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PaperclipPerfector  19hr ago (text post)   896 thread views

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....

Trails Beyond the Horizon. For those not familiar with the Trails series (wouldn't blame you), it's a series of JRPGs by Falcom. They are pretty traditional turn based JRPG fare (though the newer entries have action battles much to my chagrin), where all the entries are part of a single overarching story. Horizon is the newest one (released last week), and is the 13th entry in the series. It's been fun so far, though I pretty much knew what I was getting when I signed up.

Also have been replaying The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles on switch, whenever I get kicked out of my PC room. I just got the itch to play AA, and I have only played those once so it was a good candidate.

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