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Friday Fun Thread for March 20, 2026

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Video-Game Thread
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This has been a good week for me for gaming.

  • Helldivers 2 is doing a new content release.
  • Darktide introduced a new game mode.
  • Ready or Not released a new expansion and a friend bought it, so I've been able to experience the content.

I'm always kind of impressed at just how cheap gaming can be compared to other forms of entertainment.

I'm always kind of impressed at just how cheap gaming can be compared to other forms of entertainment.

It's not just gaming, I could watch a lot of movies and shows for free on Tubi, or endless Youtube videos or live streams on Twitch. A single subscription gives you access to almost all of music. And there's a lot you could listen to for free online as well. And public libraries have been making reading essentially free for longer than any other media.

But yeah, even gaming now. There's pretty reasonably free to play gacha games. Competitive online games that can be played for free unless you desperately want cosmetics (DOTA2, Fortnite, Overwatch 2...). Epic Game Store has its weekly free games (most of the time it's unknown indie stuff, but around the holidays in January and December they give some pretty big ones; last holidays people got Hogwarts Legacy, Total War Three Kingdoms, Bloodstained, Disco Elysium...). If you already pay for Amazon Prime, you get free games on Epic Game Store, GOG and their own service Luna, and you get free streaming for some free games. You don't even really need gaming hardware anymore! There's Luna as I mentionned, but also Geforce Now lets you stream many games you own on PC games stores for free! So you can get a game for free on the Epic Game Store and then stream it for free on Geforce Now! Not every game, mind you, but I bet you could easily find games for every taste.

And that's just the free stuff, if you're willing to pay "a little" you get a lot! Ultimately, if you're able to resist FOMO, and aren't a Nintendo only/mostly gamer, you can spend very little and play a lot of games. Eventually, everything (except Nintendo games) ends up on deep sales.

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