Found the sweetest little game: Wytchwood. Toddle along with a bucket on your head, catch fairies with a fly swatter (and get fairy dust), make potions and salves and solve puzzles along the way. All very Christmasy stuff! Mind the frog slime now.

Looks very cute!

That looks like such a cool little game!

It is! High definitions graphics, too. Very enjoyable!

Pokemon Violet---it finally got me.

I'm mainly playing four-suites Spider-Solitaire online at the moment. However, I did recently drive a Train Simulator stopping-passenger-service on WCML_South, a route purchased during Steam's Winter Sale, as documented in this link.

ADDENDUM: I made an unexpected gaming purchase earlier today. Visiting steam, I was surprised to see some Train Simulator DLC still on sale. Amongst them is the British route GEML London Ipwich, marked down to $1.99US! It's an older route, showing its age with some no longer state-of-the-art assets. Still, it provides a seventy-mile mainline on a railway I don't otherwise own in my TSC collection, other than one small freeware route that covers only a few miles of track. At the moment, I have only one Great Eastern Railway steam locomotive, the 2-4-0 GER T26. Still, it's nice to have one full-length route appropriate for that loco. I'm already partway through my first drive along the route, and enjoy it thus far.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jan 10 2023, 08:11 PM

Another new Train Simulator DLC for me, this one providing a 70-mile mainline for only $1.99US! Between yesterday and today I devoted maybe four hours to driving the length of it with one of my favorite steam locos. (links) Here's documentation of the beginning of my drive. (link)

I am back to playing Dragon's Dogma. I prefer the original version rather than the "Dark Arisen" DLC. The original is well dark enough for my taste... So I dug out an Xbox360 CD, put it in... and found that Xbox would not let me log in and the game would not play. Eventually I found the cause listed on xbox.com: service unavailable. Did Microsoft just kick us all off?!

But never fear: there is a work-around. Make a local account on the Xbox, log in and do not link it to any on-line MS account. Put in your disk and the game will play in off-line mode. Old games did not require internet access yet.

Of course it only works for things you have on CD. Any downloads are hereby forfeit. Never mind, we have disks for every game we own.

Anyway, back in Gransys Lena Wolf just got her heart ripped out by the naughty dragon. She got her myrmidons and is trying to remember how the game worked... She got the same myrmidon as always before - Scorpio is back. It is her main companion, a character you create from scratch, and I still remember what he looked like. Especially since I've been working on a mod to bring him to Oblivion, of course. Hence the urge to return to the original game.

Today was a busy day. We killed a cyclops and chopped off a hydra's head. Then we got eliminated by a bunch of spear-wielding alligators... Did I mention it was dark enough for my taste?

Star Wars: Rebellion


Today I progressed quickly through Fakir sector with my Main Fleet. It was enough to rid the planets of rebel troops to get them on my side. Meanwhile I was heavily attacked in Sesswenna sector where I lost planet after planet to assaults and I even lost the defensive fleet I had in place. All this forced (hehe) me to pull my Main Fleet from Fakir sector to come and set things straight in Sesswenna. After it had destroyed the rebel fleet it remained there until a new fleet was in place to defend Sesswenna whereupon it returned to Fakir to better establish a foothold in that sector.


Only one core sector left now and then it's off to find the hidden rebel base!

Playing Elden Ring on the XBox Series S and I'm trying out a magic class...and turning them into a spellsword.

Star Wars: Rebellion


Much happenings today! I was planning to take it slow but since the rebels came down on me pretty hard all over the place I had to act swiftly and claim the last sector of the core; Sluis. It was easy as all I had to do was once again get rid of the rebel troops and the planets swayed automatically to my side. No need for assaults and diplomacy missions.

I lost another fleet due to the rebels attacking with a bigger fleet and so I had to build more of the upgraded Star Destroyer, some Interdictors and an unspecified amount of TIE Defenders. I also managed to get enough resources to build no less than two additional Super Star Destroyers, landing a total of twelve in my Main Fleet and a total of 144 squadrons of TIE Defenders.

With all the sectors' defense fleets rebuilt and all core sectors claimed, I sent my Main Fleet to the Outer Rim to hunt for the rebel base. Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa and senator Mon Mothma are all captives at Coruscant which is completely impenetrable with 354 squadrons of TIE Fighters and 48 squadrons of Defenders guarding it, along with a number of Star Destroyers.


That base is all I need to find now.

Still playing Elden Ring, I love this game and I hate this game! Yet I can't stop playing it T_T .

Goldeneye 007 on the Nintendo Switch!!! I’ve missed this game so much!

It's also on the Xbox Series X/S and in my opinion controls better.

The Switch controls also allow for you to set it up like a modern FPS, but you have to do a little extra work to get it right. I took the time to do it and it works very well! I just wish the aim sensitivity could be adjusted. It’s a little spastic.

The other solution is to hunt down the N64 controller for the Switch.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=n64+controller+s...s_ts-doa-p_3_15

https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Controller-...1B7N3&psc=1

This post has been edited by Dark Reaper: Jan 29 2023, 12:22 AM

Lol, I don’t think I could play the game with the original controls. I probably could, but I feel it would take a good while to get reaccustomed to them.

Game number 26000 of Windows Chess Titans lvl 3.

Managed to play a round of chess yesterday without using FIVE pawns! I can often do it without using three and four has been my personal best so far. But yeah, yesterday I broke that record!

Been playing lots of online 4-suit Spider Solitaire. As always, far more losses than wins. The last game played was the kind I enjoy most. It seemed irredeemably lost several "deals" before the official end. Yet I somehow managed to pull off a victory, despite many instances where one bad reveal would mean defeat. The outcome remained in doubt far past the point when I normally know I'm going to win.