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...or while watching a stream of someone else stuck in queue. Here's a bunch of free or cheap-as-free distractions that can be operated in windowed mode, so you can play while you play.
Game
Terraria
$9.99 for endless treasure hunting and giant bosses fun. Not Minecraft in 2D. Get it on steam and maybe we play together.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Free Roguelike. Best one I've played. Still actively being updated with new content and bugfixes. To change the window size:
+ Show Spoiler +Find tiles_options.txt in the settings folder and uncomment these three lines:
tile_full_screen = false
tile_window_width = 1024
tile_window_height = 768
set those two numbers to whatever you need
POWDER
#1 iPod app that can also be played on PC. Free. More simplistic than your Nethacks and a good entrance point to the wonderful world of Roguelikes.
Iji
If System Shock 2 was an indie platformer with moral choices. Sorta. Good game with a good soundtrack. Free.
Hero Core
8 bit Metroidvania or so I am told. Free.
Dwarf Fortress
It's a popular one.
I hear Frozen Synapse is pretty good for this sort of thing too but I haven't played it.
Music
jiji's Last.fm account
I dunno what else I'd put here but people like jiji's music. I do not think Bob uses Last.fm. You could an account and start finding music of your own.
Video
Here is some BEAST WARS for you to watch
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
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I usually just browse TL and make random comments on people's threads.
Games I play:
Osu!
Stepmania
Touhou (Mostly the fighting games though, but I do enjoy the shooters)
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if you're going to advertise roguelikes, what about nethack + angband, the kings.
In fact, soon you'll be dodging queues to try and get Dat Amulet.
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Crawl is like Nethack except good. Nethack is far too broken to be enjoyable imo.
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On June 08 2011 15:49 crate wrote:
Crawl is like Nethack except good. Nethack is far too broken to be enjoyable imo.
No D:
Nethack is very good, just it has a high entry barrier
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On June 08 2011 16:09 Abenson wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 15:49 crate wrote:
Crawl is like Nethack except good. Nethack is far too broken to be enjoyable imo. No D: Nethack is very good, just it has a high entry barrier
It's broken.
You get a magic word that makes you effectively invulnerable against almost anything that's not an @. In addition your god gives you a get-out-of-jail-free card in prayer. You are encouraged to do grindy things like credit cloning and you are discouraged from ever actually use-identifying anything. By the time your pet stops being stronger than everything you run into you're already past the otherwise-most-difficult part of the game! Once you get to the Castle and grab the wand you're basically invincible (unless you wish for dumb stuff) except that you can still succumb to any of the numerous instadeaths available (I've only ever lost one game post-Castle, and that was by being really dumb and taking off my gloves) ... but you still have to slog through another twenty-plus floors that are expressly designed to be as un-threatening (no more than two enemies can possibly attack you at one time in most spots) and time-consuming as possible.
I mean, Nethack still isn't easy, but the difficulty is there for all the wrong reasons and way, way too frontloaded.
Adding to this, yes, Nethack seems to be purposely obtuse unless you seek spoilers.
Sporkhack fixes a lot of the problems (or it did when I quit playing Nethack and its variants, I've not kept up with Spork dev since) but in the end it's still Nethack.
Crawl has none of the problems above. It's certainly not perfect but it has a very similar feel to Nethack except that the dungeon is larger and the interface much smoother and it's much less broken. It is admittedly far more difficult ... but that's probably because you can't just engrave a word whenever anything threatening shows up and be perfectly safe and monsters are actually powerful enough to kill you one-on-one even from full HP if you pick a bad fight (basically never happens in Nethack).
The one thing Nethack almost got very right is the ascension run, which is very cool. Unfortunately vanilla has the mysterious force which needlessly and uninterestingly extends the run, and none of the monsters you encounter except on Air and Astral are dangerous in the least by that time. Spork definitely did a great job here because monsters in general aren't quite as harmless (though you're still basically invincible if you want to be by the endgame) and it replaces the mysterious force with summoning monsters instead. Crawl's post-Orb run is mediocre at best.
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You can't forget ADOM for roguelikes! I like the feel of it better, what with being able to walk around the wilderness and having multiple dungeons. I also think it's not quite as hard to get started as Crawl or Nethack (although that isn't saying much), but maybe it's because I've played it more.
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Yeah I love Slash'EM/Nethack but I really only bother with Crawl while I'm at home and POWDER when I'm elsewhere.
