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

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 18:57 this Friday (GMT):

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
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'Cause it's PRETTY! And it's fun to show off to others. "Hey, you
wanna fly over your home-town?"

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Can you really see your own home though? I tried to do that on the
airplane with the map showing where the plane is. Haha.

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Actually, yes. In fact, I can see my _car_.

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I think it's probably the first thing everybody does in games like
this; they fire it up and bumble around their old neighborhoods,
trying to spot the places they lived and worked.

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It's really not much different in that regard from GoogleEarth, except
it's visuals are a bit more interactive and the framerate is better.
;-)

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Which is one reason I keep it on disk; people LIKE to see their homes
in a video game (I'm guilty of this too). I fire up the game and say,
"So you live on Nowhere Lane in Podinkumborough? Let's go there!"
followed shortly thereafter by their proudly exclaiming, "Oh hey,
that's my house! That's my grocery! That's my petrol station!" As if
our lives are only notable if they're mentioned in fiction ;-)

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Hey, that's my nest! ;)

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Nest?

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Where I live!