Re: Old threads

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 20:38 this Sunday (GMT):

On Sun, 18 May 2025 16:09:52 +0100, Mr Rob
<noemailformethx@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote:
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No, not old trousers, but old threads from this group from 15+ years
ago.
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I was going through my ridiculously large and totally unnecessary
collection of data sticks.
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I came across some archived posts from this group (hopefully you can
see them via this link at postimg).
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I'm pleasantly surprised by how many posters are still positing 17+
years later.
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https://i.postimg.cc/QdnrNvWM/oldT.png

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So many different people. Admittedly, that sample includes (just
under) three years of posts, but that's 40+ different names. The
current average for CSPIGA is about 14 unique posters. And Usenet was
already in massive decline back in 2007. Ten years earlier the user
count was in the hundreds, if not thousands.

Am I included in that count :D

I admit, I don't remember half of those names, and three quarters of
those that I _do_ remember, I only remember as people who posted here,
and don't recall any specific opinion of them.
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I did get a kick out of seeing Werner Spahl's "VTM:B Unofficial Patch"
thread again, though.
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Otherwise, the conversations seem mostly the same; a little less
discussion about individual games, but a lot of the usual talk about
more meta gaming topics (e.g., hardware, publisher shenanigins, DRM,
etc.) and -of course- the usual monthly "What Have You Been Playing"
threads. The biggest change is that nowadays at least a third of our
conversations here in CSPIGA have to do with all the free games on
offer. Is that because we have nothing else to discuss, or because the
freebies have become such a dominant part of gaming culture, I wonder?

Well, it's hard to spark a conversation from nothing, in my experience.
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