On June 08 2011 14:14 HazMat wrote:
You and your terraria.
like you would know, you never sent me your steam info >:|
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On June 08 2011 22:05 myopia wrote:Yeah I love Slash'EM/Nethack but I really only bother with Crawl while I'm at home and POWDER when I'm elsewhere. like you would know, you never sent me your steam info >:|
Add me! I'm unixchan.
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whoever plays this please add me, bly08
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Oh god. DC:SS is a bit rough to learn, but will eat up so much of your time once you have it down.
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I like to have streams up on a second monitor and play Gemcraft Labyrinth on the main monitor. It's a tower defense with a pretty amazing amount of levels and depth for something free. There is a premium upgrade but it mostly just adds a few challenge modes.
http://armorgames.com/play/10317/gemcraft-labyrinth
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If you're running Chrome, you can play Angry Birds on your browser and other cool games.
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Or, you know, watch some SC games.
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Bearded Elder29904 Posts
Bloodline champions where You're in Queue, no problems.
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here's an in browser, tile based version of stone soup. https://tiles.crawl.develz.org/#lobby
from the something awful thread: "Use Chrome or Firefox, if Firefox, you must set network.websocket.override-security-block to true.
Must have a CDO account."
Dunno what that stuff means.
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fukung.net
Me and the guys I play with just search through the site and link the funny ones to each other. I also like watching the streams on solomid.net
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On June 09 2011 06:40 MobutuTheWindSeeker wrote:here's an in browser, tile based version of stone soup. https://tiles.crawl.develz.org/#lobbyfrom the something awful thread: "Use Chrome or Firefox, if Firefox, you must set network.websocket.override-security-block to true. Must have a CDO account." Dunno what that stuff means.
CDO account means you need an account on crawl.develz.org (one of the two main online servers that runs Crawl). The rest of it is just telling your browser to enable Websockets so you can play. It should work in Opera as well, but again you need to enable Websockets manually.
If you want to play in ASCII online you can do that on either CDO or crawl.akrasiac.org (CAO). For a time I had the highest-scoring MuVM on CAO, dying to an azure jelly in the slime pits because Crawl never ceases to amaze me with just how much damage everything can deal to you in one turn (of course that score has long since been surpassed, since this was back in 0.4.5 or something). Any telnet/SSH client works (I use PuTTY when I decide to play online, though I typically play locally).
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I've tried the browser based crawl, the input delay drives me nuts.
thanks for the catch bro
On June 08 2011 23:58 unichan wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 22:05 myopia wrote:Yeah I love Slash'EM/Nethack but I really only bother with Crawl while I'm at home and POWDER when I'm elsewhere. On June 08 2011 14:14 HazMat wrote:
You and your terraria. like you would know, you never sent me your steam info >:| Add me! I'm unixchan.
steam says unixchan doesn't exist
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ok so I just started on a map with a werewolf.
RIGHT NEXT to my caravan.
I managed to build a 5x5 wall around my caravan while the werewolf killed my dogs. I then tunneled down to safety. Crisis averted!
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On June 09 2011 08:12 myopia wrote:
I've tried the browser based crawl, the input delay drives me nuts.
Well CDO is somewhere in Europe IIRC, so yeah, you're getting NA -> EU ping on every input (and back, since you usually want to see what happens before you give another command) since tiles play is CDO-only. CAO is somewhere on the eastern US. I get ~200 ms ping to CDO and 100 ms to CAO from Arizona.
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On June 09 2011 08:12 myopia wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2011 23:58 unichan wrote:On June 08 2011 22:05 myopia wrote:Yeah I love Slash'EM/Nethack but I really only bother with Crawl while I'm at home and POWDER when I'm elsewhere. On June 08 2011 14:14 HazMat wrote:
You and your terraria. like you would know, you never sent me your steam info >:| Add me! I'm unixchan. steam says unixchan doesn't exist
t_t
I would add you but I can't add people because I have not bought gamez yet.
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On June 09 2011 09:21 unichan wrote:Show nested quote +On June 09 2011 08:12 myopia wrote:On June 08 2011 23:58 unichan wrote:On June 08 2011 22:05 myopia wrote:Yeah I love Slash'EM/Nethack but I really only bother with Crawl while I'm at home and POWDER when I'm elsewhere. On June 08 2011 14:14 HazMat wrote:
You and your terraria. like you would know, you never sent me your steam info >:| Add me! I'm unixchan. steam says unixchan doesn't exist t_t I would add you but I can't add people because I have not bought gamez yet.
do you really have to buy a game before you can add people? I don't remember. You could try downloading a free game (like Alien Swarm).
