• Free Game Bundle On GOG

    From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Aug 2 11:49:04 2025
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    In response to the recent de-listing of various adult games on Steam
    and Itch.io (due to pressure from credit cards and various "oh my gosh
    the children must be protected" advocacy groups), GOG is offering a
    selection of mature+ rated games for free on its platform.

    These include:
    - Postal 2
    - Agony (w/ Unrated edition)
    - Leap of Love
    - Being a DIK (season 1)
    - Leap of Faith
    - House Party
    - Hunie Pop
    - Lust Theory
    - Treasures of Nadia
    - Summer's Gone (season 1)
    - Fetish Locator (week 1)
    - Sapphire Safari
    - Helping the Hotties

    Available here: https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

    Grab the ones you want and skip the ones you don't; no judgements
    here. To quote the recently departed Tom Lehrer:

    Smut!
    Give me smut and nothing but!
    A dirty novel I can't shut,
    If it's uncut, ad unsubt- le.

    (bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards,
    neckties, Samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos,
    anything! More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)


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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Aug 2 11:56:17 2025
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    On Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:49:04 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    Available here: https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

    Grab the ones you want and skip the ones you don't

    IMPORTANT NOTE!

    It turns out you _can't_ pick and choose from the selection. Pick one
    and the whole bunch are added to your library. So if you just wanted,
    say, "Postal 2" you can't just get that one without getting the rest
    too.

    This was NOT made clear on the website (a problem GOG has repeatedly
    faced). Still, I should have checked myself before hitting SEND. I
    apologize for misleading people with the initial post.



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  • From Dimensional Traveler@dtravel@sonic.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Aug 2 09:00:29 2025
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    On 8/2/2025 8:56 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:49:04 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    Available here: https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

    Grab the ones you want and skip the ones you don't

    IMPORTANT NOTE!

    It turns out you _can't_ pick and choose from the selection. Pick one
    and the whole bunch are added to your library. So if you just wanted,
    say, "Postal 2" you can't just get that one without getting the rest
    too.

    This was NOT made clear on the website (a problem GOG has repeatedly
    faced). Still, I should have checked myself before hitting SEND. I
    apologize for misleading people with the initial post.

    They are still free aren't they? And you can just not install the ones
    you aren't interested in, right?
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  • From Zaghadka@zaghadka@hotmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Aug 2 11:08:08 2025
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    On Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:49:04 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:


    In response to the recent de-listing of various adult games on Steam
    and Itch.io (due to pressure from credit cards and various "oh my gosh
    the children must be protected" advocacy groups), GOG is offering a
    selection of mature+ rated games for free on its platform.

    These include:
    - Postal 2
    - Agony (w/ Unrated edition)
    - Leap of Love
    - Being a DIK (season 1)
    - Leap of Faith
    - House Party
    - Hunie Pop
    - Lust Theory
    - Treasures of Nadia
    - Summer's Gone (season 1)
    - Fetish Locator (week 1)
    - Sapphire Safari
    - Helping the Hotties

    Available here: https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

    Grab the ones you want and skip the ones you don't; no judgements
    here. To quote the recently departed Tom Lehrer:

    Smut!
    Give me smut and nothing but!
    A dirty novel I can't shut,
    If it's uncut, ad unsubt- le.

    (bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards,
    neckties, Samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos,
    anything! More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)


    As you say, it was *not* clear. I clicked on one game!

    I have a library to be ashamed of now. Not really. Lol. Well, maybe
    people will wonder when I die, but I'll be dead.

    I guess I just won't play them? Naw. I do have both of the modern LSL
    games, and since I bought them, I get inundated with the smutty games
    ads. Now maybe they'll stop!

    ...time to refresh the paper towels (for cleaning the monitor) on my
    desk. }B^>
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  • From Zaghadka@zaghadka@hotmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Aug 2 11:08:59 2025
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    On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 09:00:29 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Dimensional Traveler wrote:

    On 8/2/2025 8:56 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:49:04 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
    <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    Available here: https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

    Grab the ones you want and skip the ones you don't

    IMPORTANT NOTE!

