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Bring forth crack in digital form.

My favorite ones are the simplest:

Slime Volleyball (http://oneslime.net/)
Falling Sand (http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/)
Paint Ball (http://www.armorgames.com/games/paintballthegame_popup.html)
Tetka (http://www.thewiccabox.co.uk/tetka.htm)

I've been hooked on ADOM (www.adom.de) for a few years. Sometimes I give it a rest for several months, and then I get right back into it and don't sleep for a week. It's a drug. :(

Bring forth crack in digital form.

My favorite ones are the simplest:

Slime Volleyball (http://oneslime.net/)
Falling Sand (http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/)
Paint Ball (http://www.armorgames.com/games/paintballthegame_popup.html)
Tetka (http://www.thewiccabox.co.uk/tetka.htm)

Yeah, Slime Volleyball is my kryptonite.

I've been hooked on ADOM (www.adom.de) for a few years. Sometimes I give it a rest for several months, and then I get right back into it and don't sleep for a week. It's a drug. :(

Boo. Nethack-type games are teh suck.

Try N. It rocks

Asheron's Call! :) You mean there are other games?

Asheron's Call! :) You mean there are other games?

I think we're talking about free games...

Boo. Nethack-type games are teh suck.

Why?

Grab ass is a pretty addicting game. Wanna play? :p

Why?

I prefer games with either plot or decent action. (System Shock has both. F- yeah.)

I find watching numbers go up to be boring...

Bring forth crack in digital form.

My favorite ones are the simplest:

Slime Volleyball (http://oneslime.net/)
Falling Sand (http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/)
Paint Ball (http://www.armorgames.com/games/paintballthegame_popup.html)
Tetka (http://www.thewiccabox.co.uk/tetka.htm)

Always liked the sand family of games.

Kitten Cannon (http://www.addictinggames.com/kittencannon.html)
Pendulumeca (http://www.addictinggames.com/pendulumeca.html)

Right now, those are my faves.

*runs off to play them*

Hammer Heads over on Popcap Games (http://www.popcap.com). Like whack a mole with gnomes.

Thanks now you got me obssesed:D :sniper:

I like the games at reflexive.com... of course...you can only play lik 99 mins or something if you dl them...unless you are cool like me and have hax ;)

Steamband (http://angband.oook.cz/steamband/steamband.html), a Steampunk/Victorian-era version of Angband (an old ASCII-based adventure game).
It has some of the most surreal combinations of literary characters you'll ever see: Bet you didn't know that Count Dracula moonlighted as a T-Rex trainer, or that Countess Báthory was known to chill out with the aliens from War of the Worlds.

Dice Wars (http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html)

Total addiction.

I prefer games with either plot or decent action. (System Shock has both. F- yeah.)

I find watching numbers go up to be boring...

ADOM actually has a reasonable level of plot: there are certain tasks which must be performed in order to win, but there is also a great deal of freedom of player choice as to the order and selection of goals they seek to achieve. This isn't really apparent when one starts the game, other than at the most basic level, but once you get a character up to about level 20 (about a third of the way through a standard game) there are sufficient entities to interact with or strategies to undertake that a plot of a type is generated.

Of course, I've had my periods of being hooked on ADOM, so I'm clearly biased. The thing is that the mid and late games are so rich and open to different courses of action that one quickly forgets any numerical concerns and starts to invest the character with quite an emotional attachment.

Anyhow, how could you not love a game where mixing two bottles of plain water can lead to a spontaneous and often fatal explosion?

Dice Wars (http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html)

Total addiction.
An excellent and simple strategy game. Thanks for that!

I think we're talking about free games...

GNU Backgammon (http://www.gnubg.org/). I can do fairly well against the computer set at "supremo," but usually only in single games. In multipoint matches, I tend to get ripped several new ones very quickly. Can't figure it out. (edit: I used to play backgammon a lot at Yahoo!, but unfortunately this required interacting with other people. GNU Backgammon won't call you name or abandon games when it starts losing a game...:mad: Intelligence - any speck of humanity = finally a decent opponent. :D )

Good old Minesweeper, of course.

Put a game of Tetris in front of anybody. Check back in a few hours.

http://www.addictinggames.com/spindle.html (Spindle)
http://www.addictinggames.com/stalingradsprint.html (Stalingrad Sprint)
http://www.addictinggames.com/wargames1983.html (Wargames 1983l)

Look for "El Connor" or "El Connor th' Pirate" in the high score board on Wargames 1983.

EDIT:

I am also on that score board as "smokedrabbit"

Put a game of Tetris in front of anybody. Check back in a few hours.
I never "got" Tetris. The whole point was to make horizontal lines of blocks so that just a few of them would dissappear, but it was much faster and easier to just make all the blocks dissappear by building one vertical line, so why bother?

