Caves of Qud runs great on my phone through GameNative and has solid controller support. I added an extra LT button to cycle stuff with LT+d-pad. I Highly recommend it if you like traditional roguelikes.

I don’t mind superhero movies, but I don’t see the need to slog through another formulaic cash grab.

Also, birds are warm-blooded reptiles.

The edited one still looks like a polished turd.

From the wiki:

By late 1995, Doom was estimated to be installed on more computers worldwide than Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 95. According to Wilbur, by June 1996 it had been downloaded 20 million times. According to PC Data, by April 1998 Doom’s shareware edition had yielded 1.36 million units sold and US$8.74 million in revenue in the United States. This led PC Data to declare it the country’s 4th-best-selling computer game since 1993.

Lots of people still didn’t have good Internet access in the 90s, so shareware was often sold for cheap in software stores— especially Doom.

I took the kids to see this one. It was fantastic: good music and a compelling take on the Orpheus and Eurodice myth. Patrick Page has an amazing bass voice, and Amber Gray stole the show as Persephone.

Oh, it looks like the PlayStation port of Underworld works with a controller. I may actually give that a go! I tried the GOG version, but I couldn’t get used to the controls. I did play it back when it was released, but didn’t get too far. Thanks for the rec!

Thanks for the link!

Have you played this one? I’ve read that it isn’t feature complete, but they might have been talking about a previous version. They were specifically referring to NPCs not following a schedule like the original engine.

Oh, and last week I watched Furiosa, Fury Road, and The Road Warrior back-to-back over three days. What a spectacular set of movies.

I watched The Hot Rock, a heist movie from the early 70s starring Robert Redford and Zero Mostel by the same screen writer as The Princess Bride.

A criminally (ha) underrated caper; only one plot point didn’t age well, but fortunately it was only immersion-breaking and not skeevy. Highly recommended.

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The first game’s scroll prompt is off from how the later ones did it. I couldn’t get past the first stage until I figured out that you have to hit the button on the beat before the icon goes over the prompt instead on on it. The game was actually possible once I knew that.

My kid got huge into this series for a while. It really seems like they nailed the first modern rhythm game series.

Of all the soulless live-action remakes, this one seems to be the most pointless.

The trailers looked mediocre, but everyone says it’s great. I’ll have to give it a watch.

I really need to see this one. I’ve heard it’s great.

Smokin’ Aces was so bad that I can’t believe I sat through the whole thing. It looked like it would be a fun heist/fiasco movie, but it was incredibly dull without any likeable characters.

I rewatched The Great Escape, I haven’t seen it in forever.

Still one of the best heist movies of all time. The only shame is that they had to make so many of the main characters Americans to get the thing made.

There goes my suggestion then!

I tend to run shorter campaigns of about 20 sessions or so. We change games all the time, but it definitely isn’t for everyone.

I will say that the combat is a big reason that I don’t run D&D; not that it’s bad but my brain just doesn’t work well with it, and I prefer a more improvisational kind of style.

I hope you find something that works for you; good on you for finding a way to value your players’ time.