    It turns out you _can't_ pick and choose from the selection. Pick one
    and the whole bunch are added to your library. So if you just wanted,
    say, "Postal 2" you can't just get that one without getting the rest
    too.

    This was NOT made clear on the website (a problem GOG has repeatedly
    faced). Still, I should have checked myself before hitting SEND. I
    apologize for misleading people with the initial post.

    They are still free aren't they? And you can just not install the ones
    you aren't interested in, right?

    Yes... Um... that's exactly what I'm doing too!

    I certainly wouldn't have *bought* a lot of these games. That's my story
    and I'm sticking to it.

    (Ugh. That sounded better in my head)
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    Pope Zaghadka III

    ````````````````````````````````````````````````````|
    Every man, woman, and child on this Earth |
    is a genuine and authorized Pope. | `````````````````````````````````````````````````````

    As Pope, you are entitled to the following privleges:

    1. To invoke infallibility at any time, even
    retroactively.

    2. To completely rework the structure of the Erisian
    church.

    3. To baptise, bury, and marry (with the permission
    of the deceased in the latter two cases)

    4. To excommunicate yourself and others,
    To de-excommunicate yourself and others,
    To re-excommunicate yourself and others,
    To de-re-excommunicate (no backsies) yourself and
    others.

    5. To perform all rites and functions deemed to be
    improper to a Pope of Discordia.

    Hail Eris!
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Aug 2 12:33:20 2025
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    On Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:08:59 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    On Sat, 2 Aug 2025 09:00:29 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, >Dimensional Traveler wrote:
    On 8/2/2025 8:56 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:


    IMPORTANT NOTE!
    It turns out you _can't_ pick and choose from the selection. Pick one
    and the whole bunch are added to your library. So if you just wanted,
    say, "Postal 2" you can't just get that one without getting the rest
    too.


    They are still free aren't they? And you can just not install the ones >>you aren't interested in, right?

    Yes... Um... that's exactly what I'm doing too!
    I certainly wouldn't have *bought* a lot of these games. That's my story
    and I'm sticking to it.


    You can also "hide" the games in your library (and, if you contact GOG
    support directly, you can request they remove unwanted games from your library).

    And you're right; it's not a SERIOUS issue unless you are a major
    prude. Don't like the games? Don't install them.

    I take more issue with the IMPLEMENTATION of the offer, where on the
    page it _looks_ as if you can pick and choose, but it's a false
    choice. GOG is infamous for these poor design choices, whether its
    their spam-like emails or this free offer or various other mis-steps
    they've made over the years. I don't think any of it is malicious but essentially forcing games people may not want into their library is
    not a good way to win good will. It also doesn't give people
    confidence in GOG's other decisions.

    Anyway, I just wanted to get my correction out there. There's some
    interesting games on there (and some real gooner-bait too) but just be
    aware that whichever games catch your fancy, you're going to get more
    than you might expect.


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  • From Mike S.@Mike_S@nowhere.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Aug 2 14:24:46 2025
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    On Sat, 02 Aug 2025 12:33:20 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    I take more issue with the IMPLEMENTATION of the offer, where on the
    page it _looks_ as if you can pick and choose, but it's a false
    choice. GOG is infamous for these poor design choices, whether its
    their spam-like emails or this free offer or various other mis-steps
    they've made over the years. I don't think any of it is malicious but >essentially forcing games people may not want into their library is
    not a good way to win good will. It also doesn't give people
    confidence in GOG's other decisions.

    I agree, the implementation was not the best.

    But what is done is done. I now need to put the games I got from you
    at Christmas on hold to play "Helping the Hotties" and "Lust Theory
    Season 1".

    Priorities Spalls, priorities.
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Aug 2 19:38:13 2025
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    I only wanted Postal 2, so I had to get all!


    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

    In response to the recent de-listing of various adult games on Steam
    and Itch.io (due to pressure from credit cards and various "oh my gosh
    the children must be protected" advocacy groups), GOG is offering a
    selection of mature+ rated games for free on its platform.

