Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away: Conclusion

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, 26 Dec 2024 22:50:10 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/26/2024 9:54 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
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I know I'm long winded, so in hopes that you hang around long enough
to read the whole post, I'll throw you a bone and give you a free game
right from the start. It's call Chasm; it's a VMLTA hack-n-slash
adventure/platformer game of some sort. You can redeem the key (which
you get in the DNND9 usual way, if you're eagle-eyed enough) on Steam.
There; you got your treat.D5IJQ Now keep reading! ;-)
 

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Maybe we need a lottery?  I know that's a lot more work, Ant got most of
the games.  On the other hand it sounds his financials aren't great and
he'll probably appreciate them more than I.

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I won? :O
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I don't have as much time, I was out of town for 4 days so missed all
those, as well as this last one.

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I got busy the last few days so I couldn't check this awesome newsgroups
often. :(
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Real-life friends?!  But will they worship at your alter of verbosity
like we will?

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Friends? What are those? ;)
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But now we come to the real meat of this post, and not just my usual
end-of-year meanderings. Because I've come to make an ANNOUNCEMENT.
Because I'm here to inform you that I Am Done.

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NOOOOOOO!!!!

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BOOOOOO!!!! Maybe others will do the same. We all should do it for fun!
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So that's it. I hope you all had a marvelous holiday season. I hope my
little efforts went a way to making it better. I hope you got at least
one game you liked. I hope The Number got bigger for all of you. I
hope it encouraged all you regulars to stick with Usenet and post
more. I hope new users stumbled across this newsgroup and said, "hey,
this place looks cool; I think I'll stick around." And I hope we all
find games enough in common that we can talk about them together for a
long, long time.

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Really yes, I generally appreciate the reviews (if I can call them that)
here than anywhere else, and general freedom of usenet to wander off the
path organically.

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Ditto.
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I've done
this thing for ten years, ever since 2014. In that time, I've handed
out 337 keys. Here's the final tally. How many games in your library
have I contributed?

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Quite a bit, though rms' giveaways perhaps surpassed yours in 2023 for
quality and perhaps quantity of the ones I got. ];}-

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911 Operator
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Oof, that's too many to go through let alone remember where I got.

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If I get bored after this week I'll dig through usenet archives and see
if I can figure it out.

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Sheesh. Who has time for that? ;)

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I certainly don't, and I probably have some of the most complete
records
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Because, as you all know, I have a spreadsheet. In fact, I have
SPREADSHEETS, one for each of the give-aways, and on most of them I
marked down who got what (as best we could determine. Lurkers sniped a
lot of the games in the early years). But I'll be damned if I go
through all that info and compile it into a list cross-referenced with
each game. Just getting the total list of games was chore enough. ;-)
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Speaking of lurkers... we did rather well this year with them, in
terms of the regulars grabbing most of the games before the Unseen Mob
grabbed them. I wonder why that is...

In my case it's cause I actually booted up agent several times a day to
check for posts, instead of just the once shortly after getting up.

Xocyll