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

On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:37:10 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:50:31 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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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. :(

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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...

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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).

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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?

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Oh well, at least it's on my spinning-rust HDD.

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If it is not fun to play, then why bother keeping it? :P

'Cause it's PRETTY! And it's fun to show off to others. "Hey, you
wanna fly over your home-town?"

But that doesn't work if I then follow up with a, "Just give me 36
hours first to download and install the damn thing." ;-)