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Friday Fun Thread for January 23, 2026

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Video game thread! What you playing?

I'm back on Terraria. Amazing game, perhaps one of my most played of all time. The new update is coming out on 1/27 which should be fun. Also decided to try the Thorium mod which has been good.

Tried to play Bloons TD but alas no controller support. You'd think with AI and such it would be easy to put controller support on big games but....

I’m playing the new remake of the original System Shock in VR using my Quest 3. It really enhances the vibe it’s going for.

My brother has harangued me into finally reinstalling helldivers 2 after yesterday's patch.

It's still a comically broken pile of spaghetti code that's holding together with nothing but a hope and a prayer, and it's clear that the developers still revile their player base, but in spite of all that it's still fun.

Kids are playing luanti (an open source clone of Minecraft). They love it, and it saved me $200 on 6 licenses and their friends can also come over and play.

I'm sure they would have actually enjoyed Terraria more (because 2d easier than 3d) if it weren't for the Minecraft Movie and all their friends playing Minecraft.

After a discussion with work colleagues about old games that hang around, I fired up EVE Online for the first time in about 15 years. I remember trying it briefly, finding it far too dull, and moving on. But coming back to it now at a different point in my life, it definitely hits differently. It looks nice and it has a variety of progression options, but it also doesn't demand twitch reflexes and fast reaction. You can choose to do things that take time but not much attention, or things that require attention and go faster. I'm certain I've slowed down considerably and it matches my pace a little more. I think I might stick with it for a little bit

Oh man I have been winning at EVE for a couple of years. The last time I played it was a challenge to not use the market at all, except to buy skills and blue prints from NPCs. It was so slow, but quite fun as a survival style game!

Still chugging along with my sorry little merc company in Battletech (roguetech mod). It's survived almost a year I think, lost a few vehicles and a few pilots, but picked up a couple of medium mechs which both do more damage and take more spunishment at the cost of speed.

The company has enough money to pay for the next month at the end of each month which is a lot better than before! The captain doesn't have to worry quite as hard about making ends meet each month, but there's little extra (most of the early game is spent upgrading your ship to improve travel speed, morale, and unlock better options in the random events that pop up) that and repair costs (roguetech requires paying for armor replacement when you take damage each battle so generally you make a small amount of cash and the money comes from loot you pick up and sell) if you limp home after a tough fight sometimes you lose money after your pay and have to sell stuff to break even. Those are rough!

Best thing is the MechWarriors are getting skills and mostly not dying which makes everything a little better, slowly.

Still on XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. I have killed 2 out of 3 Chosen. Once I finish this playthrough, I am seriously considering playing the base game on Commander difficulty with Ironman enabled. Help, I've relapsed into my XCOM addiction.

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