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Does Anyone Still Play-by-Mail?

Posted by Cliff on from the turn-based-internet-gameplay dept.

manganese4 asks: "With the ever increasing complexity of games and the desire to buy the bleeding edge of hardware, does anyone still participate in games in the old-time 'Play by (e)Mail' format? Remember the anticipation of wondering if the snow storm was going to delay the post and prevent you from executing a crushing blow with your rook or pacing your emails to give your opponent time to become distracted by something else on the Usenet groups!"

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  1. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OK, looks like the snowstorm delayed everyone, so nevermind.

  2. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    snowstorm?

  3. The game of Slashdot by Palshife · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, I've bascially been playing slashdot that way for years now. I hear the last boss is a pisser.

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    1. Re:The game of Slashdot by MyLongNickName · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      My score is a lot higher than yours. Keep trying... some day you might break 100,000.

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  4. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    RTFS (.... Summary)

  5. Re:There is a new game, the whole world is playing by Jorkapp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Alright, you asked for it.

    HELLO SLASHDOT USER

    I AM AHEMD AHKBAR. IN AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT MY FATHER, THE TRADE MINISTER IN NIGERIA PASSED AWAY. CURRENTLY THERE IS A GRAND TOTAL OF $300000000 (300 MILLION) US DOLLARS LOCKED AWAY IN HIS SECRET GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT. UNFORTUNATELY, OBTAINING THIS MONEY REQUIRES MUCH LEGAL CONSULTATION AND WOULD COST TOO MUCH FOR MYSELF. THEREFORE, IF YOU PROVIDE ME WITH A SMALL AMOUNT OF ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($1000), I WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH 10% OF THE MONEY (30 MILLION US DOLLARS) UPON ITS AVAILIBILITY. THIS IS NOT A SCAM.

    THANK YOU
    AHMED

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  6. Re:There is a new game, the whole world is playing by nomadic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I AM AHEMD AHKBAR. IN AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT MY FATHER, THE TRADE MINISTER IN NIGERIA PASSED AWAY. CURRENTLY THERE IS A GRAND TOTAL OF $300000000 (300 MILLION) US DOLLARS LOCKED AWAY IN HIS SECRET GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT. UNFORTUNATELY, OBTAINING THIS MONEY REQUIRES MUCH LEGAL CONSULTATION AND WOULD COST TOO MUCH FOR MYSELF. THEREFORE, IF YOU PROVIDE ME WITH A SMALL AMOUNT OF ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($1000), I WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH 10% OF THE MONEY (30 MILLION US DOLLARS) UPON ITS AVAILIBILITY.

    That sounds like a scam to me.

    THIS IS NOT A SCAM.

    Sorry, my mistake. Guess it's not a scam after all.

  7. Re:Half Life 2 (mods!) by Frizzle+Fry · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have you tried visiting http://slashdot.org/metamod.pl? I didn't find out I was eligible to metamod for a while because there used to be a bug in slashcode where that link didn't show up on the homepage for you until after the first time you had metamodded. That bug may or may not have been fixed by now. (Hint: If you haven't figured out yet that no bug here is ever fixed, you certainly haven't been here long enough to m2).

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