    These include:
    - Postal 2
    - Agony (w/ Unrated edition)
    - Leap of Love
    - Being a DIK (season 1)
    - Leap of Faith
    - House Party
    - Hunie Pop
    - Lust Theory
    - Treasures of Nadia
    - Summer's Gone (season 1)
    - Fetish Locator (week 1)
    - Sapphire Safari
    - Helping the Hotties

    Available here: https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

    Grab the ones you want and skip the ones you don't; no judgements
    here. To quote the recently departed Tom Lehrer:

    Smut!
    Give me smut and nothing but!
    A dirty novel I can't shut,
    If it's uncut, ad unsubt- le.

    (bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards,
    neckties, Samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos,
    anything! More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)
    --
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  • From Dimensional Traveler@dtravel@sonic.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Aug 2 14:46:27 2025
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    On 8/2/2025 12:38 PM, Ant wrote:
    I only wanted Postal 2, so I had to get all!

    You just couldn't separate the porn from the mass murder!
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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Aug 2 22:13:23 2025
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    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 8/2/2025 12:38 PM, Ant wrote:
    I only wanted Postal 2, so I had to get all!

    You just couldn't separate the porn from the mass murder!

    How come Postal 1 wasn't included?
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  • From H1M3M@wipnoah@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Mon Aug 4 09:36:15 2025
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    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:


    Smut! Give me smut and nothing but! A dirty novel I can't shut, If
    it's uncut, ad unsubt- le.

    (bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties, Samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos, anything! More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)





    Oh well. You know what they say:


    The internet is for porn!
    The internet is for porn!
    So grab your dick and double-click
    For porn, porn porn


    Fuck payment processors being able to decide what can be sold. One day
    may be just smut with questionable themes, the next it may be violent games.
    I don't want to live the Germany / Australia experience.
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  • From H1M3M@wipnoah@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Mon Aug 4 10:05:27 2025
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    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    And you're right; it's not a SERIOUS issue unless you are a major
    prude. Don't like the games? Don't install them.

    I suppose the issue is that while on Steam (I'm not that used to GOG)
    you can hide games from your library, they display on your public
    profile, and the option for hiding games from the profile and activity
    was not added until very recently. "Now you can buy all the porn games
    and play them without fear of being shamed by your steam friends".

    A true gamer would proudly display "Sex With Hitler VII: The
    fuhrerbunker of lust - second ball Update", though. Even the achievements.

    (Note: I invented that game, unless they have already made it. I haven't
    played an ero game since Knights of Xentar / Dragon Knight IV).

    I take more issue with the IMPLEMENTATION of the offer, where on the
    page it _looks_ as if you can pick and choose, but it's a false
    choice. GOG is infamous for these poor design choices, whether its
    their spam-like emails or this free offer or various other mis-steps
    they've made over the years. I don't think any of it is malicious
    but essentially forcing games people may not want into their library
    is not a good way to win good will. It also doesn't give people
    confidence in GOG's other decisions.

    Actually, this is not exclusive to GOG. I have had similar situations
    with Humble Bundles for Steam and Developer Bundles (like the eidos
    super pack) where attempting to remove one game from your steam library
    removes 20 games. So that's why I had to hide "Flora's Fruit Farm" or
    Sacred Citadel



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  • From Xocyll@Xocyll@gmx.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Mon Aug 4 06:32:41 2025
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    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
    say:


    In response to the recent de-listing of various adult games on Steam
    and Itch.io (due to pressure from credit cards and various "oh my gosh
    the children must be protected" advocacy groups), GOG is offering a
    selection of mature+ rated games for free on its platform.

    These include:
    - Postal 2
    - Agony (w/ Unrated edition)
    - Leap of Love
    - Being a DIK (season 1)
    - Leap of Faith
    - House Party
    - Hunie Pop
    - Lust Theory
    - Treasures of Nadia
    - Summer's Gone (season 1)
    - Fetish Locator (week 1)
    - Sapphire Safari
    - Helping the Hotties

    Available here: https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

    Grab the ones you want and skip the ones you don't; no judgements
    here. To quote the recently departed Tom Lehrer:

    Smut!
    Give me smut and nothing but!
    A dirty novel I can't shut,
    If it's uncut, ad unsubt- le.

