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  • Re: free Free FREE Ghost Master! Grab it!!

    From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 4 11:37:22 2023
    On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 09:22:59 -0600, "rms" <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net>
    wrote:

    https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim

    Yay!!

    Gosh! I remember this one. As I recall, the game was like "The Sims"
    crossed with "X-Com" by way of "Luigi's Haunted House" and
    "Ghostbusters". A weird mix of styles that, while intriguing in
    concept, never really gelled together all that well. I remember
    playing it for a few hours until the novelty wore off and it just
    suddenly stopped being entertaining.

    I kept intending to go back and give it another chance but I never
    did.

    Will it finally get that second play through? Probably not... but I'll
    grab it anyway.

    Thank you for the heads up, rms

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  • From rms@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 4 09:22:59 2023
    https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim

    Yay!!

    rms

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to rms on Mon Sep 4 20:02:57 2023
    rms <rsquiresMOO@mooflashmoo.net> wrote:
    https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim

    Yay!!

    "{"message":"Unauthorized"}" :(
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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Ant on Mon Sep 4 20:06:14 2023
    Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
    rms <rsquiresMOO@mooflashmoo.net> wrote:
    https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim

    Yay!!

    "{"message":"Unauthorized"}" :(

    I got it from its home page.
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  • From PW@21:1/5 to Ant on Mon Sep 4 21:56:05 2023
    On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 20:06:14 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

    Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
    rms <rsquiresMOO@mooflashmoo.net> wrote:
    https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim

    Yay!!

    "{"message":"Unauthorized"}" :(

    I got it from its home page.

    It is one of the pages that don't load but a script adds it to your
    library. It did for me.

    -pw

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to Ant on Tue Sep 5 08:56:20 2023
    On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 20:02:57 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
    rms <rsquiresMOO@mooflashmoo.net> wrote:

    https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim
    Yay!!

    "{"message":"Unauthorized"}" :(

    With GOG give-aways, it's always better to link to the actual page for
    the game (which will then redirect you back to the 'get it free' link)
    than the the freebie link itself.

    e.g., go here
    https://www.gog.com/en/game/ghost_master
    and click "go to giveaway" (which sends you back to the appropriate
    section of GOG's homepage)

    Otherwise you get that weird error message.

    I love GOG for their old games and no DRM, but their web-design (and
    PR) skills aren't great ;-)

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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.co on Tue Sep 5 08:54:17 2023
    On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 21:56:05 -0600, PW
    <iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:

    It is one of the pages that don't load but a script adds it to your
    library. It did for me.

    -pw

    Yeah, I got the same error that Ant did but you are right. It was
    added to my library anyway.

    Thank you rms.

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Ant on Tue Sep 5 06:59:00 2023
    On Monday, September 4, 2023 at 1:06:51 PM UTC-7, Ant wrote:
    Ant <a...@zimage.comant> wrote:
    rms <rsqui...@mooflashmoo.net> wrote:
    https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim

    Yay!!

    "{"message":"Unauthorized"}" :(
    I got it from its home page.

    Same here, oddly before I saw rms' post. I think that's a first.

    - Justisaur

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to rms on Tue Sep 5 19:18:48 2023
    On 04/09/2023 16:22, rms wrote:
    https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim

    Yay!!


    I remember playing the demo many years ago and my impression was nice
    idea but a bad implementation. I can't remember why I though that though.

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