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I can think of people who I feel deserve that much pain, but I am not so cruel as to wish it upon them.

While spending mid-Dec to mid-Feb in-and-out of an hospital with a recurring bout of acute pancreatitis* an ad pointed me at blockdoku. It's a time-waster puzzle game offspring of tetris and sudoku. It's also the first phone "What the heck, why not? " free-with-ads game to keep my interest long...

*nethack player inneffectually rages at the save scummer* Sounds like you've got an interesting game going. I hope you succeed in blowing up a galaxy. I fired up SimCity 4 for the first time in forever last week. I used "save, copy, and import" to fill out a rather large new region with...

From the second vid it basically looks like Age of Empires II with better graphics and a larger population cap. That was released before Y2K.

The first Exalted session went well. Princess' character convinced The Perfect - through an intermediary - to sponsor a Martial Arts tournament for mortals with a one season entry period where the winner, runner-up, third place, and their sifus get a banquet hosted by The Perfect as the prize...

Starting an Exalted game for my wife and daughters tomorrow ... They're playing a trio 250xp exalts (a Solar, a Lunar, and a DB) hell bent on taking down The Perfect of Paragon (their idea, not mine). If they go in "Animas Flaring" they will fail. Princess has munchkined her character (the...

The last Civ game I played was FreeCiv. Princess almost called off our wedding because of that.

I'm playing another game of nethack. This time, it's a lawful monk and it's very early. Monks start with +2 gloves, a +1 robe, a spellbook (I got sleep), 3 potions of healing, one random scroll (earth, this time), a decent amount of food, and a chance of a magic marker or oil lamp (didn't get...

My wife and I just finished our game of 5th Fleet (I have a TTG thread which got split off from this one). Next up: Third Reich. Our daughters have the Allies. My wife has Germany. I have Italy.

Not the kind of game that I'd usually play, but it does look interesting. In the ones I play combat is a die roll which doesn't determine who won but instead informs both sides of the casualties. EDIT: In the game I'm playing against Princess (my wife) the Union is going to lose an entire...

My wife and I just started a game of Across Five Aprils. It's an old Avalon Hill boardgame covering the US Civil War. Opening setup is complete ... with a twist. We're using the randomized generals variant including the ones you start with. Generals have 1, 2, or 3 stars (4 max in the case of...

My youngest daughter just topped an "almost weaponless Samurai" when she tried Nethack. She picked Tourist and used thrown darts and a Hawaiian shirt instead of the yumi, katana, wakizashi, and heavy armour a Samurai gets. Lucille's ascention run took only about 700 turns. She looked up the...

I decided to break out this oldie (we've got v1.2 on 3.5" floppy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Bucks You start in 1946 with $100,000, a DC-3, landing rights at one airport (Miami by default), and a goal: manage an airline for 40yrs without going bankrupt. It's not as easy as it sounds...

It's a board game, not a video game: Tactics II. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1574/tactics-ii The game is older than my mom. Dad got it when he was a kid.