    (bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards,
    neckties, Samplers, stained-glass windows, tattoos,
    anything! More, more, I'm still not satisfied!)

    You should have given a link, so those that don't know can experience
    the wonder of Tom Lehrer.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHDBL7dVgs

    Xocyll
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Mon Aug 4 08:57:09 2025
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    On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 10:05:27 +0200, H1M3M <wipnoah@gmail.com> wrote:

    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    And you're right; it's not a SERIOUS issue unless you are a major
    prude. Don't like the games? Don't install them.

    I suppose the issue is that while on Steam (I'm not that used to GOG)
    you can hide games from your library, they display on your public
    profile, and the option for hiding games from the profile and activity
    was not added until very recently. "Now you can buy all the porn games
    and play them without fear of being shamed by your steam friends".

    Steam actually allows you to permanently remove games from your
    library completely without customer service (click on a game, click
    "Support" option on the details page, select "I want to permanently
    remove this game from my account". Free or paid, once you do that the
    game's gone. I've used it for a few truly awful freebies that even I
    couldn't stand cluttering my library ;-)

    As mentioned, you can also hide games.

    As stated, it's not so much that I have the games in my GOG library
    that bothers me; it's the fact that GOG made it look like I had a
    choice but didn't really. Had they said, "hey, get this bundle and
    you'll get all the games", I still probably would have clicked it. But
    instead they made it look like people could just get the few games
    that they were actually interested in and then shoved the rest down
    their throats regardless... and then make it hard to get rid of the
    extras afterwards. It's a shitty move.

    Fortunately, you can at least hide the games in your GOG library.



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  • From H1M3M@wipnoah@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Aug 6 08:55:59 2025
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    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 10:05:27 +0200, H1M3M <wipnoah@gmail.com> wrote:

    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    Steam actually allows you to permanently remove games from your
    library completely without customer service (click on a game, click
    "Support" option on the details page, select "I want to permanently
    remove this game from my account". Free or paid, once you do that the
    game's gone. I've used it for a few truly awful freebies that even I
    couldn't stand cluttering my library ;-)

    Like I said, it does not work for bundles that share a single license
    for the entire bundle. In that case removing one game involves removing
    4 or even 15 games.
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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Aug 6 19:40:07 2025
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    Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 22:13 this Saturday (GMT):
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 8/2/2025 12:38 PM, Ant wrote:
    I only wanted Postal 2, so I had to get all!

    You just couldn't separate the porn from the mass murder!

    How come Postal 1 wasn't included?


    Maybe it was too violent? Who knows.




    I'm glad they gave us the only other game in the series (2), though.
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Aug 6 18:09:48 2025
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    On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 19:40:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
    Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 22:13 this Saturday (GMT):


    How come Postal 1 wasn't included?


    Maybe it was too violent? Who knows.
    I'm glad they gave us the only other game in the series (2), though.

    More likely because it was a licensing issue (although that's a
    guess). Both the original "Postal" and "Postal 2" were developed by
    the Running With Scissors team; however, the first game was published
    by Ripcord games. Postal 2, on the other hand, is currently fully
    owned by Running With Scissors. It's quite possible that it just
    wasn't worth the effort of navigating the licensing issue with the
    first game for a free-giveaway.

    But like I said, that's just guesswork. Honestly, I'm not sure what
    the current licensing status of the first game is.

    It's as possible that, well... the original "Postal" isn't a very good
    game. Even in 1997, it was pretty forgettable except for its core
    conceit: that you're a guy who runs amok and kills people for no good
    reason. It really wasn't any more violent or gory than many other
    contemporary games. In fact, I'd argue there were probably games even
    MORE violent than "Postal". But those games usually had you murdering
    on the side of angels (as it were); in games like "Doom" or "Crusader:
    No Remorse", you were the good guys and even if you blowing up people
    into bloody gibs, those people (or monsters) were unequivocally Bad
    Guys. "Postal" was notable mostly because you were killing ordinary
    folk.

