Mine is playing AOE2 in easiest (or standard if I want a bit of challenge) mode against 3 bots. I just build my economy, wall up (and laugh at the enemy soldiers attacking my walls in vain), reach imperial age and attack once my army reaches the population limit. I also send 104 in the chat so they don’t surrender and I can enjoy razing their all buildings one by one. If any of them builds a castle, even more fun. A build a trebuchet and watch it raze the castle from a safe distance. If there is sea, after I am done with the land, I build 3 docks, do research and build a navy and hunt down ships around the unxplored sea. It is fun, satisfying and relaxing.
What is yours?
Playing Palia.
Stellaris, so similar vein as AOE2 lol.
Hah, I do the same in AoE 2 as well, though I put the AI to standard and like to give them grief, like build towers around their base early in the game, or use an army of monks to convert every unit they send towards my base, and build up my own army of converted units; or lure them into my base by deliberately leaving a gap in my walls, except the path to my tc is lined with towers along the way - sometimes I even make a maze of walls and towers and it’s fun picking them off one by one as they make their way towards my tc.
But lately though, I’ve been doing all of that in 0 A.D., an opensource RTS like AoE. One of the cool things about 0 A.D. is the soundtrack, it’s really, really done well, especially considering it’s a free game; and I also like the customisable AI - in addition to difficulty, you can set their behavior to defensive/aggressive/balanced etc, and you can have a ceasefire period where the enemy doesn’t attack you at all for x minutes after the game starts, which gives you enough time to build up your base.
That sounds fun and creative
Watching YouTube videos of people making things in machine shops. It switches my brain off and just lets me focus on the work happening on screen. It’s so rewarding to see the process and the finished product.
See:
- Abom79
- Clickspring
- Cutting Edge Engineering Australia
- Make it Extreme
- bigstackD Casting
Walking, watching lets plays, playing minecraft
GuildWars 2, small scale stuff on the borderlands with my WvW guild.
These comments are more safe for work than I expected.
Beat Saber, currently. Get me in that music zone and let me wave my arms around like an idiot.
Recently it’s listening to audiobooks. Makes commuting or doing chores great.
Fountain pens. And brawlhalla.
What do you do with the fountain pens? Write/journal? Or do you more enjoy inking them etc?
Inking them is a ritual, I do enjoy that, but more often it’s journaling or studying. It helps with mindfulness
Wouldn’t say Brawlhalla is all that relaxing lol
Lol fair, but it scratches an itch that helps me unwind
Recently, playing Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead on my steam deck.
I excuse it by convincing myself it’s preparation for TEOTWAWKI which can’t be far off now.
A nap.
Gunpla. I go into a zen like state and achieve inner peace as long as I’m making dumb little robos.
Replaying old games that I have fond memories of. We’re in an incredible renaissance of classic games getting source ports or updates that bring them up to modern standards, and I’m loving it. Daggerfall, Blade of Darkness, Jagged Alliance 2, Morrowind, Jedi Knight, Caesar 3… I’m sure I’m forgetting
somemany. They let me forget the present and pretend that I’m back in simpler, happier times, at least for a little while.Daggerfall? I’ll have to check that out!
The Daggerfall Unity re-release was free some time ago on Bethesda’s official website. I’d check there.
I’m here for all these but my personal zen is Lucasarts’ Gladius. I have kept my original Xbox all these years just to play it but it was finally recently made backwards compatible for my series x.
Lemmy. Lol. And a nice walk with my favourite music is good too
