Re: free Free FREE Astronarch! Get it!

On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 23:25:14 -0000 (UTC), vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:10:05 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:40:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
 

Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote at 20:36 this Wednesday (GMT):

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The
Augury is good, the signs say:
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Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote at 17:19 this Tuesday (GMT):

"rms" <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
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Here it is!  Just begging to be taken:
https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/astronarch

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So um, shitty graphics and a forced (free) subscription to their
newsletter.
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No, just no.
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Xocyll

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Since when did games come with a newsletter?

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When the game company makes you sign up for their e-mail newsletter in
order to get the game for "free".
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And of course you have to sign up for their website to in order for the
game to work, but don't worry they won't sell your information ... much.
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Sometimes "FREE" is too high a cost.
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Xocyll

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There's no such thing as a free lunch.

 
TANSTAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. (Larry Niven)

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Actually, R.A. Heinlein.  From _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_, one of
my favorite novels.
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And it's TANSTAAFL!  At the end of the novel, it's on the Lunie flag.
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It's one of those words, like grok, I love dropping in a conversation
to see a) who gets it (yay!, fellow nerd!) and b) confuse all the
other rubes ;-)

I stand corrected. You're right, Heinlein popularized it. Turns out he
probably didn't invent it though (we can thank Milton Friedman for
that). For some reason my brain associated it with Niven; I could have
sworn the phrase was used in one of the Ringworld novels, but a quick
scan doesn't bring up any matches.

I guess I'm one of the rubes ;-)

"grok" is Heinlein too, hope you didn't think that was Niven! :P

Nope. That's definitely Heinlein.