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    Let's Play--Nominate and Vote...(Experimental)

    Angband is free and open source, yes. It can be played in a browser at https://angband.live, where you also have a chat with other people playing so you can ask questions and, well, do the thing this thread was made for. There are a quite a few games available for free, especially if you count...
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    Happy New Year! General Game Discussion--January 2026

    I tried to continue my StoneBlock 4 Minecraft modpack today instead of just playing more FrogComposband, but I couldn't get into it. I didn't remember what I was doing last and I didn't care enough to pick something else to work on. Which is how it usually goes with games for me. I'll find...
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    Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

    I once had to bike home in a snow storm. One part of my route was on a bridge next to the highway, with sound barriers on both sides of the bike path for part of it. Those sound barriers made a wind tunnel that day which was almost impossible to get through, with my bike almost being blown out...
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    Let's Play--Nominate and Vote...(Experimental)

    We tried this once with DOS games, but that didn't really take off. It wouldn't hurt to try again though. Do you have any suggestions for us to start with? I have a bunch of games I've been meaning to play, but I'll need to be at my PC to get the full list.
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    The book discussion thread

    I finally finished Dune Messiah, the second book in the Dune series. While the movies follow the books pretty well, the books focus much more on the scheming and politics, with a whole host of characters all with their own agendas. It also shows how well trained the elite are in how to...
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    Happy New Year! General Game Discussion--January 2026

    Smeagol cast me aside and could not be convinced to change his mind. Heartbroken by this betrayal, I slew him in a moment of anger... then sold his body to the Bounty Office for a couple of speed potions, which I threw on the pile in my home. I'm now being carrier by "Pip, the Braver from...
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    Creating a LAN environment for people all around the world (not just in your living room)...

    That reminds me of Hamachi and Tunngle, which I used to use for the same thing. Tunngle even had its own lobby/server lists, kind of like GameRanger.
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    Your Game Videos 2026

    https://planet-crafter.fandom.com/wiki/Power#Nuclear_Fusion_Generator
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    Do you play good guy bad guy

    I struggle to finish even one run of most games. In that one run, I do typically try to be good, though some games make that very tedious. There are a couple of games where I started an evil run after completing the good run, but it usually doesn't change the game enough to warrant playing...
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    Happy New Year! General Game Discussion--January 2026

    Nevermind, I messed up again. I didn't think I would need to use a healing potion because I was kiting the enemies, but I got taken out by a dragon I couldn't even see breathing ice from behind a tree. I should've just used the potion. New Ring character is currently using Smeagol as its mount...
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    Which game has the best intrigue mechanics?

    Shadows of Forbidden Gods supposedly does this really well, but I had no idea what I was supposed to do even after I went through the tutorial.
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    Your Game Videos 2026

    Power in The Planet Crafter is just a global resource, meaning generators don't need to be connected or close to machines that use power.
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    The PC Gamer Quiz (Ongoing)

    https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/only-diehard-xcom-fans-will-have-a-chance-at-beating-our-latest-quiz/?quiz=Oz9NNW 7/10. I used to use cheats quite liberally as a kid.
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    The PC Gamer Quiz (Ongoing)

    https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/only-diehard-xcom-fans-will-have-a-chance-at-beating-our-latest-quiz/ I got 12/23. I didn't know any of them for certain, but it's better than random guesses.
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    Happy New Year! General Game Discussion--January 2026

    I'm still not in a mood to pick up and learn a new game and all of the games I was playing are on the new PC, which my wife has been using to gear up for the launch of World of Warcraft: Midnight. So more FrogComposband it is. As the ring race you learn new spells from the magical rings/amulets...