I never "got" Tetris. The whole point was to make horizontal lines of blocks so that just a few of them would dissappear, but it was much faster and easier to just make all the blocks dissappear by building one vertical line, so why bother?

Russian techno music.

Good old Minesweeper, of course.

According to the statistics feature in the particular clone I use (http://kmines.sourceforge.net/), I've played 3557 "expert" games. I've won exactly 51 times.

I play mostly for the carpal tunnel syndrome.

According to the statistics feature in the particular clone I use (http://kmines.sourceforge.net/), I've played 3557 "expert" games. I've won exactly 51 times.

I play mostly for the carpal tunnel syndrome.

My version doesn't tell me how many times I've played; just my scores, on which I've made much progress since I began playing regularly a few months ago.

My favorite online game is:
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
It's a humorous, click-based fantasy rpg-ish game. You play characters with classes like Seal Clubber, or Disco Bandit, accumulate items and such, and do little quests. It's one of those where you have a limited number of turns per day.

For a normal time-waster game, I usually play something like solitaire. I rarely find a game addictive enough that I don't wander away from it and never think of it again after a short while.

I did enjoy "Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab" for a long time - it's a tetris-alike, with a couple of slightly different game modes that made it interesting for a while.

My sister really enjoys
http://www.puzzlepirates.com/

My version doesn't tell me how many times I've played; just my scores, on which I've made much progress since I began playing regularly a few months ago.

My best time was 2 minutes, 6 seconds. But I'm probably much worse now, since it turns out, looking at the dates in the high score list just now, that I haven't actually played a game in nearly a year. :eek:

My best time was 2 minutes, 6 seconds.

I managed 1 minute, fifty-nine seconds for my best Expert score, 42 seconds for Intermediate, and 6 for Beginner.

Swap Job

Crack Attack

KoL

Darkthrone

Spider Solitaire

and now Dice Wars (thanks!)

My recent favourites are the yeti sports games (http://www.yetisports.org). Penguin darts anyone? :p

ANything that lets me procrastinate!

Does NSG count?

My favorite online game is:
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
It's a humorous, click-based fantasy rpg-ish game. You play characters with classes like Seal Clubber, or Disco Bandit, accumulate items and such, and do little quests. It's one of those where you have a limited number of turns per day.


I am a disco bandit!
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c389/Smunkee/discobandit_f.gif

I am a disco bandit!
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c389/Smunkee/discobandit_f.gif
WTF??

WTF??

you don't play KoL (http://www4.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php?loginid=6b4d29ed23574fe6bbc70531d88ae741) do you?

I have been playing for at least 8 months.....it's freakishly addicting, worse than NSG...

Knob Gobblins fear my moxie!!!

you don't play KoL (http://www4.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php?loginid=6b4d29ed23574fe6bbc70531d88ae741) do you?

I have been playing for at least 8 months.....it's freakishly addicting, worse than NSG...
Nope. I play Guild Wars (http://www.guildwars.com), and I've been playing for 16 months. I'm a hopeless addict!

Nope. I play Guild Wars (http://www.guildwars.com), and I've been playing for 16 months. I'm a hopeless addict!

you should also play kindom of loathing, it's hilarious, and you can zone out and do it....

you should also play kindom of loathing, it's hilarious, and you can zone out and do it....

When I'm at home with my nice fast connection I'll take a look.

http://www.addictinggames.com/texttwist.html

A simple game, but it tends to frustrate me from time to time. Incidentally the only word that counts is the six letter one, the others are just for points.

you don't play KoL (http://www4.kingdomofloathing.com/login.php?loginid=6b4d29ed23574fe6bbc70531d88ae741) do you?

I have been playing for at least 8 months.....it's freakishly addicting, worse than NSG...
Knob Gobblins fear my moxie!!!
:eek: Is that even possible?

Nope. I play Guild Wars (http://www.guildwars.com), and I've been playing for 16 months. I'm a hopeless addict!
If we're counting non-free games, I have to add GW to my list. Whatcha think of Nightfall, if you have it?

You know, I used to go to this site where you can play board games like Sorry, Monopoly and other such board games online, and it was free. I can't remember the URL. Does anyone else know what I am talking about?

you should also play kindom of loathing, it's hilarious, and you can zone out and do it....

Thankfully, i broke myself of my KoL addiction just last week.

For giggles, what's your player id? (mine's 846886, i gave most of my stuff away)

Mordor, Mordor II, and Demise.

Dice Wars (http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html)

Total addiction.

