• FREE GAME: Electrician Simulator [EPIC]

    From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Mar 19 12:37:07 2026
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    Blah. Blah blah blah. Blahitty blah blah blah BLAH blah. Blah blah
    blah blaaaah blah *blah* blah blah. Blah blah blah Blah blah?
    Blahahahaha. Because it's not like any of you ever read these intros
    anyway.


    * Electrician Simulator https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/electrician-simulator-164e9f
    Another workplace simulator, along the lines of "Supermarket
    Simulator" or "PC Building Simulator". This one has you take
    on the role of an electrician. I tried this one a few months
    ago. The electrical bits aren't too bad, if extremely
    simplistic and repetitive. Do I really have to manually remove
    each of the four screws from a power socket each and every
    time?!? But I found the 'business aspects' -buying and
    furnishing your office-- extremely tedious. I was actually
    hoping this game might be more fun (who doesn't like some
    electrical tinkering?) but even at its best it's paint-by-
    numbers simplicity with little actual thinking required. It
    felt very much like an asset-flip follow-the-leader game,
    and even amongst the sordid genre of workplace sims, it
    wasn't very impressive.


    Blah. Thbbt. Meh. Ehhhn. 7 days.


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  • From Mike S.@Mike_S@nowhere.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Mar 19 14:08:33 2026
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    On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:37:07 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:


    Blah. Blah blah blah. Blahitty blah blah blah BLAH blah. Blah blah
    blah blaaaah blah *blah* blah blah. Blah blah blah Blah blah?
    Blahahahaha. Because it's not like any of you ever read these intros
    anyway.

    I may post somewhat sporadically, but I read everything, including
    this.
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Mar 20 10:38:17 2026
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    On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:08:33 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> said
    this thing:
    On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:37:07 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson ><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:



    Blah. Blah blah blah. Blahitty blah blah blah BLAH blah. Blah blah
    blah blaaaah blah *blah* blah blah. Blah blah blah Blah blah?
    Blahahahaha. Because it's not like any of you ever read these intros >>anyway.

    I may post somewhat sporadically, but I read everything, including
    this.

    That's one of us, anyway ;-)


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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Mar 20 10:30:48 2026
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    On 3/19/2026 11:08 AM, Mike S. wrote:
    On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:37:07 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:


    Blah. Blah blah blah. Blahitty blah blah blah BLAH blah. Blah blah
    blah blaaaah blah *blah* blah blah. Blah blah blah Blah blah?
    Blahahahaha. Because it's not like any of you ever read these intros
    anyway.

    I may post somewhat sporadically, but I read everything, including
    this.

    Been a bit busy lately, but I get around to reading everything eventually.
    --
    -Justisaur

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  • From vallor@vallor@vallor.earth to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Mar 25 02:54:47 2026
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    At Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:37:07 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:


    Blah. Blah blah blah. Blahitty blah blah blah BLAH blah. Blah blah
    blah blaaaah blah *blah* blah blah. Blah blah blah Blah blah?
    Blahahahaha. Because it's not like any of you ever read these intros
    anyway.

    I lurk, but I still read.

    * Electrician Simulator https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/electrician-simulator-164e9f
    Another workplace simulator, along the lines of "Supermarket
    Simulator" or "PC Building Simulator". This one has you take
    on the role of an electrician. I tried this one a few months
    ago. The electrical bits aren't too bad, if extremely
    simplistic and repetitive. Do I really have to manually remove
    each of the four screws from a power socket each and every
    time?!? But I found the 'business aspects' -buying and
    furnishing your office-- extremely tedious. I was actually
    hoping this game might be more fun (who doesn't like some
    electrical tinkering?) but even at its best it's paint-by-
    numbers simplicity with little actual thinking required. It
    felt very much like an asset-flip follow-the-leader game,
    and even amongst the sordid genre of workplace sims, it
    wasn't very impressive.


    Blah. Thbbt. Meh. Ehhhn. 7 days.

    Is Bill the Cat taking dictation for you?
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Mar 25 12:24:07 2026
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    On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:54:47 +0000, vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> said
    this thing:
    At Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:37:07 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:


    Blah. Thbbt. Meh. Ehhhn.


    Is Bill the Cat taking dictation for you?


    Somebody caught the reference! Yay! ;-)

    (I used to be a big Bill the Cat fan in my younger days, although for
    the life of me I can't remember why nowadays. Thbbt was a too-regular
    part of my vocabulary back then.)



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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Mar 25 11:03:32 2026
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    On 3/24/2026 7:54 PM, vallor wrote:
    At Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:37:07 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    Blah. Thbbt. Meh. Ehhhn. 7 days.

    Is Bill the Cat taking dictation for you?


    Ha! I haven't thought of Bill the Cat in so long. I'd take him and Opus
    for president right now.
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