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At Wed, 3 Sep 2025 22:38:02 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant) said:

Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 05:53:01 -0000 (UTC), vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:

On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:44:36 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Accept no imitations!
(Or do. It's no skin off my back either way).

What Have You Been Playing... IN AUGUST 2025?

I played only Elite Dangerous, and not much of that.

After finishing the colony known as "Ant Colony Homage", I
started another surface base to gain the construction points to
build an asteroid base.

Wait... didn't we determine it WASN'T an ant colony?

(I still say its bears)

Incidentally, my brother just clued me in that Elite Dangerous is
on sale on Steam, for the next 34 hours or so: I'm not sure if
you have to buy Odyssey separately, or if that purchase includes
Elite itself. You'll want Odyssey for space legs.

Elite is one of those games I keep banging my head against, hoping
to find the 'fun' in it. I must have installed it a dozen times
already, only to bail out after an hour or two.

At this point, I really wish there was an 'instant gratification'
mode where you start with 10 billion credits so you can get right
to the best spaceships. Maybe if I see what the game really has to
offer without having to grind endlessly through the low-level stuff
first, I might stick with the game.

But I really shouldn't be too surprised that the game fails to
engage me. I didn't really care for its predecessors either.

I never got into Elite games too. I even tried Dangerous at E3 (met
David Braben and his team (cool guys!) in his booth) in 2014 (I did
mention this to you guys, right?) and home. I just couldn't get into
it even if I had help with one of the team. Hard to learn. :(

Very cool! I mean, the meeting them part, not the hard-to-learn
part...

I intend to go to Lavecon some year, assuming they're still
having them -- but getting to London is a 10-hour flight...we'd
have to plan a whole vacation around it.

Earlier this summer, we went to London and cruised
Norway, with a stop in Edinburgh on the way home.
Really enjoyed it, but it seemed like an ordeal to get to London
from California.
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