Curse you! I must find a place that sells luquid caffeine IV's now. I will never sleep again.

DAmn you again!

GTA III is my crack cocaine!

Marrowind, but I can't find my copy of teh main disc, I have the editor and the expansions yet the main disc I need to actually play is nowhere to be found and I'm too cheap to buy the game again:(

www.gostones.net

Also Rome Total War... It's been two years and I'm still playing it...

Curse you! I must find a place that sells luquid caffeine IV's now. I will never sleep again.

DAmn you again!

It's infuriating and addicting at the same time.

"I lost my whole stack because orange rolled one more than me?"

I'm gonna need to go buy some fuzzy dice to stab now.

Kingdom of Loathing. (http://www.kingdomofloathing.com)

I'm sure someone here plays it, possibly Smunkeeville, but I can't endorse it enough. Damn amusing, and satirical as fuck.

Nexus War (www.nexuswar.com) owns your soul.





Jorm is watchin'

Kingdom of Loathing. (http://www.kingdomofloathing.com)

I'm sure someone here plays it, possibly Smunkeeville, but I can't endorse it enough. Damn amusing, and satirical as fuck.

I used to play KoL (as a Sauceror), mean to get back into it more when I have time. When I left off, I was working my way through the Lair of the Naughty Sorceress.

How can you not like a game that you can cast a stream of hot teriyaki sauce at someone and cause like 50-something damage?

Kingdom Hearts...that's all i got to say!

iSketch (http://www.addictinggames.com/isketch.html). It's like online pictionary. It's very cool.

Haha, you won. I just made a KoL account.

Nexus War (www.nexuswar.com) owns your soul.





Jorm is watchin'

Hah, I need to get back to that. I was one of the original alpha testers.

Hah, I need to get back to that. I was one of the original alpha testers.

Yeah? You should come back soon, Jorm's implementing a dragon that lives in stygia among other things.

Yeah? You should come back soon, Jorm's implementing a dragon that lives in stygia among other things.

Yeah, I just checked in again. It's nice. I need to get to tier three.

Yeah, I just checked in again. It's nice. I need to get to tier three.

All the people I see with alpha shirts are tier 3s, to my knowledge.

Oh, so you know who not to kill(;)) my characters are Bad Mc Ass (http://www.nexuswar.com/characters/view.do?characterID=60062), Ifreann (http://www.nexuswar.com/characters/view.do?characterID=9279) and Shazam (http://www.nexuswar.com/characters/view.do?characterID=62753).

All the people I see with alpha shirts are tier 3s, to my knowledge.

Oh, so you know who not to kill(;)) my characters are Bad Mc Ass (http://www.nexuswar.com/characters/view.do?characterID=60062), Ifreann (http://www.nexuswar.com/characters/view.do?characterID=9279) and Shazam (http://www.nexuswar.com/characters/view.do?characterID=62753).

I was away for a few months.

If you like strategy games Starchamber (http://www.starchamber.net) is the goods. I just couldn't get enough of this little game. (sort of a board game, card game , 4xE combined). A very friendly crowd too..

Thankfully, i broke myself of my KoL addiction just last week.

For giggles, what's your player id? (mine's 846886, i gave most of my stuff away)

I actually ascended a few times.... since I was a disco bandit, but I still claim it because when I get every single familiar and ascend again I will go back to it.

oh and diva snorck

board games!

http://games.atari.com/playgames/home.jsp

THE Game.

Which, by the way, you just lost.

THE Game.

Which, by the way, you just lost.

Nooooooo

Popping bubble rap is a pretty damn addictive game

Good old Minesweeper, of course.
:eek: Can you believe I completely, utterly forgot that Minesweeper even existed? And I used to be so addicted!

I really should start again - especially considering that I just looked up my best scores...
My best time was 2 minutes, 6 seconds. But I'm probably much worse now, since it turns out, looking at the dates in the high score list just now, that I haven't actually played a game in nearly a year. :eek:
I managed 1 minute, fifty-nine seconds for my best Expert score, 42 seconds for Intermediate, and 6 for Beginner.
... and apparently I was at 90 seconds for Expert. :cool:
And that's on the laptop, on which I haven't played much. My all-time best was 79 seconds on my old computer.

Marrowind, but I can't find my copy of teh main disc, I have the editor and the expansions yet the main disc I need to actually play is nowhere to be found and I'm too cheap to buy the game again:(

If it's Morrowind you mean, you can find it here (http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3495316/The_Elder_Scrolls_III_-_Morrowind_).

Myself I'm beyond addicted to the sequel, Oblivion. The past month I've had like 300 hours of gametime. :D