Subj : Re: Custom, stock or otherwise
To   : apam
From : Avon
Date : Sat Apr 13 2024 03:31 pm

On 13 Apr 2024 at 01:16p, apam pondered and said...
 
 ap> I don't get annoyed with stock BBSes, but there is little incentive for
 ap> me to call them. I can read fsxnet on my own BBS. The main reason I call
 ap> BBSes apart from testing things, is looking around, seeing what people
 ap> have done.

Yep, I'm much the same :)

 ap> I certainly don't think they should be excluded from the hobby or
 ap> something like that.

I feel that also, if people get annoyed about a stock system they can opt not to call it back etc. but bagging the sysop for not doing any mods I think is unkind and slightly myopic... not everyone starts up a BBS for such reasons.

 ap> Having said that, I think people that unzip a package and set it up,
 ap> join a few nets and then sit back, only to shut down after a little
 ap> while, maybe testing the waters, or seeing if it's for them. I don't
 ap> think they should be excluded either, just suggesting that perhaps
 ap> that's why they do what they do.

Yep and yep, agreed.

 ap> I was talking about games with tiny earlier in fsx_gen, how we buy games
 ap> and then never get around to playing them - perhaps the interest is
 ap> there, but the motivation to continue is not.

I was interested to read you both sounded like you have all these different games but tend to gravitate to the same one(s) vs playing the new ones you have more recently acquired - did I understand that correctly?

 ap> Who knows. I'm sure there's plenty of reasons people do what they do :)
 ap> some stick around though :)

Don't I know it :) Some even get to become Old Timers just for doing so :)

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
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