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Friday Fun Thread for January 9, 2026

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Video game thread! What did you get over the holidays, what are you playing?

Having a blast playing Skyrim modded. Been playing a lot and also just looking through modlists. This is one area I've found AI to be extremely fun and useful to work with, which has been rare for me lately.

Finally got around to repairing and modding a japanese new 3ds ll! Took a little wrestling with google translate to get through the menus (I was too stupid to realize I could just... mirror most of the steps on my English one that I didn't want to mod) but overall pretty easy. Felt very nostalgic to crank up a new save of Pokemon Ultra Sun, but now with the ability to mod the save file directly and make my Rowlet shiny.

Also downloaded more games to it than i'll play in the next 10 years. After Sun, probably one of the Fire Emblem Games?

Also bought the Final Fantasy 1-6 (iirc?) collection cartridge for switch when it was on sale. Also on the "get around to it eventually" list.

Any favorite mod recommendations? Been thinking about getting a computer just powerful enough for modded Skyrim.

I’m using the immersive and pure mod list from nexus and enjoying it. Legacy of the Dragonborn is included which is a super awesome mod that lets you put unique weapons armor items etc in display in a museum, adds auto sorting stuff, and a lot of quests.

And that’s just one of like ~300 mods! It includes clockwork too. I like it.

It’s a blast so far.

adds auto sorting stuff

That's what I've been missing on console :( Godmode and a sorting mod!

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