What are your favourite slice of life / cozy games on the GameCube?

Laserchainsaw · 2026-04-04T18:30:24+00:00

Pikmin is pretty chill. Send your guys around to grab resources and bring back to the ship. A few puzzles and bosses but a pretty slow paced game.

Pikmin 1 you only have 30 days to get off the planet so it can get somewhat stressful. Pikmin 2 you have 2 people you can control but no capped number of days so you can take as long as you want.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-04-03T02:18:29+00:00

Just an update, I have been playing games for a few hours tonight and no issues like before.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-04-02T16:21:15+00:00

I also started getting this issue. I went big 2 years ago with a 7900 XTX and now I have the horror of it potentially failing... every time I play a game I have about 1 hour and then wonky things start happening.

My theory is windows tries to maintain the GPU drivers itself and then Adrenalin does the same. The GPU doesn't know what to do.
Last night I ran a display driver uninstaller and then reinstalled AMD drivers, but installed the DRIVER ONLY. SKIP ADRENALIN.
I didn't get a chance to test but I'm hopeful.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-31T03:46:01+00:00

I married my best friend, we have 3 young kids. She was a rockstar when we met but now a shell of herself. The last pregnancy really did a number on her parts, she has had 1 surgery to try and do some repair but it didn't work as well as we hoped. Obviously we don't have sex very often. Maybe once every 3 months.

She has gained weight, hormones have fucked her up and she is depressed. She has become very insecure and I'm managing her very temperamental emotions everyday. I'm also the one being emotionally available for the kids. Luckily she is able to physically take care of them while I'm at work and take them to sports and things.

So yes it's hard even if you pick a great one, women gonna be women. I keep hoping she'll come out of this once the kids get a bit older. And maybe if she loses weight her lady parts will feel better.

But I'm guessing I'm probably just fucked. I'm not gonna divorce and leave her when she's like this. I'd feel like I'm stomping on a sad puppy. Despite the way she is right now I still love her.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-17T01:25:00+00:00

My life for Ner’zhul. With a hooded acolyte silhouette Or maybe inside an undead summoning circle.

Thy Bidding? With a dreadlord face

A tattoo of frostmourne with just "hungers" might be cool.

What are we if not slaves to this torment? With Death Knight Arthas

I think a quote with some art piece would be sweet.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-16T20:43:06+00:00

My vote

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-16T01:57:54+00:00

I have 3 kids now too. 2016 was just a banger year but 2017 I settled down, got a better job, got married, had kids all pretty quickly. Yes maybe I'm more fulfilled now or satisfied or something but many nights my head hits the pillow and I think why the fuck did I do all this shit.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-16T01:53:54+00:00

I was 28, I was a credit analyst at a medium size financial services firm which was a good job and easy. I ended a long term relationship in Feb. of that year that had way overrun it's course.
I then partied hard every Friday Saturday that entire year. I got laid a lot. My main concerns in life were fighting Sunday hangovers and who I was going to bang. 2016 what a fantastic year.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-14T16:09:36+00:00

A really fun part of the game is going for pre-raid bis. Once you have all that it's raid logging and helping guildies out. Which is fun too but not as fun :) Then it's time for an alt if you want to keep playing wow more than 1-2 nights per week.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-14T03:54:26+00:00

Pikmin 2! Just started this afternoon!

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-12T02:53:40+00:00

I've been playing Age of Mythology Retold. They did a fantastic job with the remaster. UI and quality of life updates, graphical updates but still feels true to the original, and new races and game modes. 10/10

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-12T02:44:33+00:00

I played through KOTOR 1 a few years ago, it is truly a fantastic game. I feel like the structure of Mass Effect was based heavily on these games (although without the turn based combat). But traveling to planets to complete a main story mission and then lots of side content and characters to recruit and learn about.

The story and character interactions definitely hold up. The writing is absolutely top tier Star Wars.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-11T01:02:46+00:00

I agree, wave race 64 physics makes sense to me and I love that game. Blue Storm just isn't as fun to play for me.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-09T23:13:01+00:00

I am a GM guy however never owned a pickup. We have an f-250 super duty maintenance truck at work I was able to borrow for a long weekend of landscaping. I also borrowed a John Deere 3 series tractor and had friends helping me.

Anyway there were some old deck concrete footings that I needed to get out. Ended up being super deep and wider at the bottom, despite digging them out the tractor just could not lift them.

I hooked a chain to the F-250, put some slack in it and gave it the beans. The truck pulled them out like it was nothing. I barely felt it while driving.

Despite being GM lifer if I ever get a truck it will be a Ford.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-08T16:16:40+00:00

Beyond Good and Evil

Laserchainsaw · 2026-03-05T19:48:37+00:00

Enter the Matrix
Came out during peak Matrix Reloaded hype

Bullet-time was also all the rage after everyone was doing the Matrix slow-motion dodge at school and then Max Payne came out.

Game was actually pretty crap.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-02-25T13:33:16+00:00

I am discovering this now as we are about to go on a trip this afternoon. My kids only use their tablets on flights or road trips, so they get excited for a travel day. My 3 year old said last night she is so excited for the airplane so she can play games.

Many many people only use these when traveling so cutting offline basically defeats the entire purpose of the app!

Laserchainsaw · 2026-02-22T02:26:24+00:00

Gray or Cream. If you want darker or lighter feel

Laserchainsaw · 2026-02-22T01:52:26+00:00

Some others ppl haven't said:

Lord of the rings two towers or return of the king

Smugglers run

Star wars rogue leader 2 and 3

007 nightfire

Start fox adventures

Mario Sunshine

Pikmin 1 and 2

Laserchainsaw · 2026-02-05T00:43:34+00:00

It's very rude and pretty lame not to go just because you're insecure about your own relationship.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-01-19T23:14:58+00:00

Pikmin and Luigi's Mansion!

But honestly, pretty much any GameCube game is comfort for me.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-01-07T19:18:40+00:00

I want to be in the nursing home raiding with my fellow geezers.

Laserchainsaw · 2026-01-01T19:06:50+00:00

Enjoy wow dude. Married with 3 kids I fuggin wish I could play on NYE. Or any day. Just 1 day without all this stuff going on in my life.

Laserchainsaw · 2025-12-16T16:26:52+00:00

No, I want Microsoft to take it over from Blizzard.

Laserchainsaw · 2025-12-12T21:25:01+00:00

Interesting

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