Or you could get Terraria #1 game always fun never boring.
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On June 09 2011 09:35 myopia wrote:Show nested quote +On June 09 2011 09:21 unichan wrote:On June 09 2011 08:12 myopia wrote:On June 08 2011 23:58 unichan wrote:On June 08 2011 22:05 myopia wrote:Yeah I love Slash'EM/Nethack but I really only bother with Crawl while I'm at home and POWDER when I'm elsewhere. On June 08 2011 14:14 HazMat wrote:
You and your terraria. like you would know, you never sent me your steam info >:| Add me! I'm unixchan. steam says unixchan doesn't exist t_t I would add you but I can't add people because I have not bought gamez yet. do you really have to buy a game before you can add people? I don't remember. You could try downloading a free game (like Alien Swarm). Or you could get Terraria #1 game always fun never boring.
I did get free games, they don't count QQ
I COULD get terraria, but I am #1 12 year old with no credit card, paypal, or moniez so I'm going to have to find someone else I can give cash to so they can buy it for me.
And then you'd be the only person I know who plays it, lol =(
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Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
No one has mentioned Osu yet? This game is loads of fun and great for keeping the mouse accuracy and apm high while you wait.
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Add me on steam and tetris friends, Two_DoWn on both.
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TIL:
1) Milo is #1 imba in tetrisfriends
2) I terrored twodown~
3) Milo is fucking imba. Bursts me down so quick needs nerf ASAP man wtf
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You did no such thing. Only one who terrored me was milo. But milo is more op than vayne.
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Ok that's not fair. I don't know what they were thinking when they released milo. Giving him that burst damage coupled with his amazing survivability and tankiness... even when all 5 of us are focusing him down he is undeterred, dishing out constant damage and fucking us up real hard. He is immune to CC also, just ignores it like waw
BUT IN REAL 1V1 I TERROR U NP
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Apparently Milo is an op version of olaf.
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need milo nerf next patch
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milo is unbalanceable
try to nerf? still op
try to nerf again? still op
think he's been nerfed so hard he HAS to be unplayable now?
STILL
O
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queue is never that long for me, so i usually just cut my nails or grab a drink of water or use the restroom
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Desktop Dungeons is a 10-minute puzzle game disguised as a roguelike. It's super addictive, and only takes you a few minutes for each playthrough.
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welp I've run out of Beast Wars again, why isn't Reboot on YouTube 
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On June 10 2011 09:49 myopia wrote:welp I've run out of Beast Wars again, why isn't Reboot on YouTube
I could've sworn it was....watched the whole series last year or something...
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Neopets still exists?
Oh my god I played that when it was brand new like... 10+ years ago lol
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Unichan probably wasn't alive when Neopets came out.
Oh yeah, you guys should learn to play riichi mahjong.
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me and neopets were born on the same day
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On June 13 2011 06:34 NeoIllusions wrote:
Travian...
>_>
You still play that........? After everything they've done to utterly fuck over actually good players? lol
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United States37500 Posts
On June 13 2011 06:35 BlackPaladin wrote:You still play that........? After everything they've done to utterly fuck over actually good players? lol
I'm cheap, don't plan on buying anything. ;o
But yeah, I'm on s7.
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lol I remember s7. First server I was a MH on. I banned like half of some brazilian alliance for cheating and most of them admitted to it and ragequit lol. But they nerfed raiding and a buffed not dying for noobs so it's retarded. Like it's not even worth it to me anymore to play.
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is awesome32278 Posts
On June 13 2011 08:13 NeoIllusions wrote:Show nested quote +On June 13 2011 06:35 BlackPaladin wrote:On June 13 2011 06:34 NeoIllusions wrote:
Travian...
>_> You still play that........? After everything they've done to utterly fuck over actually good players? lol I'm cheap, don't plan on buying anything. ;o But yeah, I'm on s7.
lol what?!?!! still playing?
Did they change anything else in the game? I stopped at T3.5
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Valhalla18444 Posts
take it to the general forum. people know how to use the internet
a thread with ways to kill time on the internet isn't really LoL specific
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