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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: you people are masochists: on quitting
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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:51:45 GMT
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Sean T Barrett <buzzard@world.std.com> wrote:
>I provide my list of games I gave up on (as
>opposed to running out of time on, or having finished),
>and why I gave up on them, and after how long.  To the
>degree that I am publically posting bug reports, sorry,
>but them's the breaks.  Hopefully this is useful not
>just for each particular author, but to suggest things
>not to do in general (at least for me, it might help
>if other people suggested this).

I appear to have left out:

   The End Means Escape (0:30)
      I'm stuck in the first room.  I have a possible clue
      about my goal (a comment about the ceiling), but I'm totally
      stuck, and the hint system is stuck on an explicit
      command which I've already done (involving [spoiler
      protected via pun] loaning a bit of cash).

SeanB
