for hours over how dust is falling, and yet
> couldn't do more than add what was, essentially, an "I agree" to MG's
> post? And you think your silly 'gold star' in any way equals that
> magnificent achievement? When verbosity is the usual, terseness is a
> reward all its own ;-P
>
> (full snark mode enabled, of course. About the gold star thing, I
> mean. Not the agreement.)
>

I'll give you a silver star* for that one.

*That comes from when I was in primary school and at the front of the
class room you had a big piece of paper with everybody's name on it and
the teacher would award you with stars for good behaviour.

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