    [I always consider "Postal 2" to be the more violent
    game anyway. It certainly was the /grosser/ game, since
    you could also pee on people, and shoved a cat on your
    gun-barrel to use it as a make-shift silencer (amongst
    other things]

    The original "Postal's" gameplay was rather humdrum; it was a top-down
    shooter (well, more isometric, I guess) with rather uninspired level
    design, poor AI and generally unexciting mechanics. I remember
    struggling to keep playing the game, not because it was particularly
    difficult, but because it got pretty boring after the initial "oh my
    god are they really doing this!?!?" of the first few levels. It's been
    years since I played it too, but I don't recall that it had
    particularly good controls either.

    So I don't think it's the violence that kept the original "Postal"
    from being included. In some ways, it feels almost tame in comparison
    to some of the over-the-top gore-fests available to us today. I think
    it just wasn't worth the effort... especially since the sequel is so
    much better known.

    (It probably doesn't help that it can serve as advertising for
    recently released "Postal 4" too... which is basically "Postal 2" but
    more so ;-)


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  • From Mark P. Nelson@markpnelson@sbcglobal.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Aug 7 15:48:29 2025
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    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote in news:ftj79kts8bb4u4ckpos72uot05n9uh9r29@4ax.com:

    How come Postal 1 wasn't included?

    They gave away the first Postal game ("Classic and Uncut") 4 years and a computer ago--I
    have it in my library. I installed and played it for a whole 2 minutes.

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  • From candycanearter07@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Mon Aug 11 19:50:05 2025
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    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 22:09 this Wednesday (GMT):
    [snip]
    So I don't think it's the violence that kept the original "Postal"
    from being included. In some ways, it feels almost tame in comparison
    to some of the over-the-top gore-fests available to us today. I think
    it just wasn't worth the effort... especially since the sequel is so
    much better known.

    Yeah, I guess it makes sense since P2 was the one that got all the
    controversy. Goes with the whole theme of the pack and all.

    (It probably doesn't help that it can serve as advertising for
    recently released "Postal 4" too... which is basically "Postal 2" but
    more so ;-)


    Oh, weird, they skipped 3. Oh well.
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Mon Aug 11 17:33:09 2025
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    On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:50:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 22:09 this Wednesday (GMT):
    [snip]
    So I don't think it's the violence that kept the original "Postal"
    from being included. In some ways, it feels almost tame in comparison
    to some of the over-the-top gore-fests available to us today. I think
    it just wasn't worth the effort... especially since the sequel is so
    much better known.

    Yeah, I guess it makes sense since P2 was the one that got all the >controversy. Goes with the whole theme of the pack and all.

    The original "Postal" got a lot of controversey too. It was one of the
    games that US Senator Lieberman pointed his finger at as corrupting
    the youth with its evil, pointless violence

    (and in that regard at least, it was a far more worthy target than
    "Night Trap"). IIRC, major chains like Walmart refused to stock it.
    Again, not so much because of the gore but because all the violence
    served no purpose except to be violent, which was apparently over the
    top for the pearl-clutchers.

    "Postal 2" only built upon the original's controversy. The fact that
    it was now first-person, featured Real People*, and had kinky sex
    stuff in it only made it a bigger target. Also, the developers played
    up the controversy to bolster sales. "We're the game your mom doesn't
    want you to play!" is a great way to target younger buyers. PC gaming
    and the Internet were a lot bigger too, which only increased the
    outrage. Sure "Postal 2" made a bigger splash, but it was mostly
    because the pool was so much larger.







    * assuming Gary Coleman was actually real. I'm not entirely sure
    that's true ;-)


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  • From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Wed Aug 13 21:30:10 2025
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    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
    ...
    * assuming Gary Coleman was actually real. I'm not entirely sure
    that's true ;-)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9oX-kZ_9k
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