Re: Microid's 2024 Empire of the Ants demo came out yesterday!

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

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:28:01 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:55:43 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:12:02 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,
Ant wrote:

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287330/Empire_of_the_Ants/
And I'm still too busy and using an old video card (MSI NVIDIA GeForce
GTX 750 Ti (N750TI-2GD5/OC; 2 GB of VRAM) so I can't play it for now. :(
Maybe I will finally play it in a decade when it is free and have better
hardwares. Ha! :P

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On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:29:03 -0600, PW
<iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:

Maybe we should all chip in and get Ant what he needs to play his
family game.  Or maybe Spalls will find something good at the
dumpsters for Ant.

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The dumpsters have been sadly quite empty recently. I think the
building staff is on to me and hoarding the good stuff for themselves
inside rather than leaving it on curb.

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Did your previous good stuff include good video cards though? :p
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Actually, I once found a complete system with a GeForce 790GTX and an
i7 processor; it wasn't top-of-the-line stuff even at the time, but it
was still a pretty decent gaming rig.

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Ha, that video card would handle this game well than my old card. ;P

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It was -still is- a quite capable system, despite it being over a
decade old at this point. Certainly it could handle a lot of my
mainstay games (<cough>Truck Simulators</cough>) well enough, and even
a lot of the more modern titles, if at reduced graphics levels. Which
says less about the power of the machine and more about the state of
modern gaming.
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But mostly I keep it around because it has easy-swap SATA bays which
makes it useful for whenever I need to test / wipe hard-drives. No
need to open up another computer, or fiddle around with external drive
chassis; I just slip the drive in the caddy and I'm good to go.
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(It also had its hard-drives complete with all the user data on it in
unencrypted format. People really need to learn to wipe their drives
before tossing their PCs)

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Geez. Did you find anything good in their HDDs? ;)

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Are you implying that I snooped around that hard-drive before doing
the proper thing and deleting the contents of the drive? Why, I never!
;-)
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(but all sorts of stuff, including photos, scans of drivers license,
credit card numbers, documents with government ID, etc. Were I evil, I
could have done Bad Things with that information. DELETE YOUR DRIVES,
people!)

Drills or thermite people.

Unrecoverability should be a point of pride!

Xocyll