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"Rudi" <Rudi@iki.fi> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:03:00 -0500, "Mary" <notvalid@notin.com> wrote:
>
>>NG's served a worthwhile purpose where you could go to discuss subjects of
>>interest to yourself and others. I don't know why they gradually 
>>disappeared
>>though some are still around and some even fairly active. Maybe because of
>>Facebook, Twitter, etc.

> That is true, most of the volume has transferred to other mediums.
> That is very sad, blogs etc tend to get so much worse
> signal/noise ratio than here in usenet. Of course, even back then
> there were newsgroup trolls, but not as bad as today.

Most blogs I've seen are quite boring, though some must be interesting. NG's 
were better as far as you could go to a group with a subject you were 
interested in and people there would be discussing the same subject. Media 
groups such as Facebook and Twitter are very varied as far as what you do 
there or what you want to find out. I sometimes used to go to Facebook but 
not for a while. I find there are other things I would rather do when I go 
on the computer. Each to his own I guess.

> I kept a blog for a short while, but it got attacked by a bot which
> filled my quota in a heartbeat - about 5000 messages in few hours -
> so I just had to discontinue it.

I can see why.

>>everything was ok, but I don't think most of their games are DRM, but 
>>maybe
>>some are.
>
> Steam requires their client to be active in the background just about
> on all of their games, even if playing in offline-mode. Ditto Origin
> (they give out one game per month for free to play, but require you to
> register and use their account and client every time). That's why I
> don't use either of them.

I think it depends on if you just want to download games for example like me 
and I like the DRM part where you can copy the downloaded game onto a DVD 
and play it without having to access the website where you got it to play 
the game. For me Gog is more suited to my needs. Steam is probably more 
suited to features of Steam. I've always used Gog simply because it's easier 
to navigate and the website itself is brighter and I can see better, but as 
usual, each to his own.


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