• FREE GAME: House Flipper

    From Spalls Hurgenson@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, April 04, 2026 11:19:35

    Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!


    * House Flipper
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/
    Ultimately, this is another workplace-sim; take on the
    role of somebody who buys distressed properties, fixes them
    up, then sells them for profit. Janky as most other games
    in the genre (and sort of tedious in the initial stages),
    there is a certain joy of furnishing these houses to your
    liking (sort of like in "The Sims"). But it's not really
    the sort of game that keeps me engaged for very long.


    Anyway, it's free to claim until Monday. Get it before then and it's
    yours to keep forever; after that, you'll have to spend cash.



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  • From phoenix@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, April 04, 2026 10:54:54
    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!


    * House Flipper
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/
    Ultimately, this is another workplace-sim; take on the
    role of somebody who buys distressed properties, fixes them
    up, then sells them for profit. Janky as most other games
    in the genre (and sort of tedious in the initial stages),
    there is a certain joy of furnishing these houses to your
    liking (sort of like in "The Sims"). But it's not really
    the sort of game that keeps me engaged for very long.


    Anyway, it's free to claim until Monday. Get it before then and it's
    yours to keep forever; after that, you'll have to spend cash.


    I'd prefer they made a game called House Squatter, where you play a gang member/undercover cop/ex-marine who goes into people's homes after his girlfriend befriends them like a hooker, and he slowly takes over the
    house, pushing the lawful owner out, drawing graffiti all over the walls
    and running the heat at top level with all the doors thrown wide like a
    wild Hell's Angels party. That's what I used to think House Flipping
    referred to, like flipping the lawful owner out and making it yours for
    your gang of hoodlums. Who wants to play a game about rerunning sink
    pipes and electrical wires? This would be more fun. It could include top
    notch graffiti totally intricate on the walls next to the in room sauna
    and master bedroom with designer silk sheets.

    --
    Pharaoh was so pleased with Hadad that he gave him a
    sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes, in marriage.
    The sister of Tahpenes bore him a son named Genubath,
    whom Tahpenes brought up in the royal palace. There
    Genubath lived with Pharaoh?s own children.

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  • From PW@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, April 04, 2026 19:36:20
    On Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:19:35 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:


    Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!


    * House Flipper
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/
    Ultimately, this is another workplace-sim; take on the
    role of somebody who buys distressed properties, fixes them
    up, then sells them for profit. Janky as most other games
    in the genre (and sort of tedious in the initial stages),
    there is a certain joy of furnishing these houses to your
    liking (sort of like in "The Sims"). But it's not really
    the sort of game that keeps me engaged for very long.


    Anyway, it's free to claim until Monday. Get it before then and it's
    yours to keep forever; after that, you'll have to spend cash.


    *---

    Added to the number! Is that how I say it? :-)

    -pw

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  • From Xocyll@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, April 05, 2026 12:14:51
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
    say:


    Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!


    * House Flipper

    I read that title and briefly wondered exactly how one keeps a dolphin
    in a house.

    Xocyll
    --
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    a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
    Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, April 05, 2026 14:09:41
    On Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:14:51 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> said this
    thing:
    Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the >entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
    say:


    * House Flipper


    I read that title and briefly wondered exactly how one keeps a dolphin
    in a house.


    Lots of free fish and a promise not to follow-up on any rape-charges?
    (dolphins can get extremely aggressive when aroused... and aren't that
    picky about the species of their partners ;-)

    I vaguely seem to recall somebody built a house that had a pool with
    access to the ocean so that dolphins could come visit. Or maybe it was
    just a concept of a house? I really don't remember any details.
    Forgetting the problem of horny dolphins, I'd still worry about mold
    growth and salt-water corrision. Although that probably says a lot
    about the excessive practicality of my particular mind-set, ;-)



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  • From Justisaur@3:633/10 to All on Monday, April 06, 2026 09:18:15
    On 4/4/2026 8:19 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!


    * House Flipper
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/
    Ultimately, this is another workplace-sim; take on the
    role of somebody who buys distressed properties, fixes them
    up, then sells them for profit. Janky as most other games
    in the genre (and sort of tedious in the initial stages),
    there is a certain joy of furnishing these houses to your
    liking (sort of like in "The Sims"). But it's not really
    the sort of game that keeps me engaged for very long.

    I already am very stressed about my own house's needed repairs, last
    thing I want is to do it in a game.


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  • From candycanearter07@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, April 09, 2026 15:00:04
    Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> wrote at 16:18 this Monday (GMT):
    On 4/4/2026 8:19 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!


    * House Flipper
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/
    Ultimately, this is another workplace-sim; take on the
    role of somebody who buys distressed properties, fixes them
    up, then sells them for profit. Janky as most other games
    in the genre (and sort of tedious in the initial stages),
    there is a certain joy of furnishing these houses to your
    liking (sort of like in "The Sims"). But it's not really
    the sort of game that keeps me engaged for very long.

    I already am very stressed about my own house's needed repairs, last
    thing I want is to do it in a game.


    Maybe its like exposure therapy then?
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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